St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-08-21
COTTON Is STILL KING.
TURNS THE BALANCE OF TRADE IN
FAVOR OF AMERICA.

Corn and wheat and manufactured
-four lag in the distance.
And adding the other southern
crops to cotton, even the addition
of the immense wheat product does
not weigh down the end Of The scale
upon which Dixie rests!
HERE ARE THE FIGURES.
The figures speak and We have
them from official sources.
The exports Of cotton for the last
year we're $3.50, 056, 400.
Let US Offset this with the
corn of the north and
west. .$37 ,845. 1862
And the wheat. ........ 80, 100 1868
And the -four. ........52. O25,2l7
With other breadstuffs. 2, AZ, $40
Making = total Of. 1882, OLA 1887
Thus adding all the grain and food
crops Of the balance Of the union,
the exports show balance in favor
of the southern states Of $58, O4l,-
SIS.
OTHER ITEMS FOR THE SOUTH.
There still remain to be considered
the live stock and meat products Of
The country, the giving Of the entire
balance of which to the northern
states would hardly turn the scale.
for it mus. be recollected that Texas:
Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky
furnished large percentage of the
live stock and meat exploration,
perhaps equal in value to that fur
nished from other points. II we
consider the fancy values Of Ken.
tucky horsefiesh, we may easily
come 70 that conclusion Then
there remains to be added :he
$50, 600, 900 worth of cotton which
is kept for home consumption. be-
ing used up in the cotton mills Of
Massachusetts,, Rhode Island, South
Carolina aud Georgia, which is dis
posed Of in manufactured form at
home and abroad. It is safe there
fore, to place the combined cotton
crop export and domestic, at $780,
OOO, 900, ID that the real balance
to the credit of the south, instead
of being $5S, O4l ,573 is sos, Oll,-
573.
1t is true there are other minor
products of the northern states, but
they are fully Offset by S25, 0OO, 900
in tobacco, s25 900, 900 in woods,
IS, 600, 900 in naval stores, s.. O0O,.
coo IN fertilizers, aud other products
coming from southern states West
Virginia, Tennessee and Alabama
fairly divide the iron aud coal OUT
put.
THE MONEY! CROP OF THE WORLD.
This is a magnificent record cal.
culated to inspire the people Of this
part of the union with their great
possibilities. Not only have they
the one, great money crop Of the
country, hut it is reliable and certain
as the coin itself. As truthfully
said By James w. Robertson:
"A bale Of cotton is . bale Of
money. Sometimes il is q little
more money or . little less. but it
is always money, while other crops
often sink 10 the level Of mere bar
ter
To this Com missioner Nesbit adds !:
s.It is our solid crop. We may
talk about all OF the others a. We
please, bur no crop has, or Can
have, the money in it that there
is in cotton. Taking it IS :he money
crop and raising our own food sup
plies, IS we are now on the read to
doing, We will be tue richest people
in the world. 1t is the cotton crop
of the south which turns the balance
Of trade in favor Of the United States
every year. Take it out and We
would sink into national brankrupt-
cy."
But ONE FOURTH OF THE AREA.
To properly understand the ad-
vantages which the south holds In
| its $500, OOO, 900 Of raw material-its
cotton, its tobacco, its timber, its
naval stores and its fertilzers-we
should l.,ok at the area which fur
nishes this output as against that
which it opposes. In tue southern
states we have: