New-York tribune., 1910-06-27
The Remedy-Go South.

The Southern States would gladly fur
nish homes to every one of our own citl-
zens who have gone TO Canada or contem-
plate such a move. and would welcome all
the boys and girls who have left expect
to leave the hardships Of Northern farms
to seek unfamiliar work in congested cities.
Moreover. we can supply farms to a great
many of the foreigners who seek our
shores and we are really anxious TO receive
all good immigrants of the Teutonic,
Scandina Wan. British and French races.
We have marvellous resources of every
kind and sort which are just beginning to
be developed. and in no portion of the
world are there as good opportunities for
success as in the land Of Dixie.
If Horace Greeley We're alive to-day his
advice to young men would be, Go South"
When he said to them Go Westr' great
field opened there. and many fortunes were
made by following his sage counsels. The
scene has shifted. The great opportunities
of the West have been seized, but there are
innumerabIe openings in the South await
ing fertile brains and vigorous hands.
i've have many advantages over Canada
where the winters are so long and severe as
to make life very uncomfortable for man
and beast and TO restrict agriculture to
wheat and the hardest cereals and fruits.
and every form of animal life thrives. Our
winters are so mild that light clothing and
a small amount OF fuel suffice, and one
can work out of doors practically every
day in the year. Our summer heats are
not as great as those of Canada. Our
white farmers work in the fields through
ont the hottest weather with perfect I'M
pInity and produce 81 per cent of the cot
ION crop which sells annually for about
$500 G10, 600
Crops of the South.
Let me go somewhat into particulars on
several Of these points. Every variety of
soil can he procured in the South. from the
rich sugar and rice lands of Louisiana to
the fertile corn, melon and peach fields OF
Georgia and South Carolina. from the blue
grass and limestone of Kentucky and Ten
I.~t,- "a al i
mules. TO the fertile plains of Texas with
its vast herds OF cattle and sheep; from the
tobacco and peanuts of North Carolina and
VIRGINIA TO the wheat and eats Of Mary
land and Oklahoma: from the orange, the
rrapefruit and the figs OF Florida and
Iouisiana TO the delicious apples Of West
Viroiuia and Arkansas, and from the sue
iiant Johnson and Bermuda grasses OF
higbama TO the alfalfa. LespedeZa and
otber clovers of Mississippi, where hogs
and cattle luXuriate. Cotton fourishes in
on. ar,, state of the South except Maryland
fba two Virginias and Kentucky, where the
t-;eId is sE1alI. while corn and oats thrive
i'm every one OF tnen anu wheat uoes wen
In many sections.
i' re the new settler is accustomed to grain
I'D cereals with cattle and hogs. he need
not change mis- crops or rnethooS IN the m
49,. should he settle in the lower hall
20 the Gulf States, although wheat does
wleIl in the northern portions ne need lol
,"eaa,,,e cotton grower unless ne Wlshes
" fnr corn and the cereals, with forage
ryons of many kinds. coupled WIN some
.i"lS a.. branches of animal industry
erae,,ia ednsrisrIV hogs-wil furnish the most at
tT5ctiye and profitable employment II n
80 = dairvman that line is open ~ hfm WIT
~ ,a, - ..1tranta ges in many respects. II hf
ma he a'l gardener fruit grower the Gulf and am
ever e Atlantic coast sections, win n,,,,, I'm
unity from cold and deiiehtfnl chInate
mum. La oxceIled Indeed. he can choose
cahilc, ',, branch OF agriculture and ino
n5e deal conditions in the south; .r,,. III farm,
FEW Iearz ago We we're .nefriN az t Istin
\ - cn- nne great cTop was cotton
t.- -. ,,egIected al crops except cotton enc
"a not cult ated with that nlsa de