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JUDGE REESES SPEECH
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We owe no apology to.our readers for
w»»«i. -«^
hal..«s the Ma o! Uon.
Iteese, before an Agsicultaral club, in
Morgan County. We commend to
readers this able and very clear
tion ol the condition cl Southern Agri.
culture, for their caveful study.
Judge Reese is ho wild, theorist, but
Ji a practical farmer t ! tir whose views unon tim
subject which lie Heats, m entitled , , , to
the highest respect. He treats of a sub
ject of the most vital importance to
all our people tod we trust his speech
Svh I,eetled -
no Gentlemen of f.i the Morgan 1/ County ,, Ay nail
fi? “[“J IUe Iand WeekS smce other 1 citizen.1 leueivect an luvi- :
t u n the°«ii r 5 Ub t0 addleSS yoU
wptoiMie iirnin “ l ^Li 6 Subje wi ? t .? nf f agriculture if and a ae
* inviUtum, and the day was
fixed foi the hearing ; but, owing to the
inclemency of the weather, resulting in
a very small audience, the club, at its
own instance adjourned the occasion
ovei until to-day. I am, therefore, now
before you, to talk upon the subject of
agriculture and such other kindred sub
jectsasl may deem legitimately con
nected therewith. In doing so, hovvev
ei, 1 shall not ptesume to dictate,
hope to be able to say some things wor
thy of your thoughts, aud from which
you may work out important results, lor
it is said that “the babbling of fools and
babes sometimes benefits the wise.”
If the vocation of a large majority of
the population—say two-thirds or three
torths—fixes; the status of a State or
jieople in adding to the material wealth
of the world, theu Georgia is an
twal btate and will continue so to be for
V,“5 tmle t0 ,f onle i l£ ’ ,ofc always.
What i» agriculture ? lhe American
Cjfe/msafiw defines it to be “tlie|u-t of cul
satmg the giouud aud of obtaining
smmVvi Preduete necessary for the
n/in 1! r I™, ,r L? 1 ' in, ! l ' l | f j V * 01 ,K a,,i " mals al , u use- ra j
nuLii^L' fm .!.‘ 18 bt! 1U{; aa, “ t t ? d t|,e
juesuon is suggested, , , does . this > ’. large
mijonty oimir populat ion engaged in
this b y.mess came up to this staudard
de.n.turn, either in letter or spirit?
fr ‘ &M ^ n, g ai ‘Hinng Aie ? then , A - re , lands u '? I
^
aT.uL 1 '^ t ;*» B»ey were -
As ley pi,,,,.,ousand happy?
If by chance you glance at an Atlanta
rTT^' y0U WOld ‘ l
suppose, it nut fHisted m newspaper
ways, that the people of Georgia-far
rneis and all-weiv in a slate of boom
ing prosperity ; out of debt, lands im
proving, prosperous nud happy. 1 would
iiiin believe that thvse itew^apers are
not unformed as to the U-vm state of
things in this respect, that they
judge of the whole State by the actual
or seeming prosperity of then-respective
cities. Aly personal knowledge does uot
extend over the whole State, but from
what 1 do know iu connection with such
information as 1 receive from-different
regions of the State, 1 venture the asser
tion that if the ipiestiou of prosperity
among our farmers was submitted to be
voted upon Uy the farmer* o| this State
aud none ether,, the ballot wmild stand
as teu. iu the negative to one in the af
firmativs. They would say our interests
have gradually declined since the fall in
the piiee ol cotton iu the cotton year
1872 and 1878, the price from I860 to
that time rang)from —Tins’, 40 to 1 wouh/be 16 rents
per pound Itliink,
about the result and the truth of the
matter, with now and theu an iudivid
ual exception, growing out of advent!
tious circumstances. But be this as it
uiay, it cannot be questioueu that every
Other material wealth-producing voca
tion-miuing, manufacturing and me*
chxiniCctl pursuits—are fnoru prosperous
than that of agriculture ought’to • and if so the
farming interest be looking
around for the reason why it is that the
profits of labor iu a country like ours, af
ter making proper allowance for the dif
ferenceiu expenses iucurred in acquiring
the knowledge and skill requisite in cer
tain pursuits, should not approach more
uearly equality than they do. By so do
mg they will advance their own interest
in the present and avoid the pernicious
teachings of communism and socialism
in the future. Wbat, then, are some of
the reasons why the farming interest
is not as prosperous as these otter unite
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Dead Capital I11 Laud.
