Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-07-04
SOUTHERN LIVE STOCK FOR THE
ENGLISH MARKET.

10 Lne Union and American:
GLASGOW, No. 1873 WEST GEORGE ST.,
June 20, 1s75.-I have read with pleasure
in the "HighlaRders newspaper an excerpt
from your article on the export Of cattle
from Texas to the English markets and it
has occurred to me that it might be found
Of advantage to attempt a similar expert
meut with regard to Scotland by importing
to Glasgow.
Can you kindly put me in correspon-
dence with a gentleman or gentlemen will
ing to enter into negotiations with a view
to beginning operations in shipping cattle
to Glasgow?
am Of opinion may be able to secure
the services of steamers if all else can be
arranged.
ApoIOgizing for troubling you, / am your
obadient servant, JAMES S. DENARD.
We are gratifed that the UNION
AND AMERICAN has been the means Of
attracting the attention OF at least one
live man in Great Britain to the sub
ject mentioned in his letter. The prac-
teal details of the information sought
by him shall be obtained and forward
ed with the least possible delay; mean
time, we cannot Go better than call the
attention Of thepeople of Tennessee to
an interest that must commend itself to
the favorable regard of every one con-
cerned in Southern prosperity. Glas-
gov is a large and 1ourishing city,
and presents 10 our farmers a reliable
market for all frste!ass meat animals,
whether fat cattle, sheep or swine. We
may not at present be able to furnish
the class Of stock demanded; but if we
never turn our attention to the eco
nomical production of meat for distant
consumers We shall never have any to
sell, nor gain an income from this -un-
developed industry. The South Will
have large crop Of corn for feeding
this fall; it is already made in more
than half Of Georgia, Alabama, His.
sissippi, Louisiana and Texas. The
crop was never more promising in Ten
nessee.
1t would be great agricultural and
financial mistake to ship corn, rye,
wheat and oats TO England to be con-
verted into meat, when it will take
from five to seven pounds Of grain to
make one pound of any fsttened ami
NAL, involving the double loss of a
vast amount Of manure, and Of trans.
portation. An Englishman writing on
the. grain and cattle trade between Hi
nois farmers and British consumers,
says that fat cattle, sheep and hogs
are worth fifteen dollars per l00pounds
live weight in London, Glasgow and
Liverpool, and that good butchers
stock is in great demand. He wants
corn shipped to England and Scotland
for feeding purposes. Instead of do
ing so foolish a thing, let US manufac-
ture meat of q quality that viii give
entire satisfaction. Last year our
corn crop was short, and our means Of
raising god stock unusually limited !
by severe drouth, and the ravages Of |
insects. Texas is probably better of, |
but time must elapse before the trade |
can be established on a firm basis. !
Farming lands must go down in En-
gland or 60 up in Tennessee. They |
viii hardly depTeCiate in Great Britain |
or on the continent, which is but few |
miles distant, with their re-
markable increase of popula.
ton and wealth. Land viii |
advance rapidly N the South so soon as
the people learn the Bible truth that
So all flesh is grass, and act according
". Our people fail to realize that a
large fat steer is worth three hundred !
dollars in the London or Glasgow |
market.
Fat steers, heifers, pigs, and lambs
come to their breeders and owners by |
liberal and regular feeding. Here is a
home market for all the Hungarian
grass, millet, oats, hay, stock peas,
COOLERS, green barley, rye, wheat, corn
and other crops, that can be grown in
our very productive soil and climate.
Fields that have already yielded pay
ing harvests Of wheat are already
planted TO corn, potatoes, or some other
,aI crop, if not seeded to clover. As
with the climate of England,
We can feed two thousand inhabitants
IN an area that will hardly support one
thousand IN any part Of Great Britain.
Dur wheat is ripe three months earlier
han the same crop in England; and
not a bushel Of corn will ripen in the
United Kingdom. Our climate adyan-
ages are enduring as time; and the
ever Increasing population on the quite
limited Islands demand every year a
arger amount than ever before of i'm
ported provisions and breadstuffs.