NEXT WEEK FARM MANAGEMENT SPECIAL
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A Farmed Home Weekly for
The Garolinas, Virginia, Georgia, and Florida.
FOUNDED 1886, AT RALEIGH, N. C
Vol. XXXII. No. 36.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1917
$1 a Year; 5c a Copy
Detcriiiie Mow fiat You Will Save Some Eflowey Tlis Fai
MTHE wealth-producing power of the rural South," says Prof. E. C.
Branson, "is enormous, but its wealth-holding power is feeble.
Our great problem is not only to produce wealth but to retain it. "
Seriously as our farmers should consider this statement at any crop
marketing season, it now deserves tenfold greater emphasis than
ence. Don't let any slick-tongued traveling agent, any wily clerk,
any over-persuading merchant, inveigle you into spending this money.
Fool it away on something you might get along without and you will
lament too late that you have swapped your birthright for a mess of
pottage. Don't do it. Put the money in a savings bank and keep it
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HAYING TIME SCENE ON FARM OF. JA9. BELL.WOOD, BELLWOOD, VIRGINIA
usual. During the next few weeks hundreds and hundreds of millions
of dollars will be paid out to the Southern farmer for 'the garnered
largess of the fruitful year." The question is how many hundred
millions he will keep for himself and his family. The question is
whether he is going to save or will again exemplify Dr. Seaman A.
Knapp's saying that the Southern man
"seems to have a weakness for letting
'money slip through his fingers."
We have made this appeal once before
on this page, but " the opportunity this
year is so remarkable, so unusual so un
precedented, that we cannot refrain from
making it again. ; Right now at the vir
tual beginning of the crop-selling
season we want every Southern farm
er to register a vow before Heaven
that he is going to save some money
that he is going to make at least a start
toward thrift and independence. .
First of all let us say a word to the man
who has been a slave of the crop lien and
"time prices." For you, at least, the
year of jubilee Vhas come. For ypu, at
last, there is an emancipation proclama
tion. Resolve now that you aregoing
to put aside enough money so that you
can pay cash for your supplies next year.
Don't neglect'this nest-egg of independ-
DON'T FAIL TO READ-
Winners jnOur 1916 Boys ComClub Contest 6
Soil Bacteria and Their Relation to Soil Fer-
tility . : . . ... . . .( . . '. . V . 7
How to Ship Hogs .... ... . ' 8
More Glimpses of South Carolina Progress . 9
Make the Acquaintance of Your Local Bank
er . . . . . . . .. . 10
Twenty-five Cents Is a Fair Price for Cotton 10
My Son Has Gone to the War; What Is to Be
Gained By It? ' Tl
Now Is the Time to Install Improvements . . 14
Poultry Notes for September . . ' . . . . 17
Working With Other Folks: Suggestions for
September . ."18
there or else, put it in a horse or implements that will both enable you
to make a bigger crop next year and will constitute security on which
you can borrow at 6 to 8 per cent interest instead of paying 40 to 80
per cent a year in the form of ''time prices." This year at least, with
high prices for all we sell and a live-at-home policy demanded by
every circumstance we ought to bury
the. "crop , lien and time-prices system"
so deep that even Gabriel's trumpet will
not revive it.
Then there is the. farmer who has been
running himself but owns no land. This
is his chance to become a home owner.
Let him either buy land now or put
enough aside to make sure that he will at
least soon sit under his own vine and fig
tree. "
And then, the more well-to-do farm
owner: there is tEe call for pure-bred
livestock; for better farm machinery and
equipment; for a better residence and bet
ter barns perhaps; and at least for "paint,
lights and . waterworks" a subject on
which we shall have more to say next
month.
Let's save for alV these things and so
make 1917 memorable as "the year that
brought freedom" to tens of thousands of
farmers from the Potomac to the Rio
Grande. . " ..