The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-02-28
MAURY COUNTY.

II is doubtful il even the most in
tensely patriotic Maury countian ap
preciates just how favored this sec
ton has been with the lavish hand OF
nature. Few of our loyal citizens re-
alize the tremendous agricultural re-
sources of this favored county. They
have come to accept as matter OF
course the bounteous favors Of their
Incompatible soil and climate.
In order that they may have bet
ter understanding and appreciation OF
just the part that agriculture does
play in the development and prosperi-
ty OF the county The Herald today is
sues its first agricultural Edition. It's
staff has labored earnestly with fideli-
ty to present in readable and attrac-
tive form the many and varied resourc'
es Of the county. No single product
Of the soil has been Intentionally
neglected.
From this summary one can readi-
ly understand the prosperity Of the
people of this section. Maury county
has not been favored by any boom; it
has been no war bride; little govern
ment money has been expended here.
Its prosperity comes from the safest
and surest foundation of all. 1t is
] based upon the productivity of the
soil.
Properly titled and conserved the
wealth of this county is inexhaustible.
The well cared for farm is the only
source of wealth that yields its in
creased returns year after year with
out ever impairing or drawing upon
the original storehouse. With cor
rect system of agriculture the farms
Of this county will be just as produc-
tive hundred years from now as they
were last year and all that time they
will be contributing millions of dol
lars annually to the prosperity and
well being of the people.
While our farms produced an i'm
ynenso sum last year, when proper
consideration is given to our print
tvs methods yet unfortunately too
much in vogue, it is scarcely an exag-
geration TO say that the returns are an
inconsiderable portion of what is pos
sible. Basing our agricultural devel-
Opment upon the live stock indus
try, where soil conservation almost
takes care of ITSELF, it does not re-
Quire the eye of prophet to see in
the future vision Of wealth and hap
piness for our people that will far sur
pass anything we have known in the
past.
Maury county is probably as well
adapted by nature to the growth and
development of live stock-hogs, cat
tie, sheep, horses and mules-as any
similar area upon the face of the
globe. We have an almost ideal eli
mate; the county is magniicently wa
tered, the limestone in soil and water
will develop bone impossible with
out it, Blue grass at once the hope
and the glory of our farms, is indigi-
nous to the soil Corn, that greatest
of all farm staples, the bread and
meat Of a great majority of the inhabi-
tants of America, comes to its fullest
fruition here. There is charm about
our hills and valleys, our clear crystal
streams, our sky line; our changing
seasons that is unsurpassed upon the
face of the earth. Here nature seems
to have combined as she has nowhere
else, the charm of scenery with the ev-
licences Of her abundance. She appeals
in her two-fold combination, to both
the material and the aesthetic eye OF
man.
The Herald believes that taking
them by and large Maury county farm
ers are far above the average for the
state, but that is not sufficient. All
about us we see too many evidences of
a lack of appreciation of the fact that
nature responds only to kind and re-
ciprocal treatment We cannot go on
and on taking year after year from
her storehouse, inexhaustible as It'll
may appear, returning nothing, with
out the inevitable result-bankrupt-
cy. Through proper crop rotation,
ever keeping in mind the development
of our live stock industry as the chief
Cornerstone of our farm system, We
cannot only prevent this but actually
restore our farms to their virgin rich
ness. There are yet too many Scared
and quilted hillsides in the county
where nature intended blue grass to
grow and cattle and sheep to Craze; |
We have too many abandoned fields,
which could be, with little atten-
ton, restored to productiveness. Ma
nure is yet wasted on too many farms;