Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-27
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ADDRESS TO ROTARY
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plantation can survive.
Again we have cne everlasting
lesson to teach our boys. That les
son is the value of vegetable mat
ter IN our soils. Ever since Une
Civil war we have been burning
out vegetable matter growing cot
ton. We have beeen wrapping the
iertilitysof our soils in jute bagging
ind calling i profit. We have
reached the place to where we
think we can't get along without
commercial fertilizers. We pay
$1,000 ton for potash, haul it out
to our farms and undertake to feed
our plants with a spoon; and it too
often takes all the balance to pay
for the potash. Our Sumter county
soils have all the way from $4,000
to $4,000 pounds, of potash in every
l8-inch-acre We have enough
otash to do US a century. 1t is not
available simply because of the
physical condition of our soils.
4ncsn grain or peanuts on the
ootcst spot III your farm and no
ti@e what the litter lett on the soil
VIII do. We have all seen the re-
s It's. There is not a pound of
/ uosphoric acid, nitrogen or potash
III a carload of this litter. But it
gets results. The only thing be-
tween us and prosperity on the
farms today is the lack of vege-
table matter.
II am tempted to stop right here
and tell the story Of Poor Old
Wisconsin. Fifty years ago it is
said that Wisconsin was considered
the poorest state in the unicn. 1t
was proverbially poor The lands
were so poor the farmers couldn't
pay the taxes on them. They be-
gan to dairy little, shipping sour
cream and tussing about the prices
paid by the creameries-which was
little enough to be sure. Fortunate
~ they had to stick. They couldn't
quit. They got busy and made the
creameries tote fair. They put
good bulls at the head of their
herds. The soil on these dairy
farms began to respond, not 50
much from the manures which help
ca ever SO much' put on account OF
S Veg T{ matter le1t on the
i i., 1heSe people began TO see
little.
Figures from a recent survey of
tne otaIe bureau OIL markets sho"
that are buying outside of Geor-
Ela anu M Sellihs from our own farms
"s loiio"S'
We buy Is million bushels Of
corn and sell at nome about ~
hu.heis; eight million bushels Of
"hoat, as flour, and sell less than
two million bushels; Is million
bush IS of oats and sell less than IL
million bushels; 100 million dollars
worth OF meat and sell less than
20 mIlhon dollars; 20 million
pouni'S OF butter and cheese
ana sell less than 80
mlIiin pounds 10000 cars og
apple and sell less than 900 cars;
l2U cars OF dry be2fls, 600 cars o.
cabbage, 2O0 ears OF lettuce l3u
cars OF onions, - cars OF pears,
l2OO cars OF irish potatoes, and
are se1ilng very little of these Nf
are now buying 300 thousand casts
of eggs away from home every
year.
Nothing to hinder US from pro-
ducing them at home. Nothing to
Keep us from selling this bill to
ourselves except little careful
packing and grading.
This week our classes in Agri-
culture and Home Economics are
grading peanuts, sweet potatoes,
Irish potatoes, butter and eggs
This work is done according to
United States standard require
ments and these products are be-
ing packed in United States stan
dard containers. When we standard
ize our products, put the name and
address of the grower on every
package and guarantee our goods to
be what we sell, our markets will
20 as far as to telegraph wires
and until we do that we shall be
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