The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-08-23
Relation Of Plants TO National PrOspcr
ity,

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The following is an abstract Of a lee.
ture by Professor Rothrock, Of Fair.
mount Park:
The lecturer began by statement Of
the complications which arose in Vir.
ginla over the proportion of land to be
devoted TO corn and tobacco. This com
menced before there was Pilgrim on
Massachusetts, soil. Greed for gain led
to making the corn crop subscrricnt to
| the tobacco. The result was a period of
scarcity, and when the Virginia settlers
made demand upon the Chickahominy
Indians for corn, they were refused 50
contemptuously that iigh, cnsucd, in
which number OF Indians we're killed
and others captured. The whites gained
the victory. but awakened indian hate.
which eliminated in q bloody re,ributiou
years afterwards.
On the other hand, within few years
after the landing Of the Pilgrims, they
had corn to spare, aud the nclrhburiny
tribes came to depend upon the men vi
plymouth Tor their supply" Tnu. the
| want Of corn in Virginia was cause of
war, while in Massachusetts the super.
abundance WAS bond OF peace. In
virginia 1t became necessary to limit The
production OF tobacco by law. In 1923
tobacco was n iegal.tcnder in Virginia.
When, in 1902, William and Mary Col.
| lege received Its royal charter, 1t wa.
enacted tina, the College shou!c receive
| one penny pound on all thc tobacco
exported from Virginia and Maryland
towards It's support. When the Church
OF f.HBlaid WAS recognized ~ the State
determination III Maryland, i portion Of
| It's revenue came from The same source
his WAS IN 1898. Corn Was cultivated
IN Peru prior even To tho Inca rule, and
also III Mexico and New Mexico at the
time OF the invasions Of Corlcz aud
Coronado. 1t proved u source of reve.
nue. To the Aztec throne and entcred into
the religion OF the country, where to
ensure good crop human sacrifices were
offered. The public granaries of tho
country were drawn upon by CUrtez, 10
that the very food o! the inhabitants
was made to assls. in their subjugation.
! The last census gave the annual Weld
of corn hnd rye combined in this coun.
try at 1,774,7S3,27l bushels. The data
derived from the same source led the lee
turer to estimate that one OF the prod
uctS OF these grains -whiskcy--gavc US
about lO7 900 insane, criminnis and pau.
| pers 1t would be interesting To know
now much OF those grains WAS required
TO blight 50 much manhood, and To de.
termine whether, if used in some other
way, the same quantity would not have
yielded better return to the country.
| The above estimate only included those
under restraint, and not those Of the un Z.
numbered host who were still Mt liberty
| n hn 10 nd - ~;
dren. The lecturer thought q tariff on
Canadian lumber q mistake, rs, without
proportionate benefit TO us, it placed a
| premium OH the destruction of our own
| supply.
Rice among the cereals iiourishcd in
| grounds where none Of the others would
grow. Hence it utilized large areas in
India, China aud Japan, and in our own
| country, which would otherwise have
been unproductive. Though containing
less nitrogen than wheat, it has, never
theless, been the almost exclusive food
| OF some OF the hardest worked and most
| enduring races on earth. 1t WAS intro.
| duced into our country in 1904 by vcs-
| sci from Madagascar, which put into
Charleston in distress. One Of the most
| valuable characteristics of this grain is
its capacity for adapting itself to varying
conditions of soil and climate.
Food plants from their abundance may
/ lead to national aud individual Incidence,
as in the tropics. In such cases, the
! stimulus growing out of tho demands
| which temperate regions make upon
equatorial lands for their production is,
to the inhabitants of the latter, of ines.
timable importance. Accumulation Of
wealth by Individuals ns we'll also as the
science Of political economy, are churac.
teristic of temperate regions, and muiuly
| of the North Temperate These dlslin.
gushing features both grow, directly or
indirectly, out of the need of preparing
for times of non. production in times Of
production. Such III occasion can hard
| ly arise under the Equator. Hence,
| while ,he tropics furnish the raw product
Tor their own commerce, the capital, ma
chinery and brains, which transport the
product. come from the temperate part
Of the globe. Garlntrs Monthly.