The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1873-01-03

sit is manifest that the DAY oil
large planting interests, which the
planter is obliged to entrust largely
to agents, is over. That mode of
operations has ceased to be profita-
bic, and, therefore, will, in the ma
ture of things, cease to be. Any
business which the planter or farmer
connot compass with bis own cons
slant and personal attention, has too
many elements of risk to be safe,
and must be abandoned. We are. be-
ing forced to the point at which the
object viii be to concentrate effort
and apply the aid of science, and so
make small farms produce large
crops-the acre of land which has
hitherto made its fourth, third or
half bale of cotton must, by these
means, be forced to double or quad
ripple its production. "
The Albany News gives us a
practical illustration as fellows:
BoTToM RAIL ON ToP-THREE
BOYS MAKE TWENTY BALES: = Ed
.stor Albany Neaos: | have heard a
great deal said about the hard times,
and the bottom rail getting on top,
and have been bothered to know
what it all means. | think | have
struck it, however. The wool hat
boys and others who went to work
after the surrender, are the parties
that are getting on top and solving
the yexed problem. They are the
ones that are getting greenbacks
and greenbacks constitute the lever
that turns the wheel Of fortune. |
give one example: Three sons Of I.
]. H., of Worth county, this year,
with tive mules, raised twenty bales
Of cotton, and 700 bushels Of corn,
besides oats and potatoes in album
dance. They paid out $50, for la
Dor in chopping out and picking,
and after settling all expenses, in
Guiding bagging, ties,s bacon, etc.
they netted over $1,000, and are
ready to begin anothersyear's labor.
Since the above wasin type, the
writer informs US that two young
girls of Worth, residing near Gin
Town, brought TO market yesterday
the last of their crop-being the
seventh bale. Only think Of it,
young men--two girls produce seven
bales Of cotton, while you are lying
round town waiting for somebody to
offer you situation"
On the manufacturing prospects
South, we have the following from
the N. Y. Shipping List;
"When it is considered how per-
sistently the people ofthe South, be-
fore the war, were opposed to the
introduction of manufacturing enter
prises, and that the present indus
trial prosperity there has been the
growth Of but half a dozen years, it
is evident that we have the begin
nings of movement which must
eventuate ere long in aggregating
upon Southern soil the production of
nearly all varieties Of cotton fabrics.
We are glad to see the South
awakening to the utilitarian impor-
lance of these industries. In the
light Of recent experience, it will be
surprising if factories as remunera-
tive as any in New England do not
speedily begin to dot the Southern
landscape.
With good government in the
South, with submission to the laws,
with full protection to property and
personal rights, with honest and re-
sponsible local governments, all of
which are in the power Of the peo-
pie of that section, capital and en-
ferprise will flow in upon them, and
the development ofthsir natural re-
sources will make them among the
most prosperous communities in the
world"
A writer for the Savannah News
writes of the Great Canal:
Sin regard to the Atlantic and
Great Western Canal, the President
says in his annual message: The
attention Of Congress will be called
during it's present session to various
enterprises for the more certain and
cheaper transportation of the con-
stantly increasing surplus Of the
Western and Southern products to
the Atlantic seahoard. The subject
is one that will force itself upon the
Legislative branch Of the Govern
menr sooner or later, and | suggest,
therefore, that immediate steps be
taken to gain all available informa-
ton to ensure just legislation" The
canal regard as an established fact.
1t is only question of time. The
sooner tits begun in earnest and fn-
ished, the better it viii be for all
4