The Brunswick times-call. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1900-1902, 1900-09-16
ADVICE TO FARMERS
COMMISSIONERS @. ID, STEVENS
SPEECH AT raleigh Full
Or GOOD POINTS.
HOW no ACHIEVE SUCCESS
Planter Must BE a Good Business ssau.
Improved Condition ofthe Southera
Farsnes-Cotton Mill Industry.


1t is pleasant feature Of this. our
second annual gathering, that we meet
in this historic city, named in honor Of
Raleigh. the gallant gentleman whose
attempts at colonization on Wokokou
and Roanoke islands blazed the way for
the first permanent English settlement
at jamestown. His name. and those OF
Cayendish, Greenville and Drake. are
closely interviewer with the early his.
tory Of North Carolina. whose shores
We're made romantic by the birth OF
Virginia Dare. first child of English pa.
rehtage born on freedom 5 soil At Aila.
nance sous OF the old North State
poured out the first blood that was she'd
IN resistance to unjust taxation. aud
from Meckleuburg county Went forth
that ringing defiance to tyranny che
fogeyunner Of the grand declaration
which proclaimed the birth OF the great
republic, On every page OF American
history the name Of North Oar0lina
shines with uadimned lueter, and the
fame Of her hardy sous will never b
forgotten 40 loag as men renember
Kings Mountain. Yorktowns Gefts's.
burg aud Apnoaattox. The spisib OF
enterprise. too, IS abroad Ia the old
North State, and she walks proudly in
AZ, $3.50, !, .,,,@ i -. a., {,,.,f;a1 ,,.,.. ~ 4
which. ia the last few years, has made
such rapid str III such an illustri
Gus state. and under such favorable aus.
pieces. we have come with 10y to share
the hospitality Of your generous sons
aud lovely daughters
Onr last annual meeting was held in
New Orleans the greatest cotton port
aud the fourth grain narfetinth world
the commercial metropolis Of fair Lou.
isiana, who leads her southern sisters fiji.
tae production of sugar cane and rice,
At that meeting we spoke Of tho oondi,
ton Of bankruptcy and Generalization
into which the farmers Of the south have
been aimlessly drifting for years. and /
urged you, the commissioners Of the cot.
ton growing states, to call upon your
peopS to ehang&uaanzas methods OF farm
ing. We stated also that tho work OF
reformation had begun. and that tho
people Of the cotton states were in bettcr
condition than IN former years; that
thoy had lived moro on home snpplios
had been TO less expense in aualxillg their
crops, and had received much better
prices for their products, had reduced
their debts aud were more hopeful for
the future. II was stated, moreover,
that the crop Of 1890 aud 1890 was going
to cost more to market it than did the
crop Of l69S-Is99, and it Wa utged tllat
we sound note Of warning by telling
our farmers to make small bills; buy for
cash, ii possible plaut largely of food
crops, and reduce the acreage in cotton
even below that of last year. We also
said that, if we would egain curtai1 the
use Of fertilizers and the acreage in cot.
ton, and produce only 100000 bales
next season, we might expect not less
than cents a pound Tor our cotton
With pleasure was noted the great re.
vival Of manufacturing interests in the
south. The necessity was urged Of
teaching our children Ia the schools theI
elomentary principles Of agriculture
facts that have been escertatned by prac.
tical tests at efficiently conducted ex-
perirnental stations.
The improved condition Of southern
farmers, reported at our last meeting,
continues with some additional better
ment This is especially true Of the
farmers 81 Georgia, who have harvested
more wheat this year than ia any year
since 1865; more, ii Il claimed than in
any other three years since the civil war.
More attention, too, has been paid to
raising supplies Of meat and many
smokehouse, filed with ham, bacon and
sausage from hogs fed and slaughtered
At home proolaims the southern farmers
growing Independence Of the packing.
houses OF the west. The peach orchards /
II Georgia have this year been very |
helpful factor in that state. Although I
he crop, as whole, did not prove as
as early indications prom
sed, yet the money which it put into
circulation was of great benefit during
he dull season. It paid many thou.
ands Of dollars to laborers employed in
packing, canning aud ship.
ing the fruit The total number Of