The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-12-08
The following shows the average in
corn and lint cotton to the acre:

These figures show Tennessee to be
among the very foremost. She could
equal any of the northwestern states
with the same cultivation. Take i'm
provements off OF her lands and they
are as cheap as in Texas. a prominent
man recently said in speech that our
people were too poor to buy bread
| What a commentary if true, but how
untruel $4,000, 900 bushels of corn gives
40 bushels to the head. A peck of meal
DER week Is more than enough each for
men, women and children. Our people
therefore, cannot possibly eat more than
one third of our corn. 1t this is true
in Tennessee, how people must be starry
ing in Texas and other southern states
whose corn production is less than halt
of ours. He gave instances to show
that even his year men had made forty
and fifty bushels of corn to the acre by
good cultivation when their neighbOrs
with equally as good land, and the same
seasons, made from ten to fifteen. The
failure is more due to lack of proper Gull
tivatiOn than lack of rain. Men halt
planted their crops and expected the
Lord to do the balance. He knew men
who always prepared their ground well,
planted early and cultivated well, and
never JdiledI He mentioned these facts
well as the folly of emigration. The
more people we have, the higher an av-
erage per acre will run. He then con-
trasted Giles and Marry. Giles was
naturally as rich as Maury, and yet
Giles lands were assessed at 1922 and
Maury's at $1494. Why? Giles pro-
duces more cotton, but Maury 100000
bushels more corn, and this with her
wheat and stock interests made her
lands more valuable. He read coun-
ty after county, showing the rule
was uniform that the more the cot
ton, the lower the lands. Ee believed
a sensible, reasonable people loved to be
told the truth. Those who go TO other |
states from Tennessee will find they |
have made mistake. So far as manu-
featuring facilities and mining wealth |
are concerned, she is emphatically a |
new state. There may be states where |
land sells at lower rates, but when we |
consider the improvements on the lands, |
the comparative productiveness, the ad-
yantages of climate, wealth, good roads
and schools, there is no place where
lands are cheaper in proportion to their
value. In taxation, Tennessee COM
pares favorably with any state in the
Unionl He then detailed the plan of
operations and showed that by putting
ourselves in communication with the
Commissioner of Agriculture at Nash
Tille and through him with agents in
he north eastern states, immigration
md capital could be secured. The OBJ
ect was to organize a county society in
very county in Middle Tennessee that
lesired one and have them all act in
harmony. If our streams that 90 rip
bling towards the sea singing their
ongs of uselessness were harnessed into
,oweI, and if the iron gates OF our
were unlocked, and all cur |
esouroes and wealth utilized, our state
would rapidly take rank with tho first
t the north, as she already heads the !
outh, and the people that would come /.
would not only increase our products
ut consume those we do not raise now ,
ecause of no demand. If the south had
at one-twentieth the sums appropriated I
D northern development she would I
row nightly, but our help must come !
rom our own muscles and brain uuaid- ,
d. This society would bring our ener- :
les together and by united effort we
Ould induce the railroads to discrimi- n
ate for us instead of against us. Maj.
J keS drew no rose-colored pictures OF q
lere fancy, but relied upon plain facts, I
rawn from official records, made with
npartiality and looking only to the :
nth. His peroratiOn upon the dig
Ity of labor was happy thought for
lie occasion, urging men TO bring their
Dys up to work and educate them to 4
We it and consider it honorable and q
r.
DIR. Hawkins was then introduced q
Y Maj. Sykes and spoke in sub p
ance as follows: B.