Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1916-01-05
ALL TOGETHER NOW
FOR PROGRES IN 1910.
Progressive Farmer.)

with the coming OF the New Year,
every reader can find no better job
than that Of planning to make 1916
banner year in substantial progress
| and achievement. The old year is
behind us, and the best that it can
| offer us now are the lessons from it's
experiences; the New Year, the fu-
ture, is ahead, with boundless oppor-
tunities for every clear-thinking,
clean-living, hard-hitting Southern
man and boy. How can we realize
on these opportunities? What can
we, each and every one Of US, do to
make our farms, our homes, our COM
munities little better, little hap
pier, bring them little nearer to that
goodness and perfection at which all
effort should aim? 1t SENS to us
that here are some Of the ways:
l. Our farms must be>made to pro-
duce more per acre and per farm
| worker, and we must learn for all
time to keep at home, for our own
enjoyment and enrichment, the pro-
ducts Of our labor, rather than expend
! them as we have in the past for what
we should have grown ourselves. In
word, we must make our fields fat,
mellow and fruitful, and we must in
augurate-right nova live-at- home
policy that will make us forever inde-
pendent Of the grain, hay and meat
of the North and West. This means
q carpet Of green" on every acre in
winter crop rotations, plenty Of live
stock for meat, milk and butter and
the production Of cotton, tobacco, pea
nuts, etc., as surplus crops that, when
sold, will be practically clear, net
profit. This is step No. on the road
to independence and better living.
2. We must pay more attention to
the business side Of farming--to more
advantageous buying and more profit
able selling. To do this cooperative
effort is essential. Neighbor must
join with neighbor and buy in large
lots and at wholesale prices what
hitherto has been bought in small
lots at retail prices; neighbor must
join with neighbor and sell live
stock, grain, hay, cotton and cotton
seed by the car load and the train
load, rather than by the wagon load
getting benefits, too, from scien-
tific grading and good appearance
rather than suffering losses from
hodge-podge marketing without re-
gard for grades or looks. Thus and
thus only can we obtain the fullest
epossibe returns from the crops we
have grown.
3. Finally, we must learn to know
and love our neighborhood.s, for only
by so knowing them and loving them
may be made better and happier
places to live in. The community
must become solidifed unit, with
definite plans for community better
ment and uphuilding, rather than
helter-skelter Of opposing, non-co-
operative forces, without cohesion
and without concerted effort. There
are boys and girls to be trained for
life's tasks, and the best OF schools
and the best Of teachers are none too
good for them; there are communi-
ties waiting to be kept together by
the common ties Of united effort and
purpose. TO help In this great work
is privilege: even more; 1T is a
duty that we all owe.
Arc your efforts, dear reader,
pledged to the attainment of these
ends? Are you resolved to make
yourself better farmer individual
ly; to increase your profits through
cooperative buying and selling; to
join heart aud soul with your neigh
bors in plans for community i'm
provement' If so, then you may in
deed expect 1916 to be a banner year,
a golden year indeed, when the rec
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