The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-01-08
THURSDAY. JANUARY 8. 1914.
Southern Farmer
Is The Coming Man.

The greatest safety, the greatest
power of the country is in the homes
that dot hin and vale. The country
is no stronger than its homes. for
the home is the birthplace, the foun-
dation basis, the bed rock OF civiliza-
tion and patriotism. The more the
people own their homes the greater
che citizenship and patriotism of any
community.
IT Is for this reason that landed arfs-
focracy and corporation farming
should never be encouraged by legis-
lation or otherwise. This is especially
true of the south, which while having
manufacturing interests must always
by the very nature Of her soil and
climate, be an agricultural section God,
in His wisdom, so designated 1t. He
gave a climate that goes neither to
the extreme OF hot nor cold and a soil
capable of producing an endless variety
nf products.
The great opportunity for investment
is in the farm lands of the south. They
win never decrease In value therefore
the man who invests his money in
them takes no element of chance or
risk. Tho chances are that they will
greatly increase in value every year.
The tendency Of the people to move
TO the towns and cities is already be-
ing checked. With the coming of good
roads, automobiles, rural mail delivery
and telephone, the farmer has about
everything that the city man has-and
more. If he lives ten. fifteen or TWEEN
ty miles from town and has an auto,
IRE can get In IL, have just a nice spin
of an hour or less on good roads to
reach town. The day Of the country
man has arrived, The farmers are be-
coming wide-awal<e and progressive.
They no longer feel like they are just
camping" They are beginning to Inn
prove their farms with view to per-
nanently living on them. Yes, the
farmer "has arrived"
The land! The land! The man who
own wine and fig tree" He is the
veys; his own boss. living under his
own wine and tree He is the
happy man of the future, surrounded
by his own broad acres. with nearly
all modern improvements at his door
city people must struggle. many of
them on salary or wages barely suf-
ffcient to eke out an existence, but the
farmer can so on improving his place
and year by year adding a little to
his accumulation.
One reason why SO many people have
left the country for the towns is the
lack OF conveniences in the country
and the lack of schools and churches,
but this reason is fast ceasing to ex-
list. The south is far from being set
tied yet, and II people would only build
their farm houses nearer together, IN
communities or villages, it would re-
move a great deal of the lonesomeness
of country life. Cowper says:
II praise the F'renchman. his remark
How sweet. how passing sweet is son-
tude.
But grant me stin a friend in my re-
whom | can whisper. solitude IS
sweet"
Man is a social animal He cannot
live to himself hence it has been that
so many weI-to-do country people
have moved to the towns. but If the
country people would build their home
nearer together rural social life would
be greatly improved Things, however,
are not like they once were. The tele-
phone, daily mail delivery and good
roads have tended to eliminate dis
tances and have made the farm. how
ever distant, practically the suburb of
the city.
There is no more inviting field for
investment today than IN farm lands.
And there is no better place to buy
them than in the south. And In the
south there is no better opportunity
than the cut-over lands of the gulf
states. These pine lands can be bought
from SIS to $50 an acre, owing to fer
tiiity and proximity to market. The
time Is not many years distant when
they will sell for $100 per acre. Good
roads and general development will In
crease their value and If in settling
these lands, the people win only build
their homes nearer together on the vii
lage plan--the social life will be adj
yanced
The time is coming when the man
who owns farm. small though it may
be. will be the happiest man on earth
He win be settled for life and with a
sure and certain living before him
every year. Town people work an av-
erage of ten hours per day, $50 days
in the year. Expending the same en-
fyKy in an intelligent way Oh the