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LAYING DRAIN TILE Page 5 (mm d iff n inossnw fA&KI GAZETTE A Farm aid Home WeJfor The Carolina, Virginia, Geoia. and Florida FOUNDED 1886, AT RAL&1H, N. C. VoLXXIX. No. 43 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1914 $1 a Year;. 5c. a Copy JOIN THE BUY-A-BULL MOVEMENT Sheep on Cotton Valley Farm, owned by Geo. A. Holderness, Tarboro, N. C. DON'T FAIL TO READ YES, we mean Buy-a-Bull Movement, instead of the Buy-a-Bale Movement that has of late been given so much publicity over the South. The latter movement is a good one, and will be of some real service ; but at most we can expect from it only temporary relief, leaving our big problem, that of being prepared in the future for such crises as the present, still unsolved. There are necessarily 'ups and downs" in every business boom times when there is not a cloud on the horizon, and periods of depression, when there is no. market and our products go begging at prices less than the cost of production. It is the certain knowledge that these rises and falls in our business barometer are to be expected that should lead us to be prepared for them. An es sential step in such preparation means that now and for all time we must get away from the dangerous practice of placing our reliance on a single crop, using it at the expense of soil fertility and in vio lation of all the principles of common business sense, to purchase commodities that we could more cheaply grow on our own farms and at the same time maintain and even increase soil fertility. One of the measures of relief that we may well consider is the Buy-a-Bull move ment as suggested by the Arkansas Live stock Association. As might have been foreseen, the farmers of the coun try who are producing food and feed Page Cooperation in Production 16 Easiest Way to Accumulate a Compe tence in the Next five Years ... 4 Feed Cottonseed Meal to Beef Cattle .. 12 How Cooperation Got the Cash for the Sand Hills .......... 6 Merchants and Bankers Must Cooperate With Farmers 11 North Carolina a State of Great Agricult ural Advantages 7 Still Time to Plant Bur Clover if the Seed Are Boiled 10 The Glory of God's Earth in October The South for the Home Seeker . Virginia State Fair a Great Success . . Work of the United Farm Women's Clubs What Soil Analyses Mean crops, instead of suffering because of the European war, are actually receiving higher prices because of it. Further, there is abundant evi dence to indicate that for many years meat prices will rule high, and that profits await the farmer who can aid in supplying the demand. Our big job first of all is to supply our home demand for meat, milk and butter. Doing this alone, to say nothing of exporting such prod ucts, will mean an immense advance, and will very largely reduce the cotton acreage. Now we don't mean at all to convey the idea that the average cotton growershould break away from cotton at once and em bark wholly into livestock production. To do this we mean for the average cot ton farmer would be an almost sure road to disaster. Some say that success ful livestock men are born, not made. However this may be, we must recognize the truth that to abandon everything with which we are familiar and turn to stock exclusively would be equally as dangerous as adhering to an all-cotton program. We need to start gradually and build on a firm foundation. Let our first aim. then be to supply our home demand for livestock products, gradually increasing our production as we better learn the business. As a beginning, our native stock stands badly in need of an infusion of better blood. To get this, it strikes us that hundreds of Southern communi ties might well organize Buy-a-Bull clubs. 8 4 7 8 3
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