The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1894-01-12
EoW's THE TIME TO STRIKE.

N0W's TIE TIME TO STRIKE.
The Banner is in receipt of several
letters from parties who want to make
their homes in Florida. One of the
writers said that in his immediate
neighborhood six or more families in
tended to seek homes in the vicinity
of 0cala. This leads US to remark
that now is the time to strike for in-
migrants. Florida feels the effect of
the pressure of hard times less than
any other state in the Union, and
while this is true it is the golden mo-
ment to make her opportunities and
possibilities known.
A man with an unmortgaged farm
IN Florida, near a growing city, is, or
should be, the happiest mortal on
earth. He can at least keep the gaunt
wolf at great distance from his door,
AID by keeping this animal at a dis
lance he can keep his mind at rest,
and in this lies the germ of an inn
mense amount of happiness.
One of our nearby farmers told us
the other day that from an old piece
of land that had been in cultivation
continuously for forty years and never
had known an application of fertilizer,
he gathered seventy-five bushels of
potatoes per acre.
In repeating this story, a citizen
said: "And these are the stories that
are hurting Florida. Immigrants
coming here and finding they are not
true, become disguised and give the
state bad name"
But the story is true, as it was told
TO us by one of the most reliable farm
ers in the county, and persons who
wish it confirmed can drop postal
card to Mr.. I. J. Barnes, whose post
office address is Ocala, who will be
glad to give them his experience in
farming, as he, as well as his father
before him, made a success of
farming in Florida.
From the same nelghborhood. on
the same day, a gentleman brought as
IN basket of turnips, eight in num-
Der, weighing more than two pounds
apiece, and his statement, aud the
statement of all others is that for root
crops Florida is unsurpassed. She is
the champion and surrenders the belt
to no other state between the two
oceans.
Aud how is this thing of downing a |
4 ARM striking the average citizen
sght here q 4hnn4e-
: In talking to lawyer the other day |
Of the condition of the times. he said
that he had been making a study of
the question and had come to the CON
clusion that the farmers were the best |
OF OF any other class of citizens and
he had fully determined to buy him .
place near town. az believe" he 81 ill
Il can be happy man on farm
Nothing delights me more than 10 ses
the fresh earth turned by the plow.
And believe / can grow er.sugh to
live on comfortably. / sayl raise
chickens, and ducks, and turkeys. as,5
geese, and cows, apd hogs, and hau
fresh eggs, fried chicken, sansages. biz
hominy and backbone stew and hay
a respite and surcease from the petit ,
annoyances of town life" He gre y
eloquent and said.he believed be cog IL
not only prOlong his life, but, in t n,
meantime, could grow. buoys.nt a nc
fat.
The evening of the same day, il
conversation with another gentleu aal
on the all prevailing subject of 'h arc
times" he said that he had just ~ ON,
in from the country and in passir z
pretty place near town the tho ugh
occurred to him that he cout d d.
nothing better than buy it. An d il
telling what he could do he gre a.
enthusiastic as the attorney and got u
to believing that there is nothf ng t
equal the independence of the farm
And If our farmers will profit by tn,
lessons thrust upon them by the wa
and go back to the spinning whee
and cotton cards, tam their own leath
er ana make their own shoes, burr
their own ashes and make their owl
soap, live as they did during the war
within their own resources, planting
cotton, and oranges, and vegetable
for money crops and making chen
subordinate to food crops, they car
become independent of Wall stree
and the Rothschilds, and bid defia ne,
to corporations and agg regated ca pi
tai, and be happy, an Independent
and a prosperous people.
We have an abundance of land
more than we can proftably pay tax
e. on lying idle.
So let us make the virtue aud posi-
bilities that lie in these lands known
sell off what we do not need, live
within ourselves, and become agair
prosperous and independent.
Let the motto of the over-crowdeC
towns be: Back to the farmsW anC
the motto of the farmers be: Back t,
the spinning wheelW
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