Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-02-23
"LIVE AT HOME.

cent Extension Circular Of the A. and
M. College Of Texas making farm
suggestions for 1922 are found the
following paragraphs which every
farmer should read. The live-at-
home doctrine Is the same as that
preached over and over by the Ex-
tension Service, but it can not be
preached too often for there are still
many converts to be made.
"The growing Of sufficient food
products for the needs Of the family
is one of the vital problems on the
farm. This may be accomplished, TO
large extent, by planting fall win
ter, and spring gardens large enough
to produce vegetables for at least two
meals each day during the growing
season as we'll as sufficient supply
to meet the requirements for cam
ming and drying for the yearly needs
of the family. A home orchard
Should be grown that will furnish
fruit either fresh, canned, dried, Or
preserved as a part of each meal.
There should be at least fifty good
hens to supply meat and eggs for
family consumption; one or more
dairy cows, capable Of supplying the
necessary amount of milk and butter
and at elast three hogs to furnish
meat and lard for the years supply.
Where practicable wheat, oats and
rye should be sown as cover crops,
winter pasturage, feed for livestock
and for market, while such feed
crops as corn, grain, sorghum, and
hay should be grown for the home
feeds, as we'll as ultimate marketing
through livestock"
at is recognized That with the
system of distribution and marketing
now in vogue, we are producing a
greater volume Of certain crops than
we are able to market at profitable
prices. However, this does not neces-
sarily mean that these products
could not be grown more economical
ly or that the quality can not be i'm
proved. 1t is doubtful whether We
will ever receive a price for staple
farm crops, such as corn and cotton,
sufficiently high to insure a profit
to the farmer, who, with his indi-
vidual labor, can only cultivate from
twenty to thirty acres, producing
probably fifteen bushels Of grain and
about one-third of bale of cotton
to the acre; consequently we should
direct our energies toward increased
acre production rather than tilling
or managing large acreages. That
acre production can be substantially
increased without materially adding
to the cost of planting and cultivating
has been successfully demonstrated y
Balanced Farming and Good Buslnes
Demand Cotton Acreage
Reduction.
After setting forth these and other
suggestions and recommendations
the circular concludes with the fol-
lowing regarding cotton acreage re-
duction.
This program is not a plea for
the reduction in the cotton acreage
but if the farmer doubts the advisa-
bility Of this program he has only toI
consult the recent break in the cot
ton prices, following the September
Is report of the Government The
trade expected a report of 40 per-
cent or below on the condition at ;be
time. When the Government report
showed 422 percent or % percent
more than the trade expected, or an
increase of 143,S14 bales, within five
minutes of trading the price broke
200 points, a loss OF $1,000 per bale
or a. total loss of $65,37O.OOO on the
cotton crop Of the South.
at should be remembered that
there was sufficient acreage planted
to cotton in 1921 to have produced
a 100000 bale crop under normal
conditions. If % percent increase
could effect the price $1,000 per bale
evidently, if a normal crop had been
produced, we would have seen 1871
cotton sold at possibly less than half
of what it is selling for today
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