The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1880-06-23
TFyANDRIA LA WEDNESDAY, JUNE 49, 1880
THE CRGPs liz ENGLAND.
THE LONDON TIMES ACKNOWLEDGES
THAT AMERICA MUST FEED
THAT COUNTRY.


The prospects Of agriculture just I
now are neither decisive nor uniform. L
Unless there come much and regular
rain The crops will be as bad as in &
the worst years We have known. The I
f1v will soon he at the turnips, ana
the mangel wurzel, on which SO
much dependence is now placed' VIII
not he able to strike root or to NIL.
1t will come to nothing. The sheep
that have suffered so much, and are
still suffering, from wet, innutritlous
food, will have better food, but no.
enough of it; and tile poor cattle
that we're selected by tlreir closely
calculating owners to bear the brunt
of last winters hardships, as they
show by their followed TANKS and
projecting homes, will not have the
opportunity of repairing their was
ted forms. just now many OF our
farms and diaries, conducted as they
are on commercial rather than pa
triotic principles, are not sights to
show sharp, unsympatiletic LOT
eiguer. But if the present weather
prevail throughout the season, they
will remain unpresentablc, and we
must take our distinguished visitor
ia see farms conducted with the hope
Of reward in this world. We have
to consider first of all what we can
produce at most advantage, or rather
at least di advantage, in the face OF
the enormous and still increasing
competition Of Europe, America, and
; the AustraIasian colonies. The ex'
tent of our difficulties might be mea
: sured by the undsniable fact thai
the cultivation of wheat, for its owl
sake, is actually under trial. 1t i
maintained by good authorities tina
. in no mart of these isles can we pro
:, ,!uce wheat to compete WITH the for
eien supply. The excess Of produc
' zion over home consumption il
; North America alone is sufficient TO
= or necessities. 1t increases an
will increase. We cannot hope tina
our !ong worked and exhausted acre
continually requiring the most cos'
= ty renewal, and often so scant OF so
that it is l.ity they were eve
:. turned up, will compete SUCCESSFUL
!" with an immense area Of virgin sol
: connected with us by a line of raj
~ ways, inland navigation and ocea
~ steamers. 1t has come to this, TIL
- we are growing wheat, not for tt
F" grain, but for the straw. Litter
W bulky and difficult of carriage, so
%. must be grown at our doors.
w. 1t is becoming serious probe
=. =, what agriculturists are to DO. En-
n" will not get rents much lowered In
,e' hurry, for land still commands
cry high value in the market and is d
70 Acult to be got at all except uno
ON special circumstances. Large pl
leu prietors would rather cultivate TIL
MAJ own lands at a loss than submit tt
re reduction of rent telling on its val
WI Nor have the farming class a
mao right TO expect to occupy land
ulo cept on such terms as The ow
NAV choose to insist on. They III
Az now the world before them. w
III do not they start for the regl
where land ca2 cheaply rented
the cheaply bought, within easy reael
ELLA the best markets in the world
con- our own. An Englishman is as m
lie a at home anywhere 10 North Am
g in ca as in any county of Great Bri
,tity or ireland. Why should anyb
field spend his life and fortune in the
e on tempt to grow the food here tina
{ Re- could grow quite as good and m
!, for more cheaply a fortnighps vo.
pria of? If people have money and
The to lose it let them stay at h
was If they have not money and wis
If Of make it, we apprehend that they
IS to have to 90 abroad Times.
''''' The American trotters NOT
Wash ing imported into England are
n for tracing much attention among
o in masters on the other side. This
revelation in the science of
breeding will, it is anticipated
IN 'he likely to create change in tn
rficld, tributes of English sport.
.e for Prince of Wales is said to ex
the greatest interest in this
/ this, 'lsea' anu - n ,wa af tho fastes,
q man Eses brought over, one Of them