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Warren county hill-sides, and will soon show you how 

 the thing is done. As for "glutting the market," it may 

 do for your children to talk about that — the present gen- 

 eration will not live to see it. The market can never be 

 glutted nor the culture rendered entirely unprofitable, 

 till the price is reduced to ten cents a barrel, and then 

 hogs can be fattened on them. Col. Hebron told me he 

 realized ten dollars a barrel for peaches last year. 



I cannot urge this subject too strongly upon the atten- 

 tion of Warren county citizens — I cannot urge it too 

 strongly upon the planters to become farmers in the true 

 sense of the word. I cannot urge it too strongly upon 

 Warren county farmers to become shepherds and orchard- 

 ists if they wish to see their hill-sides descend unim- 

 paired in fertility to their children, instead of descend- 

 ing to the Gulf of Mexico and the gulf of destruction! 

 Orchards, Bermuda grass, and wool, can all grow upon 

 the same soil, while soil and owners will continue to grow 

 rich. At present, if the owners are enriched, the soil 

 is not. 



But there are a good many other things that southern- 

 ers might learn economy in. And one of the first things 

 to learn is, that out of their own staple we furnish them 

 almost every manufactured article, for which they pay 

 us for carrying the raw material from the gin and press 

 we built for them, done up in our bagging and rope, and 

 sewed with our twine and needles, drawn upon our 

 waggons by our horses in our harness, over roads made 

 with our plows and hoes and spades, to our steamboats, 

 and upon that to our ships; not forgetting to let our 

 commission merchants have a good share of "skinnage ;" 

 And then after manufacturing, to return it in the same 

 way to exchange for more of the raw material; by all 

 which means we constantly keep a raw spot in your 

 feelings; but it is not yet sufficiently "galled" to teach 

 you to become home manufacturers — the only healing 

 salve that you will ever find to cure the festering sore of 

 "such low prices for cotton that planters cannot live by 



