The Farmer and The Farm
ritten
for The News-Herald by Vance Teague, of Worry, N. C.)
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U. southern part oi xne umieu
t " is largely agricultural, and
r l.tinue to be. Therefore, the
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?ce x. -.-r tVio rvrnrl notion
,ve musL
rmer
than
reat national development.
truly said: The f ar
ia
ftions
P
the gi
ro, has been
Vip nroeenitor of the human
and was tne ino oauu m
L!'ence of the Creator to receive
eS Him the decree of the Divine
find on tne 4U"" "
All human pius rv.
'end upon his industry and suc-
and our mighty commercial
f which dazzles the whole world,
Its upon his broad back. All of the
, chins sailing ail xne seas
llenuiu r -.J. -
j docking at all tne pons oi earxu
bsolutely dependent on me corn
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Aa wneat nciuo, " "
the farmer. witnoux ms muusiry
a prosperity the railroad irons. of
rreat national highways would
turn to rust and the scream of
i-rv,rvtivp would soon become a
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range noise m xne iaim. it
It for the humble tiller of the soil
e owls and bats would infest the
ty spires of our magnificent cities,
id they would soon laii to ruins
complete as those ot ilercuianeum
Pompeii
AJ1 our civiliation lies between the
de stlCK plow yeu m use uy me
L-oIosp and the latest internal
Wbustible engine that plows our
jrge, up-to-date tracts twelve fur
ks at a time. No longer"the plow
In homeward plods his weary way."
Je rides jauntily in on the sulky,
th his old slouched straw hat
Jshed back on his head and his mind
'jisy with plans for the next day.
jailed labor, caused by the new con-
, is in demand on the farms to
Any hired hand could curry
id feed a mule, but it takes a good
Ian to care for a piece of expensive
lachinery.
I By mechanical improvements the
rmer is changing from the old
itiquated plan of "one crop farm"
g" to the present day "mortgage
ifting, diversified crop and stock
lising farming." I would speak in
rms of highest praise of the won
ferful strides the farmers have made,
Id the accumulation of wealth since
ie civil war, with all the handicap of
totective legislation enacted for the
er.efit of others. This form of pro
motion has builded our cities by
jawing largely from the farm some
i the best laborers, and has in-
i
the best laborers and has in
eased the tenant system of farm-
ag, which is the greatest menace to
cr development.
The farmer has for a number of
pars been paying an unjust propor-
pn, not only of the protective tariff,
ct of the profits of manufacturers,
whose interests the tariff laws
fere made.
J You may spend millions on rural
ree delivery, you may spend millions
r building good roads, you may
jend millions, for establishing agri
pltural colleges and schools in your
forts to make farm life more at
factive, but as long as the profits of
e farm are small compared with
lose of the other gainful occupations
le number of farmers in comparison
ath the total population will dimin
k the productivity of the soil'les
ped, and the output of the farm
Irtailed.
(Already the profits of manufactur
g and of commerce are so much
fore attractive than those of the
nn that the farmer is leaving the
jnn for the town, and the farmer's
jy and the farmer's girl are leaving
e plow and the hoe to enter the f ac
p and the store.
(The cry of "back to the land" and
pep the boy on the farm" is very
f and I sincerely hope that it will
fecceed in its fullest sense, but be
jg a boy myself, and knowing every
fhng, impulse and thought the av
jage boy feels, I am convinced that
Jere must be a remaking of the con
I'ons of country life; there must be
Fe healing antidotes applied to
fc unsightly conditions that
r0n the boy's mind and cause him
I Want to move on to where there
j closer communion and community
is not right that the bright boys
. &iris, m whose breasts burn am-
1011 s lofty fire, should have to live
a Wei of a farm fcn-ns wVnVTi if
lmted at all it was a Quarter of a
L .Fy ag0 where no books of in
i iUluiacu xnem, no news-
rib or .magazine supplied, the
L6S torn down perhaps around the
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ivwers to o-rppf. thPir pnffpr
es When thev Sep. o-nllioa inctosiH rvf
tiful DatpllOC nf n-nn-n
ten t &ICC" sAoi
4 ltley look ove-r the lawn, barns
L . ou grim that they do not of
r a lonl- -J , ....
j i. welcome to tne incoming
U' nat went with another gene
vnen i see these I do not
me the boy for wanting to leave.
CT' this is the greatest field for
the
day
an opportunity to know what to do,
he cannot see a vision of better things
here. I believe our boys arid girls,
too, should know the dignity of labor,
the necessity for it, and, above all the
necessity for its intelligent applica
tion; but to drive the farm boy from
daylight till dark without an occa
sional holiday, picnic or ball game,
is equivalent to driving him to town,
or worse. There is a time for play
as well as work, and the child whose
days are brightened by a reasonable
amount of wholesome fun will treas
ure a love for the old home that the
false promise of the town cannot destroy.
