Saturday, Apfil 29, 1915 . ; : :
reed and food crops 'can be produced
and gathered by ; machinery ; and
horse-power; and feed", products-combine
well with livestock farming-. .
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One "labor-saving" crop? that has
been almost entirely neglected in the
cotton and tobacco-growing . section s:
is the grass, crop -for . grazing pur
poses and also f or : forage. " Some
body has denned the pasture -on our
cotton and tobacco tarras as ' patches
of land where grass won't grow, with
wire fences around them.'
"I pastured 25 head of cattle and
kept them in fine, condition all sum
mer on seven acres of Bermuda
grass," said a Scotland County farm
er to me some time ago. ?That patch
of grass is an example of .what Broth
er Moore would call a -"labor-saving
crop," and rightlyso, for overhead
expenses were almost' entirely elim
inated while the 25 head of beef
steers were growing and fattening on
that grass sod. ... V - -
In Iowa the average per capita farm
wealth is $3,386. Iowa grows "labor
saving crops" and. then feeds the bulk
of these crops to livestock Three
fourths of the income of the -Iowa
farmers is derived from the sale of
livestock and the products of live
stock. In North Carolina the aver
age per capita wealth is $322, or less
than one-tenth of the per- capita re
tained farm wealth in Iowa. In North
Carolina we produce , principally
hand-made crops, and less than one
third of our total fartn income is -derived
from livestock and the products
of livestock. The average value of
crops produced per. worker in North
Carolina is $236 and in Iowa $884, rep
resenting a difference "in favor of labor-saving
crops" and machine-made
wealth of $648 per worker in favor of
Iowa.
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In this connection it will be Veil to
again call attention to the fact that
when white farmers , of the South
make hand-made crops their special
ties, they enter into direct competi
tion with an inferior race of people,
of lower living standards, which also
produces the. greater portion of these
hand-made crops, and this makes it
all the more imperative for the white
farmer to exert his energies in a field
of agricultural activity, that avoids
competition with a race of lower in
telligence and lower living standards.
Hence "labor-saving crops" in ; con
nection with horse-power and ' ma
chinery and more and better live
stock, seem to offer about the -xmly
way out for the Southern resident
white farmer. , " ' ;
This economic side of the business
of farming is fundamentally impor
tant, and should be a subject for fre
quent discussion by organized farm
ers. Let it be remembered that we
have already : done our "best in at
tempts to make; money "with hand
made crops and commercial fertiliz
ers, and if these crops-could make a
section rich, the South would now be
the richest and happiest agricultural
section on this continent And let . us
also keep it in mind that progress
cjn come only . through gradual
. ranges of methods. . J. Z. &
.(19) 603
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