The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-02-01
TENNESSEE.
Compared With Other States
Her Advantages Extracts
From Maj. VIM. j. Sykes
Pulaski Speech.

this or any other country. In the
face of this it is startling fact that,
instead of her population being
swelled at the expense of less favor
ed sections, it has suffered the drain
of emigration steadily for the past
eighty years, until native Tennes-
scans are numbered among the
distinguished men of almost every
State of the Union. 1t certainly
could not be assigned as the reason
for this emigration that our State
could not produce enough for our
people to subsist on, seeing that
the raises, according to the last
census, q bushels of corn per acre,
against Is in Arkansas, ID in Louis
ana, 8 in Georgia, and IL in Texas;
while her yield of lint cotton per
acre is not exceeded by that of any
States save Arkansas and Louisiana
The idea that farms are cheaper
in Texas than in Tennessee is false
one. The cost of improvements
fully counter balances the differ
ence in the price of land. While
Tennessee leads the other Southern
States in the productions per acre,
they don't equal those of some of
the Western States whose soil is
naturally no better than ours. Oh
servations shows that the cause of
the disparity is to be found in the
difference in the systems of cultiva-
ton here and there. In the north
west wheat, for instance, is never
sown broadcast, but is always drilled,
the ground having been plowed
deep and carefully. This thorough
cultivation and the small farm sys-
tenn have raised the yield of wheat
in Ohio from 1-2 to Is bushels per
acre. A prominent citizen Of Ten
nessee said in public speech re-
Gently that our poor men are too
poor to buy bread. If Tennessee,
with 40 bushels of corn per head,
cannot feed her people how must
those of other southern States fare ?
Tennessee is the richest State south
of Missouri, and not far behind her
in wealth.
GOOD FARMING-BENEFITs OF MANU-
FEATURING.
Careful cultivation and prepare
tons of crops almost guarantees i'm
munity from the disasters of bad
seasons. A want of adequate labor
for proper cultivation is one which
makes immigration necessary to
the future prosperity of our State.
That almost exclusive cultivation
of cotton is a disastrous system, is
proved by statistics whice show
the comparative value of land in
the cotton counties of Tennessee
and those which raise grain and
live stock. Lands are assessed low
err in Shelby, in the vicinity of
Memphis, than in Maury county.
Nothing adds so much to the pros
perity of a community as manufac-
turing enterprises, and few States
afford advantages in this direction
equal to Tennessee's. Until .her
resources are developed by manu-
factories, it will always be true, as
it is now, that one county in Penn
sy lvania produces more than the
State of Tennessee. The prosperity
of the South never depended upon
the institution of slavery, but upon
the spirit of progress that has
wrought such wonders in the North.
All that is necessary to attract the
capital and labor that we need is
an adequate effort on our part. The
natirnol government has favored
the North and West at the expense
of the South in its appropriations
for internal improvement. Her
natural advantages, however, with
proper enterprise on the part of her
people, will outweigh this. The
proposition of the immigration
movement to be organized through
out the State is to form associations
of property owners in every county.
A competent man is to be elected
Secretary, to receive from the mem
bers information of lands or other
property offered for sale or lease
and make report to the Commits
sioner at Nashville. This is sure
to prove an effectual mode of adver-
tisement, as Commissioner Hawk
ms bulletins, into which these re-
ports are to be Incorporated, are
circulated all over the North and
in Europe wherever they are cal
culated to do the most good.
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