The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-01-21
BUSINESS AND THE FARM.

The Manufacturers Record quotes Governor CAL
vim Coolidge of Massachusetts. saying: There is
no question that the south should raise its food and
feedstufs to the largest possible extent and for the
cotton it raises ought to get price sufficient to
make cotton growing profitable We want cotton in
Massachusetts,. but l believe shall, in the end
get more cotton if the south raises food
products"
That the south must raise more food products if
the nation is to be fed beyond dispute the great
issue today is greater food production. and unless
Escambia county farmers do their full part in this
production, shall suffer from our. shortsight-
edness.
Escambia county farmers have learned few sound
economic lessons during the past few years, and
most particularly during the world The most
important of these lessons perhaps is conservation
Of labor forces; the shortage OF farm labor in the
south has brought the southern farmer to realiza-
ton that he must his farm the same eco
nomic principles that business applies to his
business. Man power has been succeeded by ma
chinery the great farms OF the west to such an
extent that labor shortage is longer the formd-
able enemy to production that it before modern
farm implements came into general use.
The possibilities OF West Florida and Escambia
county are patent to the world that we have carried
off third and first premium at the state fair in two
successive years demonstrates what be done.
when scientific methods applied to farming; but
pay. placing farming in Escamba county prac-
teal basis
The best method for this is through cooperative
effort; strong cooperative farmers organization in
Escambia county would do more than any other one
thing could do to place farming the plane
with other practical business movements.
Until the farmer applies sound business principles
to his farm, we cannot hope that food production
in this county will increase in any great extent.
Intensive farming, modern methods in the OF
fertilizer, machinery, marketing; all these must
Gene to pass before Escamba county take the
place which is its right and which a few business
farmers have already fully demonstrated to be pos
sible.
There is no farming community in Florida which
has made greater strides than has Graceville in the
past few years and this is attributable to the
cooperation existing between the farmers and bust
ness of that section. and the strong farmers
organization which has its headquarters at Grace
VILE Not only is the market price kept at the top
notch all the time but it possible to get the very
best produce the Graceville market. because the
reputation of the Gracevile market is such that
farmers come from all over that part of the state
and even. beyond the Alabama line to sell their
produce
Gracevile has learned the secret of food produc-
ton; it is nothing more than the application OF
sound business principles to farming; the farmer
will produce If he can get his market and he will
get his market. if he will go about it along business
lines.
A Cooperative Farmers Association composed of
representatives from the farming and business COM
munities. would soon make of Pensacola as good a
market for produce as Gracevile and better if one
may judge by the honors which have already come
to US, through the awards at the state fair.