The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-09-30

figuring out the iganu problem OF
feeding and clothing the whole popu.
lation. and he hal in front of him tina
great question OF today. He knows
Just what the country Is facing. II is
not a shortage Of farm land at all, buc
a shortage OF farm production. To be
sure, there Is q growing inquiry fcS
farm lands all over the State and in
many other States. But that increase
0: farms Will not meet the needs Of the
more rapidly growing population de.
pendent upon the farms. The factory
6 steadily encroaching on the labor
supply of the farms, thus not only
hamperfng the farm. but also con-
tinually tending to further destroy the
proportion between the supply OF farm
products and the demand for them.
Yet People Are Not Turning Back TO
the Farm.
It seems useless to discuss the WAYS
Of turning the people back to tho
farms. They DO not go. On the con-
trary. they continue to flock to the
towns, INT to make more exactinS
reQutsition on the farms for food. The
| only way to meet this demand is To
| make the work of the man on tho
farm more productive. 1t is to make
other Guilford county farms yield like
Mr.. Frazier make his farm yield. 1t
is to enable one man and two horses
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corn or oats or potatoes from an acre
] with the same amount Of wOrk
This is the task that the %organiza-
hons of Guilford county are setting for
themselves, and which they have en-
gagged the farm demonstratOr to help
them solve. It is the task that Mr..
Frazier is trying to put up to the
out in practical way. 1t is the task
that thoughtful men of the county are
eager to work out, that Guilford coun-
ty may out Of it's own resources pro-
vide for the growing demand daily
made on the soil for the needs of the
people.
In the census year Guilford county
raised less than a million bushels OF
grain. Had the average on all farms
been equal to that on the Frazier
farm the amount would have been
nearly three million bushels. Had it
been equal to the yield on the Adams
farm the total would have been four
million bushels.
Guilford Buys Where it Oought TO
Here comes the point tina inter-
ests the Of and tho
farm associations. If Guilford coun-
ty could raise the extra two or three
million dollars worth of stuff tina is
now bought from outside the State, or
which might be raised here and sold
outside the county, it would afford a
million or two a year to invest in new
enterprises in the city and county. A
5 surplus Of a million dollars would
build five hundred new houses in
. Greensboro at IN average cost of two
thousand dollars to the house. It
t would build five new cotton mills at
an average cost Of two hundred thou
: sand dollars to h mill. 1t would do
9 a thousand things at the average cost
of a thousand dollars each. and the
9 people Of Guilford county are anxious
3 10 nave that annual surplus to invest
e in the progress and development OF
n the county.
Guilford county is making a lot Of
Q money each e a in the factories.
stores. farms, railroads and other
places. but Guilford county, like the
e rest OF the State, which is making a
lot Of money in the same ways, is
sending a lot of money out each year
y TO buy things that should be made in
g Inc state, and the mOney saved for in
Vestment in other productive enter
d prises.
= II the Guilford county Farm Blu
:, reau and the Greensboro Chamber Of
- commerce and the Farmers Union
= and the county demonstration can put
IN motion lis one agency for14Sng.
y ing from Guilford county soilV tn
- crops that can be made, instead 0,
> the crops that are made, Guilfore
a county n the whole Of North Caro-
ma Will enter on an era of prosperitS
y Inc like of which the State has no
dreamed OF, for farm crops have com
- 20 point for the first time in tn
~ history OF the country where they arr
"a as sood as gold, and as certain Of be
~ Lne readily convertible at the bank
- IN this new era the stuff from til,
- 1arm no longer goes begging. Tn,
a Of it.
le
I'd Improve PrOductiyencSs.
Q, Iu1i1ord county, without addinl
c. materially to it's force of workers ca
r. increase Its farm output by an enor
Id nous sum. By simply improving it
rs proouctlveness it can add yearly t
tuC SuTDInC Won ~ a-,~t