Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-10-11
WHOLE NO. 1899.

mainly from abroad. From year to
year constant and rapidly increas-
ing amount of the great staples is
brought from continental countries
and the United States. In 1876
cereals were imported to the value
of s259,000, 900; meats of all kinds
s66, 000, 900; live animals, 336, 900, 600
butter, s4S, 900, 900; cheese, s21, 00O,'
900 eggs, s13,00u,000 potatoes,
500, 900; lard, 81, 100000. The CHIEF
contributor is our own country
[ mention these items to show the
dependence of Great Britain upon
other countries, and because they
naturally teach that consumers must
pay higher prices than the countries
from which the supplies are drawn,
The German empire is not so large
as Texas by good deal. and Ger
many has forty-two million mouths
to feed, or two hundred to the
square mile. Russia alone has land
enough to feed herself and have any.
thing left to sell. She has immense
territory, and much of it ia produc-
tive. Russia Is our one agricultural
rival, and one of the great problems
of parties and statesmen, and Amer
lean enterprise is now aud must be
the means of 30 chespening trans
portation that we can put down
bushel of wheat at Liverpool at as
low price as Russia can do it. she
being nesrer than we. Russia fights
this year, but whether she fights, or
works. or plays, America is the gran
airy of the world.
We have the acres and the fertil-
ity, and we have the skill in the pro.
cesses aud implements of husbandrv,
If you doubt this, ride through Eng.
land and France, and you will see on
all sides American mowers and reap
ers and implements. Go and see
ships loaded in New York. and you
will see piles and piles of American
agricultural machinery going abroad
machinery made here and bought
here because the timber aud the skill
and labor are hear to mako it. When
those who send for our imnliments
are supplied with every horse rake
and horse fork, and apreader and
mower. and reaper, and planter, and
tanning mill and threashing machine
that they can use, and their land is
worked TO its utmost, still they can
never cut off our trade. The people
are 40 many and the acreage is 40
limited, that they never can do with
out the breadstuffs and pork, and
beef, and butter, and cheese, and
productions of America. This is our
strong point, and it will grow strong
er as time goes on, and nations 10.
crease and fill up.
Do old mon and young men APP
PROBATE this and know what it
means? Do they realize the posi-
ton and opportunity of farming, and
the promise it holds out for indepen-
dence and success 2 1t is better than
crowding into the crowded profes
sions of law and medicine. 1t is
better than a clerkship IN a store, OF
in an insurance Office, or u political
appointment, or many other things
for which thousands are rushing and
striving. The great cities are soak.
ing up like sponge the activities OF
the country. One man goes To the
city and makes money we all hear
Of him; but who hears of the thous.
ands who go and never come near
achieving the success and indepei
dsnce which can be grown out of the
ground right here in TI"wis county,
and everywhere from the Rocky
mountains to the sea