The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1867-08-07
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5'sTar,,a wea1th---Our Lands.

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True Wealth Our Lands.
From aa exceedingly well-timed article
IN the Milledgeville (Ga.) Recorder we
make the following extracts, and recon-:
mend our people to peruse them carefully !:
THE great advantage the South has;
ever the North lis in its soil and .ellnale'
and necessarily, It's prod ctlons. IL is
hasnrodnctions. of our soil that makes
Saba South GREAT and important, and the
n Jiniion: BE; and very necessary the
wealth Of the North.
Bat TO- the point NE ewishsto present to
the: minds: Of cur people Wewish to inn
press them with. the truth-that our soil.
itsS ffsestilit and productions,is the
sonlE WaaEtk that will never fail, no mat
steer stteer u wihether amid revolutions, civil COM
notions, or anarch ~. He who tlllss tn the
soil anG whose wealth is: in the soil can
ever be independent. AS remarkedln IN tne
foregoing part of this article, it's our pro-
#dnctions that give us wealth, importance
and :position:; and the richer the e! son, tne
ss,es WeaItIT' s1 ~
wv slsT ;s then; would suggest the
sa,t snss of ,resersine cur soil, and en-
~, ,.;nS;n,,s II yearly. by preventing washes.
as IS = o. ,nanures. We address our
sselFes 1earticular IN this article to the.
people Of: Georgia, and more especially to.
Middle Georgia. Our, old system offarnl-
Ing. and the cheapness of lands IN years
= ~, "a GOOD cro1,s nm his rich lands.
s,Sa mo- Ind iffarant M f., the
an - 80 4ha+ I'll land Cbean he cot
is.,s sS.ea ~ of him.
s = sfter nlantation was par.
t.,Si. naw ona was sopened.
s 4be svsten, of the destruction of
: fhe ms aterial5 wealth of the State went on.
I'm. the, sIanonaae ilof q former planter of
4 RaIdN5;n -h5,t 3nov of Alabama. upon re.
starn to his old country to see old friends
,ssI,d ta,loolr at his old home after wears of
s;ahsance he remarked. ethathe cot rich by.
nakiinr.iriioh land poor" and laughed at
s his old friends for cultivating poor land
that ! ;szttllllts been worn, out. Our old friend
was a fair. sample of. Georgia planters
4hirtvt and forty svears 400 they grew
rich and. that ran;dIv. but at the .expense
1 Ss,Ie sricb land -. ...,s -. :.
Sss Times have cfanoed in the last quarter
eenttury. tli and Wonderfully so in the
last few years: new ideas, views and feel
ss;iines have taken the place of many precon-
ceiVed opinions and notions With, the ex-
stiincfion of slavery will come the extinc-
& sttipn. of BIG plantations and reckless culti-
yafion. No longer will the planter turn.
his face westward, with regiment of ne.
oroes or less, with the determination to
aopen fresh land. No longer will one or.
two thousand acres Of land be held as
idle capital, to be brought into requisition
as soon as that: adjoining is worn out,
I Those ideas are buried with the past and
slavery; they sleep in the same tomb, and
y viii only be resurrected with the restora-
:tiion of. slave labor, which will never be
again in Georgia.
S Small farms, we'll cultivated, well ma
nured. we'll worked, and we'll looked after
viii hereafter nav the owner. One hum
ssfirsed acres we'll Imanured. with fertilizers
Of the sday.swill produce more than three
Hundred worked on the old system. The.
richer a farmer can make his land; the
greater: the value, and less the labor to
!: cultivate it, and the sGrer the crops.
Here we would suggest that drill planting
ia the best if manure is to be economizeG.
-Jlril[ fhe m anure and. drill the grain. and
T,atlYinp5 Is: lost 81
farm tbatshas S hundred acres we'll
snarored issyvorth one Of three
s,,syss ,5,sd and that will
ssrin ,,onIv from ein},t to ten bushels TO;
The Sore Il; is economv in point of labor,
SAVING wear. r.and tear. and giving q heavy
Weld. The. Old worn outred lands Of Mid