The Daily Dispatch: April 20, 1864., [Electronic resource]

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Cultivation of the soil

The journals of the country can do no better service to the Confederate cause than to keep before the people the vital importance of this subject. Every energy of the people should be devoted to production.--Every resource that experience, ingenuity and practical skill can suggest should be tested to the utmost to produce food for man and beast. The military danger is one which we can look calmly in the face, and of which there need be no terror. But who can fight against a deficiency of supplies? Not our soldiers, (except those in stationary camps,) for they are combating a different enemy. The men who cultivate the soil compose an army not inferior in importance to that which is in the field. We invoke them to spare no pains in the performance of their duty. If one crop fails, try another. We should be glad to see our scientific agriculturists giving their attention to this subject, and publish such hints, suggestions, and advice as will be of use in increasing and diversifying production. The hands of every man not in the army should be in the fields, and the prayers of good men should rise as earnestly to heaven for bounteous harvests as for successful battles.