The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-04-12
FARMERS OF Upton
COUNTY, TAKE NOTICE


Monday night the Business Mems
club appointed the undersigned as a
committee to start a campaign in Tip
ton county for the raising of more
feed and food stuff. We have asso-
ciated with US leading men from
every neighborhood in the county and
expect them to meet with us on Fri
day Of this week to consider ways and
means for bringing about the desired
result.
If this war should continue through
out the year, as seems likely, and the
United States should have a great
number Of soldiers in training and
should have to feed these as we'll as
help feed the armies of the other ma
tons fighting Germany, it is probable
that all the surplus food stuff and the
feed stuff of every part of the country
will be taken over by the government.
for these purposes. 1t Is very prob
able, also, that the railroads win be
used to such an extent BY the govern
ment ia Transporting these things, in
hauling 5ialers and in hauling ma
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one part Of the country to another for
private use. In that case, any com
munity that has not had the good
sense to raise enough food and feed
stuffs to feed itself and its stock will
likely 90 hungry. The man who will
suffer in such a community, and suf-
fer severely, will be the man who has
failed to raise enough feed for him
self and stock.
Upton county has never raised
enough to feed herself and her stock.
Large quantities Of food and feed
stuff are shipped here from the North
and Northwest every year. Any man
in Upton county who fails to raise
enough for his own use this year runs
great risk of seeing his wife and
children suffer for something to eat.
If he should raise an immense crop.of
cotton and should get 20cy soc, SOC or
a dollar a pound, and. the conditions
should be such as described above, he
still will be up against it good and
hard, because millionaire can starve
as quickly as a pauper when no food
is to be bought, at any price. Every
farmer then, whether he. be land
owner or a tenant, and whether he
works one thousand acres or ten
acres, should plant enough food and
feed stuff to provide his family and
his stock in abundance. He should
plant corn, peas, beans and potatoes
and good garden; raise plenty Of
cabbage and turnips, and raise hay
for his stock. 1t behooves every land
owner to insist that the tenant does
this. 1t behooves every merchant and
every money lender and every bank
to insist that every man furnished, or
to whom money is loaned, shall follow
this course. And If anv man should
raise more than he needs he will not
suffer thereby, because food and feed
stuffs are going to be selling for ire
mendous prices by the coming winter
The worlds supply is exceedingly
short and will be shorter by winter.
At zoe per pound, bale of cotton will
not buy today as much clothing and
food and feed as bale bought when
cotton was selling for 12c a pound.
Any man can take the prices and fig
ure this out himself. The outlook is
that if cotton should sell for 30c per
pound by fall, which, of course, is ex-
ceedingly unlikely, still a man could
not get at that time as much food
and feed and clothing for bale of
cotton as he can now.
President Wilson has called upon
the people of the country to seriously
consider this matter and to take steps
to see that plenty of food and feed
stuffs are raised this year. We are in
war and we must face war conditions
and the call upon every man to do
what he can for the general good is
lust as imperative a call upon his pa
triotism as if he were called to
shoulder musket and go to the
trenches. From whatever standpoint
the subject is viewed, whether from
that Of patriotism and love Of country
and public duty or that of selfshness,
it behooves every man in Upton coun-
ty to get busy on this question of
raising food and feed stuff.
R. w. SANFORD, Chairman.