The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-03-24


because of disappointments not much
success or progress will be made OF
course one should be directed from the
beginning by good judgment and
foresight and should be well posted
on the conditions TO be met in his
farming. The fellow who quits is like
the old man who told his son to ride
mule over to the barn. The boy ex-
planned that he had never been able
to learn even at school how to ride a
l"bucking" mule. The old man, said,
boy, hoP dis hat an l gwinter sho'
! you how ter ride mule" He mounted
and the mule made few bucks with
in the air until he fell with mouth and
eyes open in the plowed ground
Rising and wiping his face free from
the sand, he heard his boy say, Pap
| is dat de way to ride mule?" The
| father said when see he was
gwinter frow me l got ofen him"
They both decided that the mule could
not be ridden Most of you here
would ride any kind of mule that
would come from Tennessee or Ken
lucky. If you make up your mind
that you are going to farm and will
stick to it, you will succeed. The fact
that farming offers such great rewards
to all alike. that products are sold re-
CARELESS of the growers, are advan-
ltages for you in this calling. Politics
are very one-sided and often church
matters get that way but not so with
farming, it gives on the average re-
wards commensurate with the appli-
cation and labor invested.
If the colored people had taken up
farming just after freedom and had
been economical with the singleness
|of purpose to buy land, they would
now own ten times as much as they
lido. Thrifty, industrious people do
well on the farm and we hope more
of you will add to your holdings, will
build good barns, paint your houses,
buy furniture, improve your stock
and make as Captain Pyles says,
Homes that are Heavens"
1t is well to remember that the
happiest and most prosperous nations
are those engaged in agricultural pur-
suits. Those that are debt ridden are
not agricultural
Some of the speakers have warned
you against going to the CITY, / think
the solution of this would be to make
enough on your farms to buy prop
erty in town. It would not be a bad
thing to own home in the country
and also to own houses in town.
am aware of the fact that many
young as well as old are in the towns
doing very poorly and it is advocated
that these should be on the farms,
but if this same class should farm on
| the same plane as their town-life
seems to indicate, they would go to
| the poor house or. come back to town
| to live on charity. The truth of the
matter is lazy people are no good
| to develop farm or to build a city
Men of brains, men of industry, the
muscle and the mind in action, are
needed in the farming business as in
other callings.
| was not. not long ago out west and
saw on the prairy sixty horse power
gang pillow drawn by gasolene en-
CINE. Such farmers are as far ahead
;of the one galoused" slow fellow who
has little old bull tongue pillow, be-
hind a thin pony, as candle is infer
ior to powerful arc light. l think
lyou will all be welcome to town, when
Iyou have something worth taking to
town. l believe you will be worthy of
town when you have some quality or
property that will build up that town.
i If farmers worked as hard as many
business men they would soon be able
to buy out the towns, for the town is
largely dependent upon the farmer.
i The farmer needs to see the man
who wrote,
j DO not squander time, for that is the
Istuff life is made Of
i The farmer who is slow in planting,
slow in gathering and slow about
catching on to the best methods is a
) squanderer of time.
/ would also point out the fact that
when you own your own farms you be-
come not only your own employer but
you give work to others. would not
have you become farmers like the
colored man who contracted for a job
flor five dollars. The man who gave
the contract asked this colored man
why he did not do the work himself,
the colored man replied, Il am the
contractor. How much are you
paying the men to do the work." Il
lpay them five dollars" said the color
ed man. How do you come out then