100 A MANUAL ON THE HOG. 



necessary requisite for success in raising them, and yet 

 purchase from States less favored in climate and produc 

 tions. 



Will the farmers of Georgia suffer this reproach upon 

 their farm economy to continue, or will they exercise the 

 care and attention necessary to raise their supply of pork 

 and relieve themselves, individually and collectively, of the 

 tax now paid upon the other resources of the farm, in the 

 purchase of bacon, inferior in quality to that which they 

 can more cheaply raise at home ? There is already a deci- 

 ded improvement in this respect, and it is believed that 

 within the next decade an entire revolution will have been 

 effected, and the smokehouse will again be a prominent fea- 

 ture on every farm in the State. 



It is difficult to estimate the value of the influence of 

 abundant home-raised supplies upon the energy and content- 

 ment of both landlord and laborer, leaving out of the ques- 

 tion its importance in a financial point of view, and its effect 

 upon the honesty of the laborer. 



No agricultural people can prosper and pm chase their bread 

 and meat a manufacturing community may. 



The restoration of prosperity in our State will not be 

 achieved through the organic law, or legislation, but must 

 begin with the indivinual farmer. Our State is, strictly 

 speaking, agricultural, and depends for aggregate prosperity 

 upon that of the individual tillers of the soil. When the latter > 

 by a judicious, self-sustaining system of farm economy, become 

 prosperous, all other classes will participate in its beneficial re- 

 sults, and the aggregation of individuals the commonwealth 

 will prosper. The production of an abundant supply of 

 bacon on the farm will constitute an important factor in 

 the policy which is to effect this much-desired consumma- 

 tion. Georgia farmers must produce their own meat and 

 bread, and some to spare for the towns, before they can be 

 prosperous and independent. Then, and not till then, will 

 Georgia, as a State, take the proud position which her 

 magnificent domain, general climate, productive soil, and 

 varied resources entitle her to occupy. 



