The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-09-12
HALcYoN HOPE FOR THE FARM
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The ever placid Gainesville Sun, ad-
dressing the farmers, presumably OF
Alachua county, generously. rich mi
farm fertility, says:
Good roads are coming to you and
automobiles and auto trucks. You are
about reaching the day when you will
lcease being caaled RubeS and Hay
seeds by the smart Alexis What
YOU need to do now is to surround
yourself with abundance. Surround
yourself with cattle and hogs ana
chickens and corn. Don't think OF
the market" more than you can
ipossibly help until you, yourselves.
have plenty to eat and to spare. The:
world will bow to you, and the mar
ket" men will be knocking at your
doors.
Splendid promise of the futures
better days. and kindly advice well in
tended and admirably put. But
AYE, there's the rub" as Shakes
peare phrased it in the long ago.
iGood roads will not come unaided to-
Alachua county farmers any
more than they will come anywhere
that there is not digging down into
pockets and the application of Wig
orous energy to secure them. And
with good roads will come number
less automobiles and auto trucks into
the garden area of Florida, bearing
those who come to admire the BEAU
ties of nature that are SO abundant
in that favored section and from ad-
miring stay to become residents
ready to enlist in the ranks of ear
nest workers for the enrichment oil
themselves and the greater glory OF
Florida, of which Alachua county is
an important part
The names OF F1ayseeds and Rubes
have no place IL a farming cOmmun
ity never we're deserved, where edu-
cation and progress have made their
impress upon the honest, patient, pro
gressive tiIlers of the soil. We cannot
believe that within the shadow of the
University of Florida, which has its
home in Gainesville, with it's advan
tages of eduaction from agricultural
| to classical, that there can be any
where in good old Alachua any farm
ers deserving to be referred to as
Hayseeds and as Rubes. notwith
standing that the Sun, by implication
at least. conveys the impression that
they are there. about reaching the
| daya iwhep.s youa will cease being call
ed" by those names, to use the exact
words of the brightly shining Sun.
| And then, the advice ''to surround
yourselves with abundance" summed
up in cattle and hogs and chickens
and corn" Splendid! The very pro-
cess of surrounding implies intelli-
gent, Industrious energy so applied as
to make that abundance" all the
more generous in amount and all the
more valuable in the matter OF quail
ty And the application of that intel
ligeuce will include a demand for pure
bred cattle and hogs and chickens
and corn" Of which the yield per acre
will be the maximum instead of a |
few paltry bushels, all of such Qudiity |
that the market men i'll DE knock |
ing at your doors; of Alachua cattle |
and live stock yards and poultry hOus-
es and corncribs, demanding of the
Ito spare" surplus, ready and willing
to pay handsomely therefore
Already there is the knocking OIL
that sort in rich Alachua where there
has been developed greater richness
through pure bred live stock and cat
| tie and poultry. More corn and more
Iof everything that Alachua will and
does yield in full measure of plenty,
| where the Hayseed and the Rube
has had his day and is succeeded by
Mr.. or Hoa. Farmer, proud and hap
by in his achievement OF better
things among which are included ed
uCation, modern methods of wOElu
and convenienCes, happy homes
where the children will love and
choose to abide and carry on adj
lvaneingly the work on those acres
of their fOrefathers. proud fathers
and loving mothers. -Times-Un