i^*ra£j?rju a 2®s
south s s h/so/r/nii’] her h./.H i/t t
westis2:6miles ^ acres^^ allowfnV^640
3974 and
According KtS fist “coilu“Jf
w-i’slnot it; - 3 "Sf Vnlti tsss
that everythtng'ehm there more in vaf ion
alreage^^ would^double t hi art cotton the tmwl whole
thot
2 afSSSiStoteuhStebffind 57^ <#)9 x ° r y iv) Put
no om XZtVtlmeron P ’ ac^e i^Lr 4(f
one 400^ feu-tli of the whole We have
574 acrof ilead^^ less capital^ WUUffl
159,93^—35 414'462 l”t-ike aci^dead capital 5
• For this evil it i/tlia tir-rr- incre/e h lnit
one reinedv and that is
rJsS’T&KK* unless
they find the reside,R w m atkin
tectof Wily in, the near future.
Yol. 5.
! Our Eastern and Northwestern farmers
and . sinners living in a donate where
bbe - cannot work to any advantage
o£ f,,r m °re th:l11 five
months , of the year, and having every
lulu cement to change tlieir location,
. ffA.
s .ur
Wait; Seoteb eii.l » aie the IMt, Ineh,
r German, t rench and other-Ea
^ BiU1 w lth tlle Wrongest la-
2fSmeHnd vjgfrXSg?oi . o^rTafwe ,
totweet aa are our own (icople. Judg
t!l ® " ol 3 l u
SUCh l lg8, *5 e ' 1 MU Leetl m
• large of
secunng any number immi
grant tanners ami la boms into our
«>tato unless we first make our own farm
Effort lif 1 ? 1 ^ f)fie t ,r « s x^Zut lwous to me ,es
amm
/f/. suggest! d or Unit may £ r be suggested y ,,U, 7 '“ will, ea f, s
the mtlie end, in iny judgment, prove to be
merest liukeiing,
The CreOrt >ysteui.
*V majority of our fanners, large as
well ns small, run their farms wiinsup
plies bought oiv a, credit. It is bard to
belieye that many of them know what
interest they are paying lor credit for
such supplies—corn, meat, nudes, etc.
They pay, as J aui advised, at the be
ginning of the year from 2 . to ;iu per
cent, upon the cash pi ice, ami the most,
of them buy their supplies monthly, and
pay the same percent, upon the cash
price 1.1 dune, July, August, Septum
October and A o> ember iln-y do in
January, amounting to an interest dur
iug the year from 40 to 200 per cent.,
and averaging 120 per cent, per annum,
Now, tiie is there any business known to
civilized world that can be run on a
credit successfully w*th such an interest
p,?!d for credit for supplies If Vanderbilt necessary to
run tim; business? or
Gould had i'M Y/hole of their fortunes
invested in farming miu were to pay for
supplies local ry don wuh sue!: s per
cent, on cash prices, their bank, ::;ucy
would be a question of time only ; as
some of our farmers, running fifty or
sixty plows, and inning manipulated
fe: tilizers by the one hundred tons, have
ahoady experienced. The mining and
manulaetiiiing business in tlm Stale,
anil nreeiiiiniaal pursuits-in our cities
prosper, because the mining anUmanu
factni iug business is ca.rmdo.i princi
pally by corpo.-atii.ns who have the cap
md to buy then Ueirlnlor supplies for c: sh aid
pay casn for employed-and
the contraetuts in our cities have the
means to pay us they go.-But you tell
me you have not the means to do other
wise than pay this, interest for credit,
I’epiy is, it we expect ever to prosper
we must farm witlun our means.
we can’t keep within our menus run
n.iug five plows, try it with less, and if
when we get down to one and find we
are not able to keep within our moans,
go to work for some one elan for standing
wages until we get able to ruu. one plow
upon the ciish system.
