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0 J NEXT WEEK-HOGS, SHEEP AND HORSES SPECIAL Ss' ' . J f , U U i C 'Cv 3! 3 j ' : . t mS Vol. XXXII. No. 45. EASTERN EDIfJON A Farm and Home Weekly ife The Garolinas, Virginia, Georgia, and Florida. FOUNDED 1886, AT RALEIGH, N. C SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1917 $1 a Year; 5c a Copy Greater Farm Efficiency, Essential to Maintain Yields LAST week, out of just one of the larger counties of the South, 700 able-bodied young Negroes left for a training camp. Out of the South's ten million Negroes, not less than 100,000 will be taken by.the draft, and of our white population probably 200,000 will be drawn. Thus 300,000 young; vigorous workers will be withdrawn from productive industries. This means, because the South is largely rural and agricultural,' that Southern agriculture is to lose aheavy propor tion of its most efficient labor. ' ""; But this is not all. Within the past twelve months probably not less than half a million Negroes, attracted by high wages in the North, have left the South. Many thousands of our boys have voluntarily enlisted in the army and navy, and they are still going. Finallyindus tries of all kinds are running at the high est pitch ever kjiown, and the wages they are paying are still further depletingour farm-labor supply. V In the face of this labor shortage, we are confronted with an urgent need for not only maintaining crop production, but for actually increasing it. For our fighting men must be fed and clothed. Can the South solve the problem? Can we, with a decreased labor supply, main tain and increase our crop yields? To do it, some radical changes are nec essary. Inefficiency , in methods and ma chines must be cast into the scrap-heap. With less human labor, what we have must be madeL to count to the utmost. What are some of the ways in which this nay be done? y 1. Increase, rather than decrease, - the acreage in cultivation Labor is "a scarce,1 but labbr;savihg machinery must be used to take its place. Two and three-horse breaking plows, or tractor in some instances, and two-rowcuitivatbrs must be '-used to take the place of the man power we have hitherto used. Don't let the fields 'lie out for lack of help; buy labor-saving' machinery and keep them busy. . ' . ' , .... 2, Make every .acre do its best. This' is a time for intensive effort on an extensive scale. Prices of crops are double the normal, and we are justified in doubling the expense, if necesary, of making them. Every possible pound of barnyard manure should be sayed and put on the fields, and commercial fertilizers should be used heavily. These are liigh-priced, but proportionately they are not as high-priced as 'the crops we 3, Take in the waste places. This is a time when every acre should be required to render an account of itself, and if it is a loafer it should be put to work. Wet bottoms, hillsides grown up in bushes and briers, so-called pastures that grow no grass these should j4- . . ...... . ...... .. . .-''v . - &Afr -r i,?. ; ? ! Xsw4 '''' V, - . : ' 1 FARM. EFFICIENCY THAT COUNTS ONE MAN FILLING THE SILO DON'T" FAIL TO READ Handling and Care of Cotton ...... " ' - ' . Lessons From the South Carolina State Fair The Farmer's , Responsibility and Opportu nity . . . ..... . . .... . . A Message From Governor Hoard . . . Virginia Copying Wisconsin . . . . . A War-time FeecLf or Horses and Mules . . A Variety of Comment . . . . . . . Great Issues Coming Up for Settlement ... A Potato Dish for Each Day of the Week . Danger in Patent Tiledicine . V . all be reclaimed and put to work without delay. 4, Use livestock to consume wastes. The farmer without a good flock of hens to consume barnyard wastes, two or three sows to take care of the kitchen slop, and a few cows to take care of field wastes that would otherwise bring us no return, a farm without these is not an efficiently managed farm. The" mettle of the Southern farmer is to 'be tested. He must prove him self efficient or be a failure. Now, while the rewards "for efficiency are greater than ever before, .t while our 1 ... country has need of efficiency" as never before, we simply cannot afford not to measure tip. It is our great opportunity Paee 6 8 10 12 12 14 IS 15 16 19 j: u W j - vv f iifi t! t it s V. 1 ! I. i y h .1 . i i! 1 "i -:4 for iertice ' . " . I
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