Polk County Farm and Home, Aug. 29, 1919

From the Polk County News and Tryon Bee, Tryon, N.C., Aug. 29, 1919

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.