John Randolph, of Virginia, in tim
early part of this oenturv, when a mem
her ot the House of Repre-seutativesof the
United States, and at a time when the
French thwaisis, fancied they would
soon he able to contrive something to
be, called the “Fiiilosphef’s S.oue” that
would fufin evetythiug it touched into
gold, arose iu his place and said ■ “Mr
Speaker-t have discovered the “Fhilos
opher’s Stone” pay as you go “ l leave
you to make the application of this inci
d nt,
iiutividu-'Tv ..... of C'ha.rarf«- ’ '
The lack of individuality of character
is one of the great Veulled defects of this eJery “pro
ll-Bsive ^, in almost
‘h paitment ot life, and is as conspiuvous
a ‘ !,lon = iaruiers as anywhere else,
The farmer of to-day is too much jnelin
K(J to adopt any system of farming and
evi!iy now Jahor-saving machine he may
fi“d favorably spoken of by newspapers,
without leasoniug to see whether or not
^ suit.tblti Co(«fns Iumi or oul* labor
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s >' s ‘ ell Vand, therefore,, constantly expe
nl »Dnting, ami never settling down
upon any system in planting or iu eulti
vating or taking caroof what lie makes.
1 he f ’ tt,,fers ot Ul(! fortunes of this conn
,uade Bv farming did their own
ttu 'ikingv and adopted notiiing new un
leHS tUeir reasoning taught them its util
)tv - 11 « a v,:!y ^ Ul,l ‘K that any
“ succeeds 1 at anything . 111 this hie
without decided individuality ol char
toter, and it ought to be cultivated by
our farmers.
i-eitiBzers.
Another’obst-ele iu the wav of nrm
sssrtsss WTf, s£’ ‘fc’tsjstt :
5 .if ^ <sc m r these m f fertilizers A"
vnn, ,i ^fAalile HrT n ?UI<i matter, d i" the plow ° and
s? rt!i:V •ur, /o. manipulated B* oornmeicial
f !., ! fti'.? m « n mwp
fe i. ■ i ^ ®“. , t,lel3 . f 'Iw “
iu - P 1 . ^ ^ f[ orn a ‘
aud aU w ! l,m '
eHsr ul t ™ v r / l ‘" W;<l ‘ J ' U t
n « 1 m
! i ntdmiS^fe.-HU^ ^ v pf n ' WU iimn!' ‘ i '. ,t
S - n - ^ i. tl •• u < ,,S tni ’ 1,1(1 1,1
feimm-fin fe- t > it 1, . ! . caused our
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droUloVs^ ^sXtter UmnU JlU
The Democrat
CRAWEORDVILLE, OEORUIA, FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1881.
! now a drought of two and a half or
three weeks duration. My judgment,
based upon observation, is that if there
had never been a sack of it sold in the
State our people would have been to-day
millions upon millions of dollars better
-•srsiaEi, {L.urf issss.
clover in Sorth iU XotttaM
Georgia, in Connection with domestic
manures, would long since have been
tWa th «
SSSSiKia“bJ^SSTSSTJSS 9I these
the use fertilisers. But if you
fi! the 11 pea not v»«e 8401,1 and J 3 domestic / a I atem manures, ot fertiliaing who
buy a manipulated fertUiwr about which
you know nothing as to iu adaptability
to increase the productions of the sol!
upon which you use it, and pay tij«bn an
caatvvatoalMm. forty-two dollars
Bureau, containing,upon an average,
1,717 pounds of Massachusetts or some
other dirt or some thing else put down
in circulai- as not valuable ‘t The cireu
lav to which 1 allude bears date. 17th
February, 1881, new series No. 16, and
purports to coutain the tables of
ses of some hundred and seventy differ
ent brands of fertilizers with “Explana
tions of the Tables of Analyses.” 1 ex
tract the following •„ “The commercial
values are calculated as follows : The
available idiosphoric acid, ammonia and
potash being the valuable ingredients
for which the farmer pays his money,
they only are considered in ascertaining
the commercial value. The Humbert
in the respective columns of these in
gredients uidicate the number of pounds
of each in each one hundred pounds of
the fertilizer.’’ Here we have from the
highest authority (and every farmer
ought to feel giatefui to Mr. Henderson
for this expose) the mode of finding the
number of pounds of the valuable mate
rial iu every hundred pounds of these
fertilizers, which when multiplied l>y
twenty, gives the number of pounds of
valuable ingredients in a ton. Now,
*pplying the rule as laid down in cireu
taf No. ih, new senes, to two brands—
one of the highest anu oftfi ?f the lowest the
commercial value. Let us see how
matter in ton stands compared as to valuable with ingredients
a as such as are
valueless—for that which is not valua
ble must be valueless :
Baker’s Am. Dissolved Bone com. vaiuo
,,, r«talavailable Xisbrst in table of anafesto Ae^inlOOIbs. «M 12
PUos 13.M
p"u " *’£
Val. matter in ioo lbs. ir.47
20
- ■■■•*■
,, , U . nt °’ V ^ 4u
^wo ;
, »a.40—Total of valuable ingredient.- la ton.
