Show and production the iha constant and sa increasing influence 1 of 0 I railroads on agricultural production in the united states and consequently on 01 tho the farming interest inte roBt ol of groat great britain Uri tain is something that is all the time fore me itself upon the general considers conf idera tiou home i months ago mr air edward atkinson naon ad uil on this subject in the leviero of 0 coadou iu in which I 1 lie to that tant a very great saving in respect to food apply had been wrought in tho the eastern bei action tion of the united wales states ly by the ex e f agiou ot of railways rail westward ile iia ul in bitted at the name time agrical into in the east had mado mada great improvements prove ments to in respect to methods as an well ba as to v variety a bety and value of products and thu tho is of this argument mout was to that precisely preci nely similar ro aulta sulta though of courso course on u different diff noula were naturally to lie bo expected in respect to the ihu agriculture ot of great britain Bri irwill bu to tho the operation of the now new forces represented by railways and in d steamships that this ilia existing ra of landlord and tenant which rule in krabit will beco lecoma M a bo be radically changed that hut runt rent in connection connect t 1 I w ila agricultural lands lii uila will vill practically 4 disappear or ut at uny oily rato rate will hi be on subjected to very great and in ill consequence laborers had and em players will lome come to receive a larger 0 and d fairer share of profit obediently to the now division ol of agricultural pru products a riots between laborers t an aud landlords mr atkinson Atkin Bou asks at this point of the iho discussion it if any system ol of high farming under restrictions dan successfully compete with unfettered american abundance it if any land subject to rent flan can compete with will these theao vast and aad all but unlimited ones anoa of ours supplemented by the tha railway and and I 1 il eaghish ui as time goes on must not adjust unjust itself itsak moo und and more to the new conditi conditions bojos ojos precisely bisely as fart farming ning in the eastern be pro ion ol of this thia country has baa lose deno anil and is doing L Un a gland like now englund will find lt it for or its ita speak lag to concentrate its productive power and industry upon a variety ot of crops which w will ill not stand the wear of a long carriage carlage I 1 und and this new MW ancestry in turn will tend to small farm lold hold ings and individual ownerships ahia that are freo free from heavy and burdensome rents recta la ili such ruch 0 A view instead of there being nuy guy cause for deblair dee deB pair or oven even for despondency the english larmer farmer will discover every reason lor feeling cheered and encouraged it will simply dimply be a oli anett of the tha methods 01 of farming to io order to secure it a greater variety of products wo are told looking over our own unparalleled agricultural resources that the healthy upland country of alabama georgia und and the car of ina exceed italy in ia area whilo while it has but a fourteenth of italis population and that tho the middle section of the tha sunlit with some two millions of population quals equals tile the whole austrian empire in area ani and exceed sit lu in natural resources we are further reminded dod that the three states slates of kansas nebraska nod and iowa ova moro more than equal franca in ia area an and d fertile land though they contain 1 bt t present but one tenth of the latton of france while texas that wonder among our states is as ai large in u extent as aa the german empire ung land and una and wales walca together in 1879 texas produced two and it n half times the he largest crop of cotton she alio ever wood by slave olive labor before the war or bales in that same saade year she could have hava produced the entire cotton crop of the unite a states slates for that year on in less than square miles of good land and 1 at the rate ut of one bale to the acre and anil it I is 11 tin an astonishing fact that the bales of american weight cotton which is oon con by the whole world could bo be grown on lose than square miles ol at tho the entire 27 1000 bialt w comprises the present state of texas this his country is to lo become wore mure and more the marvel of tile the world una and its a gric alture Is ia its great and reliable reli ablo r resource for all time maas plough man |