The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-30
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What vast possibilities the south possesses!
Aside from the great industries for which
she has SO many advantages, there are hun
dreds Of smaller ones in which her people
might engage with profit. Many in this
state make money in the dairy business.
For instance, from Putnam county there
are shipped to other points every year
nearly $1,000 pounds Of as delicious butter
as was ever tasted, and in addition to this
the home market is supplied, to the exclu-
sion of Goshen butter, which formerly was
sold In all the grocery stores. A woman of
LaGrange has shown by her own example
what her sex can accomplish by cultivating
small fruits, and there is quite a number of
poultry breeders in the state who find the
business profitable. The great variety of
medical plants of the Appalachian belt need
ed only to be put to practical use to bring a
rich reward; and it was shown at the
Macon and Atlanta fairs last year that
almost every variety of medicinal herb and
flower grows in middle Georgia. No doubt
some people living in or near popular
winter resorts, such as Jacksonville, realize
very handsome profits by cultivating
violets, pansies, mignonettes and other
dainty blossoms and selling them to visitors
The other day, in an article on the growth
of sentiment in favor of decorations, the
MANUFACTURERS Record said: 1.-THE tall
graceful, creamy-white pampas plumes are
in great request for public and private dec
orations. Aniline colors and the skill of
the dyer have enabled florists to furnish
them Of any desired hue. Southern palms
are fast becoming popular for the same
purpose. Immortelles are imported in
almost fabulous quantities from Europe.
The world is ransacked for things of beauty
that will keep their forms for time. The
taste for decorations is no longer "a craze,
but has become a second nature in this
country. In the stock of every fashion
able florist are scores of things that
have but recently come into use. The de-
signs in straw from Germany and Italy,
the delicate and the fantastic baskets woven
by deft foreign fingers, the dried and dyed
moses, ferns, pampas plumes, grasses and
blossoms of many plants, are all evidences
of the growing popular taste" Now, why
cannot the south get valuable practical
suggestion from thisi Nowhere in the
world are there greater varieties of vines,
leaves, ferns, moses and such like Why,
then, should other countries reap rich har-
vests by supplying in America a demand
for that which grows in profusion along the
highways and in the fields, forests and
swamps of the souths
Two things are apparent in connection
with the south and her people: The section
itself abounds in vast possibilities, such as
no other in the country possesses, and the
people neither realize nor grasp their ad-
vantages. 1t is quite true that the south is
making rapid strides forward, but in cult
waiting the greater fields, she neglects or is
oblivious of the smaller ones. There are
open to the people numerous small indus
tries which they have overlooked. The south
must wake up to this fact. She cannot
afford to allow others to monopolize
branches of trade which she is so well pre-
pared to control