Small Farms

botter times in Qeorgia 11 the (image gradually going on from planting tó fanning, andthe conversión of large plantatiuns in to Miiiill farms which acoompanlea it. The state (,'ominissionor of Agricultura as that " there are twioc M inanv men who own sruall í'arms in Georgia nuw as there wcre five years apro,'" and many cduntle are oited where farms as sinall as 10, 2n and titly UIM are coniíiion. In Oglethorpe County there are tour time as nianv larni of 100 acres as tliere tre n 1870, and tliure i a steady iltinand for land trom POTtOM wlio gradually accuumlatc BUHM) lo liuv itli. The large land ounris are favoiing llip cliange bwaue tliey tind tlmt it i to llielr interest. A i'ew yeari sffo, onc gentleman bouxhf t(K) aeres of land for $1,700 and resten it out to a tenant. It proveil too larae tot one man and the ouner divided it in two farms. These were still too large and the traet was divided in six farms, cach with a family on it, and il is found tliat one funuer nmkes more on 70 acres titan the fint tenant made on the wliolc 400. The tenants liave earned and saved enouh tñóney to buy farms ot their own, and the proprictor must oit her sell them the places tliey live on w thcy Till go clsewhere and buy. Tlie general advantae' to a eonimunity of small farms over large ones is exhibited in more ways tlian one. Not only does it insure bette r cuturation and a Iarjfpr yield trom the same amount of land, but it inrltot imitiigration, niiiltiplics the number of tax-pay!ng farmers, enhances the value of land, and materially reduees the elass of shiftlcss reuters unattaehed to the soil, who have littlc interest in the peneral welfare of the eonimunity. Tbcre is not a Soutkern State that would not be largfly beneflted bv tlie chance that is iroina on in