It is a fact that the agricultural depart
ment of the French government has fully
proven (Jiat thirteen (13) acres of laud van
bo made to yield more than thirteen hun
dred (i,3HO) acres. 1. have always been a
doubter on such tilings as this, but at last.
1 doubt, no more, and have loft, tho ohl
homo and tiie old hills where I have scratch
ed for years with scooter plows and razor
back mules and shook hands with lite young
generation to develop a fine modern farm
ami a model (••umtry community.
Il was hard for me to make tiie change.
Hard to give up my seat al tbo old hearth
where I have tVorn tho jam rocks smooth
in the nooks as a resting place for my pipe®.
Hard to give up tiie ohl window where Wb
so much loved to sit and listen to the melo
dy of negro voices as they sounded over
tiie fields and tho ci-y of the ’’Birdsong’’
hounds ns they tr.-tihd Hie ’possum or tiie
coon, but so it is, I have given up associa
tions and opinions, shook hands with pro
gress and shall, with the younger generation
who are brave enough to stay upon the ohl
hills of Georgit. strive to bring to the front
a nevX ora in tiie agricultural pursuits a id
rural homo life.
It is hard io think that, the country farm
houses that sit in the shady groves and by
cooling streams must go. But they must,
for statistics fully show that a great ma
jority of the insanity of women is caused
by tiie loneliness of these sweet places, and
the drift, of people from rural pursuits fully
sustain f-li<‘ idea of man’s sociability—a de
sire to mingle and o’liminglc with others.
