The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-02-25
Home Products and Manufactures.

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The lesson taught to the people of the
West by the "hard times" which followed
the financial crisis of 1857, and the effects
cf5which are still everywhere visible. was
the necessity of Giving within themselves"
and relying upon its own resources. Not
only that. they should not buy more than
they bad means TO pay for. but that they
should not buy anything from abroad which
they could produce at home. To be sure,
the people were slow to learn this lesson.
They had been over-buying. over-trading
and over-speculating to such a degree that
immediate retrenchment seemed impossible
Thousands of spectators and merchants
found their Occupation gone," and did
not relish the idea of "going to work" to
make a living.
But. though slow. the remedy has been
tolerably effectual. The bankrupt mer-
chants and corner-lot operators of the ''dusb
times" are being gradually transformed in
to frugal. thrifty farmers, and Tin moder-
ate way) manufacturers. In Iowa the
farmers in many districts of country have
formed themselves into joint stock associa-
tons for the manufacture of agricultural
MISUNDERSTANDING themselves to buy
no imported implements new impetus
has been given 70 the growing of The Sor-
ghum and the manufacture of syrup and
sugar therefrom. Broom corn, tobacco,
&C.. are also raised in larger quantities than
ever heretofore small establishments for
the manufacture of earthen-ware have been
erected in many neighborhoods, the inhabi-
tants of which had formerly been in the
habit of purchasing that necessary article
of domestic commerce and comfort from
abroad. In these, and hundreds of other
ways, the work of retrenchment has been
going on. So in Illinois and all the other
Western States. In Minnesota the atten-
ton Of the farming community has also
been turned to the growing of wool-which
can more readily be turned into money than
any other product-and this, too. though
the eli mate of Minnesota is severe, requir-
ing great care to prevent the sheep from
dying during the winter months from the
effects of the cold.
This lesson of the ''hard times" ought not
to be lost on the people of Kansas. They, of
all communities in the West, need to prac-
.tice economy, and encourage the produc-
ton in their midst of-as near as may be-
all the necessaries. and many of the luxu-
Eies of life Every farmer should not only
raise what pork and beef he needs for his
own use, but also some to sell. Il will
bring cash at some price. Every farmer
should raise wool. not only for his own use.
but for sale. Wool will better bear trans
portation than any other product, and can
be raised with but comparatively little risk.
If wool can be proftably raised in Mime
sofa and Texas, it certainly can be in Kansas,
with its advantages Of soil and climate
More attention should be paid to the manu-
facture of syrup and sugar from the Sor-
ghum. There is nothing more certain than
that. with exercise of proper skill, the pro-
duct of the Sorghum can be made more pal
atable than the hest of Refined New Orleans
syrup, and this forms one of the staples o.
domestic consumption. Hemp can be pro
duced probably in Kansas as in Missouri
THIS article is always in good demand. ane
the price is correspondingly good: Th'
clay found along our streams can be usee
to good advantage in the manufacture o
earthe n ware-yet we believe that there il
not single manufactury of this article il
Kansas. This should not be.
with the growth and production of thes'
staple articles the immense drain of moneN
from Kansas TO Missouri and the East vii
not oaly be stopped but the money vii
come back to us for the purchase of on
products. Emigration will also increase
and with this increase of population win nat
urally and inevitably come an increase. o
business of every kind, and quickening o
educational. religious and social impulses
With the growth of wool and hemp will, il
due time, come manufactures for Its CONVEX
sion into fabrics, which will make market
not only for the raw material at our owl
doors, but also for all other farm products
Our people cannot act 800 soon uPo1
these suggestions. Their own interests an
those Of Kansas demsnd change of tn
ruinous expectation Of money for article
and products which can be easily produces
at home
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