Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1915-04-01
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FED'FARMING
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Panic in Cotton Ne Market Rm Make
Over Our Eeonoegpie System. :

While in counties like Ansop farm.
ers have produced, ong.an average,
several times the amount Of wealth
each year as has been prodqced In the
mountain counties, the remains that
the grain growing counties, I'm which
cattle and other live stock are In
cluded as. an important part Of the
assets, have retained a much greater
proportion of the wealth which they
have created. For instance, In Alle-
ghany County farmers, have retained
twice as much wealth. per capita as
has been retained Anson County
farmers. TheyfihAye DONE this, too,
without railroad facilities ipd under
much less favored ccpditions tAanYwe
have in this section. There is some
thing fundamentally wrong with our
agricultural economies when the
greater portion Of the wealth which
we create evaporates. or eayes the
section that produces It. 3 ~ ~ I
Itds estimated By thcea e 4iEe
studied closely the e 9mc . pknse
of this subject that t'nj etye pei cent
Of all the money recei 9d@ for acptton
goes out of the state pay fot com
mercial fertilizers, fSf ruieS, horses.
and for food products.t I Ilast' fail when
everybody In tie, cotton section was
panic-stricken a cotton farmer 7asked
q Guilford County farmersat d. Ral
eigh cotton" meeting how fcondittns
were in his county. The, Guilford
County man answered: Its albright
over there. We don't ha,ldle as much
money as you farmers do in the cot
ton prodm ZIP counties, bit I'VE, have
more money in the bank ~ The an
swer was very suggestive ~ ,inere-
ly handling" money meant prosper
ity cotton farmers would bethe risn
est people in the world.t fnft might
also be remarked in passing that we
have not only failed to. refain a tired
table portion Of the wealth which we
have created, but our one-erdp system
has also depleted our soils until a
large per cent Of our cultivated area
is unprdductive except as we apply
d very expensive commercial fertil-
ker dope, which has TO be repeated
in gradually increasing quantities
each year. %"'''' ~ - 80
= It's a tremendous economic error
TO ship in from other States mules
and pay $3.50 or $500 each for them,
when equally as good mules can be
raised here, to three years old, for
SIS, on farms where the best lands
have been converted into permanent
pastures and where special attention
is given to annual forage and grazing
crops Having a climatic condition
that affords two months longer graz
ing season in the South than In the
Middle West, really gives us an ad-
vantage over the Western farmer. 1t
is bad business to pay twelve cents a
bound for meat that can be grown
(dn wiredln grazing hog nlots) Tor
FIVE cents a pound, and 1t is equally
as bad business for farmer to pay
a dollar a bushel for corn that can be
grown for fifty cents.
AS farmers we make a financial
mistake when we raise; any so-called
4money crop" which we intend to
exchange for money and then ex-
dl1ange that money for food products
that can be grown ecomically on our
farms. In doing this we voluntarily
tax ourselves with the cost Of dfstri.
tuition both ways, and our anticipated
profits all evaporate in the unavoida,
bleftolls that #e must pay In the
processes Of distribution. The farmer
nc unnecessary distributive tolls
Wadesboro Ansonian.
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