The weekly true Democrat., 1909-09-24
An Interesting Talk
Made By NJ. MeharS
E shows How A Country Is Greatly
Bmeiiied By Improved AGREED
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Members Of the Tallahassee Chamber
of Commerce listasd 10 en- interesting
taIk by A. s. Meharg, the Government
Agricultural Expert, who is here map
ping cut q course Of Demonstration In
practical farming, at their last meet
Coqes6of Albert w. Gilchrist was
~ ent atd became q member Of the
Chamber DR.. Edward Conrad, Presi-
dent of the Florida State College for
#omen, and Mr.. ]. S. Winthrop also
NJ. Meharg. IN beginning his remarks.
mentioned the fact that he realized
that he was before q gathering of b0si-
ness men and not farmers bat he said
further you are more interested IN
Vkat the farmer produces than Is the
man In the field. Sounds strange, new
'ortheless Il Is = fact. Look at it IN this
light Just suppose there should be
one complete crop failure think OF it,
q failure Of q whole season, what would
u mean 20 your Why your business
would 90 under, because you are depen-
dent upon the crops tor your trade.
Now yoh see why everybody should be
interested IN this work, and ell with
their shoulders TO the wheel pushing for
the progress Of the movement.
No, / do not say that all the farm
ers Will get rich and be riding around IN
automobiles IN q short time, but / do
eny that if they are properly encouraged
and follow the directions that we shall
give them, their crop yield will be in-
creased wonderfully, which means the
'nerease OF prosperity IN this section.
Do you need an increase J Well let's
81 pull together"
WRONG IMPRESSION OF FLoRIDA.
Gentlemen, Il is a hard thing 70 60
out Of your State and convince others
that Florida 10 more than Rn orange and
citrus growing State, and q place for
lnyalidA Why, the people don't know
Bhat q paradise you live Ia. Most any
crop can be grown here, and e % ilne
place FER stock raising. Say. what do
ron do with your cotton seed 2 Ill tell
bu, YOU send Il 10 the oil mill, Il n
ground up into meal, and then what be-
comes az it3 Those thrifty Northwest
ernerB buy Il up, feed Il 20 their cows,
make butter and ship Il right hack here
for you'tO put on your table. Yes. they
can actually pay the freight on the cot.
ton seed meal 70 get II, pay freight on
the butter they ship 70 you, and then
make 3 good margin on u, ard are get
ting rich az Il too. Some fellows when
you tell them that will say: '0h, well,
Florida Is no stock-raisng country.
Bless .goUr heart, men, there is no bet
tef place on Gods Green Earth than
Florida
n this cooperative demonstrating
fBTk, we find more success when busi.
ne8ss men take hold and encourage the
movement among the farmers. Don't
throw cold water on the movement u
you do, Rhy then some old farmers will
give up al hope and stop and stay right
aheFBtbey are today. Encourage them
b every way that yOa can, Raise .
large fund for good seed. Hello your
local man IN every way,
Agricultural prosperity is what We
need. Do you know the average earn
ings Of farm hand In FLORIDA I It is
Only SiSe.O0 per year. Now do you
wonder that the farms are beng VNca
ted do you wonder why the farmeF
wants bic sons educated IN some other
profeaaiol Can this condition b.
changed? Yes, materially. Think OF
lOwa; that State used 30 Be IN tho same
plight, look at Il today. The average
farm hands earnings there are 81, 100 %
per year. The wealth Of lows is IN che
farmers' hands. They own the mator-
ify Of the bank stocks. How old they
% it7 Just By following the instruc.
tons given them By experts. II the
iarmerp IN your section would only do
that, agricultural prosperity. which is
real prosperity, viii econ dominate
here"
THE UNDESIRABLE.
'sWheu Adam and Eve we're turned
cut of The Garden Of Eden, God told
Adam 70 earn his living BY the sweat Of
his brow. rhe fellow WHO tries "a cui
tlFate forty acres with one mule q try.
ing b cheat God for he cannot eulti
vnte u. He may scratch the top oi
The ground, but What'il his crop be
Some people wouldn't take ndVice 10
heaven nor pnywhere else. We can pret-
81 easily size Up that class. and win noi
expect anything Of them but We a
expect the vide awake farmers 20 take
1 Of the advice and put it % use.
We likewise expect the uide-aWak,
business men % pueh and encourage "a,
Farmers al the time {"
GOVERNOR cli.cgRisT 10 FkRMER.
AZ ths conclusion Of M. Mehnrv',
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