The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1912-07-19
FARMERS MUST UNITE
FOR THEIR OWN GOOD
Col. ]. P. Cheney Advo-
Gates Farmers Clubs and
Education.
July I, 1912.

july 1, l9lZ.
Editor The Marietta JournalI
l shall appreciate it if you will
allow me space enough in your pa
per to bring the attention of our
farmers to an important move for
Our agricultural welfare. Cobb is
largely an agricultural county. 1t
IS true we have a number of manu-
featuring industries that are giving
employment to our laboring classes
IN the towns, and are doing a great
deal of good by sending out manu-
featured products, and in return
bringing back to us a lot of money
from other states. But the great
backbone of our existence as a
county depends most largely upon
our agriculture and the success of
our farmers.
Then if this be true, it looks to
me that all of us should be eager
to do our might to help and encour-
age the great class of our eople
who follow the business of farm
ing, knowing that anything we
might do along this line is not only
helping the farmer himself, but is at
the same time helping all our citi-
zens and creating more wealth for
Our county.
Last Saturday 1 had the pleas
ure of attending the regular month
ly meeting of the Powder Springs
Farmers Club. They met at 10
o'clock at the home of Mr.. Leake,
an up-to-date enthusiastic farmer.
The club is small and the attention
of its organizers is to keep it small
and to let its membership be COM
posed of farmers who mean bust
ness and have a real desire to learn
more and build up their business by
coming together with their most
progressive neighbors for the pur-
pose of exchanging ideas and agree
ing upon the best methods to follow
in the pursuit of their chosen call
ing.
At this meeting were such we'll
known farmers as Mr.. Bill Man
ming, who is president of the club,
and Mr.. Pickett the secretary and
Mr.. Leake, Mr.. Hendrix, Mr..
Wolfe, Mr.. Mayson, Mr.. Lindley,
Mr.. John Butner, and others,
and the subject which had
been previously chosen for discus
sion at this meeting was 'The SOW
ing and saving of forage crops"
1t would have been worth any
good farmers days work to have
been there and listened to this dis
cussion, even if he had not had
the extreme pleasure of partaking
of the most delightful dinner served
to the club by Mr.. Leake's good
wife and daughter. Such a dinner!
Let me tell you, these good country
people know how to fix up a din
ner, and the good part OF it is they
always have something to fix.
This meeting did me good, for if
| am going to keep farm and
grow crops, [ want all the reliable
information | can get on HON to
plant, cultivate and gather them.
We should all want to keep
abreast of the times, and if we can
find a better way of doing things,
what's the use of following the old
ruts? The farmer who stays at
home and follows in the same old
paths, instead of mixing with his
fellows and catching new ideas, is
in danger of becoming set in his
ways and narrow-minded and ex-
haust himself in physical manual
labor, while he might have learned
how to do things with less exertion
by accepting new ideas and sug-
gestions.
SO much for this meeting The
rain thing that occurred to me was
the necessity for one Of these clubs
ii every militia district in our coun-
ty. Mr. Jim Lindley, in his address
to tie club, referred to what was
done through these clubs in Cobb
county in the year 1873, when farm
ers' clubs were organized all over
the county, and that fall they got
together their choicest productions
and loaded full train and went to
the State fair, where they carried