The Daily Dispatch: April 27, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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Plant corn.

We commend the following to the attention of our agriculturists. Corn should be made a large portion of their crops for the present season. Attention should also be given to raising stock of every description. We ought to be able to feed our armies from our own resources, without dependence on anybody. We trust our contemporaries of the Virginia press, especially in the country, will call attention to this subject:

‘ Editors of Dispatch.--Gentlemen: I saw a few days ago in one or two of our city papers an earnest recommendation to the people, not only of this State, but to the people of the whole South, to devote a large amount of their best land and labor to the production of corn, wheat, rye, oats, peas, potatoes, and vegetables of all sorts, as in the present aspect of public affairs it becomes as much a duty of patriotism as of necessity, and I hope you will urge its importance again and again upon the people, especially this year; and I think, upon the score of profit, it holds out better prospects of remuneration than tobacco, the great staple of the State. That article is now very low, and if Lincoln's blockade goes into effect it must become a perfect drug.

’ I hope to see you call the attention of the people to it by every argument of common sense and every consideration of public safety.