Needs Of The Piedmont Region

The section of country known as the Piedmont Rogion of the South Atlantio States, ernbracing largo portions of Virginia, Nórth and Soüth Carolina and Georgia, bas man y possibilities uiider the new order bound to prevail jn that section upon the división of the land into small farms, and the adoption of a system of mixed, husbandry. ■ The need of this section is population. From any point of observation, the eye can sweep the country for miles, and the whole undulating surface looks one vast forest, the proportion of cleared land being so small, and that so scattered about the plantations, that at a distance they are lost to view. It is no wonder that the tendency is o general for the farmers to move into town and run their farms by tenauts. liofore the war they were able to keep up large establishment., entertain" guests royally, and with a retinue of servants, bid defiance to neie;hbors or the offices oí neighborhood. Now with the change, the country must either be settled up by farmers who will combine n making up neighborhoods, and establish the social bonds of society, or the plantations will become estates managed by owners or corporations with a System of tenantry as odious and demoralizing as that of Ireland. Lands that produce so generously will not be allowed to be idle, and either small farms and prosperity, or larjje estates and a erindins; monoply, will prevail. -