The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, August 05, 1926, Image 9
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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.
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intensive agriculture. In Holland I
saw an area of perhaps 10,000 acres
divided up into what appeared to be
or individuals interested in this work.
There are certain features which can
huId^Tamrii^ac^Tpe^iahtfng 0 ^
selected types of agriculture, would he
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