The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1909-09-30
We Must Get in Touch With Mod
ern Conditions.

1--WE would be glad If all of oul
senator's, and all of our congress
men would attend farmers meet
ings. They would then make bet
ter senators and better congress
men. They would learn that the
development of the South depends
more upon a good agricultural de-
partment at Washington; upon the
dissemination of information about
fertilizing lands, than upon the
Philippine question or the free and
unlimited coinage of silver. "
"This man Is not a farmer III the
strict sense of the word-indeed,
he is a banker, but he recognizes
the fact that the civilization, the
development, the progress, and the
happiness of this people, and the
people of the whole world depends
upon the SOIL" I'm the South we
are rapidly destroying the fertility
of much of our land. We can
make the fertile more fertile. We
can do this by study; by getting
knowledge and by following scien-
tifc principles in agriculture. I" 1T
is a magnificent business, this thing
of farming, when we farm right,
and, as soon as the Southern plan
ters, all of them, farm right, this
will be the richest agricultural re-
gion in the world" And, by the
way, the Commercial Appeal In
tends hereafter to devote more
time and attention and space to
successful farming, to public edu.
cation, to good roads, and to home
improvement than to politics
The above sentences are taken
from recent editorials in the great
daily,-the Commercial Appeal.
Such expressions from such great
daily mean much to this section OF
the country. When all of our
great dailies, weekly papers, teach
ers, senators, congressman, preach
ers, and other leaders fully realize
the fact that the wealth of the far
mer is at the basis of all genera,
prosperity and that it enriches as it
goes by creating a demand for the
labor for workers in all occupations,
and impress our people with the
dignity and importance of agricul-
ture, the South soon be the
wealthiest section of the world.
When all our great dailies and |
weeklies devote more time and at
tention and space to successful
farming, to public education, to |
good roads, and to home improve
ment than to politics; when all of |
our superintendents of education |
and school teachers direct the pub
lie to the many farmers who have
produced new varieties of fruit,
vegetables and other farm crops,
made fortunes and won names
that will never die; when all of our
leaders urge our young people to
emulate the examples of those who
have by selection and cross breed |
Ing produced cows that give from
FIVE to twelve gallons of milk per
day, sheep that produce fifty
pounds of wool at a shearing, the
swift running and trotting horses,
and other animals of such great In
telligence and whose names will |
forever adorn the pages of history,
we will soon be able to build good |
roads, clothe and educate our fam
lilies better, have comfortable
homes with improved home and
farm equipment and In fact all the
betterments which a progressive
civilization in the country de-
mands.
The masses must become great /
intelligent, thrifty class, upon
which nations alone are founded;
to orders, but not slaves;
tenacious of their rights, but not
anarchists. The masses must be
full OF the science of how to farm. |
refined, cultured, loyal to govern
ment and TO God.
Let as all join In the movement |
to educate the farmers of this Sec
tion of the country. The. differ
ence between the average yield of
cotton and corn per acre and the
largest yield Is about Eve fold.
The average cost OF cultivating an
acre OF cotton or corn Is double its |