The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-03-15
VILLAGE FARMS.

Governor Northern and Professor 81.
C. White, of the State University, are
very much interested in building up
Georgia by the establishment of village
farms. The people ir the country are
coming to town at a rapid rate in order to
get educational and religious advantages,
and in order to be protected from lawless
men. On this account the country is
being depopulated and the towns are
being built.up. Governor Northern and
Professor, White have long advocated the
settlement of numerous families in one
community near to each other-each hav-
ing small farm to cultivate. Professor
White read paper on this subject to the
members of the State Agricultural society
at its recent meeting in Augusta, and at
its close Governor Northern endorsed it
In an able speech. o. this speech the
Augusta Ne,0s nas this to say:
At the conclusion Of the address Of
President Henry G.. White of the State
Agricultural College, before the State
Agricultural Society in this city, Cover
nor Northern delivered some straight and
strong talk to the farmers of Georgia.
After pronouncing DR.. Whites address
the most important and timely he had
ever heard on the subject, our farmer
Governor indorsed it entirely and asked
the farm ers what they were going to do
about it. BE told them to keep on as at
present, and their farms would be depop-
ulated and desolated. He told them to
take the advice given them, to accept the
solution of their troubles now offered,
and they would soon become both indie
pendent and happy.
Governor Northern impressed the Iar-
mers with the fact that the secret Of sue
cess and happiness on the farm and the
solution of the great problem of the coun-
try were both offered by the plan pro-
posed by the thoughtful scientist and the
observing president Of the Agricultural
College. he seconded the advice to
divide up the big plantations, to inaugu-
rate the plan of village farming or COM
munal life, which, as Or. White aptly
remarked, is followed with success the
world over, except in the wilds Of Africa,
on the barren steppes Of Russia and,
strange to say, in that most fertile soil
and blessed climate, Che Sunny South.
Governor Northern not only indorsed
DR.. Whites plan Of village farming, but
he emphasized it with strong illustrations.
He gave his experience with a Chicago
syndicate that is now trying to secure
thousands Of acres in Georgia for SINH
lar purpose, and told of friend who was
now turning J, ,000-acre plantation into
village farms. Why should not the Ag-
ricultural Society mem bers do the same
Governor Northern asked this question
in all earnestness and with telling force.
He declared that many members owned
thousands Of acres, some ten thousand,
and bade them go home and adapt their
lands to the new conditions and to the
demands Of the times.
The strong talk of the Governor of
Georgia was worth as much as years
salary in the red chair of State. It pro-
duced profound impression, and will
have a practical effect among Georgia
farmers.
Ifour land owners will stop and think
they will see that they are running their
fortunes and bringing their dissatisfied
families up in ignorance and unhappi-
ness under the present Oystem on the
farm. If they are wise, and want to be
successful and happy, they viii! about
face, follow the plan proposed by DR..
White and so strongly indorsed by Gov
ernor Northern.