The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-02-23
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Farmers Read This.

5pae Farmers Read This
Tho following article taken from. the col
umns of the Memphis Avalanche, is full OF
interest to Youe and it contains great as7d i'm
portant truths that cannot be disputed
Read aud profit thereby: aia squirrels
FooD FooD FooDl This IS tber first,
pressing want of our Southern land In
many portions of Alabama, Georgia and the
Carolinas the widows and orphans Of our
Confederate dead are actually starring
Not from their Sc misfortunes as a CITY CO.
Temporary has it nor from the acts Of their
s friends But, first, n ruthless deh1oH
soldiery marched through theirfelds, destroy
ing and burning as they went, as Edward I
moved through unhappy Scotland, and deyas-
tated the land because the people loved tie
Bruce. Then, before widows and orphans
could repair these damages, came such a
drouth I666) as has not been known. in
thirty years. Want and suffering and death,
IN appalling forms, have visited cur already
woe-strieken people and IN fine the whole
country IS arousing TO the duty of succor
and help. Societies are being formed in al
mostevery county of the South, for sending
food and clothing to the hungry and naked
widows and children of those gallant men
who braYelY laid down their lives that the
South might be free. How commanding is
this call for help. How pleasantly and cheer
lngiy Is 1t answered, from every hill and val
ley Of our own land, though abundance has
not been am0ngu us for years And, even in
thedistant NuFth-the country ruled bv q
factien watch sets the obligation Of com
mon Constitution at defance-eyen there
where we have been foTcibly taught the sad
lesson thatour foes are in power, and do not
recognize US as " in the Union --even their
sympathy has warmed up the human heart
and our friends, at least, are holding meet
ings to aid our suffering poor Could we do
ought else than thank them for this2 Surely
not; and we de SC. honestly, sincerely, an the
name of a sOrrOwing people.
But while the pressing ills Of life are thus
evOking the warm energies of natures bet
ter side, let as not forget here, al. the South.
that another important lesson is thus taught
Us, It is within ourselves to say that this
suffering shall never be repeated among US.
In any year we can raise two or three times
much food as we can consume. Let as do
so henceforth and forever. Give US full
barns, and hay stacks, and we can defy want
As long as we pitch our crops for cotton
alone, trusting to buy from the Northwest
all the food we need, just so long shall we be
liable5tO suffer for food. Every Northern
farmer always has enough food on hand to
last him a year lahead, and if the season
should fail him, he never suffers. though he
may not. grow rich. He always has enough
on hand to feed men and animals, and we
can do so here. We have never been so
foreibly reminded of the value of having
enough on hand for all our wants, as we
were In perusing the following. opinion of
the United States Commissioners Of Agric0l-
ture, touching the advantages Of Northern
and Southern agriculture. liIYho, among 1all
our readers, would have thought that the but
ter crop of New York. in 1860, was worth
twice as much as the cotton crop of Georgia
And yet Georgia has The decided advantage
of being able to produce not only this cotton
crop, which. New Y ork cannot do; bat she
can also raise all the butter she needs; IF she
viii but do il. New Z ork can raise no cot
ton while Georgia can but New Y ork makes
her butter crop twice as valuable as both the
cotton and butter Of Georgia. OF course, if
she has this amOant eoE lhutber, she has the
cattle too; and thus her people live on the fat
of the land. They know nothing Of want,
such as We are now experiencing, and such
as VIC may always -sufierif lyee aIeynOt true
to. ourselves We again . say TO our farmers
aud planters" food 8 food T. This first,
then cotton and manufactures This year
we can lay the foundations for an indepen-
dence that may be as lasting and permanent
as our soil is fertile and our climate genial
Let us 1t, both in justice to ourselves and
to the memory of the great dead whose
bones bleach land they died to make free:
NoRFHERN AND SOUTHERN AoRIoULTgRNffd
The United States Commissioner of Agri-
culture thus expresses his opinion of the
relative advantages Of Northern and South
ern agriculture1Iul a4Ha oi -rG slE1ay sia7
In the South it Is hoped that the great mis-
kpl- of ha nzf fotaf
mainly upon a single and grand division of
productive industry VIII be avoided. In po
liticai economy the smaller products Of adj
versifed industry are far more than an equiv
alent for a single result of organized labor,
however. absorbing or Important. The cot
ton crop, for example, of the Empire State
Of the South, in 1860, was 70I $40 bales,
yielding, little more than S30,000D00, while
the butter trade of New York, IN 1865, one
Of the several products ofthe dairy, 17aales'
timated at $600O0,O00; and yet the census
rives to New York bat 370.9l5 farmers and
farm laborers, aud TO Georgia, including
white farmers and farm 7laborers, ndiionly
the males Of slaves, 3l6f37S persons engaged
in agriculture. Besides the other dairy pro
ducts, milk cream, and cheese, and the null
titude Of smaller products of the farm, the
principal crops make an outstanding aggre-
gate, as in 1864, when the corn crop Of New
York was estimated at$3S, 100000, the wheat
at S25, ,000, 900, the oats, at S38 ,0000 pOta-
toes. at $4,000, 600, hay at $50, 100000. In
cludine the minor cereals, products Of or
ehard and gardens, the production Of beef
and mutton from pasturage, and great va
riety Of miscellaneous and exceptional pro
ducts, the currency value Of the agricultural
productions Of this one State In that year
was far greater than the money returns of
any cotton crop ever produced in the country;
and the gold value Of such products would
be more than equivalent 10 the gold value Of
half the cotton crop of 500
TIE Nes0 Oyder 81 Ihs,1qs.- -Redpath Is
out in the an6islavery Standard FOR three
things which he calls Progress and Improve
ment They are.