The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-01-04


that the farm might produce.
The colored preacher was congrat-
ulated upon his position as leader
but warned that the. people needed to
be led up and on and that the cry
ing need was for more men higher
up.
He felt that the colored people in
Marion county had rare chances to
secure more land and that they
ought to do so and improve it. The
negro was thoroughly understood by
/ the Southern man and that as the
! colored man become stronger he
made the white man richer and
stronger. He congratulated the sec
! ton on the friendliness of the races
and asked that the negro might ever
cultivate the kindly feelings for the
splendid people who want to see the
race developed to the greatest eff
cheney of labor and happiness.
/ A deal of wholesome advice as to
how to live and save and earn elicit !
ed warm applause.
The conference was fortunate toI
have present A. F. Herndon, treas
Co., of Atlanta, Ga. He has made a
quarter of million dollars but was
good enough to recite his efforts
: from the time he worked on a farm
: for Sc per month up to the present
: time when he keeps employed 600
: agents. He also told of how he be-
2 gan in barbershop as bootblack
g and did his best in that business I'M
til he operated 40 chairs in shops
e said to be the most sanitary and ex-
: pensive in the South. He made COM
: parsons of American conditions with
S conditions he had seen in Europe and
! Asia, and advised that every oppor-
: tunity for self advancement be grasp
/ ed. He advised more and better
! farming and endorsed the diversified
: ton of crops suggested by Mr.. Mays.
S The conference voted to thank u.
= S. Senator N. P. Bryan, who had sent
IT to Prof Wiley 700 packages of seeds
lie for distribution among the hundreds
II of farmers present. The seeds were
g gladly received and every one pres
"a ent was asked to write letter to the
conference in 1916 telling how much
2 they had grown from the seeds given
es George Mays, ST., for thirty year:
D. an employee in the postoffice at Jack
v sonville was present. He is large
n stakeholder in the Metropolitan Bank
O. He spoke of the cordial Relationship
e. in trade and the sympathy existing
nd between the races and said that h
nd had hoped that it would become larg
Ike er as the years went by. He too ad
he vised the race to work and live with
e- out bitterness in their lives.
de Neptune Brown spoke for the far
III. mers. He loved his farm, grew ev
M erything in the way of edibles ex
M cept wheat He made a speciality O
ru good hogs, good horses, good COW
M and fine chickens. He made twent
ne barrels of syrup, four barrels G
ar sugar and kept home cured meat j
of his smokehouse from year to yea
ole He had garden from which he SUP
so piled his talk with vegetables til
Id year round. He wanted all colore
fe. and white people to have plenty s
ain that his plenty would be multiple,
he each week, went to church on Sur
,ad day, paid his debts, sent his childre
it'll to school and was making a Twin
the on his 200-acre farm which he hs
the bought from the muscle. He had
as odd times planted orange trees unit
yir- now he had grove of five. acres fl
oiu ed with grapefruit, tangerines al
It'll oranges. His herd of cattle ga
IF him an income of 5000 year. II
tan wife cooperated with him, and so
as milk and butter enough to run t
avs home He believed more farme
Itch ought to work SIX days and not 10
time on Mondays and Saturda
inc which could be used for turning ov
,wn the soil, getting out the stumps
M improving the farm in some way.
90 conducte,H himself so that he
men many friends in both races and W
: in ehoeaVoflig 10 teach otneFs " liNe
hite he had. He felt that too many m
, in did not work at home as faithful
,em as they should. He advised intens
iris work with attention to the laws
al farming Tor the coloreo Iarihe
inc This talk was one of the features
om- the gathering.
thin The farmers conference idea is
fell be continued and will be illumin
iton again next New Years day. The
with ored people of Marion county are
ling, oe Congratulated on hoiolhg sucl
do, meeting and planning so well