Now, Mr. Farmer, while ordering
an abundant supply of garden seed so
as to have "something from the gar
den every day in the year," don't for
get to order plenty of flower seed
hlso. Try the philosophy set forth
in the following rhyme and then when
your littlest boy wants a speech for
Friday afternoon in school, let him
pass on the good doctrine to others:
"A little bed of flowers,
A little coat of paint,
Will make a pretty home
Out of one that ain't."
If everybody in the South would
bend every effort to make their farms,
either large or small, look more at
tractive every year, and make better
roads, then the South would be the
most beautiful section of America.
Just think how much more beau
tiful the South would be in five years
if every man, both landlord and
renter, would try to make his home
the prettiest in his community, and
have the finest livestock.
Modern farming, like modern man
ufacturing, is on a highly competitive
basis. We must keep up with the
times to make a profit, and the man
who makes the greatest profit is the
man ahead of fthe times.
In the following are some jingles
we should ever keep before us:
"Farmer Shiftless moves along
The same old easy way.
The burden of his daily song
Is 'farming doesn't pay.'
His tools are housed beneath
blue,
His stock in a leaky barn;
He loafs around the whole
through,
And spins full many a yarn."
"Farmer Stirring hustles 'round
And gathers in the gold; v
In the city bank he has much funds
Received from crops well sold.
His neighbors say, 'he prospers well
In all he undertakes,
And from his well-tilled fertile farm
A royal living makes.' "
We have not dreamed of the possi
bilities of our Dixie land, and es
pecially Western North Carolina, and
Burke county.
When we and our country learn to
take care of the resources at our
command, God will open up to us new
fields of development and new re
sources which now lie dormant; when
our energies have been applied they
will sparkle like diamonds of the
richest hue.
We should all encourage the far
mer, for he is the very lifeblood of
our greaf nation, and the man that
feeds us all. We should seek to beau
tify the home surroundings and the
home conditions; we should seek to
give them the sanitation that the city
obtains by the bonded issues; we
should aid them in making the home
attractive, and when the young man
and the young lady reach the age of
maturity, they will not be forced to
leave home, because there is no place
forthem; but there 'should be cre
ated a hearthstone and a fireside on
Southern soil that will make them
realize that this is. the best place on
earth for them to live. This can be
done' by cutting up these vast farms
that are now controlled by non-resident
landlords, on which the tenant
lives, creating in each county a com
munity of interest, so that the women
and girls will not be afraid to live in
the country; so that the education of
the children can be as reasonably
completed in a grammar school in a
country community as in a city; be
cause after all, the making of a
State, the foundation of the wealth,
the foundation of the enforcement of
law can best be obtained by a well
developed, well-settled community,
where the country is a joy and a wel
come to those who are permitted to
live therein.
I am quite sure it is the purpose of
the present great President of the
United States, and his honorable sec
retary of agriculture, who, by the
way, were raised in the South, and
who have the interests of this great
Southland at heart, who have a pa
triotic spirit burning in their souls
to make the farm what it was before
the civil war the best place on earth
to live to establish a system of ru
ral credits whereby this great South
land shall become the equal of any
part of this great nation in material
development.
We look with- amazement upon the
fact that the Southern States, where
Oglethorpe landed, where the best
English blood was spent in pioneer
work, has not kept pace with the bal
ance of this union. We . must put
forth every possible energy to de
velop it to the fullest extent. We
believe that this is one of the greatest
themes and thoughts uppermost in
the minds of the American people to
day, and God speed the work of any
good citizen or body of men who . at
tempt to develop this great country,
this Southland of ours.
Worry, N. C.
in Warfare
American people. They serve without
compensation and are promoted to do
so because their country calls them to
patriotic service."
pKiiaii Cry for IritcHr's
Latest Inventions
the Important Part.
In Raleigh Sunday night Secretary
of the Navy Daniels made the follow
ing statement of his view of military
preparedness:
"The present European war has
demonstrated that the country that
will win is the country that has the
latest improvements of inventive gen
ius. We formerly looked only to
the general, aided by the secretary of
the treasury. We have learned that
men are only food for power unless
they are furnished with munitions
equal to or better than those of other
countries. We no longer see men
march in columns, to inspirnig music
under waving banners. We fight in
trenches and must have guns that
will be effective miles away. Inven
tors, chemists, mathematicians, scien
tists, therefore, take their place as
leaders in modern warfare.
"How can America be prepared for
an emergency? Not alone with a big
navy and a strong army. It must
have equipment from the best brains.
I am seeking for the navy prepared
ness to mobolize the brains and genius
and niventive talent of America. It
is gratifying that the most important
societies in America have responded
to my invitation to make this patri
otic contribution. With Edison at the
head, the board will render service
of the highest order and its members
are entitled to the thanks of the
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