Farmers About Ozark Teach Art of 

 Living at Home. 



/^\ ZARK is the capital city of the hog and hominy country." 

 ^^y This is the distinguishing characteristic, the thing of 

 which the thoughtful business man of the Dale County city is 

 proudest. The first Ozark man I talked with made the boast. 

 The farming territory about Ozark is the territory of those 

 who live at home. Its people have no smoke houses' in th'^ 

 West. There are no wagons going daily out of Ozark 

 weighted down with store-bought corn and store-bought bacon. 

 They have these things to sell, these farmers of Dale. Wag- 

 ons in other towns of Alabama, too many other towns of Ala- 

 bama, drive out with their loads of Western corn and of Wes- 

 tern meat. They drive into Ozark, wagons from the country 

 around, loaded with home-raised corn and home-raised meat. 



Why, Ozark has shipped meat on the cars, on many cars to 

 Montgomery and other cities. Not in one year only has this 

 been done, but it has been done in several successive years. The 

 farmers about Ozark have, loaned and shipped cars of Dale 

 raised corn to other towns and sections' of Alabama. 



There were said to be farmers, a few of them, and they 

 were named to me, who from year's end to year's end never 

 found it necessary to pay money for anything their fam- 

 ilies' had to have to eat or to wear. No Alabama farmer can 

 grow cloaks and hats, or Java cofifee and Oolong tea. But 

 some few farmers around Ozark have reduced the art of living 

 at home to such a science that they do not find it necessary to 

 pay out money for these household needs, half necessities and 

 half luxuries. They raise and bring to town vegetables' and 

 other products which the merchants need and for which he 

 IS willing to exchange, without the passing of money, part 

 of the stock he keeps for sale. 



ART OF LIVING AT HOME. 



And the things he so exchanges • are but side issues' to the 

 Dale County farmer. His own corn is bursting through the 

 cracks of his crib, his own home-raised and home-cured meat 

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