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The Farmers’ Index. AU letters Intended for the Editor of this De partment should be addressed, “Fabmiiu’ Indu, Drawer 24, Atlanta, Ga.” THE WEATHER AND THE FRUIT. At this writing it seems pretty certain that very little, if any, of the iruit has escaped death by frost. The old saying that “fruit is never killed in March,” while not strictly true, has been negat ively verified again. But the fruit blos soms—during the first week in April— were in just about the state of develop ment that usually occurs a month earlier. Up to this moment (7th April) the season is a full month behind, in the latitude of Atlanta. As a topio of conversation and even of passing remark, “the weather" is growing to be monotonous. The farmeis have certainly had a bad time and have more right to complain than any class of our population. It is not, however, a foregone conclusion that 1881 is to be a poor crop year. According to our recol lection, in the spring of 1849—though at first a very forward season—a killing frost occurred about th? 23d of April. We are not certain as to the exact date, and in fact a frisnd at our elbow insists that it was later than the middle of May, but we distinctly remember that the seas on was very forward and vegetation well advanced in Harris county, Georgia— where we then lived —a boy of twelve. At the date of the frost, corn had all been plowed—some of it the second time —and was neatly knee high in places; cotton had been generally chopped out and both were most promising, when the cold snap occurred and blighted every thing. The corn and cotton, garden’veg etables, wheat,were all killed, and there was a great cry for cotton seed through out the country. Yet the year 1849 prov ed to be a bountiful year in that section of Georgia—especially for cotton. Will some of our readers give the exact date of the frost and some reminescenses of the time ? We would be glad to put it on record. The fall of the year was dry and held on until December, no kil ling frost occurring until January. We remember seeing cotton blooms during Christmas week. Such a season may not occur this time, but it is not impos sible. THE FARMERS POLICY. About this season of the year it is cus tomary for the newspapers—both polit ical and agricultural—to give “line upon line*’ about the ruinous policy of plant ing so much cotton and relying on the West for provisions. It is the favorite theme of the speaker who addresses agri cultural meetings; the frequent topic of city merchants. It is in everybody’s mouth. The farmer himself sees the folly of it in others, realizes it again and again in his own experience. Yet the great -mass of them go on, year after year, Tn the same old rut —producing cotton at a loss, buying corn, hay, bacon, lard, flour, and other common and indispens able articles that should be made at home. There seems to be, and really is, an in fatuation about growing cotton,and which can only be accounted for in the fact that it is always and everywhere a cash commodity—it brings the money. In connection with this is the controlling desire that possesses nearly every one to become rich—or at least independent —and the prevalent idea that we can grow rich and enjoy the comforts and pleasures which wealth affords, only by actual large receipts of money. There certainly never was a greater fallacy; and yet the majority of our far mers are pursuing this very idea. In our humble judgment the successful farmer is he who increases the productive cap acity of his farm by improved methods of culture, the use of composts, rotation of crops, draining, terracing, and what ever will multiply power, of production and guard against loss. We do not claim the wisdom necessary to point out just what every farmer ought to do, or, with alt the circumstances of a given case before us, to dictate a plan which will lead to certain success. It would be vanity in any man to assume such wisdom; and in the nature of the case it is impossible to attain to it. If it were so. farming would be reduced to an exact science, when in fact it is the farthest conceivable remove 'rom it. Success in this calling depends more on the farmer himself than any other factor. “There’s more in the man than there is in the land" is an old but true saying. But we have digressed from the line of thought w.e first intended. It ia.often said that ‘'figures won’t He,” and iustly replied that it is not the false calculation but the wrong, application that misleads. Many have figured out the profits ol speculative cotton cultU'O and arrived at the conclusion that it pays to buy corn, bacon, mules, and other absolute neces saries, out of the proceeds of the cotton crop; but the large, very large majority have utterly failed to verify their figures by results. Some few men do make money in this way, but they are only scattering exceptions to the rule. Success is the best and only true test of the soundness of a system of farming. When we look over the country we find that nearly every one of the successful faimers—men who have either become wealthy or are living in comfort and ease as the result of farming proper—have produced their own supplies. The fact is indisputable and the inference unmis takeable—whether sustained by figures or not. We often recur to the history of farm ing during the