The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1914-11-27
GRAIN EXPERTS SPOKE FRIDAY
Continued from page II

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Every man in Union county las been
depending on cotton. By artificial
means we made little profit; it cost
eleven cents per pound TO raise cotton
In this State. If we do not protect
ourselves next year, we are going to
raise it for a 1-2c per pound. Then
you will feel the pinch of poverty. |
had rather see Jimson weed than cot
ton In South Carolina next year. The
world does not want cotton but it
wants bread as never before in the
history of the world. Twenty million
men are in war, fields are lying idle.
European Russia has gone out of bus
mess In raising food, so with Austria
hungary. Canadian crops have been
a failure, an export heavier than ev-
er before, corn and oats are now in
world demand; soon the present sup
ply will be consumed, then you are
going to hear the real cry for bread.
What is the logical thing for us then :?
l would like to see every acre of land
IN the Southern States planted to
wheat, and next to wheat in oats. No
where else in the world is there an
opportunity to plant grain and get it
to the needy markets three months
ahead of the Middle West and North
west. After wheat follow with corn
and thus gather two crops year for
market at wartime prices.
Even if there were no war it would
still pay us to do this. Cotton and big
fertilizer bills have ruined us. We
can raise the best of wheat, corn, to-
matoes, fruits, hogs, cheaper than the
western men. Winter gardens and
summer gardens should be given at
tentloh. We do not one thing to take
care of ourselves. We buy it either
IN a tin can, sack or barrel, Just as
is comes from somewhere else. Even
the cabbage we eat comes from three
to four hundred miles away, and Can
ada is shipping turnips into this state,
You could sow turnips along the road
IN Union county and they would
thrive. Moreover all this stuff is
brought in and is frequently inferior
quality or adulterated. You can 90
into country store out on the cross
roads and of all the tin cans YOU see
on the shelves, there will not be one
hlled with home raised products. We
are throwing away fourteen millions.
per annum in this State in this wav
We are buying thirteen million dol
lars worth of old sow bellies from the
west per annum. We are spending
eighty million dollars a year from our
cotton money and even if cotton were
ID cents per pound we would unit
mately go bankrupt. We must pro-
duce our corn, meat, flour. We must
plant wheat, oats, cow peas and sell
our products to the local merchant:
this we can do if we will put the prod
uct in proper shape. A small eleva-
tor with flour mill and corn mill a.
tached will do this.
| am going to make it so hot for
the man who handles inferior food
stuffs that he will have to handle the
good product. Your market is cora.
lng-go out and plant that grain right
now. In few weeks more your op-
portunlty will have vanished.
Mr.. j. H. Barton was the next
speaker introduced. He told of a prob
able scarcity of grain owing to the
war; said we were dead but did not
know it. He put emphasis upon the
crops which were soil builders and
those which were soil robbers. His
speech was quite good but was large
ly repitition of the doctrine he had
preached here before. He said vetch
and clover alone would have saved
Rome and that our country would in
like manner be saved. The soil build
ing plants take nitrogen from the air
land thus furnish one-half of the ele-
ments of the fertilizer used. They
also furnish humus and fright off
drought. Your soil may be further
enriched by proper rotation until your
SD fertilizer win cost you only So
per ton.