The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-01-21
FARMING.


phere OF New York apartment hous
contributes an interesting article
under the title What is the matte
with Farming to a current magazine
The article Is largely interesting be
cause OF the novel and unique answers
which II gives to this inquiry. 1t is evi
dent that the writer is wholly unfamiliar
with farm life, as it is known and ap
preciated 10 the South at least His
conception Of things connected with
the high avocation of filling the soil
was evidently based upon the narrow
view which the New Yorker gets Of
his country through the eyes Of Wall
Street environ.
1t will be surprising to the farmers
of Tennessee and will cause them
many a merry chuckIe to know that
they are looked down upon" by the
people who are not fortunate enough
to live in the country. And yet this
Eastern author who assumes to know
all about farming, solemnly declares
that because farmers are not the so
cial equals of the towns folk, the coun-
ter jumpers, the shop keepers, the re-
porters the bankers and the members
Of the legal fraternity, they are leav-
ing the farms. 1t is evident that the |
writer quoted is an agriculturist if he
has any experience whatever with
country life. That he is not farmer
is apparent.
But most ludicrous OF all, is the
assertion that the farmers are not in
dependent; they must depend upon
the brow-beating merchant to get what
their products are worth. This dis
coverer, whose incursions into the
realms of truth are about as success
full as those of the lamented DIR. Cook,
declares that it is because of the farm
ers feeling of dependence upon the
favors of the country cross roads mer }
chant or the buyers of the village, q
that he is in despair and is hocking Q
to the cities in the hope of once again 0
breathing that air of freedom and in e
for which his forbears
spilled their precious blood upon
thousand battle fields.
The farmer DEPENDENT The farm
or being brow-beaten and threatened u
and cajoled by the dealers and mer- &c
chants of the villages and towns to
That writer ought to come to Maury m
county and have his eyes opened.
Fancy the farmers of this county GO
ng on Bonded knee and pleading with ).
lonied voice to the merchants for te
air price for their produce! The &C
light would make an Egyptian mummy nj
oar with laughter.
There are no more independent peo-
lie anywhere upon Gods footstool ia
han the farmers of this country. First TT
Tonday the farmers of Maury county the
rought thousand mules to Columbia Sa
nd they found two score of buyers
eady to bid for the privilege of Sc
Iring them If the price of one didn't
lit they went to another and If none CL
ave what they thought fair value Sh'
Re mules were taken back to the the
rm Not farmer in the crowd had Sat
sell. 1t is the same with their eggs
Id chickens and wheat and corn and
erything else If there is any act S.
obesiance or any honied phrase the If
yers and not the farmers are the acti
rformers. urd
A trip to Maury county would be as
ofitable to the writer quoted as v
irney to the North Pole would be to w.
Cook Here he would find the If
'mers the most respected, the most acti
dependent and the most prosperous Satl
ople upon ehe green earth. If he
lid get breath of the pure air that W
eeps across the beautiful valley of ED
Little Bigby; take view of the of N
dscape from the majestic hills of of &
mpshire; battle his aching brow in Feb.
transparent waters of the classic
ok, how different his vision OF the w
m would be. Let him stand upon Will
gah's mount and view Maurys Sher
usand hills and ten thousand the {
ks; her broad acres of richest Satu
N; the bluest blooded stock in all
world and he would come to the r,
clusion tina here indeed the Gar We
Of Eden had its site and natures HAIR
est treasures are stored. date
Coun
alert and vipiIant Not one OF subje