l.fi.w.«o-What is this?
N. G. * Co Superphosphate, lowest com
mcrcinl value. #27 on
Total available Phos. Acid in ioo lbs ID.so
^
Total available Pb.os. Acid in ton. nr, oo
2,000
216—Total valuable ingredients in a ton.
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y^-whatfis iiom,! U * bU! ln this 0ake ? r 3 A,n 1)184
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Not valuable in N, U. & Uo ‘sSn- ' '
peepbosphate -'_ 1 784 00
A andnot val. mat. in 2)3,4:14.60
vDi»ge ton 1,717.30
commcrXl'fertifizeri’fs if^you^wm m^ abons lE! 1
Now cial manitmlated
yourselves fertilizers, in why not manipulate them
to Janes’ fosamia making Barry's composts according
which composts, if or the testimony formula, in
of many
farmers, as contained in certificates, is to
he believed, you will have looking to crops
KWTTK and
save in every four tons, by Junes’form
ula’8115, and by Barry's, in every three
tons, §73 70. Let us see how this is:
janes, fouuuia '
Phosphate, 2,000
Cotton Seed, lbs. 3000 3*wo m oo
Stable Manure, lbs. _L_- jouu
2,000)8,000—4 tons $33 oo
per t0ni
4 tons of Jane*’ formula*' ’ * ™ «, ran< 0 ,
Saved #115 00
barky’s formula '
Bi .p,. 0ii of , lme '
tons’Cotton tbs cost
2 Seed 133;
bushels 4,000 4330
2,000)6,000—3 tons #53 30
Cmht’FVrt ‘ ilrors 11 ISP
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l "“ **•”’“ ......
know what , you are doing ; you know
that cotton seed and stable manure in
f°“, pOSt 0r w,1 ‘ do y° ur crop and
kSS »."? oSSt
ence to. whether you use the hull of the
seed aftec the oil is expressed or the
gr f? 8eud who !°- But >“?' suggestion is
to use in amputated , coiuuiercial fer
at ^ ^ the plow,
bbu »*» . ^ other vegctaldc matter
^ r " e d un,!t ' r aflli domestic manures and
haebj . penuanently improve the
du V. tlv<il ‘f 3 ^ ^ul. It may he
Xu \^t?- whelliei , itny bu^iiics-s
can lie made to pay in the end lf the
Ual employed in ttmt business is
,U ?ZV ° r "’ ,l,eat a "' 1 nau, “ s ’
u IE SH l
; e^o^o^TbliSouT^
the Original fertility of their soil was due
in the main to vegetable matter and to
neglect the making of domestic manures
allowing their -stable aid cow pen accrc
tious to be exposed to rain, sun and
wind uutiLthey liecome so thoroughly a#
««* yr *, S»h -^rf In. thiy LeS
ere lit to b*
in diking composts. You tell say that
witftftur labor system you cannot have
'*???'■ *? 5UTSSS; «■•.*■*
he Uvos upon the premises and gives his
bush ess his personal attention and
umlf s such contracts as will enable him
K»}f and direct succeiful, his hired labor
business, to be must
Sad «Mp a head and such a one as can com
the respect of the employes. You
might as well undertake to tight a battle
adopt cosl'acts the tenant system, so make ,our
as to be headin. the direction,
of Hiings an adopt, with: it, the English
system iu. regard to domestic manures,
to£ike which is this : Every tenant is bound
amt take care of all the domes
tic banures in his power. If he moves
at tim end of the year to some other
pla«), he takes nothing of this sort with
him. and he is content to do so, for he
knows that he will (iml as much or more
on the place to which he goes than lie
leaves twhind. In this way the English
people keep their lands constantly im
proving and to-day produce more per
ac*S8ioi; the support of animal life than
any other people on Uie globe, of whom
we knosv anything, thelx huias becom
injj mole addition and more productive every
year. I11 to the adoption of the
system I’ldw indicated as to fertilizers, the
and vegetable matter, you must
contract your farms so as to be able to
