The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-12-19
INTERESTING FACTS
ABOUT AGRICULTURE
,,oNDERFUL CHANGES HAVE
REEN SEEN IN THE PAST
THREE CENTURIES.
FIGURES MOST ASTOUNDING

Invention of First Reaper Started Era
NJ AGRICULTURAL Development Never
BEFORE Dreamed of. Six Billion Dol
lars for 1921 Crops.
Ham nigh the farmers wintry hoard!
NJ Iean high the golden corn!
NJ r;rber gift has autumn poured
~ ron out the festive horn!
I'' John Greenleaf Whittier.
Can't Tohn Smith came stalking into
.ho rabin. bruskly threw Oft his armor
.nd called to his wife.
anu S,I law, has thee gathered the pump
,;,s rom out the maize held? Our
h nod friend Master John Alden and
Mistress Priscilla are making merry
t g eve and they seek aid IN prepar-
mo hearty repast.
Three hundred years ago and the
f-st harvest in America!
i !" Gould the shades of Capt. John
c.,;+b and his good friends, Master
iobn Alden and Mistress Priscilla, re-
. SG America in this year OF W.
gS s,,ldn,t thew stand amazed at the
E Euu,~. , writes Frank E. Mullen in
4 .Sa cioux CITY, Iowa, Journal.
"I I.,oc;ne if YOU can, the military
I'm Inn Leaning to the seat of a Ford
con and gayly whirling around a ioO-
scre field of macaronl wheat with d
Mccormick binder clicking Oft two or
three bundles minute!
Can Won see Priscilla going down
.oIio- 10 turn on the engine so that
tS ,n' mornings washing would be done
INV s o'clock? Meanwhile Master Al
5or and his crew would HE forth to
4 56.,rre field of maize and have 1t IN
Tlo or two by SHUTDOWN!
George Forgets Smokes.
Or a few years later and George
Washington, tuning around the mouse
s because he forgot to stop at the cigar
store and lay in his usual supply OF
smokes for the day. Mrs. Washington
had thrown his old dirty pipe away
and George had nothing to smoke,
Wouldn't it be fun to see Ben Frank
lin come buzzing down the street IN a
bakery auto delivery truck with
trnct load of bread instead of that
single loaf with which he invaded Phil
4 adelphia; Ill.,
hundred years. and how America S
harvest has grown! First Thanksglv-
81 ING dav. and the hardy toretathers
kneelng humbly to thank merci1ul
& Providence for a harvest that Wouldn
q feed the average city today. 1t was a
3 wonderful harvest for them, but think
4 OF the harvest of today A few hundred
& folk to iced then, now hundred or
more million souls dependent upon
&that harvest. Harvest for America and
harvest for the world.
Then, the little band of pioneers de-
pendent upon the mother country lot
& practically their entire subsistence
81 Now the mother country coming TO
America for bread.
s. Did the colonists appreciate the mar
@vest?
That they. did every school boy
&mows, and indeed those foretathers
oi ours had visions of the vast empire
that would one day be this country
Noblest Profession of Man.
Even George Washington, foremost
& american, glimpsed the tremendous
Horticultural resources of the country.
Washington it was who said: Ayr,
&cuture. the noblest profession OF man.
For in the development OF these
United States of America agriculture
has played the star" part. Agriculture
8has made" this country. How for
*tunate it was that those early tore
#FatherS should have given all honor 10
fhe meager harvest, thereby setting an
example for America to follow. Irib-
pic to the harvest. We pay 1t every
year
Picture the harvest OF colonial times.
A scanty harvest it was, too. Inc
Pilgrim fathers out garnering the re-
EuIts OF the crude springs planting.
s#mst experiments with the Indian S
q maize" What would the Pilgrim
Father say if they could see the great
tor crop of the corn belt?
Everything raised was used first
Hand. Mighty little surplus in those
lays, wasn't there? 1t was a lucky
Rarmer who could raise enough extra
produce to exchange for such luxuries
chart from England.
s. The agricultural history OF the Unit
"a Sta explains that period in Amer
ra's aevelopment as the "self sufhc-
70 stage of agriculture. Farmers
ere >ei-sufficing, that is, they raised
enough to live on and no more NO
urpu TO market, no money to trade
Rralh for, in fact no market for farm
roduct,.
Owe Debt to South.
o the south this country is inde6ot-
Tor he beginning of commerrcializ-
agriculture. The south soon d1scoV-
cd that more money could be made
growing cotton and tobacco. But,
SrtorCe, the south must live, and It
as bur a short time until the south
quite dependent upon the north
Its food. Meanwhile the northern
rmer discovered that by growing a
arpu~ OF foodstuffs he could Obtain
li7eieat money with which to buy
cotton and tobacco of the south.