Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-05-08
The Crop Prospects.

The newspapers in every part of the
south are giving much valuable infor.
nation about the Eext crop. Without
a single exception the information is
most favorable. There seems to be
general determination everywhere to
plant more corn this season than usual.
We have never seen such unanimity on
the part of the press in urging this
policy. The Bolivar Bulletin, which,
under the editorial management of Fl.
NJ. and NJ. T.=Polk. is an able and in
teresting paper, says: There is but
one way to safety for the tiller of the
soil. To prosper he must diversity
his crops He must raise his bread
and meat" The North Albanian.
published at Tuscumbia, In discussing
the crop prospects says: The acre
age of cotton planted this year will be
largely reduced by the lands sown in
grain. and the inability of farmers and
laborers to supply themselves with
the means necessary to cultivate as
much as they did last year. The high
prices now paid by farmers for their
meat and corn to make the crop with. |
should force them to pay more atten-
ton to the raising of hogs and corn
and hay this year, for it will not do to |
pay out the whole cotton crop to the
north simply for meat and bread. |
That style of farming after ten years
OF trial, has resulted in failure, and /
always will. Under this style, the
farmers cotton will always be forced
out OF his hands into an early market,
at low prices, and then, toward the
last OF the season, when it is all in the
hands of merchants, the price goes up.
Raise your supplies at home and re-
verse this order, and you will begin to
prosper. We may now look for a rise
IN cotton, to stimulate the farmer to
plant more. Of course he will do it,"
The last Southern Catholic, published
IN this city, says: The cry against
farmers in the south has been that
they do not raise breadstuffs enough,
and this is too true, that the purchas-
ing of all our food supplies from other
sections impoverishes us. Farmers
should raise not only their own sup
plies, but enough for all other grades
OF our citizens. This will keep at
home the money otherwise sent else
where for the same" This is sound
advice, and We believe it will be heed
ed this season for the first time. "Plant ,
all eotton" used to be the cry of the
southern planter, but the experiment
has engulphed the p, anter in the mal
strom of debt, ruin and beggary. An
intelligent writer on this subject asks:
Have you not been told every year
since the war that the heavy planting /
of cotton was your only salvation !
Has 1T saved you? Has it brought in J
dependence and happiness to your /
lomesI Have you not, on the con- !
rary, become more impoverished? If :
{ has not relieved you in the past. how !
'an it do so in the future? You hate !;
o confess that you are poor, and have
Q live hard. don't you? What is the
Inference between confessing the
ruth. yourself, and having your cred
tors confess it for you? Through :.
he cotton exchange your condition is
why not. then, act the !
manly part-cOnfess and shape your
ctions accordingly? Better put your !
louse in order, by stripping yourself of u
verythlng, than be the slave all your
ives of schemers and spectators. :
ou cannot starve by dropping meas 3
reably cotton culture; you will, by q
the necessaries of life, and =
y ignoring an ample supply of bread .
tufts, ruin your credit, exc out mis- u y
rable existence, live from hand to :;
louth, and be kicked about by every = =
ther class. Memphis Appeal. u