Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-01-31
DISCUSSES
PRICE-FIXING PROBLEM
President of State Farmers Institute Makes Annual Adj
DRESS Reviewing Immense Increase in Value
of States Agricultural Products.

at this price II is one of ,hc most
profitable crops that can be grown,
occupying. ns Il does. the land for only
four months and giving the farmer mn
excellent chance to grow q second crop
on the same land. We cannot Increase
our live stock production without hay.
Excellent hay can be produced, not
only from timothy. clover ami alfalfa.
but also from COW peas and especially
from soy beans
Number one hay VIII now bring tho
farmer. anywhere in Virginia. properly
balod, $40 per ton, at his barn.
is It not then as profitable to grow
This cror as /. la to grow what or
corn?
The imperative necessity In Virginia
Is TO increase the production Of live
stock. Wheat Will never again be
cheap. aid at the present high prices
CT commercial fertilizers we must
maintain the fertility of our soils and
produce our grain and hay crops with
crcaeo our live stock materially this
year: especially poultry. hogs and
sheep. Virginia should be the greatest
sheep raising section. on Its farms. IN
the United States. Over twenty -fvc
years ago distinguished authority
ever. sheep offer the highest induce
men,s 20 the herdsmen In Virginia. The
hills are covered with natural grass
and millions OF sheep will browse upon
them whenever suitable laws for their
protection shall be passed The mum
Der of sheen and lambs killed by dogs
Is go great that the farmera arc de-
TERED from keeping docks In spit. OF
the fact, that their lands are admirably
adacted TO .hecp raising"
NEED of FARMERS is
FOR real. DOC LAW
Yet this snme condition exists 10 day.
In all these yenrs nocks have not been
increased. Indeed the fact Is, they
have decreased. know OF one Ease
where nifty sheep. worth $1,000 were
killed IN one night. by two worthless
ours. | know OF another case whore
nifty sheep OF less value then these, last
year, brought In 10 their owner, 1900.
And every sheep raiser In Virginia
knows that the manure from these
sheep, and their capacity to keep down
wecds probably compensated their
owner. fully. for their keap. 1t Ia the
very height OF economic imbecility that
condition which prevents four-fifths
CT the farmers IN Virginia. from keeping
sheep shall be permitted to disgrace
ana discrcdit Virginia, any longer
With proper and effective dog law.
we can. and Will. Increase the number
OF shefp In Virginia, In another ten
years. 500 fold.
Tho fertilizer question is perp,exlng;
the high price OF farm implements, ai.
most deterB us from trying to buy
them; the labor situation Is serious;
but. with all these draw backs, since
whom have the farmers of Virginia,
when they had once put their hands to
the pillow. turned back? Last fall,
amidst weather draw backs. we In
creased our wheat acreage 10 ner cent,
tho rest OF the country only four. II
our men In stalwart health are called
20 the army and to the various highly
paid Jobs around the environments and
In the munItion plants, we will work
the farms with the old men, the boys
and the women.
FARMERS HAVE
ENLISTED FOR THE WAR
The farmers OF Virginia have enlist
ed for the war. and, come what may,
be the difficulties however great, they
Will make good. And we here and
now pledge the President and the peo-
pie OF the United States that in this
year 1913 Virginia will do more to feed
the world than she did in 1917
] know 1t Is easy to make these
promises In the glow and enthusiasm Of
such meeting as this, and another
thing to keep them In the heat and
toll and storm OF the every day work
ing seasons. But l know, too, that the
men and women OF Virginia, with their
record OF purposes maintained and
faith kept: with their Anglo Saxon
steadiness. and deeds OF accomplish
ments from Runny Meade to Appomat-
tox. will not prove siackers now
Sts0dfast. strong and faithful, In sun
shine and storm. in victory and in de-
feat, these are their traditions And
our old men. little boys and women
viii be faithful and. true In the fields OF
Virginia ever as will our men In tho
trenches of France. And We, the as
sembied farmers OF Virginia. truly pro-
| claim TO the world that we are en-
listed for this war, never to quilt until
the last Hun Is dead or disarmed