The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1897-10-29
THAT $500, WORTH or WOOD,
Belonging to Major Campbell Again Dis
cusssd By Touchstone He Bids
Adisu for the Present.

Adisu for the Present.
have read Major Campbell's article
styled 'Touchstone Touched up'' and
find that he really strengthens the
force of the article to which he replies
for il man of his ability, enterpris e
ane diplomacy has been connected for
a long time, with business enterprise
that paid more money 10 corporations
than Mcintosh has paid in all the
years Of its existence, and still has no
money 10 put in the enterprises. ne
urges Oealians to invest in, il surely
must he that something is the matter
with the markets he talks so much
about, aud there must be deficiency
Of money at points other than Marion
county. If a farmer of so much has
tie, skill and diplomacy can't profit
ably dig and market his peanuts and
potatoes but offers them to his neiah-
bors to dig on shares, there must be 8
very large hiatus somewhere between
the major and his "big market"
Now, instead of complaining, sup
pose you put that wood on the market
start that $4,000 to moving-and in
vest the $1,000 profit in Snowden's pea
nut oil mill and make dollar market,
at home, for the peanuts to be raised
on the 10000 acres of land so splend-
idly fitted to grow them in great
abundance.
Now, dear major, let's be fair and
reasonable in discussing these matters.
You canny Scots have the reputation
of being exceedingly hard headed II
use the term in its best sense) and
logical. Now, in this spirit of fair
ness let's examine your question.
why don't you encourage the growth
and manufacture of broom corn, rice,
wool and the planning and turning of
hard w0Od?" Mr.. Harris answers as
to cotton in his able and lucid editor
ial entitled, "Ocala once Again. Be-
sides we do raise cotton of good quail
ity, but it don't pay to pick it. See
Mr.. Harter's article in a previous is
sue of the Banner. Micanopy tried
the wood turning business, but there
was something wrong with the mar
ket and the money, and the machin-
cry is now rusting out, at Peaters'
Mill. The major can buy it at sacri-
flee and convert that large surplus of
hard wood that he complains of hav-
ing, into axe handles. We can't do
anything with sheep in our bammocks
the pine woods is the place for them
besides unless the agricultural pa
pers lie worse than Annanias, some
thing like cyclone struck the sheep
business in 1913. The merchants won't
buy our rice in the rough, or when
cleaned on our country mills, if any
are in reach, and the big tide-water
mills say our rice isn't hard enough
for their purposes. Only broom corn
now remains. Why, Oh We Gods,
does man of Major Campbells large
experience, great skill and matchless
diplomacy, waste his time growing
corn that he can't get converted into
bolted meal, and which even the ne
groes on his place will not eat-in rails
ing peanuts and potatoes, that he can't
sell or even give away to his neigh
bors if they have to dig them on
shares-nOne so poor as TO do them
honor-when he can grow broom corn
for which there is big demand IN
Chicago at price that offers him big
money. Now why don't you grc
broom corn and ship it to Chicago, Of
better still, if with all your hustle, ..r
your enterprise-all your experience
all your diplomacy you haven't / IN
able to get any money out of your H. y
crops, you can at least turn that WOO