| Show THE FUTURE OF THE SOUTH apon she th of t re ishad aarm lad lands the fumire of the bouth south it a question ahl which h has tea perplexed capitalists ud ad thinkers since the reconstruction period there if Is no disguising the fact that the t ett etherial erial growth of the south in not up with the north rapid development the south Is essentially esa senti ally agricultural and in th the a judicious u cultivation ct c her oil soil lies iles til all her hopes hopel one ot of the greatest great cst hit hindrances ili a this line li Is the continual exodus of 0 the energetic young white man to the north or west they are am obliged to struggle ruggle et bard hard for an all tion end and when they leave school invariably choose to enter the more on n ter fields of labor tuan drag out cat a alow slow veary weary life I 1 their urn own south land liand farming fuming bus has never been conducted la in th the auth south on principles hitherto arto erto the firm lands hav have been worked on the lime same plan as a mines dug out and carted caned off and nothing put back under suck treatment the farms arms la in many ot of the th southern Bout bern states have keen imn exhausted the oll sell hu his grown thinner and thil this ner and it la Is found to put pat more acres under cultivation 1 order to maintain the usual yield this plia plan Is carried to such extremes that more acres are put under the plow than es be worked and soon reach a where they have to I be ie e abandoned and then new fiilds are cleared at a heavy expense thua thus the process goes on oil and on without enriching the farmer but wearing out and hll his land it la Is safe to amme assume that not more than 10 per cent ot of the land la in the south Is cleared and lees less than S 5 per cent li Is under cultivation cuitti aaion tb tle prairies ot of the west offer no such inducement inducements du cement aa as this to the MID young southerner and the hilcker he realizes it the better should the northera farmer begin to to ci ionize in the souta uta and clearing broad timber lands create a fine flue farming community then the southern young man wll voll see the folly of leaving home in search of lucrative employment farming will become f fashionable and as a result the south will become prosperous populous and ai as powerful as the north pennsylvania grit |
