The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1873-08-08
than four times the size Of Georgia.
The wheat crop Of France is $780,
900, 1000 Of bushels---ours is about as

The wheat crop of France is $780,
900, 900 of bushels---ours is about as
we have said, 100000 bushels. -
Would it be believed that France,
the frivolous, raises more wheat by
| 5O,000,00G Of bushels, than the
whole United States. She sends to
England alone eleven millions doll
lars worth Of butter, while the Unit
| ed States barely exports nine mil
lions Of breadstuffs. In 1869, the
last year in which full returns we're
made, France produced 100000, J.
600 bushels oats. we l70,000,000.
She raised 70,000,000 bushels, Of
rye against our 20,000,000; co.
/ 900, 900 barley to our 1000, O0O.-
France had in that year 100000
Of horses and mules, we 4,250,000I
j 100000 Of meat cattle, the Unit.
cd States $4,000, 900, and 100000.
600 ofsheep to our $4,000, 000.--
She had half as many swine as this
hoggish country boosted, and ex-
ported more value in eggs than we
did OF hams--being an excess Of
So, 900, 900 worth.
The population of France At the
date Of this comparison was almost
| precisely that Of the United States,
being about 3s, 100000.
This wonderful exhibit Of thrift
and enterprise is made BY people
that flippant critics are in the habit
Of thinking do nothing but dance and
fight. 1t is richly worth our while
Ito ponder long and profoundly upon
such results as the French people
have given to the world, And the
very first thing. that arrests our at
tcntion is, that while we know that
these results have followed upon
high farming and the most intelligent
use of fertilizers, that there are only
about twelve millions Of acres in the
whole State appropriated to mead
ows; of course, then, all these four
millions Of horses and mules, these
twelve million cattle, six million
swine, and thirty millions Of sheep
must have been for the most part
provided for in closes, and could not
have had the benefit Of extensive
ranges. The sheep walks Of her
mountains are about all the range
worth speaking Of, which France
provides for her stock.
How then are we to explain thu
fact Of all this wonderful production
and universal plenty. Perhaps Of
the .ssmall farm" theory and upon n
other. The .ssmall farm, we'll till
ed" tells the tale. There are il
France three millions Of farms con
tanning less than ten acres, and tn
average size Of farms for the entir'
territory is something under fifteer
acres. Held in fee simple, this sub
/ division Of territory has given tbs
world the most astounding evidence
Of the infinite productiyeness Of the
soil when fair justice is rendered II.
II has resulted ia the instance o.
France in an annual production and
universal contentment of her rural
population that is nearly unexafl-
pied. 1t has not only given mag
nifcent material success, but ita
moral influence has been almost 81
4 great. While there ere in the Unit
Cd States two millions Of self-expa.
4 triated Irish, five hundred thousand
1 English, one hundred thousand
Scotch, fifty.four thousand Swiss
forty three thousand Norwegians
and one and half millions from
boastfuI and dominating Germany,
YOU cannot count in all this land
moro than one hundred thousand
Frenchmen---or, until the hard fate
Of Alsace and Lorraine, this was the
case. A Frenchman has no beggary
or hopeless stcrility to run away
from, and he has always had q gov.
eminent that did not regard the en-
| tire material resources Of its people
beneath the contempt Of a fine speak
or, or the feeble efforts Of agricultur-
al society worthy Of ridicule. But
in these respects France Is long
ways behind Georgia, and she may
draw lessons from our statesmen and
our Legislative wisdom how to make
the industrial interests Of State
dwindle themselves to death In the
shortest time, and bow penny wis
dog and pound foolishness may be
Illustrated IN the greatest number of
summing instances.