Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-09-18
Rread Is NIade.-Make Meat.

The pIauters of the South have done well |
in planting cereals so largely as to ensure |
sufficiency of bread and feed, at least until
another crop shall mature next sumner
But they should not relax their vigilant work
of preparatiou against the chances OF the |
tntnre There is much for them to do which |
they should do as thoroughly as what has al
ready been done. They must make meat as
well as bread, and one of the first steps to be
taken is the planting OF winter gram as ex-
tensively as possible. Let this be done every
where, and it will ensure supply oil bread
stuff, which will authorize them to use from
their abundantly stocked cribs a suflclency
of the corn they have made TO fatten hogs
and beef cattle for killing.
A large. unprecedented yield OF corn has
been secured everywhere throughout the
South. Let the planters all thoroughly un-
derstand and appreciate that their feiio" ag-
riculturaists everywhere have done as Wen
as thry-that every sectlonn mas yielded
surplus of corn, and that there is no chance
OF a general scarcity occurring aud hign
prices supervening. Let them understand
| this. but let them also understand that there
| is use for this surplus; that if they save 1t
| up in their cribs they may Que day discover
| that though they have plenty OF corn, they
have no meat, and that there is none to buy
| in the market save at rIlnous prices. An
immense army has to be fed, and Its proVis-
| ions will be drawn from the great markets OF
supply, aud will probably nearly exhaust
| them before the new era shall be inaugurated
| when these markets will rely on new sources
| for REIMBURSEMENT and be stocked with the
surplus meats made in the South.
Let every planter convert bis surplus corn
into meat-pen up his :" STOCK hogs, stali
his :" beef cattle" and use every effort to
make enough meat for his own use, go that
his demaud may not come into market in
l .,;t ,of of Ot
poor people who have to buy and force up
| prices. The smoke house and cattle pen
| should now divide the attention OF the plant
er with his cotton gin, and there are lew, IN
| deed, who will find themselves unable 10 put
up enough meat between now and the last
frost of spring to " last them through" III
: provision. cannot be bought they must DC
raised, and if every planter VIII give
heed to the work there will be abundance OF
, every plantation and cheap market tor thu
, masses and the government next spring
II We couture our planter readers not TO re
, lax their forecast under the assurance ina
: s.the South cannot be starved out" L. can
= not be starved out If they will prevent II
|. but unless they exert themselves to do so !
!, | NAV have to live principally on breadstun
: for a few months. Let them plant abund
| ant lands in wheel, and unhesitatingiy cor
!. | vert all the corn they can spare into por
: and beef, and the country will lack no neces
: sity nor comfort of subsistence. The hig
= prices of staple meat stuffs even now earnes
. iy sdmonish them to such course; for thoug
!, there is positively no absolute cause wn
= nork. beef and bacon should now be as big
- as they are, yet there is no doubt but ths
~ the same causes of speculation and apprehel
:. s;on which have forced these articles to the
present quotations will force them to sti
- higher figures. Let the SPECTATORS be ball
:, ed. our government and poor be supplied
" fair prices, aud our planters be indePende
Of The tricks of tradesmen and ..masters
NJ their own uositions.u Let them make Il
4. plantation self sustaining, and the who
-, Soutb will be so.-Mo5le Advertiser.