The Caucasian. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1874-1875, 1874-05-16
viii We Ever Be Prosperous?

not better to'move to Texas9 etSt
have no hesitation III answering fbs
first question in the affirmative an,
the other in the negative. Our noy
erty and desolation are calf attrlb
utable to ourselves. While the i'll
security of life and property ancl
dent to a government by the igno
rant and dcpraveA, has done Q great
deal; our own beunders have no;
with held THERE intluence from aid
ing and abettlng III our ruin
Our plumbers lbs farming have ac
comp.ished as qnuch f,ankru tcs
and ruin az the FOUNDER and THEY
cry Of carpet-baggers and scala
wags. While possessing IL country
as well adapted for raising hay AZ
the meadows of the East and West
we have bought timothy aud red
top from them, paying more 70,
transportation than the original
price Of the hay Witt, coontry
better adapted to shee!ethaHil TIT
sheerowaI0s OF California or Penn
sylvania, we hardly ever see a s'e'ep
except III q !nanagcrie. With q
country in which horses can be
reared c5eapor than in i{o'Aucl<y
and as fine as in Arabia--wc buy
from Kentucky or from the mus
tangs of Texas. While beeyes and
COWS can bsreared cheaper and as
fine as those of the West, we get our
mich cows from the Grub stock OF
the range and buy our beef from the
tough aud gri,tly steeiso,f Texas.
With a country as susceptible OF
Irrigation as the valley Of the Nile
and an hundred acres OF which can
be planted IN rice and gathered and
cleared for less than it requires to
cultivate and pick twenty-five acres
OF cotton,a. which when cleared
would be worth from fifteen to TWEEN
ty thousand dollsrs, we plant cotton
and buy our rice. With a region
as well adapted to raising wine rs
FRANCE, we have not grape and
buy Sl,r wine from the wine chem
list ot$sBoston. 8 We forego all these
advantages and as many more
which we could name, for inuni2Ing
~ the luxury OF raising cotton and
sugar, which have cost Us on an az
erage, for the last nine years, at
least three cents per pound more
than. Dc have gotten for it. Al
though there is q process by Which
bankruptcy may. be maln to make
tdle bankrupt rich, we 81 not bold
enough to assert that it is appilca
bic to agriculture. We therefore
must abandon cotton and sugar ex-
cept as an outside crop. Let US ron
vert some portion Of our dcsolate,
and half cultivated COTTON fields IN
to meadows for the mower. raStlncs
for sheep, mi'ch cows and brood
mares. Let us appropriate auotiler
portion to raising jay from pea
vines, from hungarian grass, from
alialia--another portion IL oats, al1-|
other to rutabagas, ryt and rescue
grass, tor winter, and remember
that all ting can be conSrted into
mutton or pork or beef oS8a 8,'ls an-I
irlals and that all these arc staple
productions whicl, viii always
bring money. Let some one get
one hundred ). ouhdo~n jt,:cS, even
half bIooas oanI rams OF whole
blood aud make the cxAcrjiY2e,,r.
These lives will produce one nun
dret and fifty lambs worth seven
and fifty dollars, ag nilft
old, and If Nhole .oioods
eight pounds Of wool cach,. worth !
forty cents per pound, (threc h'n-
dred and tWcntNdoilars. making
one thousand and seventy doiIats.
crcs IN. past'ire--ijyo III
bermuda meadow and Ten. jn hun
yarian grass, FOLLOWED by Pea vines
in July, viii prosiI}co all tI:eafood
necessary; an;: ore hand WJtii i ?
pair OF mules and;tWo yoke OF oxen
Will noj only q" Gle work OF DO
ng, planting Sd,.reapin1 bnJ ,nan
are, pillow an,S Plant i've 81 TN
acres of corn beside. We must aban-
Ion the single male and jack pioN
SYSTEM aud aiopftile Improved I'M
elements ot hu~b..ntiry. Pile co+t
II sheds and sheep folds oc;in be
.cadiIy estimated. THIS is the on'-
COX from which we may gIlmltS" III
; smiling futures and i;Ssoine one
viii lnt begin, he will iilR Hist we
lav0 mines III wealth around us
'ichcr than the mines Of California,
u than the rich meadows and ltNu-
liant fields OF the West. such 4
ruth once demon: irate,lgwiil brin.
o olt1 midst thousands of StoS,t :
hearts and willing bands, WHO WiiI
Don make Cur desert fields 10 bloom
nd blossom as tsc rose, ana or
'omcs to smile in peace and plenty.
Ne have 40 hesitation then. ia m
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