war. According to our observation in Southwest Georgia, the enforced reduction of the culture of cot ton to a mere nominal area, and the large increase in the production of provisions of all kinds, caused no embarrassment whatever, notwithstanding the fact that the price of everything the farmer was compelled to buy was proportionally much higher than the price of surplus products. There was plenty, ease and contentment in all that section —so far as the results of farming were concerned. Os course, there were manv wants— things to which we had been long accus tomed—which could not be supplied; but very little real suffering that could not be traced directly to the war in which we were engaged. Morever, the South, with all the odds against her, her ports closed, with a large portion of her best men constantly in the army, maintained her causa and supported large armies al most unaided, for four years. Thia prov ed that we can sustain ourselves, and that we have all the natural advantages which go to insure a successful career as jm agricultural people. THE CHRISTIAN INDEX AND SOUTH-WESTERN BAPTIST: THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1881. ENGLISH SPARRO WS. The introduction of these birds into this country seems now to have been One of those singular mistakes that we some times commit. We are so conservative in our habits and modes of action, that we are generally slow to adopt changes and accept innovations, and they are often apparently thrust upon us; bill in this case we were too ready to accept as a promised blessing, what is proving to be a veritable curse wherever they have been introduced in this country. From an extract in the Southern Cul tivator, credited to the London Gardentr's Chronicle, we learn that these birds have a bad reputation even in England. The extract says: "It is not in England alone that complaints of the sparrows find an echo. Everywhere in Europe, and even in Algiers, these greedy and too prolific birds are becoming more and more a scourge of the farmers and gardeners. Essentially seed-eaters, and not despis ing sugary fruits, the sparrows sweep down m great numbers on the ripening harvests and the seed bearing plants of our gardens, where they would not leave a seed unharmed if it were not for con tinual vigilance. Cunning and obstinate as well as audacious, they only laugh at traps and scarecrows, and the repirt of a gun only disperses them for the moment, to return in still greater numbers. Os all winged creatures, it is the sparrow, who best represents the rabble of our towns and villages.” They were introduced in this country in the hope that they would make war on the cotton caterpillar. We have not heard that this hope has been realized, and have no doubt they will prove a curse instead of a blessing; and that the whole country will be as anxious to get rid of the pesky little foreigners as some were originally to introduce them. Tub World’s Wealth.—The follow ing striking paragraphs which are being extensively published under credit to Harper'» Weekly, are taken substantially from Mulhall’s “Progress of the World, a late English work of great statistical interest: In point of wealth the United States stands near the head of the list-third on the list of all the Western nations. The United Kingdom ol Great Britain and Ireland heads the list with a capital valuation of $44,400,000,000, then comes France with $36,700,000,000, the United States with $32,000,000,000, Russia with 15,000,000,000, and the Low Countries with $11,150,000,000 of capital collectiv ely. The are the valuations made by those countries of their entire resources. What is the annual income per inhabit ant of the various countries? We come to the front in this comparison. The average annual income in the United Kingdom is $lO5 ; in the United States, $165 also; in the Low Countries, $150; in France, $125; in the British colonies, S9O; In Germany, and also in Scandin avia, SBS. In this reckoning Russia with her 90,000,000 people is out of sight as yet; she will not be very long. On the score of annual accumulation our case is even better, relatively far better. The annual accumulation of wealth in Germany is S2OO 000,000; it is $325,000,000 in the United Kingdom; $375,000,000 in France; in the United States it is $825,000,000. Our increase in national wealth since 1850, says a good English authority, would be enough to purchase the whole German empire, with its farms, cities, banks, shipping, manufactures, etc. The annual accum ulation has been $825,000,000; and there fore each decade adds more to the wealth of the United States than the capital value of Italy and Spain. Every day that the sun rises tlpon the American people it sees an addition of $2,500,000 to the wealth of the Re public. Every man may be his own physician, if he simply takes the free publications of tie Dr. Harter’s Medicine Company, and uses the remedies they prescribe. All Druggists and Dealers have them. The Gbratmt Blessing.—A simple, pure, harmless r» medy. that cures every time, and prevents disease by keeping the blood pure, stomach regular, kidneys and liver active, is the greatest blessing ever conferred upon man. Hop Bitters is that remedy, ana its proprietors are being blessed by thousands who have been saved and cured by it. 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