The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-03-15

Macon Telegraph March nl
ExtraordlmaEWA Ceee9n &@eeapss.
The Cotton Exc ne yestsraa1 reported the
week b receipts q lsf - bales sgainss eleN
he corsesp posing week = last ysar. showing IN
excsas OF 7alsi halssi This = the heaviest
weeks gain wishiA memosy. The total receipts
were rs roo bales, against 4Sse, ga, showing
an excess Of 10000 bales Al . natural result
weak, .nominal," ''iuli" and Hquiet" charac-
terized the reports from al the markets. Nor
can We look for any better reports until some
thing comes to indicate, within . reasonable
margin, some limitation Of the excess Of this
years crop. There are yet nearly six months Of
the current cotton year before N. and the amount
Of increase now apparent, added 10 last years
product, would give rs about 100, 900 bales
But truth to say, . crop Of ,50O. 900 bales will
not astonish rs so much a. last Fridays return of
the receipts of the week. Such returns, on the
heels Of such picking season, put us beyond
the domain of surprise. We are ready for any
rate OF increase for the cotton CROP and to antci
pate swelling that will be checked only by the
certainty that cotton can be sold only ct loss.
We appeal TO the brotherhood Of the plow not
to wait until that time comes before they strike
out some new avenues TO profitable farming.
Cotton at best promises bat . low return. Twenty
dollars an acre, less investment and expenses, IL
the best it win do in Georgia at the ordinary rate
of farming, and that is great deal above average.
A good deal better income can Be obtained from
an ordinary crop Of rice wheat and 1t il vital
point in farming economy 10 produce food sum
r;o L. TEL
the meagre profits Of the cotton crop.
We do not believe there is an agricultural
population in America that draw a less luxurious
living from their business than the Southern
farmers. Their staple food is bacon imported
from the West, and comparatively few of them
take the pains to supply themselves from their
gardens, barns, sheep folds and fowl houses with
those delicate and nutritious luxuries which add
so much to health and comfort These they
might have with the cost of effort, and they are
merely rudimentary contributions to domestic
contentment
What makes wealthy and abundant country
is the innumerable small contributions of labor
The masses Of mankind, the world over, must
earn their bread by driblets; and it is the trade
in and exchange Of small products that creates
the aggregate Of vast wealth. The reason
we have not vast wealth is because we de-
spise small savings. If we could once get
out Of the idea Of producing but one crop. and
compelling that one to ciothe and feed us-if we
could avail ourselves Of the thousand resources
for subsistence just at our hands and needing
only employment, we could then begin TO grow
rich and be comfortable. Our towns would be
full of food of our production. We should not
have to send abroad for chickens eggs and butter
and import them by millions worth. We should
keep our money at home, and it would circulate
among our people, doing good every where But
as We so, our cotton fills the pockets once year,
and then We turn them inside out to pay debts,
and that is the end of it. This is the annual
operation year after year, and ii benefits nobody
except the few middlemen who control the ex-
changes If some old lady should say TO cot
ton planter, make more money out of my cow
and chicken coop than you do out of your thou
sand acre cotton farm" he might be surprised,
but she would be telling the truth in many