The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1914-05-07

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J to- date for the farmers here. I'm
report is As follows
Brentwood, Ga. 1901
This marks the close Of the dc
monstration work ia your county
for the month Of April, and / take
great pleasure in submitting the foL
lowing summary 81 the work;
During the month I have visited
SO demonstrators, 80 club members,
inoculated 97hogs, written 60 letters
and travelled 474miles. A number
Of timely things have been stressed
and discussed with the men visited
and the outlook for results is very
encouraging. 0fcoursewe, as every
other man who lives on q farm,
know that we cannot make changes
aud Improvements on the farm like
we want to in a short time, but IT
is very gratifying to see our farmers
doing their bestto better themselves
in the ways outlined In the work.
! A large number have already COM
menced, and others have expressed
4 desire to do So. We cannot help
to agree with them that it pays to
be conservative and reasonably sure
Of the results in anything that we
begin. We farm to get profit out
Of It, hut if we don't get this. we
had better follow some other line Of
work. / findthat buta few farmers
after they havo gotten acquainted
with the merits Of any movement,
after they have seeu that there is g
profit in it for them, that will not
join in and lend helping hand to
the work that will mean SO much to
their county. | am always very
careful not to Recommend anything
to our farmers that is still an ex-
pertinent, and the results doubtful
unless it be on a small scale. We
all know that there are a number OF
useful, money-making-c rops that we
are growing very little Of at the pre-
sent time. Five of these crops are
being trled out on the soils OF your
county this year and the results are
awaited with much interest. Il we
find that they will not succeed, we,
Of course, do not want them, but on
the other hand if they prove that
they can flourish in our soils and
climate, we viii want to see larger
areas planted another year. The
sad fact that we cannot always raise
cotton as cheaply as we have been
raising it has dawned on US. Al
though, it will long be a money crop
IF the south, we will see the profits
from raising it greatly decrease in
less than two years. Knowing this
as we do, we are doing our best to
find some recourse in the way Of
making our farms pay us. Every
successful farmer is making his plans
for the future, not waiting for a
crisis to force an abaupt change up
on him. force dim to follow lines Of
agriculture about which he has not
studied, and about which he, conse-
quentIy, knows nothing. The best
way to avert crisis is to prepare
for it, and we arc glad to see that
some Of our farmers are doing this,
making the changes that will best
suit their inclinations and condi-
tons. 1t behooves every farmer to
be thinking and planning that the
future may have peace and pros
derity in store for him. He has
government that stands willing and
ready 70 help him work out his sal
walton, but, he, himself, has some
thing to do.
The attention given separate crops
will be briefly given.
1 CoTToN: / find that on account OF
the dry weather a crust has formed
and as a result a great deal Of the
moisture necessary to get the seed
up, has eyaporated. Where avail
able. the harrow has been used to
break this and the stand is better.
After the cotton has come up anum-