The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1916-11-08
ADVICE FROM ONE
WHO KNOWS OF STOCK
RAISING

Greedy displayed true prescience
when he said "By and by, it will
be generally realized that few men
live, or have lived, who cannot
find scope and profitable employ
ment for all their intellect on
2OO-acre farm"
In the early sixties the planta-
tons and farms of the South
were largely owned by gentlemen
OF means and operated by negro
slaves, who were adopts in the
growing of cotton, cane and to-
bacco. With this kind of labor
these three industries were so
profitable that little thought or
attention were paid to the grow
ing OF other crops, or to investi-
cations that would lead to the de-
velopment of latent resources.
The war took from the south
$4,000 brave men. whose Drawn
and brain our nation needed in
the development of the South and
the great eXpanse of unoccupied
territory in the west. But no
sooner had the capitalists. and iron
and steel manufacturers from
Pennsylvania and other states &C
companied by their engineers,
were found quietly exploring the
hills and mountains of the South,
and were soon proclaiming the
glad news that the South had APP
parently inexhaustible dormant
mines. These discoveries, to-
gcther with others, prompted
few of the progressive capitalists
of the South to establish cotton
factories in the Southland, where
was now such an abundance of
cotton and coal. Today there are
more spindles in operation i'll the
cotton producing states than in
all of the states of New England
combined. eI
But the thought | would es-
pecially bring to- the attention of
the land owners of Georgia is
that our great and permanent
wealth is not alone in our marble
quarries, our oil wells, our forests,
and phosphate
our salt, sulphur and phosphate
mines, our lumber and timber
lands, our turpentine products,
our limitless coal fields Or Our
mountains of ore. All these are
valuable temporary assets, but in
time will become exhausted.
But listen, my farmer friends, |
that which is God-given and will |
abide with us forever, is our fer
tile soil, Our warm sunshine and
Our abundant rainfall.
1t is not inaccurate to intimate
that in recent years the American
dairy industry and supply of food
animals have been gradually ap-
preaching its twilight and its en-
tire tissue should today be strong
ly animated by a new spirit and
energy and surcharged with en-
thusiasm and determination by
every farmer within our broad
land. Most fundamental of all is,
of course, the cow. individually
the producer of milk, generically
the medium through which sci
ence and are of breeding are eff
fccting their wonderful inn
provement. and fundamental too
to quote DR.. Jarnigan's story in
dialogue between the mother and
her boy: Johnny, have you fed
the cattle" Eyes, another"
"What did you give them ?" "Pine
tops, mother" Johnny did you
feed the pigs?" eyes, mother"
what did you give them" pine
cones, mother" alright, John
ny; go to the persimmon tree and
get your breakfast" I empha-
size that in order to raise cattle
successfully in Georgia, you have
got to feed them. A pasture for
fattening cattle is not, as general
ly believed. that old field with
gullies, which you have no other
use for but you call the pasture.
Its Johnson and nutgrasses do
not make big animals, any more
than they make good farms.
There is no use going to all the