| Show FROM THE SUNNY SOUTH geo laugh tells cf the condition of the farmers where he Is station ed says the farmers of uintah should be content Jacks fla aug an 22 12 1901 editor vernal express Rec receiving ehing as I 1 to do man letters from kind and friends in all parts of our beautiful realm and not having haing the time ht my command omni and to answer each one of them cthel I 1 blidt a little space in sour valued columns to reach them and my other friends in a ge leral way ay thus far in my labors I 1 cark can report nothing but pleasant experiences I 1 liae brini to t labor in tho florida conference tile tho laigast con I 1 lewsin ameilla Aine flea WID vp liane hae twenty flie elders alders and a nd about mem melberk berk there re hilio have been eon more than ono one bundled baptisms hele in the last six months much of tile the pre judice existing liere here has died out and our liders as a rule aie treated with respect tile tho people are hospitable and kind but the moral status will permit of yf cle elevation with I 1 out injury A common thing to see whole families made and female us I 1 ing to tobacco baco perfectly unconscious of tho the harmful effects their mode of living could well be improved but not justly censured cen suied hog and homony Is the principal diet in localities but as the soil climate and conditions fostek their production product lan and as other articles of food moie suited gutted to this southern climate are hard to obtain one can but i egret the use of such an un healthful diet thene Is no getting rich in this county it is a struggle for an ex in tile tho tobacco regions tho the financial condition is distressing pl clevious evious to the panic tobacco boomed inen Ini invested ested immense for fortunes tulles in tobacco plantations it Is a coin common nion thing to see an eighty acre field all conried over anith lat at tico woi k to tg aliade the tobacco to make the leabes thin for cigar wrap pers and large barns erected jn in which the tobacco leaves are dried the cost of such a plantation is about per acre figure that up and you hane hae an enormous expense to fit out one farm many of these daims are idle and others converted to the production of corn you ask why Is ita it well vell it I 1 is a case of a bad business overdone ON I 1 he IN e deais s ago such land would produce from four to five hundred collais per acre at a cost of adolt one hundred dollars a capital went wild and in can consequence sequence enough tobacco was mas produced in a few sears ears to glut the market for years to come I 1 have hane heaird business men say that if all at the ita in tile the tobacco dis tricks was sold today to day it would not pay fifty cents on oil the dollar of the debts of the people so you see aee that the west la Is not the only country that is cursed bv tobacco wages are low and Is scarce good men can call be hired in abundance at from fifty cents to 0 o one dollar and fifty and they to board Ne A farmer notices the farms and as I 1 i rather talk about the farms von t nil the preachers I 1 ft glio give you an idea of farming in the bouth the frI loNing figures ore axe lec elved from loa ina diniz alln farmere farm farn eie icis and I 1 give them to ou alth the hope that our dauns fauns f arms ill magnify as is you read these fig u aes ues es the florida eoll is no soil at I 1 an it is just an ocea 11 hed and con sars bi fine white sand nothing NOi nothing hing etri cm be taken from it until chii r ething ethling is put on it now the fig inks HUB A coin chop t fei r per aci alcie e 2 50 coat of applying per ier acre I 1 00 of crop hai i esting total 6 10 held ten tell bu at fcc per are acre billon average cost of production 1045 10 45 per acre average yield LI f tin 1050 A good man can tend tibee ii acrea of cotton and faill ill hive lor his 3 ears bears work nork now sa 3 farmer of uintah look taso figures over oner carefully and then 00 1 0 out and pull the weeds out of your bof tut tuf s GUO GEO A |
