The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-20
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The Emigrant, a New York publica-
/ ton of influence which circulates among
! those in Germany who are thinking Of
! seeking homes in this country. has a very
! interesting. and valuable article showing
| why German immigrants should settle
in the southern states rather than in the
states Of the northwest. II says that
they have been led to believe by articles
! published in the interest of the north
west that the climate Of the south is IN
endurable-that emigrants from the colder
it, and that Germans who
settle in the southern states
are attacked by fevers and quickly lose
their health
The Emigrant publishes a table
showing the temperature at a widely
separated stations in the southern states
and is stations in Germany, taken at
midday of the same day during the
months Of January, April, July and Oc-
tober, and calls attention to the fact that
the climate in the southern states is
much more nearly like that of the states
from which the immigrants came than
the climate Of the northwestern states
is. On this point the Emigrant says
Reference to the international Meteor
illogical Observation Charts. reveals the
fact that the cltlesof Atlanta, Ga. Mont
gomerY, Ala; Little Rock, Ark Shreve-
port, La Norfolk, Va, and Abilene
Tex, have about the same mean temper
allure as the cities of Memel Munich,
Ansbach, Breslau, Bamberg, Frederick
hafen and WustrOw in Germany, while
Savannah, Ca; jacksonville, Fla; Mo
bile, Ala; Galveston, Tex, etc. have
practically the mean temperature Of
Leipsic, Berlin, Kiel Cassel, Magdeburg
Hamburg, Carlsruhe and Frankfurt-on-
the-Main'
The Emigrant, in comparing the
farming conditions of the northwest with
those of the south, says that those of the
south are much more favorable for immi-
grants, who are almost always persons of
small means. In the northwest farming
cannot be carried on profitably on small
farms. Only men Of large capital make
money. The small margin of profit makes
it impossible for the small farmer to get
ahead in the world. With reference to
the south, The Emigrant says:
THE truck farmer of the south realizes
greater profit from his thirty acres
than does the northern farmer from 100
This sounds almost incredible but it is a
fact.
There is no section in America today
that gives as full returns to the acre as do
the states of Alabama, Georgia, Florida,
Virginia, Texas, Arkansas, Maryland,
Mississippi, Kentucky, Tennessee, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Missouri and
West Virginia. The soil and climate
unite toI give these states unsurpassed
adoption and capacity for the production
of agriculture.
Tobacco, cotton, sugar, Indian corn,
wheat, rye, barley and oats-all the
cereals are grown here in profuse album
dance. Nowhere in the world does the
earth yield more prompt certain and
abundant return to the vitaliziRg touch Of
the husbandman than in these common
wealths, Much may be said likewise of
horticulture. Nowhere can richer or
sweeter fruits, such as oranges, bananas,
apples, peaches, plums, grapes and berries
be grown in greater profusion.
The article of the Emigrant should be
widely circulated in Germany. 1t would
do the south far more good than a
dozen emgrantion agents stationed at New
York to influence immigrants in favor of
the south on their arrival at that port.