Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-31

FIR. j. V. TALBOT, farmer who lives
MI on Route out of Elba, Ala, writes
long and quite interesting letter to
The Tri-Weekly Journal parts of which we
shall quote and comment on. He says:
az must say that day by day The Journal
is getting better in every way.
"I want to say a few words in regard to
the farmer and the farm. There are great
many things about farming that do not
know. There are lot of things l do know.
There is a great deal of hard work and trou-
BILE attached to it. If hard work would have
made a man rich, would long since have
been a millionaire.
when I say I have not made fortune,
some one will say have not managed right.
"I do not believe any man has ever made
fortune by actual farming mean the man
who has actually done the blowing and hoe
ing, and this is what it takes to farm.
Somebody is going to say I am kicker.
Well. think it is time for some kicking to be
done. I mean in the right way. I believe
that if the farming class of people had kicked
long ago things would be different.
''I am glad to say there is some good kick
ing going on by the agricultural class now.
"I know of truth that the farming class
is the worst abused class of people on earth
today. It seems that the motto of the bust
ness world today is to keep the farmer down.
Statistics prove that there is more money de-
rived from agricultural products than any
other one thing in the world and yet the men
who actually do the farming are the poorest
class on earth.
1.-THE poor fool farmer Is the only man to-
day that does not know his business, and he
can't know it. He is like the blind dog in the
meathouse, just grabbing at what he can get.
'T have worked on a farm and farmed all
my life and have done the best could, and
yet have never been able to price or weigh
or measure what I had to sell or what ! had
to buy.
while every other business man on earth
has had laws made to protect and aid him the
farmer has never had anything coming his
way.
1.-THE world today is calling for more cot
ton, more corn, more wheat, more sugar,
more foodstuff, and the farmer has to produce
all this. Yet I daresay that after he and all
his family have done hard years work,
\ when he has to put all this stuff on the mar
ket the price Of everything will go off.
'The price of cotton today is above 80
cents. The farmer is not selling cotton now
Let's see what it will be this fall.
Gas 1 read The Journal and see what the
farmers of Georgia are doing and the interest
The Journal takes in the farmer and farm
ing, just want to say, Go to it, If it takes
kicking, do it, If it takes cooperation, do it.
We thank Brother Talbot for his interest
ing letter and for his kind words about The
Tri-Weekly Journal We. are sincerely inter
ested in the farmers prosperity. To tell the
truth, it is not wholly unselfsh interest. Our
paper cannot prosper unless the farmer pros
pers.
But deliver us from offering "advice." Ever
good advice is the most worthless thing in the
works, when it is unsought. And when 1T Il
sought none of us pays much attention to i
unless it happens to be convenient to do so.
The farmers of the South have had tom