The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1871-01-13

in period Of ten years, if the whole
population, with recruits from othel
States and from Europe, should unite
all their efforts and their industry
for the accomplishment of so CRANE
an object. The combined value 0
all other products is even now mate
rally larger than the value Of cotton
but the proportion should be increas
ed until it shall stand at least five t.
one. The cheapest beef and cheap
est wood produced in the country are
now the product of the grasses of tho
! Gulf States.
The annual sales of animal pro-
ducts should soon be made to exceed
greatly the value of the cotton crop.
! The wine industry of France produ-
ces three hundred millions of dollars
annually, and supports a populatio n
of six millions.
Then why shouId not your sunny
slopes, best suited to wine production
of any section of the continent East
Ofthe Rocky Mountains, compete with
the foreign vineyards, at least in our
own markets.
There is no reason why we should
send abroad for pound Of sugar,
though our home production was last
year but ten per cent. ofthe consump-
ton, when Louisiana alone has suita-
bic lands of sufficient area to supply
the present wants of the country
Your fruits, in wonderful variety
including those of the tropics, the
products of which figure largely in
our imports, should annually add
millions of dollars to tho wealth of the
country. Scores of new and useful
plants should be added to the list Of
those already in cultivation. ] am
yearly adding many through the De
partment of Agriculture, among the
most promising of which, the present
season, are the Corchorus for juta
and the Cinchona, which yields The
quinine. | shall continue these ex
periments of acclimatization, hoping
to render you material aid in you
efforts in diversyfying your agricul
tural industry. In close connection
with this idea of variety of produc
ton, permit me to present my thirc
item of counsel.
MANUFACTURE YOUR OWN COTTON.
If England, by the magic oflabor
can make n dollars worth of your
cotton produce two dollars, and il
France, by still more delicate manip-
ulation, can make it yield three,
why should mot your people, with
willing hands to work, and abundant
water and fuel for power, manufac-
ture a large portion of your crops, at
least into yarns and coarse fabrics,
and thus add to the annual value of
your industries hundred millions
more Thus you may save freight,
storage, commissions, the profit OF
manufacture, and build up local
markets to consume more of tho
edible products of your agriculture
Here, in Augusta, you have fur
nished notable illustration of thu
feasibility and profit of manufactur
ing, in an enterprise of magnifcen
proportions, two-thirds of the capita
of which has come from its own ne
earnings. You have already othe
similar works, and should ESTABLISH
them in every. direction, enlargin;
them from their own profits, until
large share of your cotton shall b
manufactured within your owl Dor
ders.
Manufacture is allied to agricul
turc, while commerce is an eXpen
sivc non-productive go-between.-
There are few interests of agricul
ture which do not involve manufac
[ ture. In dairy farming, milk i
t sold with no aid of manufacture, eX
cept as it is extended" by aid 0
the pump, but cheese and butter arr
the products of manufacture, which
last year yielded the value of S246,
100000. Flax and hemp can only
reach the market through certain
processes of manufacture; whea
must be thrashed, corn shelled, hop
carefully kiln-dried SO many otheI
crops indeed, the farmer mus
necessarily be a manufacturer. Higl
farming is always and only found ii
connection with manufacturing skill
in extending the raw products of ag
ricnlture; and no purely agricultur