Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-04-13
SOUTHERN AGRICULTURAIA
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7lnps ct . KentackY Farmer on the CUES
zion ~ Planting . HALF Crop.
Tbelieve l can truthfully say that /
nave never yet written a line Tor pub
location that / did not think / would
never write another But the adage that
says s.No man knoweth himself is a
maxim that is not less wise than true.
and here / go for a quarrel with my
brother tobacco growers. However,
instead Of qu~arreling, ae advise costs
nothing, and nobody is obliged to take
1t. / will advise them all to stay at
home and look after their stock, the
preparation of their tobacco beds, and
other farming interests, instead OF go
ing to Lexington or any where else,
spending their time and money talking
talk that Is just calculated to start
every man, who can hunt up q square
foot of tobacco land on his place, to
planting, though never having set q
plant before. That Farmers are
FOOLS" has become an adage, I am not
surprised. But l am surprised to think
that any number Of them place so low
an estimate on the intelligence Of the
others as to suppose that If they,
the wise ones, resolve to raise half
3 crop, the less wise won't pitch
in" To me, this is one of the cases
where q ''wayfaring man, though a
fool" would see an opening for him
self; and believe ne, brother planters,
when | tell you they have seen it, and
| unhesitatingly say that 1 believe
there will be more tobacco planted the
coming spring than has ever before
been planted in any one season. Why,
sir, / have more applies tions for to-
bacco seed than ever before. and that
from men, exclusively, who have not
heretofore put out a plant. No, brother,
the resolving to plant but fifty per
cent. won't do, not even if mems memo
ries were not so frail; but men will for
get, you know; and besides many are
not good ut calculating per cent, or
measuring land. My idea is that we
who already have the necessary i'm
RAOAlOnbDg bnO OdtDO dtICduI OuAANt OnO
experience in growing it, had better
go along and put in what we know
we can cultivate in first-rate order
and not more than our present barns
will hold without c%rowding. l wish
to be believed when 1 tell you,
brothers, that l will build no new
barns. | am sorry to say that l can
see no way to change the status of to-
bacco or to govern the price but the in
evitable supply and demand" But ]
verify believe that 1 have an idea,
theory or plan, or whatever you may
call it. that if carried into practical
operation would bring to the owners
and tOilers of the earth all of the
millennium that they would ever de-
sire to see, and do no wrong to a single
human being OF the entire earth, ant
/ believe it to be practical, although
somewhat %stupendous. l believe it tt
be practical, and if original, l guess
had better reserve the right to claim q
patent on it. If anybody will be kinG
enough to show me why it isn't prac
teal, then l will say no more about it
This is my idea (f so it may be called)
that If the owners of the entire pro
dpciug soil of the earth would, b,
delegates from among themselves
meet in mi great and CRANE
convention (something like these
Prohibitionists and Woman's ..Suf
fragists will have before long)
ana then and there pledgI
and bind themselves and their nation
honor that no implement of cultivation
should ever be used or allowed to dis
tur5, strike, or in any way molest tn
coil IN the way OF cultivation for NOR
than ten hours. at most, of every TWEEN
ty-four. What other class of.men o.
the face of the earth but have thei
combinations and their strikesP Mo-
let the owners and the tillers of tn
earth (by which all mankind exist
make one grand and universal strike
and stand to it till Gabriel blows hi
trumpet. Let the earth and Its tiller
have more of rest and better pay, an
then the good time will come when tn
world will see less millionaires and les
paupers. Besides, while resting frol
the heavy burden of toll which we hav
borne for hundreds of years, we Wi
have time to watch the non-produceri
the lawmakers and the tax %gathererI
w. W. Goddard, in Farmers Hon
journal.