The farmer and mechanic., 1915-04-20

over put once q year, while highly
diversified agriculture turns them
over many times Last ~ ALL il mar
rows citizenship, prevents the high
est type Of education. does not permit
Of home building. and encourage
commercially.
This diversity continued DR.
Knapp, has been talked for hundred
years. and for more than thirty years
the agitation has been much the same
as il is today. Fact is. the South has
fallen into ways that. possibly were
inevitable; but WAYS which. neVerthe-
less, II must gel out Of. II requires
strength courage skill. but that is
the problem that we are up against
today as bankers and farmers.
We want diversificauon. We seek
diversification; but We don't know
how to diversity. and the main rea-
son why il is impossible is because
credit is absolutely fixed on cotton
In other words. before we can get
| supporting agriculture and diver
! sification, the bankers and the mer-
| chants must diversity
| If the bankers through their pow
| er with the merchants We're today
20 say that cotton was 10 no longer
be the basis Of credit; but instead.
| thrift. good farming, and self-sup-
porting diversification. We would have
would otherwise Observation-Disclosures.
this result many years before We
| NoulO OtileTWlSe get H.
Sometimes | think the South is in
tne same position as the old negro
who had a passion for fishing. Pass
ing his cabin one day the planter
found Sambo contentedly doing be
fore q mud puddle over which he
! had suspended q perslmmon tWig with
string and bent pin attached.
'MoSe, you old fool, don't YOU know
5 that isn't a place TO fish o he demand
: ed.
: 'Ysssah. yessah Mars Tom. was
the quick reply but il sho' am
t mighty handy
Cotton has indeed 6cen a handy
4 .hing'--tEat's the basis OF it. II will
= take vigor to make 4 change and l
! hope I see. in fact | do see rising here
n men Uho are ready to breast the cur
\ rent and make something else the
Il basis q credit.
:, In conclusion Dr Knapp Cr-ed
that diverSiication. first Of all
e should provide q Ivlns for the farm
Il er's family; that the change should
y make sure agriculture, not Il
o gamble, and he pointed out how
e forty acres divided into twenty acres
: each to produce the living for the
u family, and twenty acres in cotton
s had been demonstrated through ac-
L tual tests. to De one hundred dollars
} more profitable than the forty acres
devoted entirely to cotton.
- before We set IIltaD money IL
t; concluded, the credit OF the farm
of must he on u sure basis.
ar We stand, today, at the fork Of the
II roads. On one hand an easy doWT
IS hill road leading to disappointment
LII disaster and discomfort; on the other
!, an up hill road leading TO an enliven
or ed country life, happy homes, th'
p-attle Of children. and the contente,
Id song of the mother.
ir Which shah we take?
TO Animal Hu>bandry Essential.
q Mr.. Holderness, as a banker an,
u farmer, directed his remarks to III
~ bankers, urging appreciation Of agri
!. | cultural problems and financial ait
-, 10 the farmers of their communitie
~ along the lines of animal husbandr
K, as an essential aid to profitab BILE agri
~ culture.
us Those OF you who nave kept pac
'' with the great work done by the Ma
&c tional and State Agricultural Depart
''e ments, he said, know that it has bee
We demonstrated beyond peradventur
I lld that the addition Of cattle on eac
Iic farm in the South would add not onl
-ui TO the productiVeness Of the soil fo
80 the current year, but means the builG
OF ing up Of a soil reserve. sonnet hin
en- just as necessary and essential IL III
III farmer as the reserve the bank keeI
in it's vaults, or with its correspond
erts. is to the banker.
Int 10 deNeiop the poSSlbilIues OF ol
r1 State We must rely upon our farmin
cts interests, just as much Is We 10 upo
as the manufacturing interests. TheI
~ is two and one-half times as niue
ire capital invested in agriculture
res lhere Is III ihSth .'ldci uiiiis' pDt
for manufacturer and farmer should |
ig- deserving to get credit, AT least p
or both on the same footing.
pa In this State. the county ralsIh4 Il
st largest number Of cattle per thousar
acres has the largest per capi
cr1 wealth Of its country population. y
!. leghany County, with per acre pr
i>ly duca ton of only s4S3 and eighty q
the tie 70 each one thousand acres, h,
s.l- q country per capita wealth
hat $4,000, while my cwn county f1ds
Of ! com Re With Dey acre production