Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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jTHE P U We I Remem EVERY FARMER HAS HIS RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD Return of Certain Lands to Pasture and Hay Crops Means Larger Supply of Both Meat and Bread for People of the Nation. You have heard a great deal about the problems of reconstruction that are pressing for solution. But, like most men, you have probably thought o fthenm as tremendously big problems that had to be solved, nationally and iijternationally, by statesmen and dlip 156mats and high executives. They are that--but not just that. Every man-certainly every farmer-has a reconstruction problem all his own. The war unbalanced the agriculture Colds Cause arip and Influenza LXTIVE DOMO QUIYE Tabets remove the E. W. GROVE'S signature on box. 80o. WeWishto That we expect Franklin i AUTOM< rIn shortly, therefore w reasonably prompt deliv< If interested a demons will give us pleasure to s Tisdale1N SUMTE Deale: Franklin Autom< Nash Passenger B4 dnesdc ROBER1 Acres, one m and sold to ti balance at 7 ber the A. P of the United States by unbalancin the agriculture of individual farm There had to be produced the kind o food that could be transported ove seas. Wheat is preeminently the kind of food, and other grain crop are to an extent such. Very man farms, therefore, got too heavy on th side of tilled and cereal crops ~and to light on the side of hay crops an pasture. Many farmers increase their tilled and cereal crops beyon what they had any basis of experienc in carrying. Labor requirement wvere increased. Rotation practice were interfered wvith. To the exter that the wheat acreage was increased the climatic hazard was hereased, bc cause, under the extensive farm pra< tice that characterizes American ag riculture, wheat is a crop that is ver scnsitive to climatic uncertainty. Suc a practice long continued was likel to result, therefore, not in increase food production at all, but in actuall redluced food production. In the Ion Announce a shipment of and Nash DBILES ill be in position to make try. ;tration can be had. it how you. lotor Co. R, S.C. rs In >blles Apperson Cars and Trucks AK E o~e ry, Dec D. BAKER ile East of Silver. 1e highest bidder, per cent, with v Date an LIDE, P g run, that would be the inevitable result . Even, if by some miracle, the hazard f of weather could be escaped, the prac r tice would reduce soil fertility until ,t yields would be greaTy cut down. s But, before that even, meat production y would be harmfuly reduced. For it e is as true physically as spiritually o that man does not live by bread alone. d Very largely he lives by meat. And d meat animals-and milk animals-do d not grow on grain alone. Most e largely, they grow and produce on 5 green grass andl dry grass--pasture s andl hay. t Return to Sound Farming I, Those are some of the reasons why -the United States Department of Ag -riculture began urging, almost imme -(diately after the signing of the ar' y mistice andl continuously since, a re h turn to sound agricultural practice y returning to pasture andl hay lots, to dI clover and other fertilizer-fixing crops y sonme of the land that had been g used for grain during the war emer gency. The suggestion has been cri ticised fronm some quarters, because in sonme quarters it has been misun d (erstod. Specifically, the dlepartment recoin mended that it was not advisable to Iund~ertake to maintain the wvheat ac reage sown for the crop of 1919. That dlid not imply that thc dlepartmnent ur gedl a imailer food production in the eienky. It did mean that the depart ment was urging an increase in the food production of the country by Isteadlying agriculture, by reducing the hazards that necessarily play into the hands of speculators, by returning ag riculture to a peace basis that would insure adlequate production of all kinds of food for this year and for other years. And that meant restoring p~astures9, restoring hay fields, insur ing feed for the meat animals upon which the tables of the Nation deC pendl. This return to sound agricultural practice is important to the farmer, certainly. But it is not more impor tant to the farmer than it is to the city man. It has to (10 just as much with reducing the high cost of living as with reducing the high