Editor Public Ledger:
Ruthven, Ontario, Canada, Sept. 15—It may be interesting to the Public Ledger readers to learn how things are moving along in Canada. I find these people very thrifty and progressive. The principal crops grown here are to bacco, corn, oats and what, with tomatoes as an extra crop. The tobacco crop is very good—some better than usual; the late rains have been very beneficial to the late crops and they have been maturing very nicely.
The weather has been very cold lately. In fact we have had some frost this week, but the damage to crops was not very extensive. A very small percent of the tobacco crop has been cured to date, owning to the lateness of the crop.
Right many farmers plant two or three acres of tomatoes as an extra money crop. They find ready sale for their tomatoes if they can get them early. I know one man who planted three acres in tomatoes and he told $2,700 worth of tomatoes off of the three acres, and now he has seeded the land to clover and it is coming up. That is what I call going some.
It would help some of our Granville county farmers if they would make a trip up here and see how the people are forging to the front by planting more than one money crop. It will be a great day when our people will realize that tobacco is not the only pebble on the beach, and not look entirely to tobacco for their support.
--J.M. Bullock
From the front page of the Oxford Public Ledger, Sept. 21, 1923
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