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FOUNDED 1886r AT iRALEIGH; N. G.
VoliSXVIL N6:
SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1912.
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Better
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Greater
Fro
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T"tr,TE have thought and talked so much about the low price of
JvJ cbtt6n that there :is danger that some. of us. may have con-
V Y T eluded that the year. 1912 ' finds Southern farmers in bad
shape and that it will be necessary to wait another year for many of
the things we had planned to
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get and do. Really, there is no
good reason; for any such idea :
; as this. It as hard,, of course,
that the big cotton crop of 1911
Vi should bring more than $100,
; 000,000 less than the much smalU
er-crop of 19101)6 hart! ahdf
r unfair,- for the drop in price
. has been out of- all proportion '
ito the; increased itilthsijeelofvl
y the cropr but : still it;is well'to It
y: remember : thatiexceptinmic
V4 iwonaenuiiyproiwatuecrxc
IMscro
ivfen if cesxiontinuas theyl
Kitafeti lf we farmers of the South? -
Ihad farmed "wej; shouldr:last i
ityriMMisMbur owii
C:; :.i vNfn' V b'ri rife' m aq i '. i TVf ! Q i'-i Q n ifl
mules;-it we had produced me ?
; poultry an4 itrucfe;n
- prodticts to Supply our ntraie
Sytownseve l thbuMithecbttoH
crop had been as lai"ge iis; if never have igorie so low; ,
we nauor; inpug
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cau w needed the cbttbhim6riey;td pay for things we should have ,
vprbuced:a
: : tUust ibout the beM thing
do without these things means to bring on again,5 sooner or later,
another year like the one just passed; while to put our farming on a
solid basis, by a rational system of diversification and general farming,
means to make ourselves so thoroughly independent that we shall never
. again have to place pur dependence in a single crop and never
i again be unable to fight effectively in the markets of the world for a"
' fair price for the fruit of our labors. . ; . :
J . ' "This, then, is the first message which The Progressive Farmer would'
B bring to the cotton growers in this good year 1912: Things are not just '5
ras we would like them, but they are by no means as bad as some of us
; y" have led ourselves to believe, and it is
- y , our duty to prevent any repetition
- : of the past yearrs experience. It is our
if y ; i duty because we can do it; biitf
yy . tcan dp it . only by good; farpiirigf
y 'I by . the raising, ot- livestock and
v : the growing of food and feed, crops.
- i?sUi ijy;u siuuy 01 more economical
t&mMm crop. : prpaucuon, y py jnore laoor
iissavinMacn more, horse-
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: .should be.Cwiser and khow-enoiigh -
- . not - to - make it rasrain. And.it will: be l
i " uiv pamv v i AO la IMS ; jl Ul ; a.li y illttlV IU 7:
:f'aude(thaie
aiuu. iiiswviK' less carenju ,0
!v, to; work, with .Uesis effectivetbbls.-:
cyear is to fix clearly in our mind the facts as they are, and then prepare
tp act upon them. We ma(Je a big cotton crop and h
it for, less than it was worth,' and naturally this apes not mate us. ieei ;
as well as we mighty but there is no use for us to conclude that we are
d'all down and but"- that 'hard times" are due. or anything of that sort, y
yThe facts and figures are against any such conclusions. The South is y
still in fairly good shape,varid we are still able to go right ahead on the
fS.-5SV OUU 1C58 1J, meiC auy-1 CUdUll ,1U1 US IU vuuviuvic iuai iiu w uuv "V ;7.
Vyear tb prepare for and to do better farmings No more baseless con- k
V1U51UU WUIU DC aillVCtt
year's vork prbyed disappointing simply- because we refused to im
bfbve our methods. We knew that a big cottoii crop raised at the y
lxehs bl pthersl
- went nthdand: sfflf iced other" crois and btlier : tespfciarm
wont lo ine couoj ci;op y iu suwi, wc iwh.iu& y us "
. i .We mav have less mohev tbsoend, but we have even greater reaspns
:to:itterin
saYiiigimplements
do hpttpf farming. Our rieeds fbrvbrbfirress are now irreater than :
ever ana iiisieau Miir u"us.wv "uai. wac "v" j'll,u. "'r.v -
y?because o( theHlbwprice bfotlpn
in;.Jiacu ?wiuie it may. necessary
fi ttb : restrict hisjixpeMtures l;ihi sbme:
feyiHbEreadety.c4n;
i lesseny his! exbenditurefef br ?thbse5
fliSiSliMSiiii thinMhicfc.helbMm
terminaxion anu energy. iu iai,;wc,vw7vWM yj";i"c wr,,iw;(uiv
cotton makes iiiabf'jiecemflat wstfengthen ourselves in'bther ;
linesvf This is t to ecciire the
bettcry livcclbd rclv ?:y 1 ?rt
'crops"at the lct crpcr.ee and the worst of rM ' V.
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