The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1912-08-15

But 1t is impossible for me to meet
every one, so take this method Of
soliciting your valuable support.
Nothing ever did In my life has
afforded me more pleasure or instruc.
ton than travelling over the state,
meeting and talking with you in this
campaign. for 1t has not only made
me know and love my fellow-men
more than ever before, but 1t has
shown me the needs OF the country,
and how best to deal with them.
am a PRACTICAL farmer, and
farming Is my ONLY INTEREST. |
may be pardoned for saying that am
the only practical farmer seeking
your suffrage for the Office Of com
missioner of agriculture, Neither OF
my opponents-both good men--pos-
sesses this qualification which the
law demands; neither Of them makes
farming his occupation.
IN creating this department the leg
islature said, in the very outset (see
section 1880, civil code 1880 that this
office should be filled by a PRACTI-
CAL FARMER, meaning one whose
business is farming and who has
made a success of IT, ] quote from the
foregoing GQu9 s6CtlVH.
Sec. observation-disclosures how
elected Said department shall be
under the control and management Of
one officer who shall be known as
the commissioner of agriculture, who
shall be a practical farmer, elected
by persons qualified to vote for mem
bers Of the general assembly" etc.
Ii | am elected to this office, 1t
hnI 4. efV 4t,.N 70, FrtVyer
to the letter but to the spirit of the
law, the chief end Of which, as / see
I'll Is TO afford assistance and helD
wherever the farmer needs it, wheth-
or IL be an Individual, a community
or the whole state, If the one-horse
farmer has a sick mule COW or hog,
he can command me as quickly as
the man with hundred, or the com.
munity with a thousand
And, right here, want to tell You
am for the one-horse and the two
horse farmer. In the small farmer,
| believe, lies the dependence of the
state he is our biggest asset. But
he win make q better farmer and a
more important asset, II he owns his
own farm. no matter how small Me-
gro leaders are preaching this doc
trine to their race; il is up to us to
put it into practice.
Much TODD is being made over a
certain fertilizer bill pending In the
legislature the effect OF which, If
passed, would be to prohibit the sale
of anything but the highest grade
fertilizers. Now / want to say that
have no interest, directly or Indirect
~, in any fertilizer concern under the
sun, and / believe in highgrade fer
filters. use them myself, and
think 1t is TO the best interest of ev-
cry farmer TO use them. But | can.
not subscribe to a law which prohib
Its any man from buying just what
he wants Suppose the state were
to pass a law saying you could buy
nothing but a $3.50 mule to work your
farm. You go To the mule dealer. he
says THAT mule over there is worth
only $780, but l can't sell you that
one because the law prohibits 1t. "
The principle is the same.
But IN tell you what / can do and
what propose to dc If I am elected,
and that is TO see to it strictly that
every SICK of fertilizer sold in this
state has branded on the bag just
exactly what il contains. so that the
farmer who buys 1T viii know precise
" what he is getting; he can buy the
cheap grade II he wants it; or he
may buy the high grade. but every
time the label On the bag win tell
just what it is
It shall be my purpose to hold deal
ers in foods. in oils, in fertilizers, to
a strict accountability to the law and
to see to it that the people of this
state get the quality they pay for
If elected. my administration shall
be for the farmer, by a farmer and
in the interests Of the people Of the
whole state
Respectfully,
J. D. PRICE
Pennington, oconee County, Georgia.