The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-06-14

lion.
Because foreignimmigrants gener-
ally prefer the Nofthwestern States
the pfess Of the North concludes no
immigrsnts are going South Hence
when The census was taken and all
the Southern States showed q large
increase ins population the utmost
incrcdulity seized on the Northern
mind. The probabilities are now
that the next census Will be a. great
er surprise than that OF 1880.
During the past ten years about
100000 Immigrants have found
homes in America. -This-immense
number naturally disturbs affairs:
these new Corners crowd all the
avenues of labor any industry aud
drive out thousands from the cities
10 fnd employn ent in the agricul-
tural districts. These in turn create
a demand for good farming lands,
and gradually land in the North in
creases in price, This increase in
duces men with farms 10 the older
States to part with their home to
buy more land or farms for their
children in localities more sparsely
settled where land is cheap. This
moving, restless tide of America
agriculturists grows larger each
year and is swelled by the coming
OF every emigrant ship, and these
men are now turning TO the South.
Another influence which is draw
ing farmers of the North and East
to the South is the climate. The
long cold winters are discoursging,
not only to the weak and the sick,
but the strong hard-working but
ambitious laborer, and if he can get
good farm at a low price In a mil-
der climate he is apt TO move This
change would have begun long ago
bat for slavery. and is even now re-
tarded by the presence Of the negro
in the South. .,5#.= -, ...''
The farmers of New England, Of
New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio. In-
diana and even of Illinois want to
know more about the South, aud
they are coming to Louisville to
crafty this knowledge. They nat
urally expect to see at the Southern
Exposition a full representation of
the products Of the soil. If q South
ern State can produce anything but
cotton, they take it for granted that
this fact will be demonstrated at the
Southern Exposition next August.
II any State neglects this opportun-
ity to advertise her cheap lands and
fertile soil it will be said everywhere
she exhibited nothing because she
had nothing to exhibit.
The Agricultural Committee of
the Southern Exposition will do all
in its power to make known in the
North the vast capabilities Of South
ern agriculture. Its inexhaustible
richness and variety the South itself
is only just now beginning to under
stand, as is evidenced by The growth
of truck farming and stock, raising.
Heretofore the impression has been
widespread that The South was not
a grass-growing country The de-
fusion is fast disappearing, and the
Agricultural Committee can do moth
ing better than to induce Prof.
Phares, of Starkville, Miss, to pre-
pare complete exhibit of the grass
es of the South, with statement of
their character and value.
But this is not sufficient; if a per
feet, or by any means satisfactory
exhibition OF Southern agriculture
is to be made, if we are to show to
our iuquistive Northern visitor that
our cheap lands aSe really more pro-
ductive than are the high priced
lands of the North, the work must be
done 10 large extent by the far
mers themselves. They must do this
through their local grangers and
agricultural associations, and by
arousing the interest of their State
authorities and their local newspa-
pers,
Some of the States, notably Ar
kansas, Kentucky. Tennessee and
Florida, are now preparing exhibits
| WulSu Will lulOI III duu dJtTdCU Tie
prospecting immigrant, but every
State in the South should take hold
of this matter in the most vigorous
way. 81 t-rA
This is. the South's opportunity.
More Northern people will come to
Louisville than could by any means
be induced to 60 to any Southern
city. 1t is no rash estimate to place
the attendance here during the hun
dred days at one million. As we
have said, these visitors will be made
up, to large extent, of families in
serch of cheap and productive lands.
In addition to this the Exposition
will be the industrial event of the
year, and it will receive, as it has
already received, widespread atten-
ton from the press. If the South is
here with the products of her fields
as well as of her mines--if she sends
corn and wheat and tobacco as we'll
as iron, peaches and pears and
| grasses as well as COTTON. silk and