Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-03-21
FOOD.

Never before in the history of the
world has there been so great a de-
mand for food as at this time. Never
before did the dollar that the laborlne
man earns, buy so little as at this time.
That the people realize this there is
no kind of doubt. That greater effort
than ever before will be made this
year to produce food for man and beast
there is no doubt.
All this great cry of good times
through high prices is the rankest de.
ception-lf it really does deceive any
one, which is very doubtful. The real
truth is, there was never a time when
times were harder than now. During
the last Grover Cleveland adminlstra-
ton money was exceedingly scarce and
hard to get, but food was plentiful and
cheap, while wages were low. People
in the large cities did not conduct food
riots in spite of "Coxle's Army" and
the general business depression.
Now the cash vaults of the rich are
bursting with gold and thousands of
people are suffering for food. Gold
dues not mako snnd times. The period
when normal prices prevail is when
tines are good for then everyone has
enough and to spare.
TINS distressing condition is with US
and it rests with the whole people to
remedy 1t. The only way to remedy
the food shortage is to grow more food
in this good year of 1917 than was ever
grown before. That means plant more
crops, attend them better and thus
coax from Mother Earth greater yield
than ever before.
But producing food crops from the
land 10 not the only way. There is a
great shortage of meat as we'll as other
things. Every family can raise few
chickens on the scraps from the table.
If you cannot hatch the chickens buy
a few little chicks from the man whe
matches them by the hundred in his in
cubator. They Will cost little more
than the eggs are worth
Then, get pig in a pen. 1t will
cost little to keep it during the sum-
mer and when fall comes. II grain is
still high meat will be high also and
you can be pretty sure you nave lost
nothing and there is every likelihood
that you will gam little.
We once heard Prof. H. A. Morgan,
Of the Tennessee Agricultural College,
say to bunch of farmers: Men. did
you know that the most profitable way
to use fertilizer is to put it on your
best ground?"
We are too much inclined to put tertl-
ilzer heaviest on the poorest land. !,
There is reason in that in one way, it
tends to keep up the land. But there
is better and cheaper way to keep up
your land: Turn under some green
crop, preferably crop that grows
mainly IN the winter when the land
would otherwise be idle. Crimson
clover IS one OF the best winter crops .
for improving and keeping up land.
If we follow the advice Of Prof. Nor
gan this year and fsrtllze highly the
best land, cultivate thoroughly and
yields are almost sure to be
arger than by spreading the same
amount of fertilizer over much more
and. Besides. you can replace the
large amount Of plant food you remove
by sowing crlmson clover this summer
and early next fall so that by next sea-
son you will be ahead instead of behind
in soil fertility.
A few men in this county are doing
his. but many more should begin the
practice. Some say seed is too high.
That is a mistake. For twenty-five
cents you can buy enough clover seed