improve iUgliO your lands, instead of eultivst
or 40 acres in coni and cotton to
tfiwblow and 80 of that in cotton, as
scituia of you do, your system ought to he
thMcora, SO^Acres in oue-third all-oae-third cotton, one
re/Bar small grain, with
rotation of crops. I do not know
of A single farmer 111 the Oemulgee (Jir
cdh. who farms upon this last named
system who is not out ol rtebt and pros
“nd is So because he makes every
tiling to run Ins farm at home and buys
no f.i tihzrfs. I (‘•■uinot see where our
indent system of fanning’* to eml, if
per isted iu, except in the discouragement impoverish
me d of our lands, the
aim demoralization of that large produc
b.g class who till the soil, and loss of
l>o;ulation HU-le in the emigration from the
b«& of our best >oung men and owi
laborers. “The wise sreth the evil
ouWfcttL.^ a«8cov era his head, but the Silly press
Jtsitroyod. ” .
State Agricultural Society and Slat* fair*,
bonm . well „ meaniug: people , seem to be
, lookin B to our State Agricultural Nocie
ty and our State. Fairs to lead our farm
era in the way of getting out of debt and
becoming prosperous. In my judge-
1 itf U § 0il b k ®",
sticks. Unless l the State Agricultural - u
Society has some secret history, I have
as yet been unable to see that they have
ever done anything calculated to advance
the agricultural interests of Georgia. It
JS Said 111 their favor that they have
le£ ul hefoie the Society, at its semi an
liual meetings, essays upon subjects con
noeted with agriculture which arc puh
Imbed 111 pamphlet form aud circulated
AmD }f t ! W 1 hav « " OT « r hi * d ^
ff 4 to f, tU “ U lw ,' w « 0l *« ot U “' se V*mU
a»d eaiinot. theiefoie, 1 . pass judge
ment on the merits of these essays. One
ot your club informs me that none of
these essays have been published within
the last three years. But from seeing
the names ot, these essayists, tnentioned
^ Bold-, dsOTIfF L farmer can hut from exclaim such :
teachew,” cot’Id for, I-k now some of them
not, if their lives cultivation depended on it,
direct the successful or im
provement of an acre of ground without
assistance, and therefore L conclude that
wh j* t£he ^ of these essayists say
upbn these occasions, if they stick to
their text, must bo taken from aglieul
tural papers and newspapers, with about
as much practical sense, upon the whole,
abuut farming, as the essayist. Hut
eve “ lf this Association had the intrinsic
elements of usefulness, a grave anspic
ion lias taken hold upon the public mind
(»««* 1 am not prepared to say it is witti
out cause) that it is more of an oflice
seeking machine thau it is an Agnoul
tural Association. The politicians joiu
the Association and make themselves
conspicuous practicing upon that trait
in human nature which inclines mcm
bur ? of a U associations to stand up for
ss’jawjtsas . rass
,v-a. ^.w «•*—
to regmatetbestar.dardofprRiiiiui^award- fix the place for holding them, and to
ed thereat, etc. .state Fairs, as I under
J“"' “ l"" 11 ™ £ '“i«4 “. u »
£tss
corn, cotton, wheat, oats, etc., and pre
maims me offered fertile best mule,
horse, milch cow, colt and hogs, etc.
The citizen wjio baa tlie money, and will
! put a few hundred dollars worth ot man
me, labor and irrigation upon an acre
or so of ground, can always win the | r ; -
mi urns for the productions of the soil;
and ijy the farmer ol hw who starving has but all little the balance means,’
jeu.^oii
of his stock aud pampering one or two,
will not often tail to obtain a premium
th '> ^ <“'■* and expense in producing
;
| ilm^rSS
No. 26.
