Schley County GaArchives News....."RAISE THEIR MEAT AND BUY NO CORN." March 1 1882
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The Atlanta Constitution  

The Atlanta Constitution  March 1, 1882

"RAISE THEIR MEAT AND BUY NO CORN."

Ellaville, February 27--Editor's Constitution, Atlanta, Ga.--Your letter 
requesting me to give you the names of four or five most successful farmers in 
my county came duly to hand, and I will cheerfull grant your request:  Mr. 
Dupre Peacock is a large planter and succeeds well with wages at eight dollars 
a month and rations.  He raises a greater portion of his meat and never buys 
corn.  He invariably sows a large area in small grain, which I think is the 
true principle of his success.  Mr. Thomas J. Murphy is quite successful with 
croppers or working on shares.  Mr. Thomas J. Dozier the same.  Mr. S.A. 
Sellars is a very successful planter.  He never buys any fertilizers.  He 
raises everything at home.  Mr. C.L. Battle; also Mr. Eli Stewart and quite a 
number more I could name.  Every one of them make their farms self-
sustaining.  It is such planters as these and these only that make farming 
profitable.---E.S. Baldwin.

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