Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1913-03-07
WHY THE BANK DOESN'T
"BUST."

Next door to the Clinch Valley
News office is the Tazewell
National Bank, and good sound
one it is, we'll managed by a
corps of accommodating, business
men of integrity. The bank
makes money chiefly by handling
other peoples money. There is
small window at the front where
the cashier receives deposits
cashes checks, pays out money
etc. The majority Of the Banks
disbursements and receipts pass
through this small window. No
hint has ever been made or fear
felt that this bank will fail or
be unable, not only TO meet it's
obligations but also to make
money for the stockholders.
Otherwise the bank would close
business. Money will be made
lust so long as receipts exceed
disbursements. More money
must be put through the little
window from the outside, than
passes out from the inside.
In other words, the banks funds
and resources must he so handled
as to yield an increase of profits
over and above expenses, which
thing can only be done by feed
ing the bank. so to speak.
Now, why all this? Not as adj
vertisement for the bank. The
bank is worrying along without
advertising don't have to-" but
we use this as an illustration, to
emphasize what we have been
continuously hammering at for.
years. The farmers land is his
bank. In order to make a profit
the farmer must put more into
his bank, the land, than he takes
out, else the land will become
poorer and leaner each year.
Each crop removes so many
pounds of plant food from the
soil. Unless this plant food is
returned the succeeding crops
will be poorer and poorer. The
flour bin in the pantry, the pork
barrel, the sugar barrel, all must
be replenished. A cow cannot
give milk unless she is fed. The
land the same. No matter how
rich it is it becomes just a little
poorer every time a crop is re-
moved. Something must be re-
turned.
Years ago, when our fathers
and grandfathers were bows
there was much rich, virgin soil
in Virginia. They cleared new
ground, raised grain year after
year on this new ground until it
was worn OUT, they said, and
then the men were put in new
woods with sharp axes. Trees
were felled, rails made. brush
burned, and another new field
opened and cropped and drained
year after year until it, like the
first, became too tired and weak.
and was turned out to grow up
IN weeds and bushes, and rest"
And so the processes were re-
peated, and, the first thing we
knew we had acres upon acres
OF poor land. Some farmers are
still pursuing the old-time
method taking everything off.
putting nothing back. Many a
farmer in Tazewell is getting
from ten to twenty-five bushels
of corn and from eight to ten of
wheat, and working as hard or
harder than other men gettir o
three times as much.
And there is nothing mvs-
FERROUS Or difficult about it. Sow
clover, COW peas and other soil
enrlching legumes to be turned
down. Feed the grain and forace
to cattle and stock and return
at least SO per cent of all grain
and feed back to the land in
stable manure. Rotate crops.
add to the value of the land. The
farmers capital stock. and the
bank will not only yield a profit
but grow richer every year. Put
if more persistently taken out at
the window than is taken in tie
bank will "bust" of course.