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OTE SOUTHERN WORLD, JANUARY 15,18&6.
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Extraordinary Advice—Don't
Take It.
One of our Georgia contemporaries
seems to be down upon farming, and
makes this deliverance to young men
out of employment. ‘‘Don’t go to the
country. Don’t farm, don’t plow a mule,
don’t dig ditches, don’t maul rails nor
pull fodder, buy ba» on and corn on time
at ruinous prices nor raise cotton. It
don’t, it never did, it never will pay.
The law makers of your State have
placed an impassable gulf between agri
culture and prosperity. Exceptional
interests may prosper in Georgia under
present conditions. Agriculture never
will. Until new avenues of employment
are afforded there is nothing else to do
and hence we advise you to loaf. * * *”
“ Half the money wasted at present
upon a system of education that quali
fies its supposed beneficiaries for noth
ing, would be sufficient to set on foot a
system of industrial training that in a
few years would result in a wide range
of employment for those who are now
idle. Talk for it, work forit, vote for it,
and until it comes about devo’e your
idle time to base ball, rabbit hunting or
anything else, but don’t go back to the
country—don’t farm.”
But for the serious tone pervading this
entire article, we should be tempted to
class it as ironical, and a species of sar
donic jest. But there is no loop-hole
left for the formation of such a conclu
sion. The writer is in earnest, and citeB
his own experience in proof of his assev
erations.
That portion of his advice which
warns the young farmer to beware of
buying “bacon and corn on time at
ruinous prices,” is well put. All the
rest, if carried out, will lead unerringly
to his ruin.
_-As to the fling at the public schools,
the best answer is to be had in the hun
dreds of young men, the sons of impov-
T. erished parents, who have by their
agency been qualified to fill clerkships
in every department of business, and
-are now steadily climbing the ladder of
progress to prosperity and afiluence.
We say nothing of the large number in
the free high schools in Macon, Atlanta,
Savannah and elsewhere, who have
been prepared for college and are now
illustrating Georgia iu the pulpit, at the
bar, and as educators themselves. The
legislators need no champion.
If under this attack upon them the
object be to promote the establishment
of a School of Technology in connection
with the State University we submit
that the poorest way to achieve any given
object is to undcrate and animadvert
upon those who are to decide upon its
merits. We sincerely trust as a strong
advocate of such a school, that this may
not prove true in the present instance.
In regard to the fierce onslaught upon
agriculture, happily at least seven-tenths
of the people of Georgia who cultivate
the soil, support the government by
their taxes, and furnish food for all
classes including the denizens of the
cities, are able to frame tueir own an
swer. While as a general rule their
profits are not large, yet, if at all thrifty
and industrious they raise their own
meat and bread, pay nothing for fuel,
rents, vegetables, and milk and butter,
and are absolutely independent, with
none to “ molest or make them afraid.”
It matters not if a financial panic sweeps
over the country wrecking the strongest
business firms and involving in one com
mon ruin hundreds of merchants, and
the proprietors and operatives of a
thousand opulent manufacturing estab-
* lishments, the farmer, as he surveys his
well-filled barns, broad acres and sleek
stock, sits down at his ingleside without
a care, and feels no practical interest in
the decline or rise of “stocksand fu
tures.”
We take issue with our contemporary
also in his remark in substance, that
farmers are not a whit more virtuous
than the inhabitants of a crowded city.
If it be true, that “to err is human,”
and temptation is too often the forerun
ner of sin, then the farmer is not ex
posed to one in a dozen of the seduc
tions and man traps of a city, and there
fore cannot be ensnared by them.
And now, a parting word to the many
young men who by the exigencies of
trade are thrown out of employment,
don’t “ loaf ” and squander your scanty
savings in idleness, or at “base ball,”
or “ hunting rabbits.”
In this God blessed country land is
cheap, and labor in demand. Either
buy or rent a few acres as near market
as possible or take some position on the
farm, roll up your sleeves, grasp the
plow bandies and go to work. Mother
earth if judiciously coaxed and handled
will not cheat you. An abundant harvest
will reward your labors and that price
less independence which alone can give
contentment and happmess will be
yours. Our advice is, if on the farm,
stick to the farm. If in the city and out
of employment go back to the farm /
H. H. J.
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The I.eCoute Pear—When to Put
it out.
Those who intend to start plantations
of this luscious fruit which is even more
profitable than the oranse, are admon
ished that now is the proper time to do
so. Year old rootlets can be obtained
at Smithville, Thomasville and ither
points, all the way from 10 cents to 25
cents each. Our advice is to buy from
regular giowers and shippers, even at
Live Stock Department
The Norman Horse.
