The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1882-06-23
WHAT THE SOUTH PAYS roR rooD sup.
PLIES.

We clip the following paragraph from
! the Atlantic Constitutions.
"ft has been ascprtaiued that the South
has this season paid to the North S55 900
600 for wheat, S5U, 900 900 for corn, S72 :
100000 for meats aud about S25 900 900
for hay. butter, cheese. oa,s, apples pota
toes, etc. The North, in other words.
draws on us for about $500 900 900 4 year
TO liquidate bills that should not have been
'Nmade. This SUN is more than we can afford
tospay for bread aud meat, If we wholly de-
(. pend upon cotton. This drain has impov-
erished US, aud from bitter experience we
have at last learned to do better The
North will not next season be able to take
from Us over 100000, 900 on account of
provisions and grain aud year later the
Z South should be fully .elr sustaining. II
must &c doue it there is to be any real indie
pendence in the South"
These figures are startling, and the com
ments Of the Constitution pertinent 1t is
a poor commentary on the management of
Southern farmers that this monstrously
large sum, or that any sum at all. should BE-
paid to Northern farmers for the bread aud
neat we eat. 1t is the grossest folly that it
should &c so, blessed as we are with eli
mate and soil favorable to the raising of any
of the necessarias of life, not only sufficient
tor home consumption. but with little effort
leaving large surplus for export The
drought Of last summer was a blessing in
disguise, for it taught our pl,uters the nc.
cessity of abandoning tho old habit of con-
fning themselves to cotton exclusively, and
the consequence is such diversified crop as
was never b fore planted in the South and
an nbuud ,nce such as was never before
seen. From all sccr ions in the South comes
the gratifying Intelligence of abund,n mt grain
crops, in some sections greater in quantity
than for several years previous combined
From our own State the reports are uni
fo7mly good. aud her grain crop will be by
all odds the largest aud 6uest ever raised
within her borders
One point is established bv this, .yond
question, and that is that the Sputh can. in
addition to large cotton crop, also raise
without difficulty not only enough but more
than enough of grain to supply all her hom,
demands without paying one dollar to North.
ern farmers. We doubt whether there is
State North or South of us that eau show
such luxuriant growth Of grain as this
State can exhibit this year. Oms sund
wheat from four 10 six feet high aud rye
from six to seven feet are so common that
n l.
the heads are full and large in proportion
There is IA farm but short distance from
this city, the property Of MIR j. w. Wads
worth, where the rcapers, followed by forty
harvesters, are cutting ',own fields OF oats of
astonishing growth, and viii Ii look as if
they wo I'D yield from sixty to seventy five
bushels to the acre, while adjoining them are
fields of wheat Of equal luxuriance, which
are waiting for the reaper and will yield
forty bushels if not more to the acre. The
corD on this farm is also magnificent. In
all it is one Of the most abundant crops we
ever heheld. No man after looking upon
such a sight will ever permit himself to
thiHk that this is not grain country. 1t Is
a grain country, if men will only do for
ah. uIselves one half that nature has dope,
and cultivate US they ought to cultivate
These fields to which We have just referred,
now bearing their golden harvests. we are
t.ld. but II lew years ago was land below the
safsyaSe grade, and has been brought to its
present fertility by The judicious use Of
home. fertilizers aud good comm on
sens. management, the result of which can
be seen on every side, from the luxuriant
grass to the teeu,ing fields of grain, and
fourshing fields of corn. Here has been
demonstrated what Mecklenburg soil can do
when given the attention tha. any farmer
should give the land which he undertakes
to cultivate.
Southern agriculture is progressing and
", are grati6ed at the conviction thai the
day is passing, if it has not already passed
when the suicidal policy will be continued
of raising cotton to buy bread aud meat
which we can raise in greater abundance
and at less cost than the Northern farmer,
upon whom we have been heretofore depen
dent for them to such a great extent
When this day comes then will the South
-sbe strong indeed, aud really independent.
-CharloHe Observer.
An APPALLING TRAaEDY.-New York, June 8.
Five chlldren-three girls and two boys
sons aud daughters Of John Lock wood eff Coscob
Cnnu4ttfcut are reported to have been killed