Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1887 — THE SOUTHERN STATES. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTHERN STATES.

A passenger traiu ill South Carolina was stopped by the myriads of caterpillare on the tracks. Judge Kelly, the well-known Pennsylvania Congressman, who' has just returned from a Southern'tour, expresses surprise and delight with what he saw. He says: Everywhere throughout the mineral regions of the South enterprise and prosperity are mo'ing hand in hand. Nor is this prosperity of the New South confined to its mineral regions. Though the poverty and listnessness which characterized the poor people of the South still prevail to a considerable extent in her cotton-fields, there is a large leaven of enterprise and improvement which is rapidly curing that. The agriculturists of the New South—those who have caught the spirit of.progress—do not longer plow their fields with single-mule plows. They have learned the value of deep plowing. They continue to grow some cotton, but not upon the surface of exhausted fields, and they diversify their crops. lam speaking now of the progressive agriculturists, the representatives of the New South. Instead of one crop of cotton, they have fields of wheat, rye, clover, and other crops, and, to save their old-time guano bills, as they called bills for manufactured fertilizers, they turn under green crops and aid that with manure from sleek and well-fed herds of cattle. The great boom of the South is near at haud, and it will not 'be confined to the mineral regions of that richest section of our country, but will include the agricultural regions as well. r l he general cattle “round-up” is progressing at Quantah, Texas, with a more successful “gather” than fpr years pa-«r.