Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-10-27
Uncle Toms
Chat.

| never saw finer crop of corn
in my life than the farmers have
this year. That means hog aud
hominy in abundance, plenty
and to spare. You see fine, fat
slick stock everywhere. Cannon,
Warren, Coffee and Grundy
counties fields are richly laden
ed with the cereals of life. The
farmer is independent for once,
yet hundreds of acres lay idle for
want of hands. 1t looks to me
like our wage workers have made
u mistake in tlocking TO public
works. The farm is the safest
and surest with less friction, con-
fusion and strife. Hundreds of
our farmer boys have their own
fine horses and buggies and it is
pleasure to note the progress
these sons of the soil are making
in the agricultural lines. What
fool | was to leave the farm
and come to public works. And
1t seems to me our young men
are very foolish for remaining on
public works when the agricul-
turial fields are so inviting.
Young farmer boys, many of
them are worth twice as much
as any dozen of us on public
works, with great pens of fat hogs
and other stock and money in
their pockets. In my talk with
these young men they say they
prefer the farm and being their
own master. A wise choice |
think! These boys are hustlers
and they are in the swim and
are enjoying the good things of
the farm. On Sunday some
sweet farmers daughter takes
her seat by the side of these boys
and ride to church and by and by
these farmers daughters can
drive a horse as we'll as the boys,
but ever since Miss Cooper got
killed, the old farmers object to
the girls driving much, hence
the boys are very much in de-
mand when crops are over and
big meetings begin. Wages are
not so good as on public works
but life is much more free and
happy, We use to say, 90 West
boys and grow up with the coun-
try and now it would do to say
go to the farm and raise your own
hog and hominy, get u years pro-
visions and marry a wife is the
| best advice we can give our
young men. Be free from wage
slavery, there is room Miss
Bessie Hutto says boys 80 to the
front and we girls will help you.
She says | am proud of my broth
ers and urge them to be gentle
men, then she said | like for
young men to take the lead, it
makes us girls proud of them.
Not only is the girls proud Of
manly young men but the whole
world respects them. Miss
Hutto is a farmers daughter and
one that does something and
means something. There are
splendid openings for sober in
dustrious young men every
where. The top shelf boys, is
not crowded. Rosy cheeks and
sparkling eyes invites you to the
front and to seat on the top
shelf. Why not 90 up, why tar
ry and linger where they are
crowded? Go to the farm; 90
South to the great cotton fields
with its lleecy staple. Hear Miss
Mary Covington boast and its the
truth. We have peaches, apples,
grapes watermelons, musk.
melons, raspberries land straw
berries, so you see have a time,
good time and my brothers are
so good to me and Uncle Tom,
| really do enjoy the soil and its
fruits. So you city boys and
girls must not envy our country
cousins for they are big hearted
and if you go among them you
will find that Uncle Tom has told
you the truth. Well | aim tC
continue my letters on farm life
and tell you all about what
discover while on my recent
tramp. UNCLE Tom.
Dissolution Notice.