The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1922-02-08
QUIT YOUR s.FORDING;"
AND GO TO FARMING

We farm, folks are up against a
tough proposition this year, and the
sooner we realize 1t and get busy, the
better it will be FOR US.
"The Lord helps those who help
themselves" but let's not expect TOO
much of the Lord, but do everything
we can and ask Him to give us good
seasons. health and a will to work.
Between you and me and the gatepost'
y think a lack Of the last mentioned
is our greatest trouble. Since SO
many farmers could afford Ford y
most OF US have contracted dislike
for plain, old-fashioned work, and
have developed case Of plain. Old
fashioned laziness-can a spade a
spade, you know, and it's 80 much
pleasanter to ride around and see
other folks work than to buckle down
tn it ourselves-but not near so many
of ia have kissed work goodbye as
thought we had, for I see summer
Of hard work looming up ahead OF
US like a nightmare, and. as they say
the surest way to avoid being gored
is 20 take the bull by the horns, I
suggest that We all get busy, resolve
to grow everything we can for our
own food, and for the stock We have
TO feed.
The first thing that We can plant
that will bring quickest results is
good garden, and right now is the
time to start. II you do not plant
anything just now, the garden should
be plowed so that the insect life that
winters Underground will be killed by
the cold before planting, which is
not far off. Sugar peas, mustard
lettuce and beet seed can be sown, and
cabbage plants set now without dan
ger Of frost killing them.
To get an idea Of how family gar
dens are neglected, just drive around
bit and take a look at what is called
| .the garden" by most farmers. You'll
get an "eyeful" of dead grass ano
weeds knee high, a few collaro
stumps and the bean poles left stand
ing since last summer. Whose fault
is it? It's the persons who does the
ploughing, we suppose, because moth
ing can be planted, or should not be
till the garden is ploughed, so We
suspect the men are guilty to some eS-
tent. A poor little woman told me
not long ago, There amt nobody
loves vegetables better'n I do, but
list CANT git Bill to fix me q garden
Some one ought to fix "Bilp' SO he'd
have to stand up. at least, long enough
to fix her "guarden." But 'tisn't al
ways Bits fault there's no garden
sometimes it's "Billette's' fault, fol
we happen to know some men who
do all the gardening done by the fam
ily.
Every farm family should be eatins
turnips, rutabagas, mustard, lettuce
collards, cabbage and sour-crout-oi
sauer-kraut-either way it tastes bes
to you, at this season OF the year, bu
how many are? Ask why, and the.
| usually answer, Il just can't have any
luck with things in the winter" Well
I guess not, if you sit down and wal
for them to fall from heaven like thu
| Mamma of Biblical days. Things don
happen that way these days.
| Farming and gardening, both, arr
very "earthy" jobs, and sky-gazins
| and day-dreaming won't get you ia!
on the farm. You've got to keep your
| eyes and mind on the job. And, too
you needn't sit down and wait for thu
| so-called Farmers Movement-for o.
! by farmers-to benefit you to an!
| great degree, because it won't b'
did,, not soon.
II you don't see this in The Dis
patch-News, you can just say the edi
tor wouldn't print it.
Yours for better farming and far
| mers,