Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-10-02
AgrfeuIfurein tbe sou,n.

One Of the most interesting problems OF tue pres
ent time Is the condition Of southern sgEisuitare
The whole north Is interested in southern pros-
perlty, no one in the north rrore 50 than
northern farmers. With soa.hern prosperity
proportion as northern manufactures are in de-
mand, whether in the south or elsewhere Is
there an increased market for the product of
northern farms. There are abundant reasons
besides this why northern men wish Wen 70 the
south. Its part OF cur oEn cognsrv-part OF
one great human brOtherboOd-but We choose
for our present purpose TO put the matter
solely on the ground Of our pscanlsry interest
and material pros peTity.
That southern agriculture is immensely be-
hln1, ana neets tremendous push forward, is
not a mere northern opinion, bat comes TO US
trcm the most intelligent southern sources.
Thousand OF acres are yet 70 be brought under
culture, aud much Of that which has been titled
las not been developed to half its capacity.
The land Is rich naturally, IN 2aauy cases equal
30 Tar as the production of its special crops are
concerned 10 the Tich soils OF ths prairies in
relation to their special productions. And
there Is considerable resem 5lsncs to the agyi-
culture OF the two sections ia this that the soils
are treated as If the richness was insxhaustfhle
and the product may be shipped away wear after
year thousands or miles, without the necessity
OF returning any part Of il to the soil. There Is
TINS difference, however. The west Is receiving
continual influx Of new men. Those who
exhaust the soil move or, leaving as they sup
pose Dry bones for their followers to p;ck. But
the marrow is still there. He who from the
east mas made crops 10 grow in granite rock
mus almost paradise yet in the ruined gar
- 'AC -AuAAls NuO ltcCSNSU a n. Tie
knows how TO ill the hungry stomach OF tue
eartb, and get "pOwer of work out OF Il which
the former landowner never dreamed. A SINH
lar field Is opened in the south. The southern
man cannot do it. The man who skins the
prairie soil, might stay there for ever and
sCarve all the while. He has to sell out 10 the
new conner before the reEenerated change
comes. The law is universal, and as tru5 sCuth
as west: New men bring in the new ideas aud
not until these new men get a foothOd on south
err heldsi Will southern agriculture change.
But the men who go there must be men who
go there as agricultuTiStS, who understand
agriculture, and whose chief end IS the usual
objects or agricultural life. The man whs goes
there "merely to show what can be done :" de-
serves considerable credit for philanthropy,
put generally makes mess OF it. Our whilom
friend, TlltOn, went down after the war to do a
little IN this line, and returned without glory
declaring however that he would have succeed
ed put for the cotton worm. Perhaps a gem
ulne northern farmer would have Paris gresued
the wretched caterpillar, or circumvented it in
some way; but mere clover of his fellow man.
Is not the one to think of anyth ing of this kind
But the men are; and it is for the south itself TO
decide how to get them there.
The best plan probably would be to take their
thousand acre tract and cut them up into hun.
dreds or less, and offer inducements for whole
colonies of settlers to get together. These ought
10 be not too far away from business-cantres,
but convenient TO shipping points. What has
been done in Vineland and numerous places
west, could surely be repeated in the SOUTH
In this way the new south may be realized
Germantown Ttlegrdph.