Polk County Farm and
Home Department
The time is fast approaching for our Community and County
Fairs to be on hand. Let every one of these communities strive to see which can
put up the best fair. Then let every one see who can excel in making the Polk
County Fair a splendid success.
We want every lady in Polk County who has pure bred poultry
of any breed to bring a cock or two, and two and three or four pullets to the
fair at Columbus. First, bring them to your Community Fair. We want to see
ourselves what we have, so that everybody there will know where they can get
eggs for hatching purposes next year.
Also pigs, of whatever breed you have. No matter whether you
have the best pigs in the county or not, just bring him along for comparison
and find out whether you have the best or not. If not, go home and start at
once to have the best one next year.
--Now if you want to see something go along, just keep your
eye on the Hickory Grove community. They have opened their eyes wide to the
importance of stopping their soil from washing away and of building permanent
pastures and at the proper time importing some good bulls to grow some good
cattle. Now just watch them.
--If anybody in Polk County has any doubts about grass and
clover being an easy crop to grow, and the most profitable crop to grow on the
farm, labor considered, just let him go over to brother S.H. Slaughter’s place,
Saluda, N.C., and talk with Mr. Slaughter. He is only working on a small scale
but he can both tell and show you how; so take a day off and go.
--Now let me ask every farmer who wants to get in the front
line of farming to subscribe for your county paper. It is entirely non
partisan, and the only medium in the county we can talk to the farmers through.
I have no interest whatever in the paper and the management has never asked me
to speak a word on his behalf, I do so simply because I see and feel the great
need of some way of speaking to the farmers of the county and can see no other.
--Then last—let us remember that whatever Polk county is,
her own citizens will make her. If she stands high in character, intelligence
and wealth, it will be because her individual citizens are people of character,
intelligence and wealth. We can procure these things only by honest and
legitimate effort. Then let us all stand together for education, good roads,
good farming, good morals, good law abiding citizenship, good neighbors, and
good Christian homes where good loving Christian people live; and then Polk
County will be going somewhere—and surely get there.
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