Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1894-01-25
TIE SOUTH PROGRESSING.
APass Clipped From the History Of
Northern Thrift and Applied
With 'FRONT.'.

That the term, now 30 often met
with in the presS, "the new South"
means really something more than
mere figure Of speech, or catchy phase
Of political oratory, becomes cleArer
each day and the fact dawns upon us
In the full light Of truth, that the
South OF to-day Is a new South, alike
In some essential traits, bus utterly
Anlike in many others, the South OF
ante bellum days. This change is ap-
parent in nearly every element Of
Southern industry, hut In mono other
30 much as in the farming element
A few years since the Southern farmer
depended upon two or three staple
products, almost entirely and the many
near cuts to fortune known and en-
ployed by his northern brethren, was
to him "blind trail" For example,
nearly every Shuthern farmer kept
one or more COWS fer his family use,
but the idea of keeping dairy never
occurred to him, in connection with
his farm, while the northern farmer
made his milch cows one of his princi-
pal sources Of revenue, That this
state Of things is all changed, in some
portions of the South may be seen
from the statistics, which speak better
than mere words can be made to do,
contained in the following, perfectly
reliable article:
During the year 1892 there was
shipped from the small town, Stark
vile, Miss, b9,36s pounds of butter
gross, made within few miles of the
town by small dsirymen.
A considerable portion OF this but
ter was shipped in light baskets, hold
ing 30 to 80 pounds, baskets costing
six or seven cents each, and weighing
about one pound each. The remain
der was nearly all shipped in tubs
weighing about 8 pounds and holding
20 to so pounds butter. All butter
shipped IN baskets was printed into
cakes; that in tubs packed down solid
in bulk. Most of this butter was sold
at 26 to 30 cents, delivered at the ex-
press Office, to special customers at a
distance.
There was certainly not less than
$4,000 pounds butter net out. Of the
69,Ss7 ponnd gross, Say that Il aver
aged 20 cents per pound to the pro-
duccr, md this Is certainly an under,
estimate, and we have here a sum equal
TO $4,000. This $4,000 drawn from
abroad, from many sections, and three
or more states, and expended right
here at homo, finding its way into
general circulation, disseminated into
every avenue Of local trade and busi-
ness, aids materially in adding to our
money circulation and easing hard
timess This money flows in week by
week and month by month, all through
the year, and affords ready cash to the
producer at such times when there is
the least amount of money in the
country, and there is little farm pro-
duce of any kind In hand to bring cash
prices the dairyman is enabled to pay
cash Tor necessities he needs must buy;
1t makes times comfortably easy for
him he sells his surplus stock at a re-
munerative price; he feeds his skim
and buttermilk to hogs and raises his
own supply of pork on the farm he
is enabled to store up and utilize the
rich dropping of his cattle, enriching
his land and thereby securing larger
and more profitable crops. The dairy
farmers In this section, while not MAX
ing any large profits, are comparatively
out Of debt--in far better financial
condition than the average farmers
around them who depend OH other
crops, engaged IN different line Of
agriculture.