Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-09
Farmer On Southern
farms

The New York Times, one OF
the ablest edited and best news
papers from a news standpoint
in the country, suggests that the
people of the South make an
effort to secure the better type
of immigrants to this country to
settle on farms in order to make
up for the loss Of the thousands
Of negroes who have been mi
grating north for the past two
years.
The suggestion, Of course, is
offered in the most friendly and
kindliest manner and with the
sole purpose of helping to re-
build and and rehabilitate the
millions of acres of devastated
farm lands in this section of the
country.
Commenting on the Times
suggestion, the Brunswick News
has this to say:
However, it is a serious ques-
ton as to whether it would be
for the best interest Of this sec
ton or not, the average type Of
immigrants make undesirable
citizens and their customs and
habits would not harmonic with
those of our people who are ma
tive-born and represent the best
in the nation, As Major General
Wood stated in public address
in Boston during the war that
"the purest blood Of the Anglo
Saxon race was possessed by
those people born and reared
south Of the Mason and Dixon
Line"
There is much truth in the
statement and the condition is
brought about more from the
fact that very small percent
age of>immigrants ever settle in
the South. Our people have
been kept free from outside ma
tionahsts in a great measure
which accounts for the pure
American blood Of the Southern
people.
Western farmers would be
blessing to this section Of the
country They are thrifty and
economical in their habits of liV-
ing and know how to accumulate
and improve lands. If q move
ment could be inaugurated which
would encourage and secure col
onies of these people, the South
would profit from their coming
and living with us.
Rather than encourage the set
Element of immigrants, let US
look forward to some movement
which will interest the Westward
farmer in our lands and climate
and offer to them inducements
to locate with us and become citj-
Zens of our State and country.
The Western farmer has hi;
eyes on the South, His land.
have advanced in pece until the
average young farmer is unable
to purchase even a few acres
The Southern climate is attrac
tive to him, after living through
the hard cold. vind-swep
winters of the West.
Here he has II growing
months as compared with six o
seven there. The enormous cos
Of barns and outhouses is saved
for here cattle and hogs requir
very little housing during tn
winter months.
The vanishing tenant system
and fewer negroes in South vii
stimulate Western emigratio
to the South.
While promiscuous foreig
emigration to the South woul,
be unwise and Objectionable
there is a type of emgirant tina
is distinctly desirable
The Swiss farmer, the Gel
man farmer, the French an
Belgian agriculturalist would b
splendid examples for our pee
pie. These people know no
to make every foot of groun
pay for itself; how to cultivat
and enrich the soil rather tina
deprive it of its fertility frol
year to year by failing to pl
back into the soil what is take
out with each growing croI
And, too, these foreign farm
ers know the necessity Of har
work and lots of it.
A few of this~type of farmc
scattered about would furnis
splendid examples and woul
introduced new and better inter
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