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THE CAKOLINA UNION PARMER
] Thursday. Februarj:
WHAT IS THE MATTER.
Talking with a farmer not long
since about the present demands up
on the man who tills the soil, he said:
“Sometimes I get almost discour
aged. It seems as though the col
leges and you editors were crowding
us farmers along faster than we
know what to do. It didn’t used to
be so. The demands for this and
that change are coming thicker and
faster.”
We do not woilder that some farm
ers feel like this. The minds of men
are getting greasy stirred as to the
necessity for more and better knowl
edge, for better methods concerning
the handling of our farms. The very
conservative farmer, like our friend
above quoted, does not feel just clear
that these things are just right, so
they feel uncertain. Like honest
men, they want to do what is for the
best. They do not feel like admitting
that they have been wrong in their
understanding of their soil. They will
confess that it does not act as it used
to twenty-five or thirty years ago.
Like most men, they incline to the
easiest conclusion and say the sea
sons are to blame. And so they say:
“What’s the matter?”
To our mind, all these things come
to one point, that is, decline in the
producing power of the farm; in oth
er words, loss of fertility. All this
has taken place unconsciously to the
mind of the farmer. He has not in
creased his knowledge as fast as
these disastrous changes have taken
place. He has drifted along, doing
his farming mechanically, plowing in
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MAN AND BEAST.
what’s the matter. We never heard
of a man who grew poor because his
soil grew rich. Have you?—Hoard
Dairyman.
— , A poacher, surprised at his work
the same old way, sowing and plant-1 and pursued in his escape by a venge
old way, and so it| fully thrown axe, remarked,
vaulted a fence:
same
ing in the
has gone.
Now he is troubled on two sides.
(1) By the growing stubbornness of
his soil. “It don’t act as It used to,”
he says. “What’s happened to it?”
(2) He is troubled by the colleges
and those agricultural papers that
dig down to the reason of things.
They keep him stirred up telling him
he must readjust his mind and judg
ment to the changed condition of the
soil; that he must do the things that
will bring back this fertility that the
farm has lost. That worries him.
He more than half suspects they are
right.
Now all these things would appear
more clear and capable of solution if
the farmer in days past had devoted
some time to a study of the soil.
Right now changes must be- made,
remedies applied, and the farmer
feels as did our friend whom we
quoted at the beginning, “almost dis
couraged.”
But there is a way out. Thousands
of farmers have found it. What is
it? Commence at once to make a se
rious study of your farm with the de
termined purpose of finding out why
fertility has declined. Probably
there are a number of causes, but
the principal one is that for.years
more phosphate and nitrogen have
been taken out of the soil than have
been put back. Hoard’s Dairyman
has been talking a long time to its
readers about the importance of ap
plying two things especialy to their
soil—phosphate and the right form
of lime. Only occasionally have we
heard of a neighborhood of farmers
who have clubbed together and sent
to Tennessee for a car-load of raw
ground phosphate. Local dealers do
not keep it, and if got, it must be got
by the car-load. So it Is with ground
limestone or marl. It is IJk© pulling
teeth to get a farmer to turn under a
good crop of clover or alfalfa In the
fall BO as to add to the humus in
the Boll. It takes knowledge and
then pluck to do the right thing.
Two main things mtmt be done to
save our farms. (1) We mucft know
more than we do about the soil. (2)
Wfe must U.a^, fljipre c6u,yage to do as
well as we kimw T
as he
I have no fault to
find with your remarks, but I object
to the axe-sent.”
* * *
“What you want, I suppose. Is to
vote, just like the men do.” “Cer
tainly not,” replied Mrs. Baring-Ban
ners. “If we couldn’t do any better
than that, there would be no use of
our voting.”
* • •
An Englishman went to Paris,
where he stayed for some time. When
he returned to his home a friend
asked him how he had liked France.
"A beastly country,” he replied,
"perfectly beastly. They know noth
ing there. They don’t even know
how to talk. Why, they call bread
‘pain’!”
“But,” his friend said, "that Is the
French word for bread.”
“Oh, I know that. But why should
they call it that? It really is bread,
ypu know.”
* « *
A New York physician was giving
an informal talk on physiology upon
the windy, sea-frothing porch of an
Atlantic City hotel.
“Also,” he said, "it has lately been
found that the human body contains
sulphur.”
“Sulphur!” exclaimed a girl In a
blue and white blazer. "How much
sulphur is there, then, in a girl’s
body?”
“Oh,” said the physician, smiling,
“the amount yaries.”
“And is that,” asked the girl, "why
some of us make so much better
matches than others?”
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