Morris tribune., 1890-05-07
The Southern Farmer.
Bureau of Southern News,
RALEIGH, N. G.
For the NORRIS TRIBUNE.

bureau Oh SOubutTu NCWsf
RALEIGH, n. G.
For the NORRIS TRIBUNE.
The word farmer" conveys to our
minds a general meaning; and yet in its
meaning it is capable of many sub
divisions A farmer of New England is
man of many kinds of work, and of
many Titles. He raises, consumes, and
sells everything which the soil can be
made to produce or support. In the
Western States a farmer may be man
who measures his one crop of corn by
the hundreds of acres. In the Red River
Valley or in California he may be the
man who measures his one crop OF
wheat by the thousand acres. In Texas
he may count his cattle grazing on his
broad ranch by the thousands. In many
of the Southern States he may speak OF
his one, two or four horse crop of cot
ton as his farm; or his fifty acres of mel
ons, OF his twenty five acres of tobacco
as his farm.
Again, scattered in all directions,
throughout the Southern States, are
many farmers working and living more
like the New England type of that class
of men, who give us the most of the food
We eat and the clothing which we wear.
Industrious, intelligent, upright, man re-
specting, God fearing men. Their home
life is simple and unpretentious. Their
homes are not luxurious, but they are
the abodes of plenty and comfort. The
whole family may betray the lack and
need of educational advantages; but
they will also illustrate the old saying,
'Blood will tell" for in very many of
these plain homes will be found the
character of the born lady and gentle
man, as clear and fair as can be found
upon earth. The hospitality of these
homes Is from the heart and complete.
One of the purest and most guileless
characters we ever met, we found in one
of these remote farm houses. And when
he said in soft and gentle voice, II
will keep you over night if you will
stay" we knew that we had as full and
honest an invitation to share the hos
FATALITIES of that home, as it is possible
for human heart to give. Such invita-
tions are never given with the concealed
hope that they will be refused. And the
stranger accepting them is at once nj
ease, and almost literally at home.
If some fairy should transport far
mer from any of the rich Northern
States, in single night, to the average
southern farm, he would awake and de-
clare that an evil spirit had ruined him
and that he could not live there. MOI
too fast my friend. Take another day
before you lie down and die; look
squarely at the good things which your
southern brothers possess; and you viii
find these: His land costs him mucl
less per acre, and yields more. The
average yield of cotton is three-fourth
of bale, or thirty seven dollars pc
acre. How many northern farms have
sold the products of the cultivated lane
at thirty-seven dollars per acre? Again
the labor to produce this costs the south
ern farmer about sixty per cent of thu
cost of labor to the northern farmer
The cost of erecting and maintaining tn
necessary farm buildings is less thai
one-half the cost at the North.
! The expenses of living are less; motto
able in clothing, fuel, and those miscel
i. laneous expenses which the demands o
, society at the North erect into a stead
drain upon the farmers income. Take
are light. The towns, cities and state
: of the south have not yet learned tina
{ real prosperity is measured by extrava
: CANT expenditures and large bonde
y debts. Farms are not mortgaged. Tn
the instances of Southern farmer pay
ing interest on mortgage are very rare
8 The condition of the Northern farmer a
shown by published figures, is one tn
Southern farmer has never known Last
the Southern farmer has a monopoly @
, many crops the North cannot produce
and some of these crops are the best pay
ing crops that adorn the bosom of Moth
er Earth. 1t is q monopoly granted an
protected by the Creator. Tariffs, pol
tics, fluctuations in trade, nothing whic
man can do can wrest this monopol
D from the Southern farmer This mon
opoly may be for you, mortgage riddle
: Northern farmer. Sell before you ar
: consumed, and use your margin to com
South and make home.
May 4, 1890. IT. p.