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CAUUITMITV CCT - i nn isLdfu rvuv only be advantageously taken care of twxv. o. sufficient to Tevolutioma* the igricul- ! 1 ri 1 1 1 i- 1 lAmmum 11 to i ADtiomntn i AS AN AID TO DEVELOPMENT May Be Effective Means Of Bettering: South ern Agriculture. (By HUGH MacRAE, Wilmington, N. C.) by Aach. The magnitude of the work is too gnat for either acting alone. Fortunately, at the present time, the Department of the Interior is erill- iand settlement in the South. The secretaries of commerce and agricul ture have expressed sympathetic in terest in this plan. It is, therefore, fr^s 1 ?^^ ^utTto put the ma- tU WhUe m tae 5tat tab&hment f these communities, under proper methods would not yield any dnoct profit, the they are located would be very groat. It would be unnecessary to have more than thirty to fifty per cent of the members of each community high ly skilled, intensive farmers, there fore, in order to vitalise the agricul Mm My may be summed up in three words —“create, then enjoy.’’ When those with oak trees which were cut back to a height of about six feet and serv- tionafV^lamation^prognmi 0 ^ firat ture of the entile Sooth. It would probably not require more than 5,000 rwl 1 lOflUlm ply this philosophy to present rural conditions in the South, it means— “work for the next and future genr fields were covered with clean wheat straw in order to further protect the surface of the soil from winds and keep it in the right condition for bulb $1 ^OoTariced by £ d^rti^nt of the Interior for the purpose of mak ing a preliminary survey. The purpose could not be satisfactorily located and ten years^or any 500 families per jjiljlffo mate, long growing seasons; abundant rainfall, productive soils—and because these fiekhr with tee^maM^^f a great bulb exporting firm, he told me that he^ had^ paid^as high as $2,700 what similar to that of Durham in The Bureau of Reclamation is now REST PERIOD COMES TO END (Continued from Page One) ing the senator used to refer to cotton portuipty to develop a system of a£ one square yard of one of the farms of an expert grower. This was the Mend, who is recognized as the great est land settlement expert in the. date declared that since the price is down he got a divorce. riculture which will form an endur ing base for a civilization which may reach heights greater than any which has gone before. Do these potentiali entire stock of bulbs of a new and de sirable variety. This wonderful bulb business of Holland can, at the present time he in world. Any plans which he advocates for the Sooth are, therefore, worth trying. Another point at which national Senator Smith’s cotton futures act was again criticmed. Mr. Brown said Section 9, which provides for the fix ing of the price differential between ties make an appeal to this genera tion? Prior to 1860 there was a recog- •nized type of Southern agriculture. To it was devoted the best talent, pro ducing splendid results. It was the basis for a wonderful social develop ment. But with the complete destruc tion of this system, and the necessary some measure transferred to the Southern states, provided our atten tion is devoted to the removal of cer tain legislative barriers to selective The Danish government is shaped hy and for the man on the land. In turn it functions for and creates the successful small farmer. The Danish legislation is needed is to make the funds provided by Farm Loan inten sively on smell acreage. Such loans could be made with entire safety, but by Land Banks. Consequently the settler, the man who is establishing himself on the land, is deprived of credit. than the boll weevil and all the droughts because of the relatively lower price brought hy the inferior grades. He asserted that he did not believe Senator Smith was author of this section giving authority to the depannent of agriculure to fix the differehial, and challenged the senator Known Tire Quality at a Rock Bottom Price diversion of energy, brains and re sources to other forms of constructive farmer is a national institution. He executes a program which is mapped Perhaps the ideal program which will cover both land settlement^ and to say whether he wrote it, and if That’s what you get when you buy a Slowed tcT^rift^wUhout*syfflcient concentrated thought, for a period of His bacon and butter are the best in the world. The individual does not is to perfect, through the influence of Southern chambers of commerce, an In his speech Sensor Smith had said that the law provides that the admin istrative hoard in the department shall Goodyear. For Iona wear, strength, good looks and all ’round high quality at a low price you not only can’t beat a Goodyear—you can not equal it. Figure out the best tire value you can buy—then drop in or phone us for the price of a Goodyear in your size. That’s fair enough, isn’t it? As long as we relegate farming to' the negro—leave to him two-thirds of the burden; as long as it is limited in its scope to his intellectual capacity; modities for the haarket. Butter is aged exclusively hy graduates of the Danish Dairy school. Bacon is pre mote the establishment of Farm Com munities in cooperation with the gov ernment and the several states. These thority to regulate the price spread. Speaker Brown declared the foreign as long as his standards of living fix the degree of competition; just so long we are going to have an undeveloped pared in cooperative factories which send to the farm for the pigs and pay for them at the time they are deliver- near progressive towns and cities, and debts should he collected in full. He criticised Senator Smith for having voted in favor of unrestricted irami- our civilization. The negro and his problems are our legacy. He is a fixed part of our bur- price in London, the balance being paid at the end of the year. Any important change in Southern conditions must be brought about (af- These successful communities of in- 1. The almost unlimited possibili- rightT Statith* record in regard to freight rates, say- Now on the other side, the South offers to the farmer the greatest ad vantages of any equal area in the demonstrating what others can ac complish, under our conditions, in the way of intensive scientific farming. Requirements 2. That scentific farming is suffi ciently profitable to develop a basis for a satisfying social life in the coun- FOR PROBATE JUDGE W. E. Washington is announced today’s paper for the office of Pfo-i McDaniel potentialities must he adequately de veloped, and this thought be trans- years to experimenting in the estab lishment of Farm Communities, inci- 3. That group settlement permits of cooperation in selling,and buying is not listed with the other candi iates Vulcanizing Works tionably there is sufficient intelligence and man power in the South to briftg mistake, I have reached the conclu sion that' successful land setlement financed without loss, and with great- fice after the first section of the pa- per h.d b«n printed. K. P. CHAPMAN, Manager There comtf to my mind pictures of oration 6 of'S^United’ltatea^govM^ nancing the isolated farmer. ELECTRIC intensive agriculture. 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