Wherever the Norman horse is found
in America, the name of Dillon is known.
The Dillons were pioneers in this line,
and, as will be seen by the facts given
below, they still cont'nue to do pioneer
work. Having demonstrated beyond a
question that the Norman horse crossed
with the common produces the ideal
draft horse for farm and draft purposes
in the North, and after having demon
strated to their own satisfaction that it
would be equally valuable in the South,
they have engaged in an enterprise in
Texas which is simply magnificent.
These gentlemen, in connection with
others, purchased a tract of land in
Shackleford county, Texas, embracing
2,700 acres, and in addition to this are
entitled to 75,000 acres besides, giving
them a range of over 100,000 acres, 2,700
acres of this is under fence. On this
range they have placed 4,400 horses,
principally native mares, these they are
breeding to Norman stallions as fast as
they can spare the stallions from their
home stables. They have made one
shipment of 35 stallions.
The objection that some horsemen
have used against the Norman horse is
that they would not endure the South
ern climate. The Dillons have proved
that this iB not true. They have dem
onstrated that the Norman will stand
both summer and winter fully as well as
One of the six Barns oil the Ilium* Farms of Dillon Bros., Importers and Breeders of
Norman Horses, Normal, 111.
higher rates, as they are posted how to
unearth the young trees afid pack them
for shipment, thus saving great loss to
the purchaser.
When the young treeB arrive, cut
them down to two and a half or three
feet from the root, then prepare ample
holes twenty-five feet apa t and apply a
liberal amount of well rotted cow pen
manure or the rich earth from the corn
ers of fences, and bury the rootlet about
eight inches deeper than it stood in the
nursery, pressing the earth closely about
it.
The tops that have been pruned off,
cut into pieces about fifteen inches in
length, and plant six inches apart in
trenches four feet asunder, half full of
woods earth or well rotted manure. Fill
in with the top soil and wnter freely in
dry weather, and the next season yea
will have your own trees ready for set
ting Set the cuttings perpendiouiary
and do not expose more than two eyes
above the surface. H. H. J.
Flue Blooded (Stock. Choice Corn
and Cotton Heed for Bale.
We Invite the attention of farmers to the ad
vertisement of “Pare Surprise Whl'e Corn,"
“ Heriong Cotton Seed,” and Rust Proof Wheat
by Captain Robert E. Park, of Holton, Bibb Co..
6a. These seeds are exceedingly prolific and
deservedly popular. They are warranted pare.
Captain Park also raises superb Registered
and Grade Jersey ca'tle. »hetlsnd ponies, Geor
gia horses and colts and registered Berkshire
pigs. The writer has visited h's stock farm and
can testify to the excellence and beauty of the
above animals. Address him at Macon, 6a.
Cattle often suffer from hay fever—the
fever induced by the want of it.
native stock, and that colts will thrive
fully as well as at the North. Five two
year old Norman mares, all with foal,
were shipped to their Texas ranch, all
foaled, and mares and colts have done
well.
We need hardly say anything about
the reliability of this firm; guarantee
all horses bought of them to be breeders
and to be just as represented. Their
beautiful illustrated catalogue of Nor
man horses, giving list of animals im
ported and bred in 1884, amount of stock
on hand, and much useful information
concerning Ihe Norman horse sent free
of charge.
Sweet Gum and Mullein.
The sweet gum, u gathered from a tree of the
same name, growing along Ihe small streams in
the southern States, contalus a stimulating ex
pectorant principle that loosens the phlegm pro-
ducing the early morning cough, and stlmulateo
the child to throw off the false membrane in
Croup and Whooping-cough. When combined
with the healing mucilaginous principle in the
mullein plant of the old fields, presents In Tay
lor's Cherokee Remedy or sweet Gum and
Mullein, the finest remedy for Coughs, Croup,
Whooping Cough and Consumption; and so pal
atable, any child is pleased to take it. Ask your
druggist for it. Send 2c. stamp for Taylor’s
Riddle Book, which is not only for the amuse
ment of the little ones who will gather around
your knee to hesr the puzzling questions, but
containing information for the health and wel
fare of every home. WALTER A. TAYLOR,
Atlanta, Ga.
The State Horticultural Society of Ar
kansas meets in Little Rock on the 21st.
From a notice in the Rural and Work
man we opine they will disease the hog
cholera plagne and mole raising!
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