The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-27
begin work for 1898.

The farm year. in the south begins in
,be fall There is no questioning that
nronosition. If our farmers only knew it
ana a small number, we believe, recognize
if il is the work done in September, Oc-
tober and November that governs the OUT
come Of the following years effort. The
farmer that raises plenty of grain, that
makes a fine early spring pasture, is the
one that comes out in the lead every time.
The farmer that trusts to cotton and corn
alone will never be able to make much
Roadway nowadays. The farmer that has
rive patches" that makes more oats than
his barns will hold, is the farmer that
leads the van nowadays Twenty years
of 5xparience substantiates this state
ment The farmer that believes it is his
provocative to be idle from October to
FEBRUARY is the farmer that will never
amount 10 much as a farmer in this sec
ton of the country. In the northwest it
is unavoidable for a farmer to be abso-
lutely idle from October to April, but it
is not the case in the, south.
We believe it is true that providence
holds a man to his opportunities. If he
can sow or plant to advantage in Octo-
her or November and neglects to do it
he must pay the penalty of refusal TO use
his opportunity.
There is no question that the very best
work that a southern farmer can do is
done in the fall. Ii has been settled many
years ago that grain of all kinds is sown
20 better advantage in the south in the
fall from September to November. This,
also is the best time TO SOW clover and
grass OF every kind. And it. has been
shown, also, that it is a great gain to
ridge our soils in the early winter, so as
to give them the advantage of the freezes
Of December and January, thus rendering
them more porus and easier of cultivation
The following season of summer.
In fact, it resolves itself into this prop
0srion that if the southern farmer did the
work every day in the year that was
possible for him to do and that was sug-
gesled by his opportunity he could hardly
avoid becoming more or less
rich This is really true. If our
Georgia farmers worked every day in the
year just as a merchant or a mechanic
does, he would be bound to make a rich
living. He could hardly avoid doing So
But four-fifths of our farmers expect to
make a good living by merely working or
months in the year.
They demand months for ''picnicking.'
Could a merchant, a banker, or mechanic
run such a schedule as that and reasona-
bly, expect to make a competence? We
trOW not.
Should a farmer demand more holidays
than is accorded the merchant or other
workers. The farmers year begins in the
south in September-the first day of the
month say, should he not work every day
therefrom that the weather admits just
the same that any other worker does. AS
a farmer we say he should do so. He has
no right TO demand 100 or 125 days for pic
nickng any more than the banker or mer-
chant has a right to claim it. There are
very few occupations in this world that
can be carried on Observation-Disclosures days
Work, two days play.
We doubt very much if a man could be
found in all this broad southland who has
put in an honest days work every day he
could, who is an absolutely poor man to-
day. 1t is impossible to find such.
Every idle day must be paid for in every
instance when idleness is a luxury. En-
forced idleness is not luXury-it is pen
anymore or less always for wrong-doing.
The farmer who follows his work with
that love of work that should characterize
oil Of life's workers is the most enviable
man in the world. We know this to be so.
1t is rarely the case that the honest work
done by the tiller of the soiler is not well
pad for. Sometimes there are accidents
mat make this work come to nought, but
in The end it will be well paid for as
rule
II perehance a farmer plows up his soil
III the fail and freeze comes in January
ana destroys the crop, that he sowed in
me fan, the chances always are in favor
OF his making a better crop in the follow
ing summer for the land having been plow-
cd IN the fall. There is very little honest
laoor that is not paid for sooner or later.
ana the southern farmer that works 313
GAYS in the year minus those that are 'too
pal Tor anything" is sure to make living
Iof himself and family, surer to do it than
any merchant in the same community.
Now is the time to SOW oats, rye, clover
ana grass seeds 1t costs very little to SOW
~ acres of either oats or rye. You can
-oI9" either of these crops with corn or
COTTON or nntatoes next snring