Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-12-03
:farmer's department.
From the Cotton Planter and Soil.
COTTON AND GRAIN LAND.

COTTON AND GRAIN Lamb.
Dear Sir The Planters of Georgia,
South Carolina and elsewhere may shut their
eyes to the light, but that will not cause the
light to cease; they may close up every av-
enue to belief, yet it makes truth no less
truth. And while all England is aghast at
the prospect of demand for cotton, which
production fails to meet, the doubters may
doubt, and loose all our advantage. Cotton,
-or some raw material must he had, by which
our race must be clothed, and the depen-
dence is upon America, if she will not at
tempt to supply them, necessity will soon
strike out something that may yet cripple US.
There are thousands of negroes now en-
gagged in making cotton, 8, + and bales
per hand, when if located on the rich lands
in Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas, at
least double would be realized, and the lands
in those States could BE- cultivated with less
than half the negroes, with fair return in
grain, cattle, sheep and hogs. A crop OF
300, 900 is said by English papers to be
now needed, and there are negroes enough
engaged in cotton culture, if upon our best
lands, to insure such crop
I will moi call names, but II reGulFeo' l
can establish beyond any dispute that there
ere many plantations working5O to GO hands
and perhaps over, that has made for many
years lO to 10 bales OF HUI pou"uS ea'" =
can prove that over tins has oeen eAeeeueu. ~ !.
Land in the woods-~i!a anuS-fa'e "' go
to STU per acre 20
y friend OF mine says TO me- i' 'Oul
folks make such crops-lo TO 10 0ni:s pei
hand-you ought 10 get as riIn a' ; mn: l'a.o1' s1
and yet l hear you are ai' pfoAc' "'' a.
ters noe t"e i"''' "'',' wv f' >,
and that any gooa plan'er ifo" C'lo"ua s;oa ~
Georgia, can cultivate TO average III sIo 10
of years, say lV-Wltn an average VI ~
bales per hand-With corn 10 spare LII, >,
ing recently visited part OF inc "oo''oi,is'
| can with conhdence assure your 'eaue,''
that lands can be shown Where ooo anu -
600 acre fields can be made' that WIN aver
age bale per acre often In gooo c"l'''a',on'
often, not an acre in the enclosure to under
go this. l deal not IN Munchausenls"' L
am anxious to see our country be lndepen-
dent, and this can only be when the ooutn
puts her negroes on rlch lands to make cot
ton, and puts the thin land to making grain
and stock. Reduce workers on the poor
lands and increase IN the rlcn'
l have In my family connec''0n seven or
eight who are planters, laIncr anu Oto'ue's,
and son-in-law, lour ol Sno'n are iu'e'esl.a S
IN What We Call "S%auip' anu Ano" "A"s ~
they 90, as to production, even ID excess +, ol
of what we do In the bis-blacS ana II ''''ie
creek swamps'
Were l now a citizen OF my o'u nome,
and had l, as some OF my ola lr'elos auu
schoolmates have, loO TO o'V negroes anu
know noW' "hof ho'e $ee"' ana oo KNOW;
certainly would locate Plantation Ill Tue
Southwest and live there part OF the year.
Light Will and must oreah Oh 'ne'r S,slonS'
rdlcule Will not nave us 'nhuence a'""y''
nave iiSed "''c ~ years, IAc,P' - l"'S ="
an adJ JolhlnS county, auu l uouO' - nav
schoolmate no" aliVe anywhere WIN ""' ~ '"u
less sickness than l nave OF VINO Has 'lSea ,s =
less OF the vile drugs tna' destroy NAN VI
the ln'al'oS' wy ie'a'io''' n''1 60 'l'''o WY, y,
less sickness among olacNs IN .ne % swamp ' =.
than here In hinas county. many & s"a'nP l'
planters rely entirely on s'"p'e uf"sS' SUI"
as any Intelligent o'ersccr can use
If there be any OF your reauers' VINO .r !,
honestly deslrous OF being informed anu Will
require it, l can get certificate from the
Governor and State ofhcers' from 'ne GU
preme Judge, Judge OF the Circu't court
and Probate Judge, as to the hish stanoihs
of parties, and then certificate that L paleS
per hand in the aggregate Tor years mas
been made-6o hands on the planta'l0n-