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a better execution of the penal laws of the State, and the 

 consequent restraining influence upon the negro popula- 

 tinn. 



4//z. Proper attention on the part of the Farmers. It must 

 be confessed that this important requisite does not exist 

 generally in the State, the unexcelled advantages of cli- 

 mate and soil being, to a great extent, neglected. Indeed, 

 natural surroundings are so favorable that inferior stock 

 are raised almost without attention or care, and hence a 

 very general misapprehension of the economy and profits 

 of proper attention exists. There is, however, a decided 

 improvement in this respect. 



th. Is there a stimulating demand for pork and bacon ? 

 In order to secure proper attention to the production of 

 any commodity, there must be a reasonable demand for it 

 when produced. That there is such demand in Georgia, 

 is shown by the vast quantities annually imported from 

 other states. Pork or bacon is almost the exclusive ani- 

 mal food ot the negro population, and constitutes the prin- 

 cipal source of supply for the tables of the whites, espe- 

 cially in the rural districts of the State. 



About ten millions of dollars are annually expended, 

 principally by the farmers and farm laborers, for pork, lard 

 and bacon imported from the west. While it is true that, if 

 proper attention was given to raising pork in Georgia, there 

 would be no market for its products, except to supply the 

 cities and towns, it would stop the drain upon the pockets 

 of the farmers, which now consumes their profits. 



The loss from disease, especially from that miscalled 

 cholera, is considerable, but not more serious than in Illi- 

 nois and other States, which find t^ production of pork 



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so profitable. 



As far as the country is CQncerned, therefore, Georgia 

 possesses every necessary requisite for the cheap produc- 

 tion of pork of the very best quality, the only difficulties 

 resting with the people, who lack neither the energy, norin- 



