The Columbia daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1865, 1865-07-26
To the GreM aermen People.

Time ha. shown that German labor,
perseverance and skill-German customs.
morals, etc--have brought even riches to
thousands of those who settled in the
South, and competence TO most. To day,
you find German settlements in South
Carolina which were founded hundred
years ago. German names familiarly come
to your ears, and German customs fami-
llarIy surprise your eye at the entrance
int many of these happy abodes; and
nearly all of these descendants Of Germans
do well. They are proud to be called
Dutch farmers" Their corn is the best
Their cotton crops, even when small,
they arc the heaviest to the acre. When
ten negroes (working hands, of the South
ern or native planters worked $50 acres of
land, it is but sifSple truth to assert that
German farmer, with FIVE hands en-
ployed at the working season, will do the
same and achieve the same results, and
more. The country is adapted for any
agricultural pursuits. Cotton. the great
staple OF the South. groweth in abundance,
and Under strict attention will make any
planter rich One bale to an acre in bot
tom lands is comm on with negro labor
One bale brings, at the rate of only ten
cents per lb.. $4O-40O lbs. to bale.
Therefore, if an emigrant invests Sis per
acre, high price, and clears it. counts
Sl5 Tor clearing. fencing and work for
the first crop, which will cover in full
and over all his expenses, he makes $40
per acre in the first year; aud in the
second will have the capital outlay back,
in money, in his possession.
And ls speak now Of farming for
market. proceed from cotton to the
sugar cane" If German farmer can
grow rich by the precarous cultivation of
the beet. mike rube. he certainly will
do better with the sugar cane, Which is
cultivated here, And every farmer is max
ing his own supply of syrup and for sale.
rude miil rude oven and boilers will
be necessary to enable the farmer to con-
vert the juice of the cane into the most
delicious syrup. which, when only sold at
twenty five cents per gallon, will bring as
much per acre as the best cotton crop, and
expect to see sugar plantations produce
much in South Carolina. Until now. and
speak for the T. atives, no attempts worthy
of mention for making sugar iinthis State
have been heard Of but have seen sugar
eranulating in barrels, where China cane
syrup was kept for one year, W high is
proof that it is adapted for grs nulation.
AAS raining of sweet md Irish patatoes
ana garden Vegetables in the vicinity
|of towns, makes rich the gardner. No
better country for the cultivation of grass
or clover can be found. The botan
lat hnds over forty diffe. ent grasses here,
mt mt for the food of cattle, in the forests
The many rivers, creeks and rivulets
which 'rrigate the country show, in itself
how easy the best meadows can be made.
CntH now, thousands aud tens of thou.
sands of dollars We're yearly paid to Con-
necticut and other Northern hay growers
tor the needed supply. All this money
can be made South, and in a much more
easy manner and safer way than in great
many other pursuits. Grass groweth here
IN best quality, and, if properly cultivated,
VIII prove source of wealth to the in
dustrious farmer. ! dwell more at length
on the cultivation of grasses, rs this kind
OF pursuit is but little known in this coun-
try, and hence it was that the most of the
hay consumed here was imported from the
North: In all this. my friende, show
plainly how far less difficult it rs to secure
prosperity in this country than in the
over-hlled aud crowded land Of our ia.
tivity. HERMANN.
Gov. PERRY's PRocLAMAr1oN.-We are
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