The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-11-25
GETS nIM, COMING
AND A GOING
Incidents in the Life of a Florida
Farmer Showing the Necessity
of Home Industry


IS Of few days AMI fuH Of trouble. He
riseth up early while yet dark. strikes
a match made in Maine, lights lamp
made IN Connecticut. wa1ks up 10 a
washstand made in michigan. fills a.
bowl made IN Chic. battles his face
AMI hands with soap male IN New
Hampshire; draws on d sit OF IN Ter
clothes made in Cincinnati; pulls on
socks knit in Georgia: draws on 4
pair o. shoes made IN Massachusetts;
puts On shirt made In New York
sweat shop; gess into a pair OF over
alls made n Chicago; treats his body
to coat made IN New York: agitates
his locks with a comb made in Rhode
Island; decorates his head with hat
made in New Jersey; picks up a Ian
tern made in Kansas; turns the knob
in door lcck made in Birmingham
and steps out into the fresh air of
F'lorida morning.
He begins his days work by feed
ing his stock from a basket made in
Virginia; waters them from a pail
made in Pennsylvania, and answers
breakfast bell male in Philadelphia.
He sits down to a table made in Iowa
N chair made in Kentucky brushes
the crumbs from table cloth made
in Massachusetts sips coffee from
cup made in New Jersey, sweetened
with sugar grown in Cuba, and stir
red with a spoon made in Illinois.
He eats grits shipped from Tennes-
see. seasoned with bacon from Ne
braska; wipes his mouth on nap
kin made in Cleveland and uses 4
toothpick made i'm Oregon. He turns
from the table to fill his pipe made
in West Virginia with tobacco grown
in North Carolina and proceeds to
make smoke, about the only manu-
featured product peculiar to his state.
The days work is now before him,
which he begins by using bride
made in Texas on mule raised for
him by a Missouri farmer and kindly
handed down through several hands
with a little rake off for all.
He has never stopped TO think that
millions of acres OF undeyeloped pas
tl1re lands in his own state would
grow just as good mules and that
forage can be grown at % per cent.
of the cost to the Missouri farmer
and that nature favors him with "a eli
mate 80 per cent better than the
climate of Missouri and that this his
toric beast which Absa1om. rebell-
ious SON of David, rode to his tragic
death, and upon which Solomon rode
to be crowned King of Israel. could
be raised at profit right here at
home.
But our farmer is fixing his own
mule by putting on him a collar made
in Louisiana, names made in Wiscon-
SIN, a back-band made in South Caro-
lima, and trace chains forged in Bir-
mingham: bitches him to single
tree made in Mississippi, fastened to
pillow made in Atlanta. and with
this outfit the farmer goes forth to
tickle a soil that smiles back at him
with all the bounties Of a friendly
nature
The days work done the tired far
mer seeks rest beneath his vine and
fig tree. The good wife places for
his comfort a rocking chair made in
Idaho, hands him razor made in
Cincinnati. which he whets on a
strop made in Louisville, stirs up la
Their in cup from Detroit with a
brush from Pittsburgh and gets a
Florida shave, perhaps.
If he would Stake his thirst with a
bottle of juice that made Milwaukee
famous he sees that this too is from a
far off country, and if he would brace
himself with something stronger, this
he finds was bred and 'brewed in old
Kentuck and that he who drinks
must pay the freight.
But the time to lay me down tc
sleep has come. and stretching him
self upon a mattress made in Boston
resting on a spring from Baltimore
held by tbedstead made in St. Paul
he draws over himself a sheet made
in Providence. eoverlet made il
IiRichmond, and beneath a mosquito
net made in Macon he sleeps the sleeI
of the just.
A button is missed which the wife
replaces on the overalls with one
made in Vermont. using a needle
made in New Jersey. and thread from
lFlorida cotton made IN Connection
at a profit to the manufacturers o
about three dollars a pound over th'
price received by the farmer.
Under these conditions the Flori
da farmer has trudged and toilec
and spent his young and vigorous
manhood. The morning hour of hi