The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-05-20
TROTWOOD'S TALK.
Interesting to Farmers, Breeders and
Dairymen.
Facts, Figures and Information OF
General Interest to the Country
Gentleman.
Our Recuperative Powers.

In his interview this week, Col.
Ridley incidentally mentioned the
recuperative powers of Maury County
and that her resources were greater
than any country under the sun. A
careful Investigation of the resources
Of the county shows that this is true
and that Maury County, by reason OF
the diversity of her crops, cannot be
kept down unless by the hand OF
uroyidential disaster. In addition TO
the crops enumerated in the inter
view-potatOes, wheat, oats, corn, hay,
cotton and live stock of every de-
scription, all of which will come in
between the present month and De-
cember, and from the HERALD'S re-
ports are most fiattering and encour-
aging. We are peculiarly fortunate
in having many smaller prooucts
which come in all the time, such as
poultry, eggs and butterj ana thOugh
these appear small yet 1T would as
tonish one to see the amount that
daily leaves here by express for cities
South of us. 1t is said by careful
statisticians that the butter product
of the United States, year III ana out,
brings in more money than the wheat
crop, and it is safe to say, as others
have said, that the poultry business
will bring in as much as the wheat
CROP not al III u lump OuI q Ai'OAN GU
q time.
The financial depression of the
country is general, extending more
or less over all of our common coun-
try To speculate on the causes OF II
is unnecessary for our purposei we
only know, in the language OF Amerl-
cas- greatest living statesman, that
it's a condition and not theory that
confronts u.s." Whether it is a peri
Odic necessity which many say Is
necessary in order that supply and
demand may adjust themselves, and
producer and consumer may alike
better understand their bearings, or
whether, as we believe, it is whole
some reaction of the body financial
against speculation, extravaganza
and to the South, excessive tariff taxa
ton, we care not; we only know that
tits here, and the history OF all such
depressions proves that they are over
come and the country again placed
OH solid foundation by economy
and thrift.
Speculation is deadly enemy
to good, healthful, material progress;
and the farm and the mine, with
economy and work are at last
the true sources for which ana
from which alone we may expect re-
lief. OF course the money medium
consistent with the product which
that medium represents; but at the
same time it is far easier to regulate
the money supply Imam to be sure OF
producing the food, clothes, metals
and various other tangible evidences
which this money is intended to rep
resent.
This being true-that we must find
our relief in the product of our soil
what bright ray is now lighting up
the gloom depressing MRury Coun-
ty. Before us lies q crop year, which,
il it continues as it now indicates,
will give us the finest crops of all
kinds that Maury County has had for
q decade. tits estimated by some that
the potato crop alone will be equal !,
in the county, to an equivalent OF
$3.50, 900. On this, put a most prOmis-
ing wheat crop, and Oat crop which
is nearly made, and which means a
saving Of half or one-third Of the corn
crop for feed, and we are already bet
ter off than last year. Then II we
make our usual corn crop, and our
cotton crop, Maury County farmers
will go into winter, to say the least,
in q comfortable condition, and with
this abundance of feed, can put their
chIefest product, live stock, in a con-
ditiOn to bring the best returns in
money.
Work and economy is now the
order of the day, and our people are
responding as they have never
done before. They have the soil, the
climate, and the diversified crops {;
the energy, the strength and the de-
termination; q smiling providence
has, so far, cast the glance of his APP
proVAI on their honest endeavOrs, and
the soil, from the hilltop to the
valley is responsive to their labor.
The recuperative elements are in the
air we breathe, and the soil we tread
and the people we daily meet, and in
the language OF Colonel Ridley, 1--WE
cannot be put down or rubbed out"