Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1915-02-10
CROP DIVERSIFICATION.
Growing More Of What We Consume
as Well as More to Sell Is
the Secret of Success.

as Well as More to Sell Is
the Secret Of Success.
Just now while the weather is bad
and the farmers have some leisure
time, they will employ 1t to good ad-
vantage if they will take stock of pres
ent day conditions and plan an adjust
ment of their farm operations for the
coming year to SUIT conditions.
BUY TOO MUCH.
Farmers have drlfted too much into
the one-crop method of farming. and
because of that fact have to buy for
home consumption so many things their
fathers produced at home. If any
farmer will take the trouble to find out
the amount of potatoes, fruits and can
ned goods that are imported into Ten,
nessee, the amount of money that has
gone out of the state that should have !
renamed here, and when he realizes
that we can produce as good as the !
best, and he looks over his farm and
finds land idle that could have produced
that which he has bought. and recalled
the time lost that could have been bet.
ter employed growing these things, he
cannot fail to realize that he is largely
to blame for his balance at the bank
being so much smaller than It should
be.
GROW MORE VARIETY.
While he has found it something of a
burden to pay for the things he could
have raised, if he plans this years crop
along the same lines he Will find him
self in a very much worse shape year
hence than at the present time, !
LIVING WILL BE HIGH. 7
The war in Europe has brought about .
many changes. The majority of able /
bodied men in these countries are bear Q
ing arms, fighting instead of farming. Il
They are not producing foodstutfs, but :
the armies must be fed as well as their h
families. This is going to create a !
great demand for food products at in o
creased prices Much of our fruits and -
canned goods will be exported, If our
farmers depend on buying instead OF g
raising such products on their own B
farms, they may make up their minds
to pay fancy prices that will eat up t(
the profits froru their general crops. is
GET TOGETHER o. o.
Would 1t not be good business fore HI
sight in view of the abnormal demand al
and high prices, to plan now to produce h,
at home not only what Is consumed at al
home, but help supply the demand from 81
abroad that is going to be enormous te
Would 1t not be wise for communities H.,
to get together and plan their crops so or
that they would produce variety and W
at the same time quantity and quality, tI
to attract buyers at the fancy prices hf
that will prevail where quantity and
quality can be found? q,
GREATER QUANTITIES rs
1t has been the custom Of farmers to tme
act independent of their neighhors. and ar
grow CIOpS GIfdt WcIS IIOot CVUFSHlCHUI
for them, losing sight of market de- at
mands and the fact that what they W
would produce taken alone would not II
Justify those in the market hunting up '"
the small amount that they alone could /.
produce. We have shown too much IN wi
difference about the CONDITION of our er
products when taken to market, and
the small quantities have cut the prices er
received in half. CO
GREAT OPPORTUNITY ~
The farmers of Tennessee have be- ar
fore them period of great prosperity ~
if they will work together to produce 7 :,
quantity and quality to meet market ad
demands. Now is the time to get to-
yether and plan the coming years he
production. The demand for the right d.
,rops Is gong to be great, We have io
all the conditions favorable for supply
ng the demands If we will do our part tel
md use the energy and intelligence tn,
1od has given us. We will be untrue
% Him, to cur families and ourselves fo,
f we let this golden opportunity go by alb
an
BETTER PLANS.
When farmers get more cohesion to ho,
york together, when they plan first to tn,
roduce at home what is consumed at nv,
ome and have their surplus crops so
diversified that there will be produc-
ion enough Of each to supply quantity raj
nd quality to attract a market and not IN
reduce all of one crop TO Glut the r.
larket with that commodity, the prod to
cts attractlvely marketed. then, and YET
OF until then will the farmers enter T