! Georgia ever thint k of nfwi, o? ., nn. m
uni forthe best;> olV25
' of expend improved land lnmroved -it tim
Sour * land? It iir Her vlw that t e.se fed noons
! not weanne ® out C ui inv m in ; of z sense
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farming*interest h»iS"eC5!°lu",“ CSffi”
and fiietid'’ott*ie ou dit to be the
watchword of K every ELccSTffi people
of Georgia ?
SESS^SET** “» *•'
Again tiiis, - lam told that the fairs do
good in that a great ma.iv iiuprov
ed labor-saving tiJ mat-bines-u-e 'iii Kin r^e, iiici
mteu J o L o wrn^^ w ,nd L t, o ilm'
pie earn the ■ H S
Ac. I never knew of an/ , mini ,ved
saving machine in deniuUuent of
life, if it was worth havmg. tbut did not
SKrtfoin” ^le who is wts^H
not and ought uot to invest in such
things without using tlieic liimself or
seeing a. fair trial given to them other
than on fair grounds sous to know
whether or noUt be adapted to our soil
and our labor system Our farmers as
regards new inventions and nrichinmv
LordCtaStei&ld^ta^feLlei^ will do well to remember tlm oVvies of
iu bis day given 011 the suhieet ii/iin.-w Vi.e
log- “Be not the first b> uut oid°i> on
new, nor the last to nut off Hm
Again : It is said fersevi tint a ifi...-.J* rre ifi « r t»<v i *"
of lino cattle these’fairs'V...1 a
are exhibited at .ln.h if. ,;/
be added by*reasou a great manv hctiLintmiK.iUir'.is of om
induced, of i<mi
and other false romesimt cows' if
fabulous prices for iinnmviniVt'iiu miw* It %
Ac with an eve to L*i
in the State ir in the huiumiI
ask sucli whv it that nor m«ni.i.. I’,' 1 /
m hies for simn sti»nk ,! ‘*1
tive cattle if imlieimwiv imuSn,'S
judieiouslv crossed •lih'i 11,“ “
for wilt in a short time l..-L>.iTff ■mi
purposes belter tlian inv ot wird her foil?
eattl. iu the worW Mv r
selected we give ouv native cattle thus ittdiclmislv hoiisin/
and crossed the same
currying, food and iiitlldng given to the
Jerseys and Alderncvs you sec -it the
tabs receive, prepared hv gentlemen for
exhibition aud sale for the purpose of
making money, yon will soon.'vorv soon
have Jerseys and Alberneys in evev l
»ejgliborhood in the State hn’ilS tlinn»i. Z
“er dittereut rwe and vPd/of a le'
adapted to the Ihat/illnav our p In^ef -.n
\Vo need us^“S®as cile mil5 mUui?
and oxen n
Thi8 is not 1 conntrv for m il sfS iurr hutioi*
-i' Scotch I
„ v Fitziuheif min Arirndtiirt ,nd
0 f U» mtvst writers oh
and wivo lived in llte SixU-bllfli cent (try
^.Uo said a tlun - ei'i-midti 1 tiiis 1
m ,ni i mid it a l ‘ , * f h A
.! , lv ^. come
...... ^ n 1
My suggestion is to let I lies" blooded
cattle (as limy are called) alone, amigo
to improving your native oatllo upon
the plan hinted at by tiie- S< ofeliinan, as
Urn Usd, breed in tlm world for this
State--they thrive on less food iU -e
to.iu„«oii
and good heel which qualities, eoiubin
ed make, them more valuable to us than
other bleeds.
fit the places wheie IiediUm imciRiiarily,
as is evidenced by tho fact that our large
cities me willing to pay for the privilege
of having the fair in their midst or near
by, enough to defray all the expenses in
ssi ses of of 1 Vr/I?’ tho , tato .W Hgi 1cultu1.il W ‘ th Vr* Society, 1 ?'
