The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1913-07-11
A FORT uNATE SECTION.


and pastures all will agree. But that
the long dry spell that this section
and especially this county has expe,
rienced is not doing the damage that
many pessinisuc individuals would
have us believe is apparent to any
one who will calmly survey the situa,
ton. The corn crop of the county
can be seriously damaged and pas
lures can be burned up and still this
county will remain one of the most
favored sections of this entire ooun'
TRY.
About all the serious damage that
the drouth is doing now or
can do Is to the corn crop and
the pastures. 1t is yet too early to
predict anything like a failure OF
corn, and the pastures will speedily
respond to the first rains that fall
What is the situation with refer
ence to the agricultural interests OF
this county at this time? The farm.
ers have just sold and marketed one
of the largest and finest crops of
spring lambs ever known in the coun-
ty They have sold these lambs at
an unusually high price, the average
returns being about Sc per lamb. In
addition the wool of the county has
brought in not less than $4,000. The
lambs, sheen and wool shipped this
spring from Maury county will ag-
gregate in the neighborhood of $685.
900 all of which has gone to the farm
ers' hands.
The farmers of Maury county have
just finished harvesting under unus-
ually favorable auspices, the finest
wheat CROP that they have grown in
years. No better sample has ever
been produced in the county. Prac-
tically every bushel of wheat in Maui
ry county has been cut, threshed and
housed without drop of rain having
fallen upon it. The same is true of
the oats, of which good crop of ex-
cellent quality has been made. While
neither wheat nor oats is selling at
the top price. both crops are bringing
almost twice as much as they have
been sold for within the memory OF
very young men. Not only that but
the farmers Of this county have just
finished saving as fine crop OF nay
as ever went into rick in the United
States. the quality of the hay, the
manner in which it was saved and
the quantity saved all 60 to make it
one of the Digest assets that the farm,
ers have ever owned.
Cattle have been profitable. Grade
Jersey heifers have gone from this
county this spring by the car load and
at prices that have made their grow
ing most profitable to the farmers.
Thousands and thousands of hogs
have been shipped at prices that
brought the tanners in the neighbor-
hood of eight cents a pound live
weight.
In addition 10 the big items above
enumerated the farmers of this coun-
ty every week for the past six months
have sold eggs ard poultry and butter
and side lines from the farm that will
in the aggregate total many thous-
ands of dollars. While the potato
acreage was small fairly good yield
was made and the same is true Of
number of other crops that are grown
as side issues.
With a situation like this there is
absolutely no reason whatever for
respondent view of the local business
situation either upon the part of the
farmers or the business men of the
city. The recent bank statements
prove the .reat reserve capital that
is now on hand, large proportion of
the deposits shown being owned by
farmers. Instead of taking a gloomy
view of the situation we ought to
thank God that we dwell in such a
pleasant place as Maury county, and
that we are heirs of land where to-
tai crop failure are unknown; that
we abide in land that is so well and
truthfully described in Deuteronomy,
as "a land of wheat, and barley and
vines, and fig trees, and pomegran
ates; land of olive oil and honey:
"A land wherein thou shalt eat
bread without scarceness, thou shalt
not lack anything in it; land whose
stones are iron and out of whose hills
thou mayest dig minerals"