The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-02-24
ENCOURAGE HOME INDUSTRY.
What an Excellent Farmer Says.

FEBRUARY 70, 1871.
EDITOR OF Observation-Disclosures as 1
am not in the habit of troubling you,
write inthe hope that you will give
these lines place in your paper.
In presuining to volunteer a sugges-
ton or two, / would not be understood
as thinking / understand more about
our own interests than others of my fell
low farmers. No, not by any means.
But my apology is this: That there is
generally more necessity of reminding
men oftheir true interests than there is
OF instructing them in regard to their
true interest. Then will say as a COM
munity of farmers we are blessed almost
above all others with a climate unsur-
passed, water, rock, timber, and last,
though not least, i'll soil naturally
equal to any, and yet we are murmur-
ing at tho hardness of the the times.
Not that we have not enough to eat, but
that we are in debt and have no money.
Then why this scarcity of money after
so much cotton and other produce have
changed hands? The truth is, our mon
ey has all gone North. Not only has it
gone North to pay for plows, harrows,
cultivators, dOuble-trees, single-trees,
hames-I will add hamestrings. Now
Mr.. EDITOR, this is by no means an over
wrought picture. These are stubborn
facts, yes, melancholy facts, and facts
which ought to alarlc us, as they must in
the end ruin us.
We are, or ought to be, Il Self-suStain-
ing people. We live in the garden spot
of the great Limestone basin of Tennes-
see, haying a farming district naturally
equal to any in the world, yet there is
another dcsidcrdtum needed to complete
our outfit in the race of prosperity, and
that is, we must have MANUFACTURES.
These manufactures are doomed by am
tcipatlon if we do not sustain them by
giving them our patronage. 1t would be
presuming on the intelligence of the peo-
pie to undertake to say anything about
the benefits that would arise from the
mary thousands of dollars that would
be scattered among us annually, and then
retained L. we would but heartily sustain
home manufactures.
Now, Mr.. EDITOR, should think my
selfhighly culpable if L were not in this
connection to speak of the establishment
of Messrs. Kuhn Il Turpin, i'll our own
county town. Here they have breasted
the storm of misfortune, the ravages of
war in its multifarious forms, and now
have an establishment that supplies
a punacca for the wants of the farmers,
so to speak. In this establishment are to
be found, plowS, (of every description,
harrows, cultivators, barouches, buggies,
in endless variety, made of the very best
material, all the wood from the stately
forests of Maury county, proYerbial for
its firmness and texture. Having test
ed and seen tested, many of the farming
implements made at this establishment,
| am prepared to say. they are all that is
claimed for them. But it has become SO
common to puff everything that comes
along, that the power of praise is almost
lost. This exceeding fulsOmencss very
much like writing book in capitals,
nevertheless, what have said, l mean
emphatically. This establishment is on
firm foundation, and if only sustained
will shed countless blessings on the far
mers of this section of country. Then
why will farmers hesitate as to whether
they will get good and cheap farming
implement, and at the same time scatter
his money amongst his brother farmers,
or whether he will send abroad, and part
with his money forever, and get only,
in many cases) shadow for a SUBJ
stance. 1t is hoped that in future those
farmers who are unaequainted with the
Kuhn ~ Turpin plows and implements,
will confer with their neighbors who
have used them, before purchasing else
where, and wisely prefer the plain un>
vanished statements OF the hard hand
Gu idiihei, W tho "ihuy "oiueAJ hh5h
sounding advertisements OF unscrupu-
lous capitalists, who seek oniy to fill
their Golfers at the ruinous expense of
the farmer.
We must become sooner or later a
manufacturing as well as a farming COM
munity. By the foregoing remarks l
would not be understood as attempting
to array one geographical section against
another, but do say if we have right
and existence as community of far
mers and mechanics, we certainly have
the right of self protection, which con-
sists in taking redress as far as trade is
concerned, into our own hands.
X. =. LEDBETTER.