Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-11-14
IT HAS BEEN EVER so.

II HAS DE4fsAN NV GN'
Westward the star OF empire has always
taken its way, from the earliest history.
About the fact is it had no other way IL
90. What has made ours the great
country it is, but the pushing out from
the old world of the young and ener-
getic blood, to conquer and overcome
all difficulties. The effervesence OF this
blood has been going West ever since.
Going West is of course different from
what il once was. The emigrant takes
the train and often lands ut or near his
new home. In fact it takes less of pluck
and endurance than formerly, and this
is another reason why we are led to be-
lieye that the emigration to the west Is
likely to be greater than usual.
ssOUR WESTERN EMPIRE"
Since writing our last column of
Farm Talk, we have been examining
book with the above title, published by
Bradley, GarretsOn & Co, of Philadel-
phia, while the country is being flooded,
as il were, with circulars in the interest
of the various railr IadS running toward
and through the West, and which are,
of course, naturally One-sided. This
book is very OppOrtune, giving, as 1t,
does, an unbiased account OF every see
ton, Territory and State, of the West.
There is no ether book or periodical
which contains as much condensed in
formation in its 1872 pages. The farm.
ing, grazing and mining facilities OF
each section are given-nOt in glowing
and glittering generalities, bat in sober
and solid facts and figures, which, in
deed are often glittering enough to at
tract the most stOlid.
This book is prepared or edited by
DIR. Crockett, the well known writer Tor
the American" and other encyelo-
pedias, from material furnished by the
Governor and other officials of the sew
eral Territories and States, from trav-
elers, from reports of societies and or
carnations, and various other sources.
This book is the latest of those pub
lished to meet q "want long felt" But
indeed so fast is the "Great Vest
filling I'D that it is hard to keep pace
with its progress. For instance, as a
recent writer remarks: "On the ground
where Gen. Custer was murdered In
1876 three years aftera load ofthreshlng
machines were landed"
"THE SOUTHERN WORLD"
We do not often have occasion 10 no.
tiee books or periodicals, but while our
hand is in, we will make mention of the
ISDlIthern World, which has reached out
desk. We have the first number of the
second volume. 1t is published at At
lanta, Georgia, twice month; sixteen
pages, a little larger than the ONO
TURNER, for 81 per year. From our EN-
animation of ii, which has extended TO
every page, we think it fully equal to
any Northern or Eastern agricultural
journal, and much better suited TO the
wants Of the Southern people. We no.
tice great interest is being taken in many
parts of the South in "varied farming"
and the most successful farmers are
those who do not spend all their time,
and risk all their money and labor, on
one crop. Instead Of depending upon
somebody else to raise their corn and
pork they are making an effort to pro-
duce these things on their own farms,
or EXAMINATIONS" as many call them.
Out West il Is ranch"
The old plan of growing one crop at
a time-cotton for instance-and sstak-
ing their all on this, Is much the same
"a If our farmers here would try to grow
nothing but wool, which Is really more
of renumerative "erop" than cotton
1t is this
VARIETY IN FARMING
that has made our Ohio River Valley
such prosperous section. Or course we