Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-09-23
MR.. EWBANKE WRITES.
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furnish the farmer that experience
and bless me if most of them in few
! localities do not refuse it. A farmer
waking up in the world with no expe-
| rience to go by would learn about as
much as an organ grinders monkey.
| The fact is,that we gain our. experience
| in such matter Of fact way that most
of us do not know how we got what
\ we have, but that which would take us
years and generations to learn in the
ordinary way is offered US by the gov
eminent in such way that we seem
afraid of because it is so easy to get
l know that there are a lot of farm
ers in Henderson county who are not
making as much as they might and
! would if they allowed themselves to
! be assisted by a competent demon
! strator such as the government sends
out. 1t is to these men that / wish
/ more to have at their call, and appre-
ciate, the help which the demonstration
could give them. The man who says
he does not need demonstration ami
is making a good living W;t1out one
and opposes spending the money for
one, fails to remember that all are not
able to succeed by themselves as he
is, and by the very reason of his sue
cess should not hesitate to help those
not So fortunate. He should remem-
Der that Christ came into the world
to save sinners, not those who were
already saved. The government is
not so particular about the man who is
making a big success farming as it
is DESTROYS of helping those who are
not so fortunate.
l have heard but two people refer
to the present gentleman's personality
in any but the best of terms. And
these two gave no reasons as to why
they did not like him. They should
therefore, be discounted to a nucleus
of bad feeling for which we have no
definition. Had it been fact that
the gentleman was generally unliked
it would have been permissible for the
commissioners to have requested his
recall on that account, as we will
readily admit that progress could not
be made under such conditions. You
) can not choke knowledge down a man
any more than you can make a mule
drink
1t is my opinion that the matter
!, should, be agitated through the papers
of this county in such a way (and
such a way there is) that the people
= will demand the demonstration. Let
the people of the county know that he
can be depended on, that he is inter-
ested in the work and welfare Of the
community that he is being paid by
them for his services; that it is his
business to study the conditions in the
county; that he must be familiar with
the soils, their requirements; crops,
and their adaptability to the climate
and soils; with marketing conditions !:
that they are paying him to take a
2 burden off their shoulders, and it will
: not be long before they will see that
he really Is of some use.
Let any man who Is unbiased travel
. over the more prosperous sections of
tour country-where we get. what we
can't produce for instance-and see
! how the demonstrators are treated
there. See whether the demonstrators
i has the cooperation, not of a few
4 farmers who make perhaps thou
G sand bushels of corn, but where they
l make thousands and hundreds OF
: thousands of bushels, where far
mers deal in thousands and tens OF
thousands of dollars, an dyou will see
t there as you see in the fruit section,-
a men deliver the goods If you pay the
: price.
= The truth is, Mr.. Editor, am con-
y WINGED that the reason many farmers
J. in this county are opposed to demon
a Estration work is that they do not real
ly comprehend the duties of the post
e nor do they know how to avail them
n selves of the advantages offered
There are too many people yet who
S)l think that the demonstration is book
/ learned and not practical. The gov.
eminent would not let us employ g
u man who has not had practical as
f well as book knowledge. Not all o.
our farmers need a demonstration, bu
u do not think we have farmer IL
North Carolina that need be ashamed
ia to consult with the government dem
F onstrators. The cost we have to pa!
Ie is so small as compared with even thu
" POSSIBLE results that I can hardl.
see how the commissioners should
% have failed to allow the expenditure
J. in the interest of such cause
JOHN EWBANK.
% September 20, 1915.