Tiie cities where those fairs are liahl can
well afford to do all this for the reason
that they know they can, assisted by a
lew newspaper booms, always command
a lame ‘rtc crowd ci own, a ind no Dnt inat those Dime who who at Lend
leave , in the city, in on# w.'iy or anotlior
from fffe to &thO (ier head, amounting
in the aggregate to a hundred thousand
dollars of other large sum dependent
upon tiie size of the crowd, and has'been a great
deal of the moneys, spent
hardlj oaineil and had.ly jiaid out. I
heard heard an an old old gentleman gentleman who who lias has been been in in
the habit of attending (State fairs say:
“If I had a minor son arid desired to
make out of him an educated'gambler
and spendthrift, I know of no better
college I could send him to Ilian to let
him attend every 8tato fair and gradu¬
ate at 28 or 24 years of age.” What a
commentary Judging upon .State Fairs !
by the past, it is evident to
my mind that neither the Agricultural
Society, nor State Fairs under the pat¬
ronage of tiie Society, will ever ho in¬
strumental in inciting our farmers to
a rivalry in the improvement of tlieii
lands and increasing tlieir profits by
producing l.fe. They mote must food look to after sustain their aniwai inter¬
ests for themselves, through your county
clubs, or otherwise, as expediency and
propriety may suggest.
If legislation, not inconsistent with
fundamental law, is needed to encourage
tbe permanent JL. improvement of our lands
and the budding up of the farming in
ferest w« in In the «» State, you yon must make in.lo it ,1. a
ss«rif r lvszmz., <srs
it that they carry l/l out your views ™ as
as tla-ymay to o Ug!2
has been encouraged by yoiir
ture. Manufacturing bus buT been encour
aged by you eg s at. bus.nUs fanning
the most imporUnt of ail iw
reason of its production of food to sue
taro animal life, and by iVulaMo.. reawn of beS t he
larger portion of our
isngHfgvd.in it, hai been Uitt to take cure
of itself. Ami if you farmers don’t
lake care of yourselves it will I* your
=s
that wiii be the -poor.” aud my fears
ou^lWs 'Tit LT tt wShWe
The Democrat
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Ey One lueh, on Less considered m a
square. We have no fractions of a square,
all fractions of squares will be counted M
square^. 1 literal deductions made on Con
tract Advertising.
I -______ , *"*? an , individual , , or
a
i l^Lfiw m aidedtheir
' * d ^ uato to acc <>mpllsh
a,e ,^ n1 « ««*'
of which \' ^ le e **' e,1 ‘ il ssrasst * a re s of farmers
'K.totS,"ofthi'Slt °*n?* 0r '
' nil for min* Jwi# tl?»
! proximate 827 OTO ^ Out of that S' our
less than 8,000000
S JJ" e ?‘- cs a “l ^ ut „ !w »cs, not lewtiiiii 1 ' »,mloov noooioeo
1
Ka " u "*' t . Um tor’s Hill, Tuition.ic 2,oo®,«e»
kobd #23,200,000
and J*early all ot which goes out of the State,
never is again subject to taxation her*,
Whole leaving in the hands of the farmers of the
state only about #3,800,000. This it
farm coonomy with a veugence It it, t
think, demonstrable that there Is mor%
money to thu farmer from Ufa crop of 6 or 7
bales of cotton to tlm unit* without the ex
pense of bought furtiUxefs, coni,. Hour,
meat, &c., titan tliere is in a crop of Ufte*n
bales to tlio mule, with this expense. Fig¬
ure on it and sea if I am not right. 1 have
known some people to make good crops
successively income atnl expend their entire net
upon themselves and families m
fast as thoy get it. Such people never ac¬
cumulate and are never called “hlps««a"
»y those who come after them. Them's-no
economy or wisdom iu attempting, without
.Uie means, to give our children a coiiegfat*
education. Our first duty to our children
(s to give them healt h ami stamina of con¬
stitution. Our next duty is to give them
as im us can be done, a thorough English
education; fortitude tor with that and good health pre*
and self-denial, you have
pared them to light the battles of life suc¬
cessfully, and if nature has done her pert
by them and their nuihitiuu prompts, they
"dl ol' themselves acquire everything
m cessary to any desired position iiwllfo, a*
they ascend tile ladder. Don t oe led astray >
upon this subject by tlio fanetioism of tha
day upon college education. For it Isa
la.-t, conceded by some of our moat able
awl experienced professors of colleges, that,
uot inure than three todive out ot every ten
pnpi.s sent to college are materially Lena
fitted tliere by. Tim baton** stray along In
their studies to.tbe final examination, with
a ing, smattering and of learning, no mental train¬
pass oftener ttiau otherwise,
through the kindness of the faculty and re¬
ceive llmir dlploums ; and then adopt some
mm ot tiie learned professions and drag
along in llm! until tliay are tldriv-fivo or
forty years of age, before they discover
tlieir mistake, anu then having no knowl¬
drones edge. of practical, life, are content to bo,
in society the remainder vt their
fives. 1
1 here Is no economy in the farmers of
l ie State, after paying out #23,200,000, or
thereabouts, wheat, for commercial fertilizer*
coni, pittance mules, Ac., lu spending the
families, of #3,#00,000 left in visiting, with
your first fairs, cotton exposition* 1%
cousin to State fairs). Ac., without!
