The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-08-05
Resources of North. Carolina.

Resources of NOrth-CarOlina.
With genial climate, a soil fertile in tim
her of all descriptions, and favorable to the
growth of epsry vegetable, fruit and grain
known in the temperate ATTITUDES, and some
productions of the tropical, little is left to
desire. We have numberless estuaries and
sounds alive with the finny tribes, and only
awaiting the judicious employment OF capt.
tai and labor to make handsome compe-
tency to all, and fortunes to some that may
engage in the fisheries. Not only do our
coasts present an unbounded supply OF edl-
BILE fish, which always find ready sale
among all classes at remunerative prices, but
nothing that the fisherman catches is with
out value. Fish guano has been proved to
lie splendid fertilizer, and with proper
system of saving and preparing the varieties
not fit for food, and the surplus of that fitted
ior it, such quantities could be prepared as
would soon drive out of the market all the
highly priced manures, which are annually
imported into our State. Another vast
source of wealth exists in the extraction OF
oil from the larger varieties, such as the por-
poise. shark and sunfish. This kind OF oil
being the best adapted for the lubncation OF
all kinds of machinery, as well as being ex-
tensively used in the more delicate pieces of
mechanism.
Both the soil and climate have unsur-
passed capabilities for the profitable culture
of the whole grape family. One valuable
variety of which, the Scuppernong, is indi-
genous to our State. The profits of wine
making can hardly be overestimated. A
single bushel Of fruit will express upwards
of two gallons of pure juice, which, at a
small expense, can be made into a generous
and profitable wine that will give clear
profit to the producer of 50 per gallon.
The only draw back to grape culture is
this, that it takes to years to come to
its full yield. But what is that in COMPARE
son to the recompense afterwards rcaped
continuously? This country now contains
thirty five millions of inhabitants, who con-
sumo annually, enormous quantities OF wills
key, liquid that, however innocuous when
taken in moderation, is in ninety-nine cases
in the hundred alike detrimental to health
morals and pocket How would it be were
we to make good healthy wine that would
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need only to look for an answer to France,
Spain and Italy for reply. There wine is
cheap and a drunkard is Il raru auis. Hith-
eric, owing to the peculiar institution,
cotton and corn have been the great staple
productions, the one for home consumption
and the other for cash sales to foreign ma
tions. And an unlavorable year for one OIL
the other became an evil of enormous mag
nItude in many cases entailing utter ruin
No excuse now exists for this state of things
Let us not trust to one particular crop. Try
varieties, and then should the season be un
favorable to one kind, you have the Others
to fall back on, and loss and want are pre-
vented. White beans are u crop admirably
adapted to our light soil, and are now bring
ing in Boston 81 per bushel, for the Yankee
cannot do without his baked beans ant
pork, or his beau soup, and in this he show:
his shrewtlness, for the white bean, in add
ton to beng palatable article of food, Ii
the most nourishing we have, containing a:
it does 96 per cent Of nourlshment. Space
will not now admit of our going into further
details of the vast capabilities of North Car
DINA, but we shall continue the subject a
an early dute.