Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Address of Hon. Geo. B. Loring, Commissioner of Agriculture, and Other Proceedings of the Cotton Convention, Held in Atlanta, Ga., November 2, 1881
World. The division of large estates into small tenant farms, subject to a well-defined system of cultivation, is of great advantage to the ten ant and owner alike in the present condition ofa portion of even the well-disposed and industrious population of the cotton States. But I 'cannot forget the tendency to independent ownership throughout our country, and the widely-diffused prosperity which is found in those sec tions where the farmer gathers his own crop from his own soil and seeks his own market. And I suggest this because I am inclined to believe that in this way can the two important points in the agriculture of the cotton States be most rapidly and permanently reached, namely 1. The increase of the crop of cotton to the acre; and, 2, the introduction of diversified farming as a source of profit to the farmer and of benefit to the soil he cultivates.
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