The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-10-13
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1922.

The plans for widening the useful
ness If the cannery next season arc
developing We will can beets, beans
and tomatoes, if our plans can be car
ried out. This year we were forced to
go cautiously. The skepticism that
just could not see anything but failure
for the venture and the pittance of
capital were the two main handicaps
*nxt season we will have much more
favorable skies. Long since we found
out that the two main barriers to SIC
cess were lack of capital and lack of
production We now believe that both
these major barriers can be overcome
We have done almost no canvass;ng
for subscriptions to STOCK during the
past two months, feeling chat it would
be easier sailing in the fall season. II
we can get the $4,000 ,p1tal we viii!
at once go forward with our plans to
handle the three crops above mention
ed. The further we investigate the
more satisfied are we that canning
food products is one of the greatest
ways to independence that can be
found There is no reason whatever
why the venture cannot succeed, both
from the standpoint Of the farmer and
the investor. In the next few years
canning factories are going to sprin~
up all over the Piedmont country.
Union is just n bit ahead, that's all.
We are come to the time of departure
from the one crop system. Cotton we
will continue to raise, but not as our
chief crop. The county is not primar-
lily cotton raising county. When we
raise full crop, it is only 10000
bales. This means that the entire crop
ar 20 cents a pound, counting 500
pounds to the bale, would yield one
million dollars gross. An entire coun-
ty should get a larger gross return
from its primes crop. Now suppose
the price be ten e cents and the boil wee
vii gets half? That is nearer the
truth, and means that the entire gross
receipts from our one chief crop is but
a quarter of a million dollars Mari:
you, gross profit of $250,000 may
mean a net loss. We bclieve it does
mean net loss; that this Is what has
actually been happening. The farms
have been gradually going down,
gradually failing into the hands of
mortgage holders. The dirt farmer
trbe is gradually diminishing. T.
now seems that if we do not change
our methocs, it will not be many years
before the agricultural interests will
go to pot. We are not far from it
now. 1t is not pessimism that leads
US to say this. We say IL to point out
the fact that there is way out, many
ways. The canning industry is one
way out. There are others. Dairy cat
tie, poultry raising, hog raising, the
planting of food and feed crops and
fruit growing. But every one of these
things lead to food conservation. Can
ming is food conservation. Canning
takes care of the glut, enables you
to sell at pleasure, brings money to
the farmer at hard season and as
sists towards diversifcation. If the
people of Union county could see thl
thing IN its true light, they would put
half a million dollars into the can
merry. 1t would be easy to get the
balance of the $4,000 before break
fast in the morning. We ask that you
take one or two shares. We believe
you will do this, even if you are a
bit doubtful of the success Of the en-
terprise.