The Republican., 1899-04-13
Farming.

hO hoJOiluy Vi tHe people III NJar-
rett county are farmers, and a hard
working and Industrious class of our
citizens they are.
We hear frequently that the farmer
has hard work to make both ends
meet, that farming does not pay. My
boys" said farmer to us not long
since, want to leave me because they
think that they can do betterat some
thing else"
Why is this, and why should the
labor of class the most essential of
any in our county, in our state or in
any country be regarded as non-pay-
ing and be so often abandoned for
sother avocations frequently less
laborious and more remunerative?
The minister of the Gospel, the
lawyer, the physician, the merchant,
the mechanic, and all who make their
living other than by cultivation of
-ttse sell labor and labor hard to obtain
alivelihood. These are consumers and
not producers. Do away with the
farming class and these men would
be obliged to leave their various occu-
patiOns and go to work cultivating
the soil in order TO obtain the neces-
sary food to sustain life.
Farmers are the pillars of the State,
the source from whence originates the
power that operates the factories OF
Il people, turning out the materials
conducive to their comfort and CON
venience, giving them an opportunity
to exchange their products with other
nations, thus affording many com
mOdities not susceptible of produc-
tion i'll their own country. No cult
walton of the soil, no farmers, and we
will show you Il savage people,
depending upon the chase for their
food and plunged in the depths of
abject ignorance. Highly titled fields,
yielding bountifully the products Of
mother earth, and we will point you
to the most powerful, the most en-
lightened nations of the world
1t is true perhaps that the farmer
does not open up an avenue to the
amassing of the great fortunes some
acquire in other lines of labor, but no
occupation is without it's annoying
veXatiOns, its trials and its failures.
70 be successful in any calling re-
quires close application and a thor
ough mastering of its details. Many
merchants and professional men have
acquired fortunes and yet ended their
days in poverty and absolute want
some even in poor houses, tottering
to the grave on the bounty of their
fellow men.
The young man who starts life as
farmer is blessed with health and
strength, devoting himself earnestly
to his work, will have the comforts
of life while he lives and in his old age
will not find himself pauper.
r Why, then, the idea that farming
does not pay? You feed your fellow
man, why should you not be able to
feed and clothe yourself?
Just here let us pause and consider
a moment. 1t may seem strange, but
nevertheless the farmer often fails
to feed himself, and yet is in the
market selling the products of his
farm in order to purchase from the
merchant and take home to his family
the food he and they require, and
which should have grown upon his
own farm. This is so true of the
farmers in our county that we are
constrained to dwell upon the sub
ject. Take for instance the flour,
, bacon and feed coming by car loads
and sold to our farmers. This must
be paid for, if not in hard cash by
products of the farm. Why not raise
these articles yourselves, in other
words, live at home?
The most prosperous sections of our
/ Southern country started their
careers of prosperity when they
ceased giving their entire atten-
tiOn to cotton, buying all their
meat and bread from the North
and learned to raise their meat
and bread at home, giving when this
was done their surplus time to cotton
which they could sell or exchange for
whatever else they might absolutely
require on their farms. They dis
covered that they grew better off,
made more money, got themselves
out of the grasp of the merchant and
the money lender, as they learned to
live at home,
Wheat of excellent quality can be
grown in our county, and on the new
lands, no better wheat is produced
anywhere. Not a barrel Should be
bought by farmer. 1t will require
but a small field of wheat to supply
the largest family in the county with
all the bread they will require.
Raise the wheat, and the millers
will be glad to furnish the necessary
machinery to turn you out fine
grade of flour. Good seed and favor
able seasons like last year, exception
ally good corn can be raised. a
larger acreage will always produce
enough to supply with oats all that
is necessary for stock
1t is in looking after the small
things on farm that the seed is
sown which will produce prosperity
A Good Example.
In Sentencinr wife heaters Martin