The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1921-09-22
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Perseverenee.


toned as to whether or not the mig
gerp boy, weighing about 65 pounds,
could ever lift out a cake Of ice
weighing about $50 pounds: Yes
by-jingo; perseverance and molasses
will catch flies.e And the same thing
is true Of the citizenship Of Upton
county now. What we need to do is
to persevefe and stop meeting on the
corner and Gliding" and get down
to il and use every ounce Of energy
that is in US to encourage the saving
Of what has been made in the matter
OF cotton, corn, hay and molasses,
for there is enough Of such things
already raised in this good county Of
ours to take care of the whole in
debtedness of the county when It
comes 10 of and getting a
Let's aliit tllin lng about what our
bankers ind business men and good
farmers said 10 us about wasting
money at the beginning Of 1921, for
what they said to us was for our
good, and as D. result Of it many a
man does9not owe one cent against
his crop for this year 1921. II was a
blessing in, disguise, yet some Of us
thought il was dictatorial at the
time; yet / have heard several men
in the past few weeks express them
selves as being glad that they were
denied the usual loose credit that
they had always been able to CONS
mahd. These same men, or some Of
thems have made it possible for the
farmers to have the services Of a,
county agent for the past two or
three years, and, together with the
Assistance of the brethren" we have
splendid strawberry market, cotton
market and one of the best and most
inexpensive of all of these markets
is that of a market fer the cream
that so many Of our farmers are sell
! ing, which has heretofore been wasted
on a scrub bull yearling or thrown
out to a few lousy pigs, and some
times on the ground for the lack Of
so-called pig to consume it. Since
the establishment of the cream mar
ket, that Of itself calls for some pigs
and they are considered just as much
part Of the whole thing as the
cows and the cream separator.
You have done another thing in es-
tablishing the strawberry and
cream market. 1t has and will
encourage the boys and girls
to take an interest in the home
and farm life, for when they want
to have some money to spend you do
not have to say to them: "You will
have to wait until we sell some cot
ton in about six months" Goodness
knows, when you tell them that they
begin to say in their own minds: II
may be dead when we get returns
for the cotton!" And now, with the
coming of the boil weevil, which /
am frank to say to you, is a bless
ing in disguise, we should put forth
every ounce Of energy to try and do
| some of all of these things that will
bring US in some ready cash; and let
me suggest right here and now that
If the men who own farms and rent
them that have pastures for their
tenants, would call together his ten
ants and out of that number select
one of them as captain Of the squad,
purchase a cream separator, locate
it conveniently on the farm, let them
bring in their surplus of milk, have
| 1t separated and take back with him
the "blue john" which is good to
drink, or sour, and make it into but
termilk, and when he needed some
butter, take back with him a portion
of the cream and in five minutes the
wife can take an egg-beater and you
khave butter for the meal This can
be done, for it takes little or no cap
ital, and you don't have to have any
ice, and if the milk happens to have
onions in it. it makes no difference,
and, again, you do not have to fol-
low the book Of rules as relates to
the up-to-date dairy In the matter
of having your cows tested for tuber-
culosis, concrete stalls for the cows
and such other things that would bar
the average man from getting into
the business of dairy where the
whole milk is sold. Remember, / do
not mean by this that you do not have
to be clean with it. but we all try
to do this for bur own good. for we
will be using the "blue-iohn" for
drinking purposes and the butter Tor
our own use
BY the way, speaking Of the book
of rules, reminds me of good joke
| i heard not long ago. A yellow
,darkev by the name Of Jim frencn,
said to his friend Horace Broadway
who was as black as night: II |
had my life to go over would make
a Pullman car porter and see the
world.p Whereupon Horace said to
him: "Nigger, / spec you never read
the book Of rules on Pullman car
porter has YOU 2" and Jim said: mo,
and why 2" Horace said to him: The
book of rules say "a niger with
three E hair can not serve, ana
Jim said: what do you means I"
Whereupon Horace replied: Your
hair is kinkee, knottee and nappee."
Now, one Of the first things that
the average man will ask when you
begin to talk to him about this cream
and strawberry business: won't
we 'glut' the market? Won't they
skin us at the other end Of the line
on the price of the berries and
cream?" To all of which ! can say
that they can not and will not try,
for the reason that as to the straw
berry market, we have always had
more buyers than we have had ber-
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