Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-01-24
The Public
Safety VaIOe
Editor Recorder:

1t is not my purpose to advertise my
trip to the State College of Agricul-
ture, located at Athens, Ga, that
prompts the effort but rather let my
part of the state learn what is being
done on a scientific basis for the
states development on lines of farm
ing. This is the time a place, for the
annual meeting of the Stock Breeders
association, the Dairymen's associa-
tinn, the Apple Growers association
and the Horticultural society, all state
organizations, and it also includes the
coming together of all county demon
strators for a ten day course in max
ing reports of past years work and
giving an interchange of plans and to
make suggestions to further carry on
the work. Beside these several bod
les of the state, there were quite a
number of experts employed by the fed
eral government, some on cotton wilt,
some boil weevil others from every
line, pertaining to agriculture, and
these together with those invited. Men
of note and ability to lecture on the
various lines suggested, made quite d
large body, some two or three hun
bred beside the visitors, which en-
rolled as many more from $3.50 a. m.
| Central time) to $50 p. NJ, was
filled in with business meetings and
lectures, all going on in different parts
of the mammoth building, and my sur
prise was so great, by one living in
south Georgia, and remote from the &C
tivities of this great work is my ex-
cuse for trying to relate what l saw
ard heard I had reached the con-
clusion that this school was not max
irg its influence felt and seen lin es-
pecially south Georgia. in that the rea-
son for that with our people here in
south Georgia, is that we do not take
sufficient interest to get the full bene-
fit, but let me say here, that when
sit and take in some two hundred or
more paid men, most of them grad
yates of this college, sent out in every
county of the state, with scientific
knowledge of agriculture, with but one
idea in mind, to help to advance the
farmer in making cheaper and larger
yields and to so construct and build
UP the homes and the things of coun-
try life, with a profit to the man on
the farm to keep him there, and have
his city cousins to come out and join
him, that is the purpose and plan of
each of these state bodies, and l must
say great good has already come. And
see in the next few years under
such determination exhibited that we
have only made beginning. Now my
contention has been for some time
that with $40 per acre land and
a five dollar negro to manipulate the
farm that bankruptcy would follow,
and no boil weevil yet to charge it to.
And | am sorry to say, my prediction
is fast coming true, and if can pre-
dict as we'll for the change by bring
ing brains and muscle together
through the medium l have already
outlined l will say Georgia families
will not know themselves in the next
five years, boil weevil or no weevil
The fight has been one-sided $3.50 of
the possessors( not real owners) have
lived in town and the whole cheese on
the farm has been largely been de-
pendent on the negro a people who
have not developed a single advanced
idea in so years. l mean the country
negro, the one on the land. How can
we make good? No business on earth
would succeed under such condition.
but with the help of scientific minds
coming free to the white man, and
with his interest awakened, and to
combine his knowledge by practice and
carry them to his labor, and let them
see results of such effort. And we will
then be in line of prosperity, peace
and plenty. This is poorly put to-
gether, but it is only to show you
things that are surely coming to pass,
If you and l will let them. Wake DIP,