The Columbia daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1865, 1865-07-01

Saturday Morning, July 1, 1865.
Speed the Plough.

20 employ themselves. I, is natural
enough. with all those who have hitherto
been engaged in trade, to feel at. a loss
what to do wheu there is no trai when
farmers have go little for the market and
shop.keepers are at a loss for customers
To all this class Of persons, it is difficulty
TO address themselves to any new voca
ton, for which they have previously had
no experience. But determined Will,
the resolute energy to do something, the
want of money anG the shame of i1leness,
will suffice to compel them to concentrate
thought and purpose equally, in some
direction, by which they may hope 10
realize the means Of comfortable subsist-
ence. Let us commend all these persons,
thus doubling what to do, to address their
attention TO the life of the farmer. 1t is
the pleasantest and most independent life
IN the world, and the physical labor which
it demands, is really, after a beginning has
once been made. no serious strain upon
the muscles, and certainly not upon the
brain. Three or four hours of the early
morning-from daylight to ten o'clock
three hours in the afternoon, when the
sul,ry period has PASSED by-and the labor
of the day will be adequately done. And,
sitter u little while, the mind takes sirgu
Tar interest and delight in contemplating
the beautiful processes of nature, in tive
development her fruits and fewers. We
have always had in South Carolina large
quantity of vacant land. In fact, one OF
the greatest Of all our mbarrassments in
the way OF wealth and high civilization,
has been the sparseness of our population
We can supply this now, Will probably do
so in part from foreign emigration, and
will improve, MS a people, in proportion as
we do so. Let us grap2le with our tolls
nanlully, and we shall triumph over all our
present emoarrassments.
BY the adoption Of the farming policy,
we can colonize, here and there, our large
;,lantations wkicl, have been abandoned by
the slaves. These may be settled by young
!ne1r out of business, who, W It'll q proper
CuO ClltCllti IcSpluIio'', S''! S'oh sAN wa -
knowledge Of what is to be doue. Farm
ing is the most simple and easily acquired
business in the world, and dozen young
1ne,, with twenty acres of land each and
a contiguous tract of woodlands for fuel,
can settle together, form, community, at
small rent or by purchase, and, in the
course of single year, can accumulate all
The provisions necessary fo- their own sup
port and for the mur1e cts. With :. single
mule, single cart, q single COW, single
SOW, hoe shovel. an axe aud few
bushc els OF seed, yon have really ample
we NAV say a large-capital for begin
ning and in one year after, YOU Will have
a we'll filled barn, 4 wclI-stoclSed farm
ward, plenty Of provisions for home and
fair surplus fer sale in the markets. OF
course. such an establishment implies
much more. There NIL be butter from
the COW, pigs from the sow. poultry from
the farm-yrrI and the various stuiis from
the garden. There is scarcely situation
in which fish are not to be had from river
and creek; scarcely Il farm or plantation
which will not yield abundance of game.
The pea season will give You partridges;
She ilarves: and winter time. doves in
drogvs; fquir,~'s Are small deer, but
admirably hne-hner than chickens, when
potteG; an,l an American rabbit, smother
cd in onions is a delicacy fit for sultan
There are fruits which only need little
care-grapes at tie hands of nature.
peaches which only need to be protected
from the borer, (Which only requires watch
fulness,) apples, which produce Won
drously in the sitter soils, and all the