Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-08-26
WON'T RAISE CHEAP COTTON.
Riches Coming to the South In Other
WAYS.

Ways.
| Richard II. Edmonds, editor of the
Manufacturers Record of Baltimore,
who is i'm close touch with southern
business conditions, was in New York
yesterday Speaking of the south he
said:
"As the south is now annually rails
ing about SOO,O0O,OOO bushels of grain,
mainly corn, it is of interest to know
that at present the indications point
to a very heavy yield this year, much
/ the largest that the south has ever
produced. 1t is quite possible that
this years grain crop in that region
may reach 1.OOO,OOO,OOO bushels, for
| nearly every southern state reports in
creased acreage and exceptionally good
conditions. The yield will probably be
| 100, ,OOO, 900 bushels more than last
year.
while the cotton crop condition as
whole is not favorable, the outlook
| for grain in the south was never SO
promising. In diversified agriculture
generally that part of the country is
making such remarkable progress that
cotton no longer dominates the stua-
ton, notwithstanding its vast import
ance to the world as well as to the
south.
Truck growing, which is spreading
over the whole south, is becoming an
industry of national Importance.
Around Norfolk trucking is of such
great extent that the value this year is
estimated at s15,OOO,OOO. Some 10000 to
SO, 900 packages (crates and barrels)
are daily shipped north from that
port. Daily steamship service to New
York, Baltimore and other ports is
needed to handle this stuff, while the
amount that goes by rail is so great
that last week one road handled more
than 500 carloads in one day.
The sweet potato growers Of east
ern Virginia, who formerly grew poor
er on almost every crop because of the
lack of organization and the Cutting
of some markets while others were
bare, are now getting rich raising an
nually hundreds Of thousands of bar
rels, which are all marketed through a
grocers' association. Every carload Is
closely followed and ordered to market
according to daily reports as to the
supply and demand in different cities.
THE peach industry of Georgia is
now being handled the same way, al
though the growers organization Is
comparatively new, while Florida or
ange growers last year perfected a
similar plan for handling their crop.
Under better handling methods the
vast trucking and fruit industry of the
south is daily becoming of more i'm
portance to that region as well as to
the whole country, which now depends
so largely upon the south for early
fruits and vegetables.
Trucking land has risen rapidly in
value until in many places the best
land, much of which was waste or wet
land or counted Of little value, is now
worth several hundred dollars an acre.
In the Norfolk region as well as at
many other places a number of truck
ers have made fortunes of some hum
dreds of thousands of dollars each in
the last few years. In fact the whole
south is getting rich. Cotton is no
longer king impoverishing US subjects.
1t is now a subject and the independ-
ent farmer is king. If cotton does not
pay him a good profit for growing it
he turns to diversified agriculture.
The world may call for an ever in
creasing supply of cotton and the
south will supply it when the world
pays a good big profit on it's produc-
ton, but the world will call in vain for
cheap cotton. The south has found
something else better to do than TO
raise cotton to be sold at cheap prices.
1t no longer has to do it,