The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-11-26
FOCND IN THE BURROWS.

Fayetteville News: Cotton is low and
times are hard, out the farmer who raises
his own meat and broad is not complaining.
Calhoun County Courier: The farmer
who has plenty OF corn and some to spare
is in luck and will do well to hold his sur
plus until spring.
Vienna Progress: \ popular young lady
was heard to remark n few days ago that
she would go with no man thai did not
vote the democratic ticket" That's patriot
ism.
Hartwen Sun: Mr.. James II. Winter OF
near Bowersvlle, has made 400 bushels OF
potatoes 800 bushels Of corn and has plenty
of fat hogs in the pen TO XIII. Mr. winter
can afford TO raise scent cotton
Buena Vista Patriot: If farmers would
get into the way Of buying flor cash only
they would do more to promote the pros
i,eritv of the whole country than could be
accomplished by any other means.
Albany Herald: \ couple of Eood-sized
pies will now fetch more I'm the market
than a bale of cotton. Md many OF the
Georgia farmers are going ito raise more
pigs and grow less cotton ~ the IuIure-
Gwinnett Herald: Cotton was selling last
SATURDAY for less than . cents. Il it con-
tiuues to decline at the same rate it viii
h., only q few years until farmers will have
ia nav somebody to take it off their
hands.
Franklin News: Politics nor religion can
change the situation, but the farmers can
change it by raising their supplies at home.
Therein lies the only solution. Cotton must
be made a surplus crop. 1t IS no longer a
money crop.
Griffin News October has been truly a
delightful month and November will be So
zoo. halloween and THANKSGIVING and
- no
punkin' and the fodder in the shock \
winter OF rest and pleasure is before us,
and one feels now that life, after all, Is
really worth living.
Walton News: \ man from the country
Saturday said he saw a grown man from
the country ride out - cents on the merry
go-round whose wife made her breakfast
That morning on coffee made Of parched
meal and cornbread. He drew the con
clusion that the flying jenny Was not
doing the country much good.
Carroll Free Press: We venture the as
sertion that there are more hosS in this
section than has been for many years pre-
yious 1t is certainly much easier to raise
meat than il is to raise cotton, at . cents,
and buy it, The farmer that raises cotton
10 buy his meat Will always complain OF
hard times.
Albany Herald: rs a general thing the
farmers of southwest Georgia are gradual
Is diversifying their crops and thus making
their farms more sustaining. AS result
they have had to buy less in the way Of
farm, supplies this year thJn formerly, and
they consequently owe less 70 the factors
and supply merchants. And another year
will find them more independent than ever.
for they will not rely up5n cotton a pres
ent prices TO sustain them.
Cochran Telegram: 1t is now settled that
in the near future several of the largest of
New Eagland's cotton mills will romova
their plants and begin operations in Georgia
and South Carolina. They must get nearer
to the raw material to enable them to com
pete with tie southern mills. This move is
significant. II proves that the New Eng
land cotton manufacturers are feeling tn
competition of the southern mills ana il
marks the beginning of an era OF Pro sgc~ity
for our people that should have long sine
been inaugurated. The south should frlnt,-
t&cture every pound Of cotton raised wi5hin
her borders.
Brunswick Times: This section has the
climate. the lands and the conditions that
are sought by Il very large class while
everything else is duh, We should so to "a l.
vcrtsiug our country ana inviting home
seekers from The west. They are ON the
move ana We can get them if I,e Try. Not
by old methods Of booming ANA brIggtng
but by modern ana attractive methods az
placing pans end prices before thara-by
suggestions Of community settiep en- and
school townships. Let the old fields be cur
up into charming small FERNS with rosedte
views Of vne-clusterod cottages and fru t-
bordered fields. 4 business way is to move
in "a direction where there is possibility Of
business. The southern farm nome is the
latest fad.