The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1879-09-19


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bns - hara, III. conditions III snrre~s
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cult In the shorter sras.n ~ crowd IA .n
hHiween the late irosis of spring and
the early fruits ~ the fall srmson. how
oft IL almost the entire lai,an and
hopes II whole year partially or Who'll
ly rendered of NO avail hy an antimels
frost, while boll.worms and other nssts
come In between Ia do their hest for its
destruction. h say nothing III scnrchlnc
and destructive lronch,s or rains, almost
~ f,st&l 81 tn hcsishinl co,Aiuml, Hut,
above NIL, when nearing the end III ilae
growing season, the plant, in it, size
and thriftincss, gives promise IL n
splendid return of lint, how often. ON
the northern verge Of IL production. Il
ever, hope and expectation III returns
blasted in a singl. frosty fall night. the
next LAY seeing the magnificent field.
that was - green anil promising only
tMcnty-fonr hours previously. hlackcncl,
ruined, smelling rankly aud horribly IN
the warm sunshine that seems 10 mock
nj tho wholesale dcsolation. These aud
numbcrlcss others arr among the trials,
from year 10 year. Of the cotton. grower.
But even this il not all. Away down
on the aillaents al the Lower Mississippi,
the Arkansas, the Red river. and other
streams bordered by Tine bottomlands not
very far above the water ut the hest. let
M suppose that the cotton raiser has, in
the growing season, run the gantlct Of
NIL the destructive agencies above indi
Gated. nni done II successfully: that
the huge cotton hoilr. white with the
harvest" bursting with their wealth III
production. are only waiting to 10
gathered. The next thing. perhaps,
here comes the muddy river. Invading
aud creeping higher aud higher, dry
by day, over the splendid promise OF n
years hard labor. until. ere long. 4
rushing and turhia sea IL sweeping,
wathfnlly, every prospect 81 compen-
Sation AWAY.
And, perhaps, in most sections of the
Sontl, tho cotton crop may lc the main
dependence To keep the place going,
and To keepont Of or get out 81 debt; mud
with the exception of little corn. and.
of course. II limited quantity II sweet
potatoes and other garden truck this
is too often the case. Does il not show
how prccarions thing Southern farm.
ing il, and are those people much To Ia
envied whase calling i, isy To make
cotton successfully. in the loWlan.ls ~.
pccially, il must have nodivided nllegi.
ancc. II IL. after all, al the early stages
Of it, growth especially, tender plant; ;
1t must not get in the Weeds ind M
one acre ofcotton will ordinarily pay for
several OF corn, Of course the temp.
tation il almost irresistible 10 make the
one acre purchase the produce OF tho
several acres from somebody else further
northwnrd.
liut besides all this Ia regard 10 cot.
ton need | much more than glance 1T
and intimate TINT the Louisiana sugar
crop il. III its certainty Of profitable r..
turns, even more prccarions still that \
killing frost sometimes, and sometimes
rise in tho river, destroys the chances
Of tho cane grower for any cumpcn.
sation for his labols; that there IN such
an article ~ sour sugar" and other
spoiled sugars, ruined somehow In the
conversion and proper capitalization Of
the canejnlre, while the capital needed
for this crop IL simply enormous.
And. il We turn To the rice CROP, II
the submerged fields where this crop II
made, to It's vast combinations oil
bitches, and other instrumentaIities
ncedful, aud which Ina thet unattractive
aud unheAltliful region somebody must
keep up II rico IL TO bc grown Ut all: |,
that crop any more desirable in the
making aud hAndlinGY
have glanced briefly and cursorily
Ut these few bnt great and leading IN
tercsts, because the South III cloud
and sunshine would not be titly and
even approximately portrayed without
30 doing; but say once more. in view
Of II, none need envy the people OF th,
South tho responsibilities and lal,ors Il
which they are subject, and which mus
be borne steadily and rcsolntely II tn,
outside world II 70 DO benefited by III,
labor Of TINT section n all.
| III the Northern farmer fails Iii Iii
wheat crop partially, there may be Iii
corn, his ontN, rye, potatoes, barley [,