The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-06-16
Farmers Must be Made.

lhOIC HOO uCCh 6iOoe NSA va
sxertiOn made to induce Northern
farmers to come South that they
may introduce their Northern sys-
tenn of farming. While this work
has been going on for number Of
years, but little progress has been
made. Good farmers are generally
satisfied in the North and West, as
they have a better soil, better
markets and better facilities for
their produce. Before
Northern farmers can be brought
here they must be convinced that
their financial, educational and so.
cial relations will be equal to what
they are North. Hundreds and
thousands of farmers who dislike
climate North, and who fall in love
with the climate, water and people
of Tennessee, when here, 60 back to
their homes, feeling that change
will not pay, because of the exhaust
ed condition of the lands, the bad
state of the roads, the crippled and
puny system of common schools,
and the requirements for fair crops
of grain.
TO obtain good farmers in Ten
nessee we will be compelled to
make them out of material on hand;
and when made they will be such
as the country needs, acclimation
to the same. You ask, how can we
make good farmers? Just as they
were made in the North, East and
West. Experienced said to be a
dear school, but in such schools
wise men learn. Farmers must
have the highest experimental
knowledge before they can farm
with profit. 1t is true, this exper-
fence can come from others.
The processes of good farming
North will not always hold good in
the South, therefore many of our
Northern farmers 60 back some
what disguised. The climate, soil,
humidity of the atmosphere, etc.
in the South demands new exper-
fences to the Northern and West
ern men who come here. And these
matters must be learned before sue
cess attends the tiller of the soil,
and what is true in Agriculture is
true in all branches of stock life.
1t is within our recollection when
the people North, with their rich
soil, were as poor in their exper-
fence as the poorest of the people
of the South. But since the intro
duction of all classes of farm ma
chinery, the general education of
the people, the triumph of the great
railroad interests of that country,
the farmer has stepped up a hum
dred PAGES, and is going up year by
year.
1t is common now to find on the
farmers table his county paper,
two or three papers on agricultreu,
horticulture, stock raising, etc.
You will find, also, school journal,
a paper treating ON house-wifery
and mothers, and another on relig-
ious subjects. When this advance
movement is made in the South we
shall have good farmers too,
of whom we shall be proud. 1t
was this process that made good
farmers North, and it will do the
same for the South. Let farmers,
their wives, sons and daughters,
create fund of from ten to twen-
ty dollars per year, to be expended
for papers-not story papers, you
do not need them; but such papers
as will benefit you educationally,
religiously, in your home-benefic-
tally in all directions. That is the
way farmers are made.
Now, let us go to work with the
material we have, and Tennessee
will soon blossom and give her fruit.
The Democrats in the House have
killed the Blair School Bill. This
was free-will Offering to the peO-