labor re quirements andl the fertility-draining practice of farming. Wheat, officials of the Department of Agriculture point out, does not key the cost of living. It is merely one of a number of coordlinate ele ments. "One honest John Tompkins a hed ger andl ditcher," that perfectly con tentedl man whose praises are sung In the old verse, had a habit of saying, mRI7 Sold A ?mber . FARM, containi: will be cut into for cash, or pai 0 years to pay dMeett me wood, "If I can yet meat, I can surely get bread." Maybe his reasoning was faulty. But it was not a bit more faulty than that of some business and industrial leaders who say. by infer ence, "If we can get bread, we can surely get meat." Lack of pastures is a serious handi cap to production of low-cost milk. The man does not live who can pro duce beef economically without pas ture. And, just as surely, the man docs not live who can produce lowv-cost pork without pasture. Milk! Beef! Pork! Is there a miore important item in the high cost of living than these ? And so the United States Depart ment of Agriculture, for the good of everybody concerned, continues to urge the sort of safe and sane agricul ture that provides plenty of pasture andl plenty of hay-which means pro vidin~g plenty of meat and milk. The farmer, unless he chose to head straight for bankruptcy could not think of maintaining a wheat acreage equal to that sowvn for the 1919 cr01). With increasedl man power-andl farm labor appears to be just as hard to findl nowv as it was (luring the war farmers cannot maintain a materially larger acreage of tilled and cereal crops than they did with larger man power several years ago. If they should undertake it as a perinanent policy, city families wvould not only have less meat andl milk than they are accustomed to, but they would ac tually have less bread, also. War needls causedl the plowing up of~ many pastures that, undler peace time conditions, are wvorth more in the eco nomy of the farm in pasture 01r hay thnn in cereal of tilled crops. Some of them are back in grass now. There are others that should go back in grass. Specialists of the Department of Agriculture suggest that every far mer, during the winter when he has leisure to lay his plans carefully, wvork out his own problem of reconstruction, make his plans for platning the kind of erops next spring that will enable him, if not at once then as soon ats p~ossible, to put his farm 1mek on its proper basis of diversification and ro tation. Ihis county agent and~ his State college of agriculture are readly to help him at any point where he may need help. The United States Department of Agriculture is ready to adlvisn him on practically any' phase of the matter. A great deal of thought has been given to the a, b F~ARM I t T ION ! X 7 At 12 O'clock Noon. ng 182 2-10 Small Tracts t cash, and installments. he Auctioneer! I S.C. I et him .1" I r7 i ")I. @01919. A. B. s., Inc, rn get big money ~Y SOUTH "Shubert" Wants CAROLINA Furs ALL YOU CAN SHIP And Will Pay These E xtremel High Prices GET A SHIPMENT OFF-TODAY N?EJALARGE NI ARG~i? MU I SMAL N? RACC OON Black 15.00 to 12.00 12.00 to 9.00 8.00 to 7.00 6.50 to 5.50 6.50 to 4.00 Heavy Furred 10.00 to 8.50 8.00 to 7.00 6.50 to 5.50 4.50 to 4.00 4.50 to 3.00 Ordinary 8.00 to 7.00 6.50 to 5.50 4.75 to 3.75 3.50 to 3.00 3.50 to 2.50 MIN KIC Fine, Dark 15.00 to 12.00 11.00 to 9.00 8.50 to 7.00 6.00 to 5.25 6.00 to 4.00 Usual Color 11.00 to 9.00 8.50 to 7.00 6.50 to 5.25 5.00 to 4.00 5.00 to 3.00 Pale 8.50 to 7.00 6.75 to 5.75 5.00 to 4.00 3.50 to 3.00 3.50 to 2.50 MU S KRAT Winer 4.001to 3.50 3.25 to 2.75 2.50 to 2.10 1.85 to 1.60 1.75 to 1.25 IFall i 3.00 to 2.75 I2.50 to 2.25 2.00 to 1.60L150 to 1.25 1.50 to 1.00 These extremely high prices are based on the welknown SUI3ERT' I bernl grading and are quoted for immediate shipment. No. 3. No.4. and otherwise inferior skins at highest market value. For quotations on other South Carolinn Furs, write for "(tr ninarrt ,bhpigr the only reliable and accurate market report and price list ofi t kind published. n 1 ep'i,.-J',i, for i. A shipment to "SHUBERT" will result In "more money"-"quicker." SHIP All YOUR FURS DIRrCT TO A.B.SHU E TNc. THELARGESTHOUSE IN THE WORLD DEALING EXCLUSIVELY IN AMERICAN RAW FURS 25-27 WAustin Ave. Dept.273Chicago, U.S.A et 'Em Know Thruogh The Times