The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-06
PROGRESS OF SOUTH
THE TRADESMAN'S ANNUAL CON-
 TAINS IMPORTANT FEATURES.
Statistics on Crops of the Southland are Given Showing Material Progress During the Past
 Five Years.

 ChatanooEa. Tenn. Jan. 5.-The Tradesman Annual contains among its | important features an elaborate review of Southern progress during 1907 in which the following interesting facts are given:
 The, principal crops were as follows: Hay of all kinds. tons. 7.5SO 900: wheat, bushels, 91,433.000: corn, bushels, 959,- 743,000: oats. bushels. 67,33S,00O: to- bacco. pounds. 437.139. 900: rice, bushels 21.412.00O.
 Two notat le increases over the pre- vious year a re shown by these figures The Se -nern hay crop being 25 per cent d or than in 1905. and the rice cror Increased nearly the same per
 During the last i've years! however. agriculture has made such progress in the Southern States that the corn crop has increased nearly 50 per cent. The rice crop IS five times greater, while, as, already stated. the fodder crop has enlarged 25 per cent in a single year. In 1900. the value of products of vege- table gardens of the South was Sis.- OO0,OOO; at present the annual yield of orchards and vinevards in this section is over S30.000.000. making the sum total of the annual fruit ana truck product of the South fully Sl50 ,0O0, ,OOO.
 During the last cotton year we sent
 
 or raw cotton. fully two-thirds of the crop; but such is the growth of the cotton industry in the United States that the South now contains 700 mills operating nearly 10.000.000 sp:ndles, and 1908 will add fully twenty more plants. The States of North and South Carolina have no less than 400 plants with 6,3OO.0O0 spindles and more to come.
 The metal industry. including the mining of ore. shows q notable increase compared with previous years The total tonnage of iron produced by the Alabama furnaces during 1907 will aR- gregate about 1.750. 900 tons with value of $32.000.000., This is 100000 tons more than the record for 1906 and about 10000 tons more tI an the record for 1905. while the value has increased within the last two wears nearly 50 per cent.l
 In Kentucky the total tonnage of pig iron produced in 1905 was about 64.O00 while for 1907 1t aggregated over 125.000 tons. a gain of fully 100 per cent in two years and the value of the output of the smelters has more than doubled in two years,
 Tennessee also shows remarkable progress for the tonnage of pig iron made in this State: in 1905 1t was but S72,692. while for the present year It will be about 4S0.O00 tons. represent ing value of about $7,50O ,000
 The Review contains a statement of the capital invested in general indus try in each Southern State in 1905 as compared with 1900. also the value of the industrial output of each State for the same years.
 These figures offer perhaps the most convincing proof of the condition of the Southern States. for the total invest ment of capital in miscellaneous in- du stries increased no less than 50 per cent in the brief period of i've yeara while the value of the manufactures mas increased 25 per cent and in 1905 exceeded the total investment in South ern industrial plants by the sum of nearly $2O0.0O0 0OO."
 The Review contains an introduction by Edwin A. Alderman. President of the University of Virginia, in which he states that the greatest factors fin the future progress of the South is fin an educational system. which will reach ah of it's peo0le. Dr. Alderman also l outlines the system as follows:
 -"The system of education I have in mind is comDlete unity extending from the primary school to the uni It involves technical training l for industrial efficiency. In involves | agricultural training and it involves | such q coordination of the secondary. | the lower. and the higher education 1 as will make 1t possible for every ft | youth to be wisely trained for life in | this century. The most far-reaehing | and transforming thing in our civiliza- | ton today is the educational processes | that are being set in motion to give | suitable training to ail the people in | the Southern States"