The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-12-25

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producers of food and raiment.
You bankers are the intermediar-
les by which the producers are
made to produce, and the con-
sumer to secure his necessities at
prices within his reach.
lin 1880 more than 70 per cent
of the nations population was
living in the rural districts; today
out SO per cent of the population
is rural. In other words, nearly
half of the population is not pro-
ducing food and clothing. The
farmer struggles to educate his
boys and girls. aud they IN turn
60 to the city. Our political doc
tors are telling these young peo-
pie to go back to the farms. I do
not agree unless you are going
to guarantee that farm conditions
are going to DE just as good, just
as wholesome, and just as at
tractive as the conditions which
maintain in the cities.
"We sent out bulletins to teach
the farmer, but about SO per cent
of them are thrown away, or US
ed to kindle the fire on cold morn
ings. We then sent out speakers
to explain. The farmers did not
in many cases take the advice of.
fered. 1t is not that the farmer
is a fool, but that be has been the
worst humbugged man in the
land. Now to convince the farm
er you must demonstrate to him
right on the farm. That is what
we mean by extensive teaching,
talking, writing and demonstrate
ing.
"The Department of Agricul-
ture has shown through it's dem
stration work that we can double
production. On 5000 one acre
plots in South Carolina, cultivat
ed under improved methods, L.
$50 pounds of cotton we're pro-
duced per acre, whereas the av-
erage acre yield under the old
methods was 720 pounds. On
5000 acre plots scattered through
out the State an average yield of
corn per acre was 80 bushels,
whereas the average State yield
was 18 bushels. This shows that
the time has come when the farm,
er needs more than strong soil
strong mules and strong plows.
He needs a trained brain. The
revision of the tariff, the refor-
nation of the currency are no
more important problems-in
fact, they do not approach in
their possibilities of benefit this
problem of agriculture.
POINTS TO EXODUS TO CANADA.
"Last year $4,000 able-bodied
farmers from the Northwest emi-
grated to Canada. Do you real
ize the economic loss? In ante.
bellum days a negro was valued
at 81, 900. We must place a val
uation of at least $4,000 on each
of these farmers. Figure up what
the nation lost. The men moved
out because Western farm lands
were too expensive. Under the
old system of agriculture they
could not secure a proper return
on the investment. But why do
they 60 into Canada, I ask, when
right here under the dome Of the
Capitol land may be secured for
from $50 to $50 per acre, which
equally as good as any to be
found elsewhere?"
America. Mr.. Lever declared,
has, through its Department of
Agriculture, it's State agricultur-
al colleges, ana it's experiment
stations. collected more agricul
tural data than any nation on the
earth. 1t has failed to get it to
the farmer, however, he added.
His demonstrators will select
plots at diffeeent sections
throughout each county, and
there show to the farmer what
cultivation under the methods
which their experimenting has
revealed will result in.
SEES MENACE IN IDLE MEN.
In making his appeal for the
suppors of the bankers in the
"Athens of America" Mr.. Lever
pointed to the fact that recently
Madison Square, in New York,
be found one morning probably
1000 men asleep on the benches.
The men, be said, he was told
would not work.
Il could see in those idle men
the greatest menace to the safety
of the country" declared the
speaker. "When the red flag of
anarchy goes up, and the rumble
of revolution resounds. it will not
be the cities, but the hills and
valleys, the home Of conserva-
tism. that will supply the defense