The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-04-02

LIVESTOCK MEET A SUCCESS


Great Success-It Will be An An
nuai Event-Addresses by Many
prominent Men Including Gov. Bick-
EFT s.
The live stock conference and ex- n
position held in Wilmington Wednes- :
day and Thursday of last week was
a great success and tremendous i'm o
petus was given to stock raising in ,
this section of the State. The exhib-
1t was fine and the discussions and :
speeches were practical and helpful.
Gov. Beckett was the principal Y
speaker the first day. Before a great 9
audience of representative citizens
from the State at large he declared 7
that this nation practically already
IS IN the great war and properly so,
that the hour of destiny for civiliza-
ton has struck, and that "the man
who dallies is a bastard and he who.
doubts is damned" He declared it
to be the patriotic duty of the hour
for North Carolinians to produce what
they can of food supplies this year.
"The battle line waits on the bread
line, he said, biscuits settle more
wars than bullets. The world con-
flict of today will not be decided by
military genius or the valor of the
men on the battle fields, but the side
is going to win that can for the
longest time feed and equip it's ar
mics he predicted.
The Governor said the Teutons NAV
never come, but the boil weevil is al
ready on the way, and it is colossal
folly for farmer in the cotton belt
not to prepare for the advent of the
pest, with broad acres of grasses and
grains and foodstuffs. All important
as is the livestock movement, the Gov
ernor declared that before we can
have livestock or anything else live,
we have got to have something to
feed it with. In the very scheme of
nature, vegetable precedes animal
life.
! Governor Beckett reiterated the
declaration made in his inaugural ad-
dress, that if he were Car instead of
l Governor of North Carolina, he would
; issue a decree that five years after
date any man who imported beef, ba-
con, meal, flour or hay into North
Carolina should be hanged without
jury trial. The man who makes plen-
!. ty of home supplies, he declared,
cannot make too much cotton. but the
man who does not make his home
supplies cannot fail to make too much
! cotton.
One Of the main purposes of the
; new crop lien law, the Governor said
= was to force the farmer to produce
Z his own supplies, through having the
d merchant refuse to furnish those who
Il would not raise their own food anc
Ill L,
. ment that he had dedicated his life
- for four years to the upbuilding Of
J the rural life in North Carolina ant
~ It should be his constant aim to TO
! Gus the thought Of the State upo1
u this subject during the term of hi
L. administration.
T. farmers cooperative demonstration
L, work in the South for the u. S. De
II partment of Agriculture. made al
y earnest plea for immediate action ol
~ the part of all to increase and con
what he called "safe farming pro
y gram" for 1917 that could be follow
u n ed by the average farmer, as fol
~ lows:
No Safe Farming Program
f. IA home garden for every famil
n on the farm-the year round.
e. 2-Enough corn on each farm t
I'd last the family and livestock yta
e. and some to spare.
3-Produce small grains to supple
IN ment the corn supply.
O. 4-Produce hay and forage enoug
he to supply the stock year.
m 5-Produce enough meat, eggs an
b. e.
n 6-When the living has been ami
ly provided for. produce cotton as til
e- main money crop-not living GRO
as 7-Plan to sell or exchange surplr
Ie- foodstuffs and grain to buy the SUI
o., plies for the family that cannot /
produced on the farm, so as to mai
the cotton surplus money crop.
IF Other speakers were: P. L. Suthe
nd land of Jacksonville, Fla, promine1
,e- business man, extensive land own
MS and manager of the Florida tick era
,ff ication committee of the Southel
ed Settlement and Development orga
ization, which united with the WI
mington Chamber of Commerce
RS promoting this conference; Repr
sentative J. H. Small of the Fir
N. C. district; Mai. w. A. Grahal
, Commissioner of Agriculture; Cal
ent T. B. Parker, director of farmer
ses Institutes: DR.. E. D. Owen Of the
a S. Department of Agriculture; Ee
J. tor l.. A. Niven Of the Southe
an Farming, Atlanta; Clement c. Uc
Ef- er, vice president Of the Southern 81
IN tlement and Development organic
err ton: DR.. B. w. Kilgore, director
the North Carolina Experiment ST
ton and Extension Work; L. I. Guit
,m- secretary of the Federal Land Bar
an, Columbia, S. c.; Prof. Lyman c.
ore rier and DIR. Geo. M. Rommel Of t
I'M y. S. Department of Agricultu
Col. Fred A. Olds, director of t
- N. C. Hall of History, and a numt
res of others.
lists It was voted unanimously at I
call closing session Thursday to make t.
oon an annual event.
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