. The Southern States. e grass, and themerchants, instead of selling these articles tothe farmers, are buying from them and ship-ping to Savannah. There is plenty of corn tobe had at fifty cents a bushel. One merchantwho sold seventy-three boxes of meat last yearsaid he had only sold one this year, and othermerchants were found with meat in stockwhich they could not dispose of. At Cairo,down in southwest Georgia, the farmers seemedto be particularly well situated, having plentyat home and buying nothing. In Worth countyit was asserted that the farmers had not boughta pound of meat this year, a
. The Southern States. e grass, and themerchants, instead of selling these articles tothe farmers, are buying from them and ship-ping to Savannah. There is plenty of corn tobe had at fifty cents a bushel. One merchantwho sold seventy-three boxes of meat last yearsaid he had only sold one this year, and othermerchants were found with meat in stockwhich they could not dispose of. At Cairo,down in southwest Georgia, the farmers seemedto be particularly well situated, having plentyat home and buying nothing. In Worth countyit was asserted that the farmers had not boughta pound of meat this year, and that they had5000 busheis of corn to sell. The consequenceof this happy state of affairs is that the farmersare not worrying their minds about the finan-cial situation, as the people in the cities aredoing. One farmer sized up the situationprettv well when he said: I have fat horsesand mules, fat cows, fat hogs and plenty ofcorn in the barn. I owe nobody, and I dontcare a continental if every bank in THE Southern States, AUGUST, 1893.
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