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Mr. P. T. Qiiinn spoke in the same vein, and cited celery as 

 another instance. The custom requires that celery be put up in fan- 

 shaped bunches. To put it up thus and do it rapidly requires great 

 skill and long practice, and yet if the same celery is put up in round 

 parcels it would sell for something like ten or fifteen cents less than 

 if put up in the approved fashion. Of course this is nonsense on the 

 part of the consumer. 



Geokgta. 



The Chairman. — We have a gentleman from Georgia, Mr. 

 Samuel A. Echols, of The Riiral Southerner, published at Atlanta, 

 Ga., with us to day. I invito him to speak on the agriculture of 

 Georgia. 



Mr. Samuel A. Echols, said he had only dropped in with the 

 intention of listening and learning ; nevertheless, he was very glad 

 of the opportunity afforded to sa}^ something for the section of 

 country in which his lot is cast. My paper, he continued, is as yet 

 in its infancy, and the same, to a great extent, is true of our 

 improved agriculture. Hitherto we have had, so to speak, 

 only to drop the seed and gather the harvest, but now a 

 different system must be adopted, for the soils do not longer smile 

 by being simply tickled with the hoe. Still the southern country is 

 a very inviting one ; quite superior, from an agricultural point of 

 view, to the rougher regions of K'ew England and the other States 

 at the north, and what is needed is energetic men to come in and 

 possess the richness of the land. We want accessions of the brown 

 handed from the more sterile climes, and will gladly welcome any 

 and all, and this I know is the sentiment of every Georgian. The 

 young men to the manor born are getting into better ways ; they 

 are working instead of being waited upon, and this fact is full of 

 promise. 'We accept the situation as we find it. We fought for a 

 separate government, but we are not without attachment to the 

 government of our fathers. Slavery is dead, and we are frank to 

 say that we are better of{' without it. The south never realized 

 more from a cotton crop than she has pocketed this year. Mr. 

 Echols further stated that many of the best citizens of the State are 

 northern men, and he closed by predicting that with the new acces- 

 sions of this class which is certain to be made, Georgia, and, in 

 fact, the wliole broad south, will yet be a country second to anj 

 in capacity or charms. 



