The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-02-14

man, through the ordinary channels
OF perseverance, who did not owe
his success to the most minute con-
sideration of minor details.
Be watchful of little things. is an
axiom steeled into the discipline of
every prosperous bank, railroad,
factory and mercantile establish
ment, throughout the world.
IT those who are accredited with
financial dominance make this idea
the glittering capstone of their
management, how much more is it
necessary on the farm, where SO
many factors of success are con-
tingent upon details.
10 make the subject more i'm
pressive, let US note the dggrega-
lions of few small things, with
which the farmer is familiar
The cotton samples taken from a
seasons product, by the buyers,
amounts in value to over $4,000.
1t costs over 100000 a year to
feed the rats and weevils of the
country from our cribs.
Fifteen minutes of idleness a day
by each farm hand in Georgia, is a
loss of over $4,000 a day to the
farmers.
Feeding stock on the ground, and
leaving them without shelter and
warm stables in the winter, costs
the farmers of Georgia loss of not
less than 100000 a year.
The waste of manure from the
droppings of these unsheltered cat
tie amounts to more than 100000.
Forty thousand dollars year is
lost to the agriculture of county,
in wasted labor, by the use of horses
and mules, which by reason of their
weak and depleted physical condi,
ton, are unable to perform half the
service OF fat and we'll muscleC
stock.
The credit system and buying il
small parcels, costs the farmer
twenty per cent. more than if the
only bought for cash and in bulk.
Were it not for the proAigacy 9
nature and the expanding liberal t
Of our soil, God only knows Mher
these drains would lead us to. A
it is, we only know that each veal
adds aIOUher link to poverty's chain
But he is an undutiful steward,
faithless teacher, and scowlin,
critic Tho only punctures the sor,
places al.u offers no healing balm
God knows that | come not in thu
spirit OF tault-hnding, or with pleas
urable badgering.
L know, how ever, that our soil anC
climate are rot at fault. | believ,
that the economy of our politica
system is, and that we have failed il
the performance of those duties
which are the only means of sue
cess, and my hope lies in the knowl
edge that in our organic capacity
there is remedy.
We may invoke the power of or.
ganization till doomsday, and with.
out the virtue of common sense ano
individual efforts, be left on the
strands of failure.
There is no doubt but that our
Alliance has accomplished temper
airy benefits to its members, because
IN its menace of trade merchants
have been confused in their calcu-
lations, and in order to save them
selves, have cut prices even below
a sale basis of dealing. But they
are now on their guard, and when
merchandising becomes Improbable
will leave the field of business.
We may disable them, but the i'm
portant question for our considera-
ton is what We are to do for our
selves?
The sutton OF our agricultural
troubles is going to be more COM
pick question than that of redno n
tn" merchants profits to stated
percentage.
We shall accomplish nothing by
corking at the spigot while the bung
is open.
You have got to revolutionize
your systems; you havc to
change your plans you have got to