The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1872-10-11
WHERE BEST TO HAVE YOUR
CORN CRIB AND SMOKE HOUSE.

there are TWO sides 10 every ques-
tion. One school Of Political Econ
omists hold thai you should make
every article of consumption, at home
even at a sacrifice. Another con-
tends that your industries should be
confined to those products which
pay the best profit and that you buy
the products Of other sections when
they can be bought cheaper than
they can be produced at home
For instance. no one but a WIS.,
ionary would think Of deyoting
a farm in Georgia TO the culture OF
the Tea Plant, Coffee, or various
other exotics, and why =? Because
there are countries better adapted
to them where they can be more sue
cessfully and profitably cultivated.
Now how is it with Hog and Homi-
nyl Facility Of transportation has
brought your lands of extremely
moderate fertility in competition
with the fertile lands Of the West.
They produce an average of thirty
bushels Of wheat and fifty OF corn to
the acre You turn out an average
of five Of the ore and ten Of the
other. You can't sell either at less
than one dollar per bushel and live.
/ The Western Farmer can flourish
on the receipt of fifty cents for the
one and twenty-five for the other. --
SO with Hogs and Horses. The
The West can raise either and sell
at half the cost of raising in the
South.
When we get skill and dense
population, the Sonth will become
the manufacturing secli n of the
Union, because with these conditions
we can then turn out products
cheaper than other sections. And
then, with the inevitable improve
ment of our lands, Hogs and Homi-
ny, may not be Improbable products.
Even as it is, if we had nothing to
pay better it would be wise to de-
vote all our energy and skill to grain
and stock products "root hog or die. y
Bur, fortunately, Brazil has her Cof
fee, China her Tea and the South its
Cotton. Will it pay? Not a quar-
ter of q mile from this Office, on
common ridge land, ten acres, that
would have produced with the same
culture 25 bushels Of corn per acre,
worth in all not over $500, turns ont
this year Ten Bales of Cotton worth
about $500.
We do not advise the abandon
merit of Grain culture and Stock |
raising, even if cotton yields 500 |
per acre and corn sells at 20 cents
and Bacon at 10. Raise enough for
domestic uses. It is matter OF
pleasure-of convenience, necessary
to alienation, and in the long run
perhaps yielding its cost. But the
farmer of the South knows that he
must produce something that will
Pun or that successful farming and
agricultural progress is impossible.
We have Sugar, Rice, Cotton and
Tobacco and either of the two latter
for the leading products of this sec
ton will yield rich returns With no
more effort i'll Keeping up or improv-
ing our lands than products OF less
value. We are not afraid that Cot
ton will ever rule at an average OF
less than fifteen cents. That will
will pay. Nor are we afraid that
our lands canneI be improved with
continuous Cotton culture. Science
now sheds abundant light upon our
pathway and has shown us how in
creased fertility increased crops
and increasing profits are at our
command,
Cultivate your Clover patches
your grain fields. Rear select and
improved stock. Husband all home
fertilizers. These are pleasures and
subsidiaries in good farming, but not
all sufficient in themselves. Prof
| NElLLE has shown US that farms are
/ not TO be built up on the grass, stock
and manure system You mus, have
other fertilizers and they are now
being variously applied Let us go
forward then and make this lovely
land rich in fertility aud go blossom
a. the rose.