The Robesonian., 1918-02-25
GREAT FOOD-CROP YEAR
THIS SHOULD BE
Food Crops Should Be Planted Large
ly to the Exclusion of Other Crops
to Meet the Worlds Needs-Double
the Hog Crop.


To the Editor of The Robesonian:
Farmers in this section are begin
ming to make a start in preparation
for the 1913 crop, and let us say
here that the people everywhere owe
it to the nation to see to it that the
greatest efforts are put forth to make
this year the greatest food-cfop year
that our country has ever experienced.
The farmer--if indeed he should be
face of war and our country's great
est need for such crops, plant food
/ crops largely to the exclusion Of other
so-called money crops, we say that
such as deny their country this pa
triotic service should be marched with
few words straight to the training
camps and everyone of them mustered
into training for position wherein
they can be Of some real help instead
of a hindrance or burden.
Many q Robson county farmer by
the crop he groNs is going TO give
untold aid to the enemy. For in
stance: A man plants Is acres of to-
hacco and makes from the Is acres
S5, 900. In cur opinion this man vii
be doing our country more harm, thar
q German sympathizer who sends the
German Government just twice this
amount, or $4,000 You see, this ma,
rohe our countrv of many acres O
food crops, and also much labo
which should be used to cultivate 9th
or crons. R11t it looks now like tn
farmers will have to learn about thi
tobacco business in about the sam
] way in which they learned a few year
/ eoo-we believe it was about 1901
/ when the preceding crop brough
such high price. New tobacco ware
houses were built all over the cour
try in preparation for the coming see
son. And what happened? Well, tn
farmers hauled it to the warehouse
and it sold at about the same pric
that nice timothy hay now sells fo
But the farmners had one more les
n son such as is learned only in tn
| school of experience, They had NJ
body to blame but themselves, SO the
just got mad and many of them a
most promised themselves and the
friends that they would never gro
another hill Of the weed. But tt
!! : last signs Of that old sore were con
pletely healed over in 1917, and a
indications are that it is possible fl
the same thing to occur in 1918-ar
all of this in the face Of war. If
were not for the war it would not
| so bad, but we just can't afford
experiment this year.
On the other hand, let us plant ev
ry available acre to food crops; let
plant soy beans, velvet beans, al
pastures for the hogs, and along wi
! other food crops let's double the h
crop But we can't hope to do tn
by feeding nothing but corn to t.
7 hog. Soy beans, for instance, are be
ter for hogs than corn, and are nlu
cheaper to grow than corn, and t
= hog can gather the beans himself.
have found from tests made in G
e; own fields that soy beans do equa
| as we'll without fertilizer as they
| with it. However, if planted on we
soils they must be planted somewh
earlier than is necessary on stro
soils.
Mr.. Blanchard had us to try S
beans, for the first we ever plants
two years ago, and now we won(
how we ever got along without then
If the farmers are interested enou
in planting soy beans, will give {
experience with them as to plantl1
cultivating, etc, before planting Il.
"h. F. D.
Fairmont, N. c., Feb. 20, 1918.
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