The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-08-14
reat wants of man, food and raiment.

great wants of man, food and raiment. l
conclude by giving few quotations from
late London Rsvie7v, which says on this
subject:
at is true that agriculture is the founda-
ton, the very bed rock upon which all
other industries are erected; and yet with
all this, what would it be without its twin
brother. manufacturing? If all men were
engaged in agricultural pursuits, as some
seem to think they should, there could be
no market for any surplus products that
we might have. One farmer could not
sell wheat and corn to another farmer,
who himself had surplus of these things,
any more than one plow-maker can sell
plows to another. In order to furnish a
market to our products, be they what thev
may, there must be a division of labor,
so that one will produce what another
wants. The farmer can exchange his
products with the manufacturer, because
each has something the other does not
produce, and that each wants.
This makes the market SO necessary to
each, and in proportion as these two great
industries are carried on largely in close
proximity to each other, are both bene-
fitted. If we find market at our doors
for any surplus that we may sell, then we
cure cheap transportation. The best re-
suits that have ever been secured to labor
is where there is the greatest diversity of
it. If an entire community were engaged
in making pins, we might have a good
supply of these useful articles; but all
other things would have to be purchased
and brought to the community.
We could not go to a neighbor and ex-
change pins for barrel of flour, or pota-
toes, because our neighbor. like us, has
plenty of pins, but no -four or potatoes.
1t is only by the statement of an extreme
case like this that we are able to see the
result and consequences of concentrating
all our labor to the production of one ar
ticle, as is now being done in many places
in the world. We must have diversified
labor to the greatest extent possible, 9th
erwise we can not have that exchange,
one with another, so necessary in order to
prevent the disastrous results that follow,
when from any cause whatever the peCu
liar industry of one section is paralyzed.
Commercial revolutions, war, and even
pestilence lose many of their worst features
where met by a self supporting com
munity, State or Nation.
If each family could produce all the
necessaries and luxuries of life required
by it, this would give them state of in
dependence that would always keep want
from their doors, so long as health and
willingness to work were maintained. The
widespread distress in many parts of
England at this time among the working
men can be traced directly to this thing
of concentrating labor in particular sec
ton to the production of one article, to
the almost total exclusion of all others.
This distress is we'll calculated to excite
our sympathy, and at the same time teach
us lesson. Thousands of working men
are thrown out of employment because
the owners Of cotton mills can no longer
pay them the wages they need in order to
buy the necessaries of life. The same can
be said of the men working in mines and
other industries"
F. E. WHITFIELD, SR.
Corinth, Miss.