The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-01-23
BERKSHIRE
BREEDERS MEET

Site Ever Held by the
bS0ciation: Good Work
an address to the North Caro-
TBerkshire Breeders Association,
In Charlotte on January Is. Maj.
~. Graham, Commissioner Of
culture, set forth matters Of gen
E1ntereSt to the State and to the
hers.
he address OF Major Graham is
blows:
r.. President: At your request I
y come to render any assistance
] may be able to promote the
erestS Of you meeting. AT one Of
numerous conventions which |
Ended asst fall some speaker q
nk from Arkansas) old Of a
eacher who said that in order 70
Il suitable text he had spent half
uday hunting in the Bible for the
Dok OF Resolutions. but not being
Rle to find it he had taken q text
Drr the Acts of the Apostles The
rfnerS, especially those interested
the cotton crop in this State, as
ELL as elsewhere, have this season
vuIO u laluldttGI quite IL VOL
he Of the Book Of Resolutions. The
enetit which will be derived from
lis volume will depend upon the
Els 81 the disciples. And the time
now AT hand when the resolutions,
DWcver beneficial they may have
Fen iii the past, must be laid aside
kcsDt So far as they may produce
ftS. 1t is no longer in order TO re-
Dive that the cat should be belled,'
nt to find how nan are willing to
bsist in adjusting the bell. The num-
pr h a are found willing to act will
TEST the value OF the resolutions
thOse production have taken so
Auch time and labor and which q
occupied So much snace in the pa
ers in the recent past. The price
Ehich Will hc received for the cotton
pw stored and for that which will
> produced this ycar depends upon
he n Of actorS that will, by
heir atsS, stand by their resolutions.
While cotton is an important crop
& ii is produced upon Il farm which
has made its own supplies and be-
3onSS 10 the producer who is not in
debt for the rations to make it; the
verdict IF the State iii no;
of all the cotton States) is that &c
- ia w ~ tAoSh ih
ducing it is the highway to bank
Euptcy. The South today. with &
monopoly of this GRO for which i
could fix its own price if ii owned il
fec simple the goods, and be tn.
most Independently rich cOunt~y o
the world, in many sections is plead
ing for time to settle the debt in
CURED this e and for credit 70
supplies to make another crop. ",
have tdken this crop which ShOult
have enriched the south and mad
# the means of impoverishment 0
ourselves and our State. Cotton ha
never been king in North Caro-
lima. The attempt to enthrone hin
IN the place of Corn. which for s.
lOng 4 time was DeneiiCiai to Our an
cestors and those OF later years VIII
followed their example, has brough
disaster TO our people. a good sup
ply Of corn is an evidence Of pros
perity.
When corn is restored t his prone
place we shall have q return to In
conditions with which he blessed III
country in former times. You can
not III North Carolina raise anvthin
- buy corn with as cheap as yo
can raise the corn. There are man
pencil m and ~so-ca1led Uoiitics
rConomists who will contradict tn,
and show you on paper that this pc
sition Is wrong. Call unou them I
produce the men who have done
and the Witnesses desired will II,
appear. missouri: Show me-
have attended many ale III my Iii
ana J DO not remember to nave see
u fun crib Of corn old by the sheri
to satisfy debts. [ have eel it sol
in the dix ision Of estates but not f.
debts. Is not this the Observable
of you, Mr.. President, and this aud
once
The department Of Agriculture
the last four ear has nearly, il II,
quite, doubled the product OF co
IN he State. and raised the amour
per acre from 12.6 bushels to j..
bushels. An acre that will prndu.
= bale Of cotton Of 500 pounds shou
produce 100 buShciS Of corn. Th
year the bale of cotton is worth {
the market $i5; the loo bushels
corn 500, or il his corn was or
half a crop SO bushels would