The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1892-05-05
A WORD TO FARMERS.

in resources, amply supplied with
transportation facilities and the
markets of the world at your door
You are blessed with an equable
genial, healthful climate. Every
product Of the soil grown outside Of
the tropics can be pro6tably raised
within your limits. There is moth
ing necessary to your use and COM
fort but that you can produce at
home. You can raise an abundance
every crop for home consumption
and have surplus for market. You
can raise hay for less than the &C.
tual cost of transportation from the
Western States to your own. Ev-
cry farmer can produce more corn
and grain than is necessary for home
consumption and at comparatively
very small expense. There is not a
cotton planter in the South but can
raise his corn and hay cheaper than
it costs the Western farmer to make
it and send it to market. Mules
and work stock can be raised at
less cost in Alabama, Mississippi
and the South than can be done in
Kentucky, Illinois or Indiana. 1t
costs less to raise hogs South than
in any of the hog raising States. In
most Of the Southern States the cost
of raising beef cattle is nominal.
while sheep flourish in all of the
South. In no portion of the Union
CAL dairying be carried on to better
profits. 1t only requires proper
care in arranging for these indus
tries, followed by judicious manage
ment.
The South IS admirably adapted
to forage crops. While timothy and
some other grasses are not so we'll
adapted to the soil and climate of
some OF these States, other forage
crops take their place and produce
an abundant yield. Glover does
well in nearly all parts of the South.
Orchard grass, rye, barley, fodder
corn and German millec can be
grown proftably all over the South,
Japan clover springs up spontan>
eously in old fields that have been
thrown out and cultivation aban-
doned, making xcellent and vail
liable pasturage for all kinds of live
stock. Bermuda grass is grown sue
cessfully in all the States south of
Virginia. The poorest lands that
will not pay to cultivate in field
crops will grow peas proftably,
which is valuable either for hay or
peas, besides restoring the fertility
of the soil.
But the fault with the Southern
farmer, especially the cotton plan
ter, every other product is subordi-
mated to cotton, and the planter, in
stead of raising on the farm every
thing he needs, concentrates Cd cot
tor and relies on buying the sup
plies he can and should produce in
abundance. The result is, he sells
his cotton often at low price, and
tugs his supplies frequently at
enormous prices. Last season, for
instance, cotton dropped lower than
it has since 1912, and corn cost him
from 81 to S1.25 per bushel, and
other things in proportion.
Let us get rid of the high tariff
enacted by Republican class legis-
lation and relieve the farmer of the
burdens it imposes, and let the
farmers of the South inaugurate a
new system of first raising an album
dance of everything on the farm
that is needed, and next, limit crops
to what can be thoroughly cultivat-
ed. This advice followed and the
cry of hard times will no longer be
heard, and there will be no necessi-
ty tor listening to the appeals of
disappointed and kicked out politi-
cal hacks and blatant demagogues
who are urging the folly of third
party as the means of relief. There
is no relief tor the farmer outside of
the Democratic party and himself.
Let him put his shoulder to the
wheel and do his duty, and the
Democratic party, which has always
been the party of the neonle will