Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-08-30
Rotation Of agriculture in the South to
Manufactures.

baltimore Manufacturing Record.
Notwithstanding the many adj
vantages of the South for Agricult-
ure, advantages that are admittedly
superior in MANY respects To those
of the greater part of the balance of
this country, is an undeniable fact
that the Southern farmers, as class
Iaborunder very serious disadvan-
tages. Their lands will produce n
great variety Of products besides
cotton, and in these smaller crops
as well as in dairying, the poultry
yard, &c, there ought to be much
profit; but unfortunately it is not
so, except 10 limited extent. Un-
less near some city or industrial
centre, their efforts in trucking or
similar enterprises meet with rather
poor reward as they find no consul
mers for their goods. With them
there are too many producers and
too few consumers.
The vast possibilities of the South
for fruit and vegetable production,
dairying, DC, are thus almost
wholly, We may. say, undevelOped.
We have seen the finest kind of
fruit left tdrOt ON the ground or bO
fed tn --h0gs.s Why2 Simply be-
cause everybody in the neighbOr-
hood had an that they needed and
no marked could be fund for il eX-
cept at a long distance and al high
freights. And 90 it ii with other
things than the staple crops of
cotton, wheat and corn, and hence,
willing or unwilling, Southern far
mers must cOnfine theifatteHtion TO
these. IL Is true that in some local
tiles the trucking business can be
made profitable by shipping to
Northern markets, but this cannot
be done except i'm certain sections.
liz they raise fruits or vegetables
there are no purchasers, and il they
attempt to sell butter, eggs or poul-
try, even TO the country stores in
exchange for goods, the prices OBJ
tanned are so small aus to leave no
profit.
The hope of the South is a chang
6d conditions OF the agricultural IN
terests, In diversified farming, and
in so increasing the number of nom
agriculturists as To furnish home
market for farm production of all
kinds. This cannot be done by
general wholesale immigration 10
the South, as this would add more
to the food producers than to the
food consumers, and still further in-
crease the disprOpOrtion between
these two classes. What the South
does need above all else in this line
is immigration of non-foud prOdu-
GERS, artisans and manufacturers.
If we can only build up all over the
South manufacturing and mining
industries, we Will soon settle the
question of how to improve the
financial condition of Southern
Farmers. The farmer will then
find a good home market for his
productions. and he will soon be
emancipated from the slavery OF
system,
In view of these facts, the great
question for Southern statesmen is
how to develop the industrial inter
ests of The South ? Already there
is great progress in that line, and
few mere years of uninterrupted
will end the South
great manufacturing and mining
centre. This can be secured only
by judleiouS protective tariff. Let
that -be.assured and the South will
TO make rapid advances in
building up her factories and mills,
and those who reap the greatest
from such would be the far
Iners. Reduce the tariff or keep
tinkering at il and depression will
follow, capitalists will refuse to in
vest I'm iron works or cotton mills
or coal mines, and the South's in
dustrial advance will be checked,
and the greatest sufferers will be
the farmers. ssa