The Laurens Advertiser

The Signs of the Times.

If we are not badly deceived in the signs of the times, farmers that do not heed the warnings of the Farmers Union and plant more food crops now, they will be running around next Fall wanting everybody's advice about how to buy $20.00 a ton peavine hay and $1.00 a bushel corn with 6 cents cotton. Our big supply men, and mule men, too, had better butt in this thing at once along with the Farmers' Union in their efforts to induce farmers to plant more food crops and less cotton, or the game next winter will be nip and tuck between these men and the buzzards as to who will get the most revenue out of this mule mortgage business. A good deal is being said recently about live stock associations in each of the counties of the State, which will be a good thing if our farmers will take to them, and instead of bragging about selling peavine hay and other food crops, they will raise and feed more stock and take care of the manure, they need not be howling any longer about the guano trust! Our Farmers' Unions should take to this live stock idea like young ducks take to water; it is the natural thing to do and right along the straight road to the permanent building up of the up-to date progressive idea of the independent farmer of the South. All our Farmers' Unions should be each in itself a good live stock association, and talk more about raising more and better stock and talk less about raising more cotton.