The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-04-14
MILAN EXCHANGE
OUR NEGLECTED RESOURCES.
NUMBER THREE.


bles will grow to greater perfection In
many lines with proper culture than
in West Tennessee. Peas for early !
market can be made quite profitable.
Berries, Of all kinds, butter, bunch !
and running beans grow to great per-
lection. Tomatoes are magnificent
and grow in great abundance for sew
sral months in the year. But, you
ask me, what of all thisP We have
no market for them after they are
grown, You certainly don't stop to
think when you say so. Your northern
brother goes to work and cans every
pound of peaches, straw, black, dew
and raspbernes, beans, peas, squash,
pumpkins, apples, pears, plums' and
in fact, every thing yon can raise
and cont, and sells it to you at a
good profit. You say you have no
canning establishments; neither did
he until he built them. Go and do
likewise. One good canning estab
lishment with fruit enough to run it
is worth more in actual cash than
every cotton gin in ten miles of your
town, and would not cost half as
much as one gin does. Build them
and run it, and cultivate fruits and
vegetables. The man who starts this
enterprise in a small way will make
fortune if be win only develop it
cautiously and in strict business
way. / can tell him where he can
get plenty of skillful labor cheap to
begin with. He will soon have plenty
at home; the art is easily learned.
There Is no surer paying bushes and
there is good demand for the goods
always.
Onions pay well; one hundred dol
lars per acre may be made out of
them, and they are more easily grown
than cotton. Thousands of farmers
north raise them as staple crop and
they grow rich at it, too, where they
use industry and economy in their
production There is not less than
one thousand acres of land in ten
miles of where l write this in, or will
be, in onions this summer.
Butter beans are worth in the mar.
ket six cents pound, go pounds tC
the bushel, and Bro. Holt can tel
you that one acre will produce al
least twenty bushels of beans, worth
$3.50 per bushel, or s72 per acre
more than three times as much mon
ely as can be made off an acre of cot
ton-and with no more work than the
cotton crop costs. Why not some
farmer raise butter beans for market
1t is better money than cotton. Beet.
and turnips grow to the greatest per-
lection, and yet it is fact that YOU
people hardly ever have enough O
either to eat during the winter, not,
withstanding they can both be KEEP
by heaping them upon the grounC
and covering with leaves and straw
They are both excellent food crops
for hogs and cattle and from two t,
three hundred bushels may be grow
on land in the best condition pc
acre. They are better than cotton
why not grow them?
Hundreds Of northern farmers ar
making enough pork to do their fam
lilies off few acres of turnips, ant
in many places the cows are fed upol
turnips and beets all the winter. Tr,
this. 1t will prove more proftabl
than cotton.
A diversified crop makes none,
plentiful in any country, and tina
country is and always will be poor
no matter how rich the soil--that de
ponds upon one crop tor it. On tn
other hand very poor soil may max
a very rich people, if the inhabitant
viii take advantage of nature an
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