The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-27
ENGLISH DEVELOPMENT
MAY ASSET IN CULTIVATION OF
 AMERICAN LANDS.
Estimatea That e,0Oe,O0e Bales Can be Added to Cotton Crop and Wheat
 Yield Increased 30O,-
 OOO.o eco Bushels.

Baltimore, Oct. 26.--(Special) )--The possibility that English cotton manu- facturers may look to certain portions of the South and Southwest for in- surance of steady supply of cotton is suggested in this weeks issue of the Manufacturers Record by Edward At kinson, of Boston, who has just re- turned from England. He says that in conyersation with his British friends he made the following statement:
 .The present crop of maize of the United States is grown on 105.o0o to 110. 900 square miles. The present crop of wheat is grown on 65,000 to 70. GOO square miles; the present crop of cotton upon less than 30.000 square miles. We may add 10000 to 25,o00 square miles for rice. tobacco, hops ana such other minor products of the soil as enter into our exports, making total area. say, of 23o.0oo square miles out of 5000, 900, committing Alaska.
 "On this small fraction even of our arabic land the people of the United States are fully supplied with meat. dairy products, grain and cotton, with a large excess for export. mainly In Great Britain. Our kin beyond the sea are mainly dependent upon us for food and cotton. We may mainly de- pend upon them for a market for our
 
 that they must be recognized and that the attention Of consumers in Great Britain should be turned to the devel- opment of these resources in co-opera- tion with us.
 1.-TWO most important groups of in- yestigators are now being organized to find out whether my statements. almost incredible to them. can possibly be sus- tained.
 Having thus measured the area of these special groups. I, then affirmed that a section could be defined in Northern Texas. Oklahoma, the Indian Territory, Northern Louisiana and per haps a patch of Arkansas. coupled with an area of the prairie rice land or Louisiana and Texas, of 230.0o0 square miles Corresponding to area now in maize, wheat, cotton, tobacco. rice and hops), of which not one in ten was yet under the blow or not yet developed
 T stated that the land is there, the capital abundant. the power of direc- ton simple. all that is needed being in teiligent labor. preferably of Italian and Southern European. Italian peasants. being accustomed to live on fruit and macaroni would find in this section every variety of sthe semi-tropicalf fruits increasing in abundance and an ample produce of the hard macaroni wheat
 T also called attention to the fact that the Red River, navigable to New Orleans, and It's affpents offered cheap and quick transportation on the way to Liverpool; that several great systems of railroads were gridironed along this whole section with ample railway ser vice, and that the school system from the public kindergarten to the State University. the normal schools, the technical schools and the agricultural schools, was in complete working order.
 T then made this further (to them incredible) statement: tCan it be sus- | tained7) to wit, one quarter part of this area Of 230. 900 square miles never yet touched by the blow, save 55,000 square miles. may be devoted to cotton and wheat and by intelligent cultiva- tion 5000, 900 bales of cotton may be added to the present crop of the United States at the. present rate of product per acre, and 300 0,0oo.o00 bushels of wheat may be added to tho present crop of the United States at the average product of this section at the present | time, or an increase of about 50 per cent. on the present product of the whole country Whether or not these statements can be justified will present. | ly be proved by the two lines of in- | vestigation from England to which | have referred" t