The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1895-04-01

posed duty of II cents pound On foreign
woods, which, added to the market price of
Il 10 cents, gave us % cents for more a
pound Now that that duty has been taken
off, the price has been reduced Utmost one
half. Tn blow coming to the' south from
a democratic administration is a hard one
to bear, when see protect IN continued
to the manufac turers of the n birth while 1t
is refused To the agriculturistsj of the south.
wool is profitable even Under existing
circumstances, and as our region is so well
adapted to the raising of sheep, L hope to
see the flocks largely increaYe."
Mr.. Reddish was asked tP give in brief
the advantages Of south Georgia for sheep
raising over other sections Iof the country.
THE first is the climate" lsaid he, (which
permits of open pasturagf all the year
round. AS L have said before, the occa-
sions when shelter for She1p is needed are
so rare, occurring hardly OIL ce in lifetime,
that that source of expense lis avoided. The
past winter has been hard one for sheep
and cattle, but you must lrecollect that 1t
was the first winter of Its kind in nifty
years. Balancing the saving of forty-nine
years against the loss of one, you VIII see
that our climate is worth something TO
us. We have large areas of land at low
prices, but even were the lands much high
er priced they could be put to no better use
than sheep walks. The grasses ana
herbs which grow voluntarily and in such
abundance to completely cover the
ground give food in Ambulance, so that
from one years end to another there is
NO necessity to provide Hood for sheep.
These the gifts of nature, which make
shelter unnecessary, give them ranges OF
sufficient extent and feed them without
cost.
THE next advantage is THAT of markets.
which enable the sheepgrower to turn all
these advantages into money. Georgia
wool grades high in it's lunwashed state,
being almost equal to thief washed wool OF
other sections 1t is cleajl and free from
foreign substances which, seem to creep in
in many other places. The sales are
ready, and bring the ca sh just as certainly
cotton, without any of the trouble. Here
tofore have hardly taken into account
the question of mutton. which some enter
prising shepherds are meeting, and as rail-
road facilities increase we find ourselves in
touch with all the large centerS of consump-
ton in the country. The obstacle III the
way Of converting the sheep into NUT
ton is that the wool clip is more valuable
than the meat Ble latter is really a high
class food, rclish6d by epicures and superior
to the home-fetl mutton of the north.
This is from tho fact that it has a gamey
taste which comes from the sheep having
the range of the woods. Epicures in Jack
sonVille and Savannah prize Georgia NUT
ton equally with venisOn. The coat on the
Sleeps back, though, is worth more than
the meat returning larger interest on the
Investment than is to be realized from any
thing else. Take lamb at the shearing
and brand it, turning it loose not to see
it again, nor to be at one cents expense
for its maintenance nor an hours loss of
sleep for its care until it comes up at the
shedring of the next year to make you a
present Of its coat, the cost of clipping
which does not amount to more than an
average of > cents apiece--the man who
would want to make a living easier than
that would be hard to please.
That Tariff Question.
In further conversation with Mr.. Red
dish, he freely paid his respects to the
democratic tariff bill.
Il have been democrat all my life"
said he. "and the fact that a man had
the nomination was all that l wanted to
know when voting time came. But the
Wilson bill has taken $500 annually out of
my pocket, and at the same time the
people for whose profit this was claimed
To have been done, have to pay about the
same price for their wooden goods that
they always did. Into whose pockets. then.
does all this money eo?'
other Sources of Income.
but / do not rely wholly on sheep
said Mr.. Reddish Il have nnety-cight
acres ready for long staple .IaottCu from
which / will gather at least ninety bales
of 500 pounds each, which, at Is cents
pound, will bring in $7j bald 50 250 in
all. Then l have corn, rice, oats, potatoes,
all kinds of garden truck and SO on, so
that you see the wiregrass country is pre-
pared to take care of itself Ind asks no
odd of any other part of thl world"
This is certainly country IN which the
expression of sydney Laner that there
is more in the man than there is in the
land' would be fully verified There is
land i'm many sections that the best of
men could do nothing with but here is a
land whose capabilities it would task the
ingenuity OF the most eXacting taskmaster
TO exhaust.
l have drank the milk and tasted the
honey, ana therefore am fully qualified
to say that wiregrass Georgia is prepared
to show up results with any country in
the world. II. J. MORAN.