Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-11-28
The South Land.

PIE 10 MS paper. we make some e%-
tracts which contain solid meat for
our Southern readers as well as sug-
geStive food for Northern enterprise:
81 did not see much cold weather
last winter; only about ten days. |
saw all / want to see however. Do
you know Mr.. Editor, it is my firm
belief man can't tell the truth when
it is twenty degrees below zero. |
don't mean that he will Intentionally
lie, but he can't stick to the solid pet
rifed truth. For instance he has
some duty to perform that he knows
ought to be done that morning, and
his wife will say: "JOhn oughtn't
you to attend to that business today?
He looks at the thermometer and
says, "No, / wasn't going to do that
until tomorrow" or some despicable
answer of the kind. And he warps
his soul out of shape, Injuries his NOR
al constitution and doesn't realize
that it is the weather that is doing it.
l was very glad therefore to get head
ed for the "Sunny South" after my
return from California.
When | started on my western trip
my cousin, with whom / am in bust
ness, said to me: "Keep your eyes
open now for that Garden Spot, that
land of Eden that we are all looking
for, while you are gone" On my re-
turn he asked me if | had found it.
And | said, "Wait until | have been
South, and then | eau tell you" |
think found it on the same trip, as
I will proceed to tell you later on.
How pleasant it is to sit in warm
comfortable car rolling along mile,
after mile, and see the snow banks
grow less and less until they finally
disappear, and then the buds start,
the green grass, and we finally wake
up some morning in the midst of a
paradise of flowers and luxuriant
vegetation. We didn't go quite as
rapidly as this, but made few stops
on the way"
In referring to the backward condi-
ton of agriculture in the South and
the opportunities for enterprise, Mr..
Bliss says:
eff this is not a good opportunity
for Northern men with a little money
who have not got cotton on the brain
to get rich, don't know where you
would go to find one. If you go West
where l was last fall, wheat is the
crop and as l told you before they
were selling their wheat atfrom 33 to
40 cents a bushel to pay their debts.
Ifyou have twenty or thirty thou.
sand dollars you might probably &C
into the cattle business out West, il
you could find range that was not oc.
cupied. But take that same amount
Of money and go South, and what are
your chances?
The land will produce anything
Or rather you can buy land from five
to twenty-seven dollars anacre, plen
ty of it, that will produce anything
| that any land will produce in this
2 country. You can cut from two tt
: three crops of hay a year. And il
2 northern Alabama, Georgia and Mis-
5 sissippi it is worth from $4,000 t.
9 $1,000 a ton now; and the Northern
farmer knows how to raise it, anC
how to save it. Then as to stock, a
2 they don't raise anything but cotton
e they don't know much about stock
e A calf ready to wean sells for abou
< $1.20; yearling can be bought TO
e about $4.00. You do not have to win
: ter them for six to nine months il
4 the year, as you do in this country
4 And when they are grown and fat
r tened they arejust as near a market
o and you have just as good facilitie
9 for getting there as you have here.
Q In the winter when feed is scarce
+ man can buy good cows in that coun
i try for from IS to $12 a head. A few
O far-sighted men and Northerners
l. who have gone there are making
e money "hand over fist" But it is
Y good deal easier to convert the FL
If ders of the Mormon Church to Chris
n tianity than it is the majority of thes
n Southern farmers to the proper in
Is sight how to make money.
l. Since my return from the South
o the question has often been aske
It me: "Do they want Northern pee
h pie down there? Can a man go ther
IS who does not agree with them i
g politics and be free to express hi
le opinions. To both these questions