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"Mr. Sidney Lanier in an article on the New South * (in which he shows 

 that the New South means small farming, diversified farm products, and 

 the highest possible agricultural development), that I cannot better close 

 this paper than by quotations from that article : 



It is impossible to end without adverting to a New South, which exists 

 in a far more literal sense than that of small farming 



How much of this gracious land is yet new to all real cultivation? how 

 -much of it lies groaning for the muscle of man ? and how doubly mourn- 

 ful is this newness in view of the fair and fruitful conditions which here 

 "hold perpetual session, and press perpetual invitation upon all men to 

 'Come and have plenty ! Surely, along that ample stretch of generous 

 :soil, where the Appalachian, raggedness calm themselves into pleasant 

 ihills, a man can find such temperances of heaven and earth — enough of 

 ■struggle with nature to draw out manhood, with enough of bounty to 

 sanction the struggle — that a more exquisite co-adaptation of all blessed 

 circumstances for man's life need not be sought. . . ,' . . . The whole 

 prospect seems to yearn for men. Everywhere the huge and gentle 

 slopes kneel and pray for vineyards, for corn-fields, for cottages, for spires 

 to rise up from beyond the oak groves. It is a land where there is 

 never a day, of summer nor of winter, when a man cannot do a full day's 

 ^work in the open field. All the products meet there, as at nature's own 

 •agricultural fair, so that a small farm may often miniature the whole 

 United States in growth ; the little valleys everywhere run with living 

 ■waters, asking grasses, and cattle, and quiet grist-mills; all manner of 

 timbers for economic uses, and trees for finer arts, cover the earth ; in 

 short, here is such a neighborly congregation of climates, soils, minerals, 

 and vegetables, that within the compass of many a hundred-acre farm a 

 'man may find wherewithal to build his house of stone, of brick, of oak, 

 ■or of pine, to furnish it in woods that would delight the most curious eye, 

 and to support his family with all the necessaries, most of the comforts, 

 ancj many of the luxuries of the whole world. It is the Country 



of Homes. 



*Scribner's Monthly for October, 1880, Vol. XX, page 840. 



