The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1911-07-10
OCAlA, FLORIDA MONDAY, JULY TO- 1911. NO. 81.
MUCH WEALTH IN MAIZE
And Velvet Beans-Nr. Howell Advises
the Farmers of Marion TO Revise
Their Methods

Editor Star: | have been for some
| time past what might be termed
| corn and velvet bean crank. Since
getting in some returns on the recent
Icantaloupe crop l am a crank cranked
Iup to such tension till | feel like
I''somethin' am a gwine to bust, shO.'
| OF all the fools in the world the far
mer is the biggest | know for | am
| both and have been for several years
/ The truckers of Marion county have
been working for the railroads, the
fertilizer factories, the crate mills and
| the negroes ever since trucking has
| been a business. [ venture to say
there is not an outright trucker in
Marion county financially any better
| fixed than he was the day he started
| the business.
| / believe its just as impossible for
! any man 10 get ahead an outright
trucker as it is for water to run uphill.
| If any one doubts this statement just
| look around and count up the success
| full truckers. I would be almost will
| ing TO promise to- eat every one of
them, but any one who has followed
| trucking long would be too tough to
| eat. [ grant you there has been some
easy money made at trucking and so
/
| scheme. Look around you and you
will find that every successful farmer
! is the one who raises his own corn. his
own hay, can load a fey steers, can
| haul off a few hogs, has IA few velvet
| bean and pindar seed for sale and, in
| fact, does a general farming business.
| Did you ever stop to think of the
immense amount Of money sent out of
the state for products which should be
produced 1t home-mules. horses, corn,
| hay, oats, meat of all kinds. canned
| goods of all kinds and hundreds of
other things. This constant stream of
money flowing from our state tends to
enrich the railroads, the merchant and
the northern farmer. Why should not
this money stay at home? There IS no
place on the face of the earth where
hog feed can be produced with as lit
tie effort as it can in this state. The
crying need of Marion county is a
packing house located in Ocala. Not
isimply a cold storage, but a real, live
lup- to-date packing house. 1t matters
not how much money any man may
make If he spends 1t all he is certain
to die a poor man. The same thing
1apples to a county state or nation
Just so long as this constant stream
OF money continues to hOW north wa rd
for things we can and should produce
here just so long will be remain a poo,
state. We hear of this man or that
man making some fabulous amount or
an acre acres planted in lettuce
cabbage. beans. cantaloupes or some
thing of the kind but we are careful
mot to mention the dozen or hundred
of men who have just got out by the
skin of their teeth. We want to looE
this thing squarely in the face and ge
down to real and up-to-date farmin z
Quit working for the railroads, the fer
tilizer man, the crate mills and las
but not least, the negro.
| Lets work little more for our
selves and keep our money at home
The day will not be long when ever,
-. 100 acres in Marion county will have
good farmer on it. Where the cattl
tick will be a thing of the past ant
fat cattle will be seen upon every hand
Where the corn fed hog is the envy o
our northern neighbor and the raZo
back is thing of the past
We believe that an up-to-date pack
ing house in Ocala will only hastel
this end G. 3 Howell.