The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-07-04

FOR FARMERS
Inquiries Answered by the State
Agricultural Department.
REPLIES TO ALL SORTS OF QUERIES

SSi'p"Ao" Va ChO appearance ana naDlts
Of the Colorado Potato BeetIe-Remedy
For Rust on ROses-WeaIth of Dixie.
QUESTION. give me in detail
some of the principal sources of wealth
of the south as at present utilized, and
why is it, if there Is so much wealth as
we are led TO believe, that the country
Is not more prosperous
ANSWER. The greatest income of the
south is derived from cotton and its
products. grain and its products. rice,
sugar, tobacco, fruit, vegetables and
the products of the pine tree. The
south has also its stock farms, its man.
featuring, mining, merchandising,
building, transportation and other in
terests-bringing into the country about
81, 300, 900, 5000 annually. One principal
reason that the south receives so little
benefit from the vast wealth is that she
spends it with almost absolute unre-
straint on other sections of our own
country, and to fill the Golfers of for.
eign nations. With perhaps few I'M
important exceptions the south is abso.
lutely dependent on the outside world
for all Of the following articles, in which
she invests each year with lavish prodi-
gallty: Paints, oils, drugs, buggies,
harness clocks, watches, china, glass,
cutlery, carpets, curtains. stoves, wooden
and cotton goods, buttons, needles,
thread, soaps, perfumes and other toilet
articles. gloves, dress goods, all kinds of
agricultural implements, chains, nails,
clothing, furniture for our houses, build.
ing materials for our railroads and
transportation lines, for our water
works, for our engines, boilers, electric
appliances, for the equipment of our
schools and colleges, and for even the
very commonest sheds that are on
our farms. We pay millions of
dollars to outsiders for the books
which we read and for those which our
children study. Life and fire insurance
companies take millions of dollars out
of the south each year. Saddest of all,
the farmers pay out many additional
millions for supplies, which they could
just as well raise at home Thus the
south, which is the most highly favored
section of the Union in natural re.
sources and in opportunities for acquir-
ing wealth, pays tribute to the north
and west and to every foreign country.
Her cotton crop has built up colossal
fortunes at the north Her lumber
trade has established foreign companies
on a firm basis; the earnings from her
immense deposits of iron and her mar
BILE and minerals have gone to swell the
profits of aliens OF all these immense
interests, which act as a continual drain
on our hard earned income, scarcely
per cent is located within our own bor-
ders. Nearly all are outside and are
f1ourishing and fattening on the life
blood, which is drawn from our AFTER
les of trade and commerce. The an
swer to the latter clause of your ques-
ton stated succinctly is this: AS long as
the south pays out each year for needed
articles more than she receives for her
products. she will be PROSTATE under
the feet of money lenders and sharpers
She must learn to handle her own crops,
run her own banks and manufacture
everything needed within her borders.
She must work at home and "board"
there, This is a very simple lesson in
domestic economy, but it has taken us
over a century to master even its rudi-
ments. These have now been learned
and the south is being gradually eman-
cipated, The day of her full deliver
ance is not very far off. She has every
requisite for independence; climate and
soil for beautiful crops; raw materials
for manufactures of every description.
Each year the facilities for transporta.
ton have increased and are increasing.
Manufactures and plants for various in.
dustries are constantly being added to
the list When the south understands
the value of the immense traffic, which
her shortsightedness has allowed to fall
into other hands, she will assert her
right to control it, and no power on
earth can wrest it from her State Ag-
ricultural Department..