The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-01-12
THESE SONS OF TOLL
WHO LABOR WELL TO MAKE THE
COUNTRY PROSPEROUS.

Call This a Splendid Outlook p The
Farms Will be Gold When Their
Owners are Intelligent - Diversity
Agriculture - Raise Everything at
Home Keep Out of Debt, and the
Country Will Prosper - What Old
Planters Say About 1t.
The farmers are rubbing up their ploxs and
hoes and axes, and getting to ready plant.
/ Notwithstanding the money Stringency,
they joyed the holidays and did not seem
TO realize that these was alarm in financial
circles. Farmers are beginning to learn
that the stringency in the money market
does not hurt them as much as it affects
others, if they raise everything they eat and
something of what they wear on the farm.
The wheat crop acreage this year in Geor-
gia, as estimated, will exceed that of last
year in proportion as last years crop was
greater than the year previous Farmers
will have -four, and they cannot afford to
buy It. The same is true Of other products
which they consume. TheE acreage for
corn will be greater than it was
last year and last years yield
supplied the country, ard run the price of
the imported article down very low.
Enough meat has been saved on the farms
to meet the demands of the farmers until
next Christmas. 80 they will have. really,
no cause TO expend any money except for
labor. The falling off in cotton acreage
proportionately with those engaging in
agriculture Is noticeable. close observing
planters say. If more time is devoted to
the cultivation of such crops as are necss-
sary, and less time given to cotton raising,
| it is claimed there will be a much
| less demand for labor. That is,
| much more can be made with the same
amount of labor. The cotton crop requires
more work and closer work than any other.
Hands" are needed longer In the cultivation
| OF the crop, and consequently the outlay for
labor is greater. Now to make this crop
| side crop old planters believe is the solu-
tiou of a vexed problem with the farmers.
| II planters raise all they eat and much of
what they wear at home, only a little
money Is required. Let that money be
made on the cotton crop.
IL is contended that planters do not need
money. as people engaged in other occupa-
| tions They would not know what to do
with it. They would have to abandon agri-
| culture to invest it.
| HAVE THEY CONSIDERED IT
A party of gentlemen we're discussing the
big salaries paid men, and the question was
asked why are the . big salaries paid. One
answer was. because it takes a big pile of
| money to pay the expenses of salaried
man. AS a matter OF course the skill of
the employe, thesirksomeness Of the duty,
the risk attending it, and the duration of
time of labor, are considered, and are re-
warded; nevertheless, the answer quoted
above is well timed.
To farmer 5000 or $500 a month sounds
Il
at the close of q long year. But have they
stopped to consider the matter?
Have they compared the cost of what
they consume with what the salaried man
| consumess
Have they figured up what the house
rent, fuel, chickens, butter, eggs, pork.
| beef, kid, mutton, etc, cost them, and what
1t cost the salaried mani
And lastly have they reflected that no.
body except farmer gets a nice fresh. fat
| chicken, or fresh pound Of butter, or fresh
fat pork, or kid, or muttona
It costs farmer nominally nothing to
have these Injuries; Is it true with salaried
menu
After all. the planter lives the best, and
if he does not han lie much money, he
doesn't need much.
LAWYERS IDEA.
lawyer, a member of the House of
| Representatives and one of the smartest
| men in his section remarked recently that
farming was the only natural means of
livelihood that man engages in. The oc-
| cupation is like life farmer watches
over his growing fields, as parent over his
child.
What is born Of earth constitutes the
main increase of wealth. When a farmer
puts a bale Of cotton on the Market it is SO
much added to the wealth of the country.
1t is something which did not exist before.
The country is that much better off.
When one man makes, and another
breaks, wealth is only diverted. There is
no more capital in circulation after the
operation than before 1t is simply a
changing of place-going out Of the hands
of one into another. 1.-THE peau of the
victor Is the epitaph OF the vanquishsd,'
says Gladstone.
WHAT THE ANCIENTS THOUGHT.
When Lycurgus the lawgiver, revived
Sparta, and made it foremost city of the
world, he devoted his attention first to the
farmers He got the poor planters out of
trouble and put them on a footing with
everybody else. And Sparta rose aud rose.
A quarter of century ago land in this
part of the country was hardly regarded as
capital to be increased, but rather as part
of current expenses, aud the negro was the
capital. The land was something to be
used until it was worn out, then sold for a
. tri1s or abandoned, while the owner moved
; to another section to repeat the process. In
some sections of the country old fields are
seen. They are lands impoverished and
! cast aside by planters. Thousands upon
thousands of acres were turned out this
way. Planters have seen, since agriculture
is improved, that they made mistake, and
there is a demand for the old fields They
are being brought into cultivation, and the
land is being improved.
, DON'T LET THE LAND WEAR OUT.
An old farmer said the other day that
, there is no reason why land should ever
wear out. He cited an instance where in
Schley county farmer fortified an ordi-
nary field, and made it produce two bales
of cotton per acre. The idea, he said, is to
: improve all the time, and make more and
more Farmers are becoming more ad-
vanced in their ideas of farming, he be-
lieved, and the outlook is more encouraging
than ever known. They read more, they
/ see more of tho v Orld they hpar more and