The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1912-02-16
CHINESE EMPIRE ~
BECOMES REPUBLIC
ADDRESS BfMR..
w. II. BARIoN
In the Interest of Boys Corn
Club-Meeting in Chamber
Of Commerce Last
Saturday. n


Boys Corn Clubs, and under the
direction of the government. spoke
in Union Saturday. The meeting
was held in the rooms of the Cham
ber of Commerce. Mr.. Barton
spoke as follows:
Agriculture, in its final analysis,
is the basis of all our public and
private institutions. All nations
which have robbed their soils and,
therefore, declined agriculturally,
have relatively declined otherwise.
Those nations which have risen from
such o condition have done 80 by
soil liberality and through animal
industry. 80
The soil is a bank of fertility.
The cotton crop alone removed from
South Carolina last year, fertility
worth $50, ,31S, $50
We used on cotton fer
tilizers worth about 100000
and soil is, therefore.
poorer by about s15, ,31S,75O
on account of the cotton crop alone.
This is available. By using cover
fcrops Of rye and vetch or rye and
clover in winter to be turned in
spring South Carolina could save an
incalculable amount Of soil teaching
Of fertility make available, in red
soils, all the potash we need for
ages and extract from the air Gin
vetch and clover) all the nitrogen
We need We could then, use crude
ground phosphate rock at Half It's
present cost and be practically inde-
pendent of the fertilizer factory or
use even more than at present and
at far better profit.
The average crop Of ten million
bales Of cotton would enrich the
South while q twenty million bale
crop would impoverish the South
from farmer and day laborer to the
cotton manufacturer himself. One
Is cents pound of cotton OF nor
NAL crop can be manufactured with
half the labor and machinery re-
quired to manufacture two u cents
pounds of an abnormally large crop
and at a better profit.
When less acreage is devoted to cot
ton the land will increase in fertil-
ity the farmer will have more time
and acreage for food crops. his chill
dren will have more time to attend
school, all will be more prosperous
and living will be cheaper, life will
be worth the living and death more
nearly worth the dying.
With a normal cotton production
more food products will be produced
and even the consumer will benefit
more thereby than by the reduction
OF cotton wearing apparel. For ex-
ample, if two hogs grow this year
where only one grew last year pork
chops would sell for 10 cents instead
OF 20 cents. In ten days the con-
sumner would save on this article
alone enough to buy 81 shirt
which would last for six months.
The chop proposition goes on indefi-
nitely. Thus it would be all along
the line in the cost Of living. All
classes should be interested, there
fore, in normal cotton crop and
hence more prosperous South.
The cover crop alone would add
annually to Union county. soils
s175 600 worth of natural fertility
on the present cotton acreage alone.
Feeding her cotton seed meal and
saving only two-thirds of the ma
nure would add fertility worth
$4,000. Rotation.of crops would
add $4,000.
The application of these three
methods alone would add to Union
county's increase in natural fertility
as follows:
Cover crops s~--------s1 -s175, 600
Feeding cotton seed neal 10000
Rotation ---------- 1900
An annual deposit of natu-
raj fertility Of 500 600
A L. n r