Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-11-14

would be q cents pcr h. which foots Mp the
sums already given, and makes the difference
in weight which is only so lbs, cost 90 conts
lper ID. pobe prohtably informed, we should
knowa emethod of feeding, and that would
/ ut onco give as the cost of raising. Every
farmera should know what il costs him to
1 raise his pork, aud the cheapest way to do
! il. He should also know what is tho great
cot amount of grain and roots his soiEcan be
/ made to produce per acre, and what it costs
90 prepare HE soil. 1t may be said that this
1 issnot possible Why not keep an account
OF grain taad other substances fed to your pigs
until you make them into pork. Then YOU
| have the tat once of raising your pork.
And will not be very difficult to ascer-
tainthe capacity fyour soil. TO do SO, con-
/ suit your means, Lay out your plat or piece
j of ground according to Your means taking
4 care not to go beyond your means, as that
/ would lead to fallure9 Then have your soil
analyzed. say hayeit DONE as l suppose
there is scarcely one present who{e do il,
from the fact that they have not been educa-
\ ted for thatpurp1se.) BY so doing YOU can
! ascertain what's ould be applied to your soil
to make it produce best any kind of grain or
roots that you may require. Keep an ac-
count of the cost of materials applied, the cost
fof application, the cost of culture, and YOU
have the cost of improving your soil and pro-
sduoing your crops. aE (
T. Gentlemcn, / suppose many of you would
| doubtlf some gentleman should come here
Inext Hand report that he had succeeded
( in raising ut the rate of $50 bushels of corn
lpNr acre, or so bushels of wheat, or 500 bush
ltels Of sweet or Irish potatoes or 900 bush
els OF turnips. Vet, there can be but little
doubt that most of our soils arc capable of
1 being made produce such results as much
largerhayo been produced in other parts. y
{, "A tewycars ago Mr.. YOUNG, of Kentucky,
reported to the Patent Office that he had, ifI
! mistake not, raised 1876 bushos.of corn per
acre, You say Mr. YoUNo's Kentucky soil
i IS far superior to ours. Admitted. B1tthat
sis no reason why ourscannot bo made as good
as his. aButto do this VIC must understand
the seiencess so as to enable us to analyze tho
soils, and find wherein Mr. YoUSG's differs
i from ours, and then apply to ours such sub
STANCES as it may be deficient in, aud then
I with, the same culture IIe may expect like
respitsin erols. ~.
Such lireasoning must be plain toall, Then
away with the old fogy, musty notion, that
j 1T Is no use to educate boys to be farmers
1 Ittistrue, that there arc great many good
Farmers that are not educated, and It's equal
I " as true that they might be mnch better
4 farmers if they ,were literally educated.--
Il Whore is there an educated farmer that can
4 truly h6risontalize his farm or equally grade
his horizontal bitches, botli.of which are alb
tsolutely nceessary to q well conducted farm.
i And again by analyzipg roots and grains
their component parts are found to be quite
j different, which component parts are either
! extracted from the earth, or gathered from
/ the atmosphere. How, then, is an upetluca-
ted manic ascertain what his soil maybe
tdeficieut in to produce a good crop of what
ever he may;wish to sowor plant. Mostsoils
contain moro or Ices of the oc ,liponont parts
lot the roots and gains, but IL is found that in
different soils they abound different de-
4 I,grees, hence it sthat some oils arc better
/ adapted to the growth OF ono plant than an
4 other; Gonseqncntlys If a man is unable to
l,sSscertnin what are the component parts of
4 his soil, lie is also unable to know what he
\ ear grow most successfully. 1t strikes me
A IitlRt II IS just Ms essential that man should
4 be edecated to be e farmer as it 10 that he
4 i,shonldto be q doctor or LAWYER, althoughia
4 poor or bad farmer is net so dangerous 20 So
4 elety NJ o pettifogger or a quack The poor
! CT bad .Wlner is only useless TO society whilst
/ the othAcs rob aud kill. i.
i Tile farmer being the head and front OF
lsociety, should be ettucatcd to enablo him to
I,lnaintqinhis properpositon in society. Tho
4 ggoatost mon the world have ever produced
] were faTmcrss% educated farmers. Yes the
\ great and good sVAsHINGTos, who mightlinyc
/ becn.a king, was o fbrmer, and so was the
old 5ltoman CfNcISSATUs; Who shed tears
whcn he was, by the unanimous call of his
country, taken from his plow to discharee the
ldutiesof oh6 of tho highest offices within tho
gitt of tho Roman peoples o}t p II
4 4 sAse iyiliz0tioh and education advances, soadi
ynpees, agriculture l scarce need call your at-
Iention 10 tho fct that neither tho Rcd men OF
4 Amerien, noy the Black men oE Afriea, are ig5
i Iricuiturists II is true thAt by the fostering
\ care bestowed by our Government upon the Red
| non OF America, by educating them they are in
some Instances changing from the pursuit Of
game TO that Of fagrictlture 4tlieir minds being
capable Of of.cultiyptiop, Butyory different with
] the 4 tfricans nithough they have bAen surro,tn.
sded from the earliest agea by the Egyptians and
i other agricultural nations they have made but
little progress ihagrioafitre owing 30 tho fgse
/ thattbc minds are not capable OF receiving a
liberal dueation or proper elstiyation for the
kpvrsliit OF gSistltase; a Though they are hcts
i ter ysicaliy constituted for il than any other
srace of9pen Hence, We soc that itrc1uircs
\ rnore mental than physicel ability TO mako a
k4etloh or indiyiduals, RgricpltnFists. FhenQ in
i certaip ratio, as the mental Klculties are etl-
y tiy9ted, they hecoIne more powerful. ~
.GcnHeinenf hayine said thjR much IL favor Of
lfedueating yOar sons TO be farmers have the
snbjoot With yOi, with The hope that yoSl ysilI
tnas s:s consideration that its inlpostatce
\ demAfds 81 ~ S 40 1s RI lsg :
more tl,anprobable that our system ef
4 fhgficalterc has to )lndcrgo a change. We; WI
In an probability give zip tile culture Of cottoh
/ for that Of Chinese snggr cane, Jf R grsat
nan,bes of ntlehen alf oyer The county, Who
have beenS kpefmenting With II he not greatly
l1nistakeny itwsll be one of the most galuable
EprpalIcts of our soil From OK p0riniehts fsI,eiy
Iaaees Ills cegtaln that 400 gslloas Of syrup p6r
acre may beprOducsd. bat suppose 900 gali5fis
II 81 EyrnR 70 ethe yield pei, aege, and that ~
cts, per Ion, VIII be 500 per aore aiidcqslaf to
aVfeid of2 He ei.e,. of isnt