Cheraw gazette and Pee Dee farmer. [volume] (Cheraw S.C.) 1838-1839, 1839-10-11

seed which used 10 buy for twelve cents a
pound or two dollsrs and half per bushel
is now twenty cents a pound, and herds
grass three dollars per bushel. Then too,
labor is so high, cannot afford to hire.
Have you plenty of manure
No; this is great want. Ihave boghole
where l suppose | could get two hundred
loads year, bat then should have to 90
more than q mile for It, and It is wet work.
| have not any ofthe advantages which the
farmers have who live within six or seven
miles Of Boston. and can 60 in and buy q
load of good dung whenever they want.
Do you know what these farmers have to
pay for manure in Boston
Why, yes! have been told they have
to give sometimes from three 10 ave dollars
cord at the stables. Sometimes our tav.
ern keeper sells few ioads, but he asks
five dollars cord.
Have you BARN cenar7
No. have often thought Il would be q
very good thing, and my barn b we'll situa.
ted for one but then Il would cost, besides
what work should do with my own team,
full fifty dollars 10 make one.
Do you keep cows?
Yes, keep some just to eat up our
coarse fodder but OUT women folks do not
like dairy work, 50 We buy our butter and
sell our milk to the mik.man for eleven
cents a gallon.
Do you keep swine7
Only one or two for our own pork. We
do not have any skim. milk or better milk
for them. Besides there is no grea, prof,
IN faaening hogs. They viii not much
more than pay for wha, feed they will eat.
| know they will make large quantity, Of
manure, but then you must cart in great
deal Of stuff into their pens or else they
can't make any. But come I must show
you a SOW | have got; she is only fifteen
months old, and sold her pigs for more
than forty dollars. ! suppose shall make
her weigh four hundred in the fall.
Do you raise your own grain and pota.
toes7
Not all. I raise about three acres ofcorn
and abou. as much rye, and about six hun.
dred bushels Of potatoes. We sell hay and
buy Genesee -four. We have tried wheat,
bur sometimes It 10 blasted (; and it don't
make white -four; and our women folks
say they cannot make handsome pie.crus
or while bread with It.
How many have you in your family !
lhave wife and eight children, and my
father lives with me.
Have you any trade7
No.; have nothing but farm.
Does your farm support yeur family and
pay your labor?
Why, yes! Ihsve nothing else. except.
ing little interest that comes from some
money which | received tor the sale of wood
from the farm, sometime ago, which came
to about five hundred dollars, and which /
put out al interest. We sell enough pro.
duce from the farm to pay Our hired labor,
which costs about hundred dollars per
year, and our store bills and taxes.
We have very much abridged this con.
versa,on, we shall leave it without farther
comment. But here is husbandman on
a farm valued at four thousand dollars. not
producing more than one.ihird Of what It
might b. made to produce, yet supporting
a family of eleven persons and paying all
expenses, excepting the labor and superin.
tendence Of one man, and the farm gradu.
ally increasing in value by every expendi.
ture. however small, for its improvement;
this man too, moi working hslfthe time, and
his family living 10 the enjoyment of all
the Iuxuries. If they choose to have them,
which they can reasonably ask. Let such
man if he will, take his two hundred and
forty dollars income and labor no moro
hours than he does in the country, and 20
into Boston and Try to support his family
there. The end Of the year would show
him resul, which would make him ashamed
to complain ofhis present condition. His
whole money income Of two hundred and
forty dollars would scarcely pay for his fuel.
his taxes, and the rent of a ten.footer.-
What an evil it is that our farmers do not
know their blessings!"
Hogs.
From the days of Varfo and Coulmells
down to the present times, there seems to
have been but little difference Of opinion
among intelligent agriculturists as to the
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