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South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, and Georgia
Vol XXV. No. 6.
RALEIGH. N. C, FEBRUARY 12, 1910.
Weekly: $1 a Year.
THE MODERN WAY GOOD WORK EASILY DONE
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HUMAN labor has been so cheap here in the South, that we have depended' too largely on it in the past, and now, when it
. Oecomes scarcer and higher in price, we find ourselves in many cases wttnout laoor ana wttnouz ine wortc szock ana macmn
ery to take its placed ' : 1 : . . : - . - ' ! ' ' ' '-. .''a.i. : - ' i :' ' -
j : Of course, there is put one thing for us to do: We must get more work stock, and more' machinery, . The price of human
labor is not likely ' to go down to the old stale; and there is'no reason why we should wish.it to do so. Cheap labor has never yet
made any country rich. It takes intelligent tabor to do that; and intelligent labor is not going to be content to work with out-of
date equipment. ' . : ; ". . .' t . . ' -1 " '. ' " ';' '
V Good farm equipment 'does not mean in every case, or, even in most cases just now, such an outfit as the one shown here,
though such outfits' are going to soon become so common all over the South as to cease to attract attention. We believe it does
mean for every general farmer, however, a good pair of mules or horses, good plows, good harrows, ptanters, culHvators, etc. ', of
his own, and easy access to such modern necessities as the grain binder corn harvester, pea thresher, and corn shedder. Then
the manure spreader, the gasoline, engine,-the cream separator, spraying outfits, home water-works, are soon going to be regarded
as essential on every well furnished farm. .V.'xJ- ; r-jv,.t :.:.;-,'..;
The one-mute now and the single sween are eoine to &lve place to more modern implements that is certain. ' When these t
pass there will also pass the farmer who goes along in the same old way year after year; working his body hard but letting his t
mma remain idle. The man who handles up-to-date farm machinery; must oe ;a man who has a trainca mtna ana wno manes nis
mind do much of his work; for, after alt, the most essential part of any farm's equipment is a trained and active brain in the head
f the man who manages that farm.