The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-07-21

tion of their interests I'm this matter.
You need not be told that the news
paper offers the rbest facilities for
reaching and enlfghtenibg the mind !
and to the editors Of newspapers Il
appeal for their Judgment in the case,
guided, in part. at least, by the evi-
dence about TO be presented.
Massachusetts, with it's dense pop
ulation, home markets for all that
the soil Produces and a market for
some six million bushels Of wheat
ten million or more of corn, for many
fat CATTLE. sheep and hogs brought
from the West, besides esllt meats,
dairy products, fruits, etc, has ex-
ceptional advantages for making and
using cheap manures to enrich her
soil. Large and numerous manufac-
lures supply waste material + from
wool, hides. horns. bones. and many
salts, "a add, at small cost TO the
fertilizing elements offered to far
mers. Fishing and commerce sup
ply plant food drawn from the ocean
or near it, much cheaper than we can
obtain the same commercial manures,
living so far from the sea as we do.
We export grain, tobacco. horses,
mules. hogs, sheep and fat cattle,
and have as yet discovered no de-
posits OF land-plaster, phosphates, or
potash in the State. On an area of
about 1900 square miles lIess than
five million acres) Massachusetts add:
ed to her population from 1850 to
1870, 256,989s ~ With increase of
numbers mainly in cities and viii
lagos, . larger increase. OF wealth in
manufacturing and commercial towns,
with an inflated paper currency in
1870. how much ought the generally
small farms of AIassachusetts4o Al TO have
risen in market value from 1860 to
1870? The State Bureau of Stats.
tics reports them. returned by the
owners. as worth. $l2s.255.s4S, in
Is6O.in gold, and sll6,432, ,7s4 in
1870 in our deprecated. currency.
If we reduce greenhacks to specie.
the depreciation of Massachusetts
farms in the presence of free public
schools. long established, an enter
prising population. with an excep-
tional amount Of cash capital in bank,
and in the presence Of 1,488. .O55 live
yankees, was about twenty per cent.
IN ten years. - Ruin to agriculture
| in the old Bay State is Foreshadowed
in the following statistics. copied
from page "a of the Report OF 1879 :
1.-THE following decreases In peE
centage are shown by the u. S. cen.
sus Of 1S70: ID acres, improved
land 20; unimpFoved Is; cash value
OF farms s.; horses IA mich COWS
20; oxen Sc; other cattle IL; sheep
30; swine 80; bushels wheat n rye
So; Indian corn 35; oats 50 buck.
wheat 81; wool 18 potatoes 5 /; peas
and heans 45; butter 20 cheese So
hay 10; clover seed so; grass seed
90; hops "A; fax 46 maple sugar
60; honey So; beeswax co."
A gentleman living IN Springfield,
owning an exhausted farm, reports
in detail the cost per btlshel or rails.
ing corn on his land. It is two dol.
lars, where large share Of tIsescost
ly raw material must be supplied by
man to make the crop. What would
be the condition ofnine-tenths of the
farmers, and OF all other citizens in
this State. il it cost two dollars tC
produce a bushel Of corn or wheat:
You win say emigrate or starve they
must under such circumstances. z
BY the next centennial celebration
the population OF North America viii
exceed that Of Europe at thia time
and the necessity Of plowing. plant
ing corn, and enltiyating it On very
poor. thrice impoveFished old fields,
will be ten times worse then than II
lis now in Massaehusetts> Since the
first settlement OF Spanish: Efenct
and English eolonists % tlis c0nti
enent the work Of soil anoliation has
never ceased sSDof are tie cultivators
so much 70 blame as the people liy.
! ing in cities, who often boast Of theil
civilization and intelligence as com.
pared with less pollshed farmers.
But II two million citizens Of Boston,
New York and Philadelphia see prep.
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