any thereby hope pecuniarily in expectation of being benefittod 4
at present or in the
future. Keep away from these fair* and
cotton expositions. They may benefit rail¬
roads anu the cities wluire held, hut I car
se* al attention nothing in them demanding tiie pergon¬
of the fanner or Ids family,,ifl
indeed, there be any benefit In them for
him at ail. Live and move within your
means iu everything,
CoMehuthui,
You ">a.V* consider some things said by mw
on this occasion as impolitic to be said. 1
si,r was brought up in a school where It was
knew a talker to Injure his cause in the end
by speaking wlml lie believed to be the
truth when duty required it of him, and If
go to work with tlieir hands ami brains tot
shutout the dark future before them I
8hal1 not be ashamed of tho charge of not
liu vin k h« rl > politic i» what 1 have said,.
, 'yi 13 l, r ou Kj!. t "P “d 1
® a «m
. i , ™i»“ban ZuZg, and^none*'
iu iny judgement, requiring moro bruin
power to ruitcli tiie lilgiiest place, and hum
opening laws of up such a field for tha study of tin,.
nature and tha cidtivalion. of tb«
elements of human character, and
Bm® bringing him nearer to Nature „ God.
0lw u ,„ K , rat , Men ot lllB wwld ,
satire her days upon or political men and things la England in'
mouth of King Brobdiugnng corruption, tbe put in tbe
truthful worits, to wit; “And lie following
1,u °i ,bl,,m t,,a ‘ whoever could gave for
SLgToS/S* make two
grew kind ami before, do would, essential desvr.vu better of man
country than tbe inert who!* service to th*
race of politicians
put together.” .
Don’t cower, my farmer friends, but
nse to the dignity of the situation; goto
thinking, reform what is faulty in your
system of farming, look after and pro¬
tect your own interest, and attlie same
time the interest of your class. Be not
deceived by Ui# siren song of prosperity
from they tell tli* about uiliier-scoLxr, Uie 01.speculator, when"
ing interest. You prosperity of the bu rn¬
know it is not true.'
When they talk about the credit of the
State and hv r high standing financially, ’
tell them you liaye sense enough to,un
.
derstainl by whose hard earnings, untiM
ths operations of our tax laws, both are
in the main sustained. '1 bat tiie farm¬
ing interest in Georgia is sick and the
constitution (land) of th* patient is
gradually wearing out there can, in im
, . he
l’ a i ,a. minus, no doubt. What ______
wou ‘“ think of a physician who,,
would persist in a particula; treatment
wbl n “ w:m "»■’ evident that urn, tiro U.« jjjrtient,. |»tjrat
lliln a,i arrantfoof, a laoiumumhic or a 1
«^kless , xy. rhneuter. systemo^farm-' Appiy this R
yhu I>»« » i feih mu esent
* ,n t*’ eor fc’ ,a > if you don’t think
there o.ig! t to be a change continue in the treat '
“*c»t of the disease to send
nea,! l r ;,JI y° ,ir cotton money out of the
' SUt 'j t0 pay for manipulated «*,,£ cpmraer- ’
corn,’ meat. 0 ats,
nny, h,,, ijmmls, after ^-c., and if you hate any- ’
• J’ *->«'* K wv uot d' to pay paying your for'these other debts, things, but ’
-
’ Bi.tell tlwmv, and I shall
say
1 « * 4 ’ A- DAVIS *.«».,*