Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-06-08
fundamental question of soil fertili-

and successful marketing do not diff
fer very widely, but on the other hand
they are very much alike.
In other words, a successful mod
ern farmer must not only be a man
of experience, and he must not only
have a knowledge of various crops
and their adoption to various kinds
of soil, but ne must know the scien-
tific reasons for the various changes
or steps made in their successful pro-
duction and distribution. He must
know how to apply the successful ex-
perience of others to his own local
conditions, and when he is able to do
this he is applying science and scien-
tific methods to his own operations,
and the more capable he is in apply
ing these methods the more certain
he will be successful.
And we might stop long enough to
say that successful farming does not
consist simply in growing large crops
at a minimum cost, for some of the
most miserable failures that / have
ever seen, have been farmers who
were able to make good crops and
store up considerable money to be
nothing more than a burden and a
hideous nightmare during their de-
clining years. Do you think that sim
ply because a man has plenty of cot
ton, corn and other crops that he is
successful farmer? Not by any
means, for it may be that he is the
most miserable failure in the COM
munity. Especially in these more
modern days when scientific and sue
cessful farming offers such great op-
portunities for genuine happiness and
social development does the money
element in success sink to insignifi-
canoe. Really, there is not so much
money to be made in farming, but
it is an occupation in which the high
est degree of success is possible. Jo-
seph E. Wing said on one occasion::
"There is more opportunity for hap
piness in the country home than there
is any where else outside of heaven"
And we cannot think of the modern
successful farmer who conducts his
farming operations in a way so as
to have lost motion or wasted time
and labor, has a shelter for his wife
and family and offers opportunities
for proper development of his chill
dren. Yes, there is no place on earth
that affords greater and better op-
portunities for the development Of
manhood and womanhood than the
right sort of farm home. 1t is here
that the child is taught helpfulness,
self-reliance, industry and unselfshS
ness-the four great attitudes of a
happy, contented and successful life.
Of course, the farmer is not the
central figure in the farm home, un-
less the farmer happens to be a wo-
man, for it is impossible to conceive
of home apart from wife, mother or
daughter, and it is very refreshing
to know that the possibilities for sue
cess and happiness of the farm wo-
man have not yet been revealed, for
the reason that her energies in the
past have been wasted in overmuch
service. But the application of science
and scientific methods to farming op-
Grafton by the modern successful
farmer gives the farm woman
chance to come unto herself and Of
fers her an opportunity to dignity
the farm home and magnify the op-
portunities there for social develop
ment, culture, refinement and gen.
uine happiness. And the man who
owns little bit of Gods earth, where
he can plant things and watch them
grow, where he can build and adorn
home with modern .conveniences, a
spot where he can retreat and feel
himself safe, a place where he can
take wife, we'll mated to himself,
united in common bond of ideals,
labor, and hope, where she can bear
her children and he can watch them
grow and develop into virtuous,
strong and courageous men and wo-
men, 1 would say that this man could
be classed as a modern successful
farmer and has provided place for
the attainment of the greatest hap
piness on earth.
Quarles-Lanham.