French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1919-03-27
BACK-SLIDING
(By Uncle JOSH

and says as how you must stop being
progressive and drop back into the
| habits and customs what yer great
great grandfathers practiced? 1 allow
as how you all would jist about run
that there person out of this here
country. Some of you all would git
| goI burned mad and tell that there
| Teller as how he was hindering the
| progress of civilization and that you
all was aiming ter git all the know
| ledge and education what yer could,
and that you all did not want yer
children ter hev ter live as you all did.
! Now amt I about right.
Now this here state of North Caro-
lima is a pretty good old state and so
| is Henderson county a fine county and
| there are lots of burned good people
in it. And we don't want nc other
| state or no other county incur state
ter be more progressive than we all
are.
Now there are in this here Hender-
son county some pretty good farmers
what raise fine crops, but agin there
be lots who don't know much about
farming and raise pretty poor crops.
Course these here poor farmers sure
allow as how they are as good as the
! best, but they don't raise the crops
| and don't make the money as what
| some others do.
None Of we uns farm jist ter be
| farming. If we do, there sure is some
| thing wrong with us and we should
see a doctor at onct. 1 allow as how
| all of US are farming fer what money
we all can make out Of it. Some Of
we uns are pretty hard headed and
| think as how we know more about
farming than anyone else. That there
may not be true jist because we hev
been farming fer a good many years.
We can usually find some other felle~.
If we look long enough, what raise"
bigger crops and makes more money
from the same number Of acres as
what we do.
Now the only way ter improve u
methods and get so we can raise big
ger crops and make more money at
the game of farming is ter try some
of the things what them there more
successful fellers do. But you al:
can't git around ter visit all the better
farms in the country and you all prob
ably don't take time ter read about
them there things so how are you all
going ter improve yer methods? Lots
of you let your apples rot cause yer
don't know where ter sell them; lots
of you have a poor yield of corn fer
YOU don't know how ter select your
seed corn.
For about Is years the government
has been a trying ter help we uns
farm in such a way as how we will
make more money and live happier
lives Away back in 1904 Congress
appropriated $27, 900 for Farm Demon
stration work, just as a sort of expert
ment. 1t did so much that there first
year that they increased it each year
until now this here congressional ap-
preparation is nearly a million dollars.
And fer every dollar what Congress
spends the various states spend an
equal amount. 1t is a good thing or
elst the Government would not be
spending money on it.
There are now in North Carolina
over 100 Farm Demonstrators and up
until the County Commissioners OF
this here county told u Farm De-
monstrator that he was out Of a job,
there were only sever counties in this
state what did not have a Farm De-
monstrator. But now I allow as how
wa are to be numbered among the
back-sliders and people all over the
country will point to we uns n say
as how we are either too poor to sup
port a Farm Demonstration or that we
uns know so much we don't need me-.
But I give you all fair warning as
how your Uncle Josh is going ter
leave this here county If there amt no
Farm Demonstration pretty SOC Il
allow as how 1 might go to a county
where they hev one. How about you
uns?
If the editor of this here paper al
lows me to and the Lord lets me live
another week, your Uncle Josh will
give you all some no stuff next week
What will bring tears to the eyes OF
them what is opposed to the Farm De-