Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1912-03-06

corn, meat, oats and hay from the
North and West. 1t was all pro-
duced at home on the farms and
plantations, and we have now got to
get back to those "before the war"
days If our agricultural South is to
South Will produce its own food
crops, you will never see a conven-
ton held over the price Of cotton.
Let's get back to these automobile
riding. corn-growing farmers. We've
got nothing against them. We know
personally, quite a number OF them,
and they are fine people. There are
lot Of them who have come to Geor-
gia and are growing corn, oats, and
hay, which they sell to their cotton
growing neighbors at big profit. We
can't for the life Of us see where we
of the South have got any call to
furnish the Iowa-Kansas corn-grow-
ing farmer market SO that he can
! take our cotton dollars to buy auto
| NOODLES With and keen them running,
Don't YOU think iG'r about time 10
1ui' paying their "a nilne bill3?
II takes gasoline to run mllomO-
, D!ics. Eycry time you buy q Dushci
Of corn, 4 pound of meat, a bale Of
hay, you are helping pay gasoline
bills. Most Of you don't own an au-
| tomobile. Why? You spend all the
CT nc L.
so that You can get money to pay
| for corn--and at two to three times
the price you could have made it
| yourself.
What the South needs in 1912
more than anything else Is a good
old-time corn growing "reVival."
There isn't any "mourner's bench"
at this revival, but there Is corn
bench" that It's time for every corn
buying farmer to come up to, repent
OF his evil ways, and start to travel
the road Of real farm prosperity in
the South; the road that has the cot
ton field on one side (bale per acre
or better) and the heavy laden fields
Of forty bushels per acre or more Of
corn on the other. That's the real
practical, useful farm religion, so to
speak, that needs reviving, and must
, be revived on hundreds Of thousands
of Southern farms before the South
can be permanently prosperous.
We say the South. That means
every single individual farmer in the
South who is buying corn or meal,
meat or hay. This revival has got to
begin on your farm as we'll as on
| your neighbor's; on Alabama farms
as well as in South Carolina.
Down OH the Hastings Farm there
Is corn and oats and hay sufficient to
feed every head OF stock on the place
for year or more. There are hun
dreds Of acres Of oats growing now.
There are several hundred tons Of
hay, surplus to sell in addition to
the nearly 800 bales Of cotton made.
Not a dollar Of Hastings Farm money
VIII be spent for hay and grain. We
cant afford to help pay the Kansas
farmers gasoline bill, and we know
YOU cant. We would no more at
tempt to run the Hastings Farm as
an "all-cotton" farm than we would
attempt to cut off an arm or leg. 1t
would mean in the course Of a mighty
few years bankruptcy. 1t means tho
same to you. It's time to get out of
the rut Of all-cotton farming or near
all-cotton farming, unless you have
no higher ambition in life than to
help keep the Iowa-Kansas farmers
automobile running.
Let's all get into revival Of this
practical, common-sense farm relig-
ion--if we may call 1t that--in 1912.
Cures baby's Group. Willie's daily
cuts and bruises, mammals sore
throat, grandma's lamencss - DIR.
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