Bank Encourages Farmers to Raise Much of Their Own Food, May 9, 1922

Raise Food Crops for Home Requirements

“Let the farmer and the banker join hands and insist that we raise in North Carolina food crops for our own requirements,” is the advice to bankers and farmers of Millard F. Jones, cashier of a bank at Rocky Mount. “I firmly believe,” says Mr. Jones, “that nothing will do more to put the farmer of North Carolina back on his feet than the raising of ample feed crops, as well as sufficient meat for farm consumption. The banker of North Carolina in this connection can be of untold assistance in bringing these conditions to pass by insisting that their customers live at home. We have several instances in this community of farmers who are holding from one to three years’ crops of cotton and do not owe a cent to anybody. They give as a reason for this the fact that they have always had a full corn crib and plenty of things to eat, which they raised on their own farm.”

From the front page of The Oxford Public Ledger, May 9, 1922