For years we wiseacres have predicted that a railroad would destroy our magnificent home market for farm products. That we would have compete with t the North, South, East, West, Europe Irope and Stirup. That we would know what low prices were in the way of feed, grain and farm products generally.

Acting on this verdict we started in to winter two cows last fall for the price of one intending to draw from foreign countries for their sustenance if necessary. Hay went up to $21 the short ton and ground feed accordingly, and those cows cost more to keep than the rest of the family. A careful estimate showed that what milk we got cost $1.00 the quart.

Now has not our experience this past winter shown us that we can still sell our farm products at a good price? Straw is selling at 60 cents the hundred right now. Where is the fine market that was going to be ruined?

We ought to pay more attention to our farms. Keep your timber for a rainy day. Those of our old line people who have sold have generally regretted it. They find that they have traded their land for wealth which takes wings and flies away.

There was nothing we wanted so much as a railroad. We had looked forward to it like the negro looked forward to his emancipation. Like him we have found that it has not brought each one forty acres and a mule, and while we couldn’t give it up, it gradually dawning upon us that we will still have to work for a living, and it would be just as well to plant all we possibly can this spring, and then plant another patch or two. We will be better off this fall.

We hold that the theory that we cannot sell farm products at high prices with a railroad in this county is effectually exploded.