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Show NEED FOR LABOR. , Commenting on the scarcity of labor, the Washington. Poat recalls the estimate that tha machinery employed In American Indue-tries Indue-tries has been estimated as equalling 50,000,-000 50,000,-000 men, and yet tha cry ia still for mora. Tbo Poet continues: The South la especially clamorous for agricultural labor, farm hands, but the South is In sorer need of better farming then it Is of mors farmers. It Is said than spinners of Lancashire, England, ara buying cotton lands In Georgia. It will prove a great blessing bless-ing If they should fetch with them those European methods of farming by tha employment employ-ment of which in England, prance and Germany Ger-many tba yield of tbo field haa been gradually grad-ually and regularly increased snd tba fertility fer-tility of the soil steadily and progressively Improved. A yield of 200 bushels from ten acres Is inflnltely better than a yield of 400 v a. 1 . ask. a m wA atk she has In some respects the beet farm labor in tha world. Tha industrious and contented negro Is a treasure when he follows Instructions Instruc-tions aa to preparation of the ground, tillage, harvest and garnering- of the cropi There Is never any difficulty with tbla fellow dowa there. His only drawback ia prosperity. It ia hard for him to endure that. He la tha happiest man in tha world aimply because his wants are few and easily supplied. Tba South Is making efforts to secure farm labor from Europe. It would be well enougb to attempt the Improvement of the culture of the farm with the labor, she now has. |