Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-10-18
SCIENTIFIC FARMING
Editor Of Progressive Farmer
Shows Wherein Modern
Scientific Farming is On
ly Hope For South.

The man who makes only half q
bale of cotton to the acre on land
that should make a bale is in a bad
fix this year. And he is not only in a
bad fix himself, is not only getting
next to nothing for himself and his
family, but it is such backward, un-
progressive farmers as he who raise
the distressed cotton" that has to
be put on the market to depress
prices for everybody else. To fatter
such men in their ignorance and
backwardness by telling them it is q
mistake for the south to learn to
make more cotton to the acre. means
not only to Z encourage dry rot in
such men themselves, bat would
help doom their families to ignor-
ance and want-and help doom the
south in the same way.
The man who has learned to
make bale and mole to the acre
where only half a bale grew before
| is the man who has found the way
out" for himself for the south.
The half-bale man would keep us
poorer. The bale-per-acre or bale
and-a-half-per-acre man isl our sal
vation, for he can plant only half as
many acres as formerly without
decreasing his cotton production,
and have the other half for growing
corn, hay, peas and hog feed.
Such farmer is independent of
cotton prices, and can sit back with
corn crib and smoke house of his
own, and hold his cotton till he gets
what he regards as fair price.
If it were not for such farmers
who have learned better methods of
production, the price of cotton in
the south would be much lower
than it is to-day.
The salvation of the south lies in
increasing the number of such enter
prising, progressive, thoughtful far
mers. Nobody can stop the tide of
knowledge that is teaching men to
get more out of their labor than
ever before. You might as well try
to sweep bacIs th1, arss H.; .be ocean
Going to learn how to make the lar
eest Weld possible per acre, whether
You do or not. If you fail to 90 so'
YOU simply cut your own throat
Only fool will be content to give
two days hard labor to do what he
might learn to do in one day, or tc
work two acres 10 produce what NJ
might learn to produce on one acre
and the majority of folks are no
going to be fools.
The hope of the south is IN bette
farming-learning not only how t
, produce the worlds cotton crop O.
l the smallest possible acreage, ,bu
, also the biggest possible yields . G
oral Grain. forage and feed crops, fe
h human food and for feeding Ii,
J, stock, so that we may be indepent
erf snt Of "speculators' and raiders
and prepared to hold cotton whel
IS ever the time comes to hold. An
d eve,y man who is farming so poor
that he can not do this is dra'
" back to our entire section.
Then, too, newspapers and sg
B cultural leaders who are teachil
better farming are helping the &c G.
M ton situation in other ways. In
il are demonstrating that other cro
will pay as we'll as cotton, and
to therefore helping hold the colt
iss acreage down. Farmers who hs
learned to make fifty bushels
a. corn per acre are not going W
over cotton and plant everyth'
to it. even if it brings Is cer
ee. Similarly, farmers who have lear e; i
to get the best profits possible
dairying and stock raising are
going to increase their cotton az a.
OF age materially because of a sll
Tar lar advance in price.
SSa S%a The hopeful fact about the ae !
p baS aa mers' Union is that it offici
u ,nro recognizes these truths. Other
'oio ,.ors, organizations have laid
, ,nn. phasis only on better marketln
= TT T. the money crops without emph
e ster ~ ing the necessity of better farm
,rcb but the union has as its purposs
; In in educate the people in scientific i
low w ing as we'll as in the progress
marketing. No man who is tal'
,;ck to the union cause can afford te
oon courage either purpose.
laws. To 90 back to old method
nber farming would make our peoT
,tins helpless as they were in the
still when cotton was sold at D
cents a pound and no farmer
,nya- able to hold. But to encourag
ness. great program OF scieh'ihc i"'
moth which is now re-maKing tne
is to help the cotton situation
IF fif- thousand ways.
1t by (D For one thlng,s ohiy
lurch. farming, sclentlhc alarlhins'
at the save us from the grea' PERI s,,
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