The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1848-08-16
A WORD TO PLANTERS.

a WORD ~ PLANTfh6s
The following suggestions come frnm
one Of llle most skilful and successful NJ.
ricplluIasis IN The whole South. They
are Iheref,re entitled a. very great epnsi.
dersIian. EDIToR ADVOCATE.
From The Temperance Advocate.
W. Edif0E-fhe present prospect ii
the COTTON growers Of the South, are pro-
hasly as glnamy a. have been seen in the
me.nory nf the " oldest inhahilanl.' The
paliiical difficulties &C our father. land up.
crate fearlully upon "a; collnn has gone
down 10 price so low that planters Of
ordinary land cannot ailard In make IL; The
demand is only lar llmils d consumption.
with full crop ln0ning in the distance.
AIS an easy matter 10 p0lnI out diff
sulIies existing. aud sometimes easy 10
point oul lhnse 10 the womb of iime-hui
not 80 easy 10 point Ia cure, or e,en 10
an alleEIsnt.
The history nf The past shows that an
agricultural people Ielying on one staple.
must sOuner or later be beggarrd! See
the poverty Of the granary Of Europe.
along the Black Sea and lhereahnul..
Inok To ponr broken-down Ireland-sweei
Ireland, " The home &c the brave aud the
land OF the open.handed and irue.hea,ied
but look To the tnharco fields. indigo
fields, rice fields. aud the cut;on fields
what are they!
We buy our shoes. plow.linss. hats.
axe.handles, clothes, plows-all. all. from
toolhpick to pen, from the North and
East, and ,re veil cotton! We buy meat
and bread, four. sugar and cnffce-eve.
~ Thing. every thing. Why should We
We can make our bread. meat, leather,
rloihing, grain. &c, g., &c. Some say
we can buy cheaper. Granted, il We
make calculation Of al labor and all ap-
parent expense. For instance, calculate
corn as worth so CTS. per bushel, and Ia.
bor At $40 per monih-ceTtainly not TOO
high. Let us raise pork. am now feed.
ing 30 pigs, sows and boar, my house
stock-l have 90 head besides upon 3
pecks OF corn boiled, and peek Of dry
corn per day, putting the cooking al ioi
cents per dav, including woud, and slnp
frnm The kiirhen, anil what will il cost me
10 raise my meet! Nearly 10 cents per
ID. would think, for these - must con-
sumo more corn as the young get size.
Hut this way Of calculation is not right,
through il may be strictly true. My corn
is not worth 90 ris., because there are no
purchasers convenient, and the hands that
make full crop " cotton, also make my
corn, fed my fancy pigs and my stock
hogs. Nv prospect is, can Kill meat
enough for ls49. and have double as many
hogs left for 1850 as we can possibly
want. Besides Ibis, nv stock h"gs are all
within my lence-we have sheep enough
10 give us Z lbs. Of wool for every thing
on the place, Of quality that should sell
for 20 cts, or nearly enough to clothe all
hands--we then have colt 10 every 3
hands, enough 10 keep up team. Thus
you see We cannot Afford to buy meat.
When cotton was al IA cts, we could buy
any thing, bu, could have made more mo-
ney by making little less cotton and
li,lle more bread. for tha, heing plenty.
will give life and being 10 The meat tub
and pastures. /
The South must buy less; she must
hire fewer overseers; she mus, rely on
SELF Planters must rise earlier, and must
become better acquainted with their own
business they will soon see great ma
ny lille things that are not seen.
Our legislatures should encourage home
manufactures free them from taxes Tor
FIVE or more years: the introduction OF
Jacks, and of goad farm stock horses
should be encouraged; and even enr"u-
rage the growth of wool, by leyying tax
on dogs. aud reducing the tax upon the
planter who shows 50 or 100 lbs. OF wool
OF yearly clip. All this, as State, we
can do; We have the right, aud as South
Carolinian | would go for il.
We can grow fodder and oats for our
towns. | have cut at the rate OF 10000
lbs. of green corn from some corn per
acre. and very nearly 40 bushels Of oats
to the acre. Let us try to do these things,
and from our foreign friends buy less
they only buy what they cannot do with.
out. Why we will not require the same
sales, and probably have liule less for
sale, and as their necessities are The same,
we shall get more. s
Yours, HENRY.
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