The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-12-11
Ghr Messenan.
NORTH CAROLINA MUS 7 PRODUCE
IT'S OWN FOOD.

One OF the important things for thel
south is to make all the meat 1t needs
and to cease to be so dependent uponI
the northwest. Our great Vance once
ridiculed the idea of keeping our corn
cribs elsewhere than in North Carolina
and our smoke-houses In the Distant
west. He was wise in this as in all that
concerned the welfare and prosperity
OF the people OF North Carolina The
Messenger a many times essayed to
stir the people in the matter Of raising
their own horses, hogs. COWS and sheep.
1t will be indeed a most useful and wise
act when this Is done. Any agricultural
people are very inconsiderate and sim
pie who fail to produce their own but
ter and milk, bread and meat. The
road to independence and general pros
perfty for this state and the south,
does not lie along manufacturing half
SO much as in j~udicious. common-sense
farming. The south Is capable of pro-
ducing immensely in bread-stufs and
pork and beef 1t rs sheer neglect when
1t fails to grow all 1t needs 1t has a
climate in which you can work clever
months in the rear. The soil Is. well
adapted to a considerable variety of
products. Toll, judgment. Enterprise. a
determination to accomplish great
things and depend on no other state or
people for bread and meat. butter and
lard, hog and hominy will in the end
make North Carolina all it should be.
wholly dependent upon itself and not
upon others
Housekeepers in Wilmington. all
about the state and all through the
south are forced to pay some 3 or 4
hams, lard than they were paying a
year or two ago. Why so? Because OF
a. failure to produce the meat necessary
for home consumption and the giant
trusts hat in their greed put up the
prices to pluck and afhict the consum-
-ers, the toilers, the hungry. If every
GARNER produced extra meat for mar
ket, and every smoke house was well
filed with hams, sides. shoulders, back
bones, spareribs, ausag then h peo-
pie would rejoice and contentment and
Mve and let live prices would prevail.
The Jacksonville Times-Union has
this and it is applicable here:
Now shall the south always buy its
mead from the west? Is there any good
reason why We should not sell meat to
the west instead of buying from it?
Scientists ave conclCsively proved
That In a cold climate a large proper
ton Of h food furnished goes to the
manufacture of necessary heat only
farmers in the west are beginning to
warm their stables with stoves, because
it Is cheaper to furnish heat without
taxing the stomach for digestion, and
coal or wood Is cheaper than forage.
What is the lesson for us? That our
climate should enable us to sell cheap
er meat than the west, as soon as other
conditions are equal-here little of the
food need go for heat, and nearly all
be changed into flesh"
Wise farming, we'll directed energy,
a determination to be Independent on
the part of all producers will have a
great influence over the future Of our
great state. The fisheries of North
Carolina are extensive and can be
greatly developed. Why not? Nature
does it's part. let man hold up his end
OF the log. Let all North Carolina unite
In the resolution that all necessary food
shall be produced within it's borders.
There can be no real independence
short Of that.