The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-08-02

question: As-wef Haay 1T be asked
does cotton, corn or sugar cane paw !.
All these have failed, and do ofsea -
fail to give satisfacti51. THAT our
great staple pays has been denied by
numerous writer's ever since tie war -. -
and yet the cotton crop goes on lI.-
cfeasing every year, Are facts WORTH
anything The true question is
"Will truck farming pay? we say. -
it will 10 Halter what srap Judge
ments are taken against it while III
its incipiency.. Very few new indus
tries ever paid at The outset cotton,
did not, sorghum did not, sugar cane
did not, and jute will not, but iute,
like cotton, is destined to be another
great American production. Cotton
has not paid after fair trial for half
a centuary, according to numerous
writer's on the subject, and yet it has.
furnished half the surplus capital Of
the country. It once purchased half
the lands in the South, built up, &c
cordiilg to Northern. opinion, pow
erful 'slssveocracy' in the fairest por-.
ton OF the Union, filed New Eng
land with factories which alone suS-
tain her present industrial character,
ard has done more to distinguish
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS abroad than all I.
other American productions eolnbin-
I'D Truck farming will write a sins
lar history in the less extended
Phere, though not less important in
Rsnlts to the welfare Of the nation.
will go on inoreasingi every year
ithout regard to murtnurscc and dis
Engagements, for the same reason
lat cotton does, to-wit.: the world
Bmands it, and nobody can say just
pw mulch is wanted This great
sDdntfy of Ours, stretching through
hany degrees of Latitude and lonri-
|qde, is acquiring an enormous pop
alton with yearly accelerated speed,
this population must rot only be
NJ, but must have cheap food. which
#ick is destined to furnish in large
\ Proportion. Beside, it must not come
p one season, but all seasons. No
bther country in the world IS So
blessed with this capability. and
hence no other country can sustain
Fhe population the States of the
Union will in the future. Its varying
llmatic degrees of latitude, under
he progress of American Industry,
leciprocailY sustain each other
When the North is out of season the
Productions of the South are poured
nto her lap in overwhelming album
lance, and when the South is out of
|eason the North5Ireturns the COM
Pliment with an interest we scarcely
have room to receive, A few years
hgo this was impracticable except to
a very limited extent, but the vast
extension of our roilroad systems
has revolutionized the industries of
thy whole country. To them must
be accorded the honor Of providing
the ''ways and means" for building
up the waste places and performing
that mighty comniissary service nee.
cessary for the daily sustenance of
our advancing host, Of 5o,OOO,O0o.-
And they have only fairly entered
opon the great work. In less than
twenty years from to-day the present
existing lines of railway, numerous
as they are, win be found wholly
inadequate to the service that will be
demanded Of them. It is probably
this growing conviction that induces
individuals aud companies, even now,
to strain their credit and resources
to construct lines that neither present
population nor trade seems to war
rant. Bat experience proves that
railroads bring population, and hav-
ing rendered truck farming practical
bic in the South, they will foster it
for theit own interest as wen as for
that Of the public, by such reduc-
tons of freight Charges as wen As
encouraging the industry, and at the
same time provide fair compensation
for handling the truck. Cheaper aud
cheaper will the productions 81 tie
truck farm grow, as the lands are
made richer and richer by the system
of intense" cultivation applied to
them, and with the skill and kHDwl-
edge Of experience, the truck farmer
win find the business as femunera-
tive then at lower prices as lie does
now at high prices with poor land
and experience. Cotton planters de-
olared a few years ago Shat they
never could produce cotton for less