The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1881-07-20
DeLand, VOusa County, Florida Wednesday, July 20, 1884,

amount of .65G,OOO,0OO bushels; cots
ton, 100000 bales; tobacco, 5OO,>
100000 pounds; oats, 7OO,OOO,OOO
bushels; barley, 50,OOO,OOO; pota.
toes, 2O0,0O0,0OO; hay, rye, buck.
wheat, ETC., correspondingly large to
awaken inquiry in the mind as to
where these things shall end. We
next turn to the animal products and
find the statement quite as wonder
ful and satisfactory The amount OF
butter, cheese, beet, bacon, ETC., fol,
low in their line, and make us, al.
though the youngest nation on the
earth, the greatest in all that relates
to agricultural and mechanical
wealth. Time fails us to speak in de.
tail OF our manufactures and our
timber interests; but they so far
transcend even the imagination
OF the most jealous we pass them
by with The statement that with all
the other subjects treated America
stands largest In the world.
The burden laid upon the human
mind in attempting to consider the
magnitude OF our commerce, manu-
tactoriesn mercantile interests and
internal Improvement is too great for
endurance-how much greater the
burden of an attempt to recount
them. Our exports of corn, wheat,
cotton, pork, beet, cheese, butter,
cattle, horses, and other agricultural
products, far exceed that OF any ma.
tion on the globe, and that OF many
OF the articles enumerated it exceeds
that OF the world combined while
! OR exports OF laz7bes. se1e7 -ct, keep
in active employment almost ma.
ton of men who inhabit the dense
forests OF our common country.
Who that has visited New England,
and heheld her numerous cotton fac.
tories and mills, and walked through
machine shops and foundries, and
wondered if they covered the conti>
tinent, and followed the transporta.
tion of their manufactured articles to
the sea, and looked upon the vast
ocean Of ships and steamers engaged
! in carrying them TO Europe, Asia,
Africa, and the isles Of the sea, that
did not stand and wonder at the
greatness of this mighty nation Of
which ne forms a part. Who that
have visited Georgia and many parts
of the sunny South within few years,
and Witnessed the number OF cotton
mills and machine shops, and beheld
with pride the new development and
rivalry that is thus established, and
the competition that there exists
in the manufacturing interests of our
common country, and the prospect
that in the near future we may be>
come still greater center for these
things, that can do other than stand,
with one of old, and exclaim, "How
can such things be 2"
Then, again, go with me in the
consideration of the fact that in the
arts and sciences, and in philosophical
and astronomical research and inves-
tigation we are now ranking with
the oldest nations Of the earth.
And again, that our manufactured
articles are exported to those coun-
tries which in former years consider
ed they had an inalienable right to
perpetuate these things upon others
to all generations. For instance, our
watches 60 to Switzerland, our
boots, shoes and glass to France,
our nails and iron to England, our
guns to England, France, Germany,
Austria, Turkey, Russia, and to every
nation in the civilized world, and we
might 90 or, ,dd intnittne, with re-.