Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-02-18
The Farmer and Planter

The February number of this valuable aeri.
cultural work is before us. 1t is a journal of
thirty-four large pages, and as its name denotes
is devoted to farming and planting. The print
is sunexceptionable. The editors columns are
well and industriously filled and the selections
suitable in every respect. 1t is the only paper
OF the kind in the State. and as its proprietor
remarks, is poorly sustained. Will not our
farmers do something for it? 1t is published in
Columbia, S. G, by II. NJ. Stokes, at one collar
per annum in advance. Read the f,l'owing
appeal in its behalf and then decide its destiny:
An APPEAL TO THE FARMERS AND PLANTERS
OF SoUTn CARoLGNA.-rhc Farmer and Plan
Ten has been published over one wear. by Mr. r.
NJ. Stokes, Mt Columbia South Carolina. with.
out a sufficient subscription list to dcfray its cx-
ncnscs. 1t has been printed and sent forth in
the best style, and the Agricultural Department
has been edited with signal ability by gentle-
mon who are practical agricuituralists and who
are deeply interested in the welfare of the State
The Editors have not received, nor have they
charged single cent for their labors They
have worked for the good cause alone freely de.
voting their timc to its advancement. Mr..
Stokes has spent large sums in bringing this
Journal within reach of the agrcuIturalsts and
rural men of the State. Unless he receives a
liberal Subscription list he will not be able to
continue the work beyond the present year lie
has assured me that, at all hazards, lie will
print it during the year 1860. lie requires at
lca> eur thousand subscribers to make it pros
pcrOns. lie has not one thousand now upon
his list.
Without his knowledge I venture to publish
this appeal in his behalf, and ask tho people of
the State to aid in sustaining this effort to cs-
tabIish rural organ in midst. Our people
have suffered every Journal of he kind to die
for want of support. Shall the same fate at
tend The Furmer and Planter? | hope that
the small mite required will be Immediately
sent in the shape OF cash subscriptions to Mr.
Stokes No one need fear losing their subscrip-
ti0ns by q discoBtnnance during 1860. If The
fGiscr Ged I2nnter is allowed now to perish for
want of support. no one can tell when another
effort to establish anngricultural journal will be
made in this State. / make no sectional appeal
in behalf Of this journal. The place of it's pub
llcation is sufficient guarantee for its devotion
to the people of the State. i ask the men of
South Carolina to step forward without hcsita-
ton, and put it on living basis. 1 need not
reitcrate that will still give it my time and La
Dor as horticultural Editor, as have always
done, without remuneration and that | will
thus endeuyor to sustain it as long as Mr.. Stokes
is able to print it,
ask the newspapers of the State, on behalf
of MIR. Stokes, to publish this appeal and espe-
each month. The work is published in hand.
some style at 81 per annum. and little exer.
tiGn on the part of the agrieuturalists and hor-
ticulturalists of the State would Immediately
place it on permanent basis.
WILLIAM SUMMER.
Pomar'o, S. O., February 6, 1860.