Tobacco is selling well on all of the markets and the tobacco farmer is playing in luck for one time. This year it is the cotton farmer that is in hard luck. But the fact that tobacco is selling well this season is no guarantee that it will sell well next year. The pas tyear nearly every farmer in the County sowed small grain, wheat and oats, and other stuff for his stock, with the result that few farmers will have to send away for bread this year. It was wise, and we sincerely hope no farmer will fail to follow this same idea again this Fall. Don’t worry about rushing your tobacco to market, but take time to sow small grain, and if tobacco fails on you next year, you will have something to eat and to feed your stock.
You never heard of the sheriff selling out a man who had a year’s rations ahead, and it is a mighty comfortable feeling to know that you are one year ahead of the sheriff.
From the editorial page of the Roxboro Courier, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 1926, J. W. Noell, Editor
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