Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-09-27
Bread is Made--Make Meat.

The planters Of the South have done
well in planting cereals so largely as to
ensure a suficiency of bread and feed, ct
least until another crop shall mature next
summer. But they should not relax their
vigilent work of preparation against the
chances of the future, There is much
for them to do which they should do as
thoroughly as what has already been done.
They must make meat as well as bread,
and one Of the first steps TO be taken is
the planting of winter grain as exten-
sively as possible Let this be done ev-
erywhere, and it will ensure supply of
bresdstufs which viii authorize them to
uso from their abundantly stocked cribs a
sufficiency of the corn they have nado to
fatten hogs and beef cattle for killing.
A large, unprecedented yield of corn
has been secured everywhere throughout
the South. a Let the planters all thorough
ly understand and appreciate that their
fellow agrieulturissS everywhere have done
as we'll as they-that every sectian has
yielded surplus Of corn, and that there
is no chance of general scarcity occur
ring and high prices supervening. Let
them understand this, but let them also
understand that there is use for this sur
plus; that If they save it Up in their cribs
they may one day discover that though
they have plenty Of corn, they have no
meat, and that there is mono to buy in the
market save at ruinous prices. An i'm
mense army has to be fed, and its prsvis
ions will be drawn from the great markets
of supply, and will probably nearly e1-
haust them before the new era shall be
Iinaugurated when these markets will rely
on new sources for replenishment and be
stocked with the surplus meats made in
the South.
Let every planter convert his surplus
corn into meat-pen up his 'stock hogs,
stall bis "beef cattle, and use every ef-
fort to make enough meat for his own
use, so that his domand may not como in
to market in competition with that oi
government and of poor people who have
to buy and force up prices. The smoke
house and cattle pen should now divide
the attention Of the planter with his cot
ton gin, and there are few, indeed, who
will End themselves unable to put uI
enough meat between now and the las
frost of Spring to "last them through.
If provisions cannot be bought they mus
be raised, and if planterswill give heed tc
the warning there will be abundance on ev
cry. plantation and cheap market for the
masses and the government next spring.
We coujure our planter readers not tC
relax their forecast under the assurance
that 'the South cannot be starved out. -
1t cannot be starved out if they will pre-
vent it, but unless they exert themselves
to do so it may have to live principally or
breadstuffs for few months. Let then
plant their abundant lands in wheat, ahC
unhesitatingly convert all the corn they
can spare into pork and beef, and th'
country will lack no necessity nor comfOr
of subsistence. The high prices of sta
pie meat stuifs even now admonish then
to such course; for though there is posi-
lively no absolute cause why pork, bee
and bacon should now be as high as they
are, yet there is no doubt but that tn,
same causes Of speculation and appreheu
sion which have forced these articles II
their present quotations will force then
to still higher figures. Let the specula
tors be baked, our government and poo
be supplied at fair prices, and our pla nter
be Independent of the tricks OF tr AIDES
men and "masters of their own positions 9.
Let them make the plantation self-sus
tanning, and the whole South will be 30
-HoJite Aduertiser.
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