The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1879-07-10

and Tennessee are famous for their heritage
their fleet horses, their fine woolled mutton
and their fat cattle. The Lebanon an
Cumberland valleys are the richest portion
of Pennsylvania. The New York valleys O
the Hudson and tie Mo. awk produce tn
finest stock and best dairy products. AM
in each case it is due to the same unlerlyin,
sllurlan limestone, the gradual disintegra
ton OF which produces the most permanen
fertility OF soil, and the highest and health
lest conditions of animal life. This is nov
so well understood by stockmen the worlt
over, in Great Britain and France, as we'll al
| America, that it goes without saying, L
! produce the strong bone, the sound flesh ane
muscle, the fine wool, in short, the the best
hardest animal, man as we'll as beast, vol
must have.a calcareous soil and its products
as the basis.
Snow, claim this section OF country
through which we are passing to be unsur.
passed by any others in this respeet, fol
these reasons /: First, on account Of its lati
tude, elevation, topography, and resultant
climate. 1t is southerly enough to secure a
mild climate requiring comparatively little
winter feed and shelter. Its elevation OF
seventeen hundred feet ard upwards makes
it delicIously cool in summer, and exempt
from the fierce heat and torturing insects of
the lowlands. Its environment of mountains
gives it singular immunity from violent
and destructive storms, and gives it rare
equabllity Of temperature. With about the
same annual neal temperature as New
York, it is neither so cold in winter nor so
hot in summer.
U. S. Sigual Service had station at Wyth-
vile, the mercnry fell below zero but twice,
and but four times rose above ninety. 70
prove the remarkable equability OF tempera-
ture it is sufficient to compare it with that
of well known point. Tue average Janu-
airy means of Wythville are 36.1o, average
July means, 1910, average annual range of
temperature, $3.50. The last annual report of
the Signal Service gives the January mean
Of New York at 27,6o, the July mean at IT,
90, and the annual range of temperature as
l01o. The difference is very striking. In
fact, the daily and annual range of the thcr-
mometer is much less here than at any north
ern station. And no one can examine the
charts of the Signal Service showing the
tracts Of storm centers. without being
struck with its remarkable exemption in this
respect. These circumstances, with the equa.
bility of rainfall which also exists, haYe
very beneficial effect on the growth Of vege-
tation, and upon health, too, as shown by
the mortality charts of Gen. Walkers Stats
tical atlas.
1.-THE second great advantage is in its ge-
ology or Theological structure, and the chem
ical effects OF the climate upon it. The
heavily bedded limestones of the Kentucky
and Tennessee basins have but a slight and
almost imperceptible dip. Here the strata
are upturEed at almost every conceivable
angle, often nearly vertical. This results in
a perfect natural drainage. Springs Of clear,
pure water are very frequent, and stagnant
pools are nowhere to be found. The disin-
tegration and decomposition OF the rocks are
thereby FASTENED and father facilitated by
the mechanical and chemical action of the
air andwater and the evolution OF carbonlc
acid.
'sThe third great advantage is in the CON-
bination of vast extent of cheap lands Of
the best quality, near the market and with
good transportation facilities. An able writer
tage in distance and transportation alone
represents the interests on more than two
hundred dollars per acre. Said Horace Gree
ly in the New York Tribune: Sheep and
cattle may be raised at smaller cost in the
Western States that in Virginia; but then
their value, when ready to be turned off the
farm, viii be far less, and this difference is
likely to increase. Ola single branch of
this industry he said: 'One hundred thous-
and Virginia farms, of 100 to 600 acres, ju-
diciously devoted to growing lambs for the
Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and
New York markets, could be made more
profitable than itseems to us possible to rem
der so many acres in the Western States.
She is, continues Mr.. Greedy, speaking of
Virginia, 'butten or twelve days distant from
the great markets of Western Europe, while
the boundless Capacities for consumption Of
ourown commercial and manufacturing
States, lie iustat her doors, with navigable wa
tiers competing with railroads for the profit
of carrying her produce. We consider Virgin
ia very attractive State for emigrants.'
The lands are cheap and can be bought on
easy terms, but it may be proper to notice
here a PREVALENT Misrepresentation on this
point. Before the war the rich planters OF
Eastern Virginia used to wonder why the
limestone lands of the comparatively wild
and unsettled valley were valued two or three
times as high as their great plantations, be-
ing unable to see that the great difference
lay in the natural qualities OF the two Sec
tions. And just SO Northern men are now
surprised to find these we'll cultivated and
improved farms near to towns and railroads
held at thirty, forty, and fifty dollars per
acre, while there is so much land in the
South (and very good land, too) that can be
bought for one-tenth the price. Yet farms
no better improved, of the same quality
and laying in the same limestone belt of
Pennsylvania and New York, cannot be
bought for three times as much. Any indus
trious, intelligent farmer can take one Of
these fine bluegrass estates, or an equally
good but cheaper one farther from the rail-
road, and meet all the deferred payments by
the products of the farm. Even The timber
on many OF them will pay for them. And
that, I think, is some evidence of cheap
ness" r. j. l..
Woman Eyeing Woman.
The cycling of woman by woman is one OF
the most offensive manifestations OF super
ciliousness now to be met with in society.
Few obseryant persons can have failed to
notice the manner in which one woman who
x,,oll hro,l will pva another