The morning news., 1892-03-16

Jacksonville nor az st. Augustine. There is
none even at New Orleans. The nearest
point TO New York where there is certain
and pleasant bathing In winter 10 Tampa,
Fla. The water Is not warm enough to be
safe OF comfortable for winter bathing at
any OF the Northern Florida places. People
some times 'go In" at ST. Augustine in win
ter aud do not die from it. but It is a risk
not worth taking and it is not comfortable.
Charleston aud Jacksonville are some dis
tance apart, but the distance Is not enough
TO affect the mperature apprecably. Take
up the paper any morning and look at the
Weasher reports. and nine times out of ten
you will fiud that it is as warm in Charles
ton ss It is in Jacksonville.
Savannah is the seaport for a great and
growing section Of country. IL is growing
agricultUrally as we'll as commercially. Ny
recent article on Thomasville has brought
to ne the story OF wealthy New Yorker
who has been making some agricultural ex-
periments in that neighborhood with great
results. The gentleman was New York
business man, retired. with plenty OF money,
which was rather in his favor, and with
just about as much knowledge OF farming
as such man might be expected to have.
he bought large plantation near Thomas
Vile. to amuse himself with while the
climate was building up his health, and en-
ployed colored man to superintend it,
One day he walked out over his lands and
came upon an immense field full of stumps
with few plow scratches between them,
preparatory to sowing grain.i
why don't you take these stumps outF
be asked his farmer.
10, you can't done take dem stumps out;
we'se tried dat. Dem roots, dey runs clear
troo to China" the farmer replied.
That's not far" said the New Yorker
81 think we'll take them out"
It is not the custom Of that country to
take stumps out. Why should they when,
il you let them alone for ten or fifteen
years, they will come out themselvesa But
the New Yorker forthwith wrote for the
advertisements Of three or four different
kinds OF stump pullers and selected the ma
chine he liked best. Then he wrote letter
something like this to the stunp-machine
men:
''Here | have so many hundred acres of
land, and every acre Of it full of stumps.
want them pulled out. They tell me here
they can's be pulled out If you think your
machine will do it you can send one down
on trial. If it pulls the stumps l will buy
it."
The machine arrived, aud it pulled those
stumps out so fast that 1t fairly made the
ground hot. In few weeks he had three
Of the machines at work, and his fields were
soon cleared Of stumpe. Then this New
Yorker saw his farmers sowing grain by
hand, and he asked them
"Why don't you use q grain drill"
"We don't use no such machines in dis
country" the boss told him. "Dey amt no
good 'longside Of our hands"
well, you let this field stand for a
week" said the New Yorker, land I'll have
machine here that will SOW it properly"
The grain drill made sensation before it
started from New York. A grain drill
actually grain drill billed for Thomas
vile. Nobody had ever heard of such a
thing. But the drill went down, and the
field was sowed with it.
1t was the big field that the stumps had
been taken from, all nicely plowed after
northern notions, and thoroughly manured.
When the grain came up, it was the wonder
thlckl Then. after seed time came the
harvest. .ss.
"How do you propose to cut that grain ~
he asked the farmer.
1--WE always does do it by hand" that
worthy replied. "Dem machines dey won't
go troo dis sile it's too soft. An dat Tick
grain7 Dey amt no machins'n go troo
dat"
"Yes there is" said the New Yorker.
"There will be a machine here in about ten
days that will go through that grain. It's
got to go through"
The darky shook his head, but the ma
chine came. So thick was the grain that 1t
took five mules to drag it along; but ii
went, laying the rye this side ana that in
sheaves ready for the harvesters. 1t was a
beautiful crop, equal to anything TO be
raised in the north, and it was all done
with modern machinery that won't work
| In desc parts, nohow."
That one field was only a sample Of other
| fields, and that one farm Is only a sample OF
many other farms. Some day, when all
these vast Georgia forests, or nearly all OF
them ARE turned into pine boards. and all the
stumps are pulled out by machinery, and
all the land is sowed with drills, and the
grain is reaped with reapers, wonder how
enough ships will get up the Savannah
river to carry all the grain away. This ID
not fancy picture; it is only forecast OF
what is certainly coming. Here is Georgia
with its l ,o00, 900 population in 1870, 1.5.0,
900 in 1880, 1900, 900 nearly In 1890; how
many millions fifty years hence1 And can
all these millions Of people afford to have
their land covered with pine forests?
This Thomasville incident is not q start
| ling incident In itself, but an illustration OF
what the Georgia land will do under proper
cultivation.