The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-05

him an order for all the Delawares he
had remaining at 10 cents per pound
have never seen better Illustration of
the value of persistent growing of the
best. Common black grapes have for
some time been absolutely unsaleable at
prices that would pay for the basket.
| The gentleman mentioned not only sells
his Delawares at a good price. but gets
sale for Concords by reason of their extra
quality, while inferior Concords are low
IN price This Is only one illustration of
the fact that 1t is always the man w no
persists in the face of difficulties who
succeeds While il was ali smooth sail
ing In grape growing around Raleigh
vineyards multiplied. But now is the time
Tor the survival of the fittest," and
in the future, North Carolina grapes are
gong TO take higher rank in the market,
because the growers will be the most in
telllgent and pluCky, and will know that
only good article will pay 1t is DIM
Guilty that always brings out the best
qualities of mankind. If Scotland had
possessed a genial, sunny climate. and
sou of rank fertility, would we ever have
seen the grand race of Scotch gardeners
that have made such marked impress
sion upon the horticultural work of the
worldl BY no means. II was owing to
the fact that in their iuhospitable cline
| and soil only the highest skill could
| succeed, added to the sturdy perse-
verance of the Gaelic blood, that
has put the Scot in the van of
botanical investigation and horticultu-
raj achievement the world over. The
same rule will apply to every department
OF soil culture 1t is not the German far
mers in the valleys of Pennsylvania and
Virginia that are sitting down and wiring
ing their hands in despair. They know
that success comes by continual effort
and skillful farming, and they gather
around them everything their soil
will produce, and have big
barns and comfortable stock, and have
plenty 10 eat and no mortgages to eat
them up. 1t is the one-crop farmer who
feels the pinch In the south, it is the cot
ton farmer, who belongs to the town mer-
| chant and pays an enormous price for the
| supplies he ought to raise, growing only
| cotton, because his master, the merchant,
! Will not advance him money on anything
| else When times were easy and cotton
! brought a good price, he could pay the
| merchant his big profits and still live, but
| with cotton down, and no cash capital OF
| his own, he grows cotton at too big cost.
| There are men who can grow cotton at a
margin, even at present prices, but they
are the men who have been farmers in
| stead Of planters, who have never been
| slaves to the merchant, who raise their
own supplies aud have a reserve force in
| them that will carry them through difficult
| ties that swamp others If the low price of
cotton continues. the ruleot the survival
of the fittest" will leave these men TO
grow the cotton, while the, mortgaged
troopers will be compelled 30 go under,
and hire their services to those who have
capital in the business. We are not sure
that this result will not be the best thing
for our southern agriculture.
A great part of The distress now so
prevalent has come from the fact that
there is such a multitude of men growing
cotton on capital borrowed at an enor-
nous interest. There will be found here
and there, even among this class, men
who will grapple manfully with the diff
culties around them, who will decrease
their cotton area. raise food crops and
study systematic farming. These men
will slowly accumulate capital, and
finally become independent of the money
lender. while the unframed. bookless
class will go under, to be hewers of
wood and drawers of water for the men
who cannot be overcome by diff
ficulties, but rise superior when the day
of trial comes. But it is not the cotton
planter alone in the south who feels the
pressure of false farming system. The
growers of the famous Carolina Gold
Leaf tobacco, too. are feeling it, The
flush times with them are passing away.
and greater efforts and more diversified
farming must hereafter be the rule with
those who succeed. But they will sue
coed eventually, as the cotton farmers
will, by improving their farming. Flush
times and easy profits in single crop
never made the best farmers, nor the
most permanently prosperous community.
In the face of difficulties manhood comes
to the front, and the country is the gamer
in the end Hard times cannot be per-
manent in our glorious climate, and the
manhood of the south will surely triumph
gloriously. To be surel