Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-10-18
MAURY COUNTY.
A Vast Yield of Wheat, Scr.
ghum, Potatoes, Corn, Etc.
A Craze on the Hog Question:
There's Millions In It."
Sound Talk About Taxation on Ag-
rioultural Interests.
Bates Vote i'm MRury will be
$3.50, Fusseil's $50, Beasley
5000.
MAURY COUNTY.



COLUMBIA. TENN, Oct. IA, 1882.
EDrroR LEDeER-Thinking that a few
items from this part of the Commonwealth
would interest a few of the readers Of your
very valuable paper, l take the liberty of
trespassing on your time and space. With
us (farmers) this has been a year Of album
dance. The Giver of all Good has crowned
our labors With bountiful harvest. Moth
ing that the farmer has planted but there
has been an abundant yield. In the first
place our gardens and truck patches made
Us an unprecedented yield Of everything;
then our onions and Irish potatoes
We have our potato houses full of these
valuable esculents. Next, our wheat crop.
The Weld in Maury county was the largest
and best ever known BY tho Oldest inkab-
liant Then comes u sorghum crop. /
Will say that this crop alone has made
IA sufficient yield to supply everybody,
both white and black. and coming quickly
upon the heels of this Is our corn crop.
! Well. Of this l can but simply say that
it is immense. So you see, with the
vast Weld Of wheat, aud sorghum. and po-
tatoes, and onions, etc, we won't starve.
Our forests are full Of mast particularly
the chinquapin acorn, and hogs are fat
without having been fed. But now
comes the point, particularly, that ldesire
to write about, as you know bacon and
eef are at a very exorbitant price, and
the universal cry is about the scarcity Of
meat. Keep your hogs keep your hogsl
is the universal cry. Everybody has
turned prophet,an itseems that the traffic
in hogs will be like the traffic in tulips
at one period Of the worlds history.
Everywhere you 60 there is a cry Of the
scarcity Of hogs, and the country has gone
wild, crying hog meat hog meat /
can go nowhere hut what | hear the cry
of hog meatl hog meat 1t fills the air.
Il Is proclaimed upon the house tops. Il
has,usurped Teligio and politicO conI ersa-
ton. When an old elderof the church gets
down to pray, he prays for hog meat
Hawkins and his allies, Beasley and
fussel are forgotten. Even that grand
champion Of the people and the Demo-
cratic party, Gen. VIM. B. Bate, is not
talked about. Every topic IS swallowed
up in hog mania. A few days z j be-
came alarmed and thought that / would
ride around a little among my neighbOrs
and see what they were going TO do next
year for hog meat. In fact / wanted to
buy a few hogs myself, not that l needed
them. but that / wanted to be on the
safe side and to avert the coming fam
inc in hog meat. Well l mounted
Moses, , Moses is my horse.) As / rode
out ofmy front gate, / met Mr.. Gibson
, he says Moses mas a hog back The
milk woman was turning out the COW and
| she said your COW hasa hog back, he hap.
lpened to sea a little flock Of sheep anC
said ARE them hogsf' When / got to my
, nearest neighbors he was feeding his hogs
|, | asked him how many he had 4
Kill. he said "ffty.i "What will they
average7" Three hundred. / wen.
N the next neighbor he had sixty in
the pen and two hundred shoats foi
I another year. My next visit was to a very
: wealthy gentleman, who has five hundred
! acres Of corn. which be told me would
! make s~eventy-fYe bushels to the acre
But" said he, II have two hundred
s head OF fattening hogs, and my neighbo.
G Anderson has agreed 70 fatten them OF
5 river bottom corn and pumpkins at on
! dollar per head per month, and twent,
cents per bushel is cheaper than / cal
: raise corn, ri G., allowing one barrel, o
five bushels, per hog a month, which IA
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ION my route / would sometimes com
9 aenoss a poor old African. He GENERALLY
= had about Eve or six hogs in his pen AM
s two old sows with twenty pigs for mex
year. Yet withal, Mr.. Editor. you can
buy a hog for love nor money, or an.
other Christian graces. But this is tn
6 outlook forh0g meatin Maury county mex
year. Everybody has plenty Of hogs, ye
bacon is selling at twenty cents per pound
and still advancing. Beef cattle are yer
high; sheep and lambs are also selling 4
high prices. So now the question come
up, what are We going 70 do for hog mes
b next year and what will be the probabl
r price ofsaid necessary article?
N / an what Is called a low tax man an
"a went to hear the sky blues talk abou
matters and things in general. The
seemed to me to be a lot Of did fool
Every mothers son Of them fOretold tn
Ie wealth Of Tennessee, if we would rive
/. the chains and shackles OF the iniquitou
COS upon Va; that our country would b
rich and that immigrants would pour int
Tennessee like storms when forests at
z rest, or like the waves when navies 81
q stranded. But hat il would not do TO Ia
Re banks, as il would run money out Of III
State nor would lido 10 tax railroads, I
h IL would run the cars out Of the State; an
n manufacturers should be protected. b
! by all means tax the agricultural Interest
Of the country If you would wish peaca
y prosperity and happiness TO perch upo
At our loved Volunteer State.
gf They don't seem 20 understand III
re State debt-all the argument that n
a them use is IF they owe the debt the
. want 70 pay it and If they don't "
= they don't want 10 pay it, They new
r take the people into consideration at al
But the rogue bondholders are the
r "trooly loiln lord and master.
a., Well, pardon me, Mr.. Editor, / did n
wish TO trespass 90 long on your space ar
al time and shOu d | get upon the polite
situation there is no telling where / wou.
drift 10.
20 The following win be the vote Of Maui
at the November election, Bate 38j
Hawkins 300. FusselS $50 Beasley O000.
" The Sky Blues and radicals have lock,
their shields together in deed and in ia,
10 defeat the true Democracy ofthis cou
= = " and district. DR.. Cliff and Jud
q Hughes, (Radl and Durck Cooper al
US Sam Padget tSky Blues have formed
y full ticket 'alf and 'alf like the Englis
It mans grog. But we are going to elect t
IN Democratic ticket, Major Williamso
no Old Abe Looney, Billy Porter and o
!" Floater from Williamson, Prof Berr
Us and last, but not least, the grand champi
re ofthe people and the Democracy. Genel
.e VIM. b. Bate will carry the county.
he II.
IL unn nre hilinns inLn De p;nrn.