The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1867-02-06

centrating large bodies of laborers
necessitates the subdivision Of the
lands of the Southern States.
Land is and will be in. the market,
abundant and cheap, in parcels of
any size, from the market garden
to the farm of forty and eighty
acres, and larger or smaller, as
the wants Of the community may
determine. Capital being unable
to monopolize labor, it will no long
er monopolize land, which, with
out labor is of comparatively little
value, The greater fertility Of
the lands of.the South, the larger
profit which the productions of its
staples yields than those Of the
West and Northwest, will neces-
sarily attract the agricultural in
dustry of European emigrants,
and will, in time, create a refuent
current of migration from the Mid
die and Western States, where
land is already becoming compa-
ratively high and difficult of ac-
quisttion. The policy Of granting.
the lands for public enterprises, OF.
selling them at minimum in
small tracts, or bestowing homo
steads upon actual settlers, at
nominal prices, which was carried
out in the Northwestern States SO
happily, from the circumstance of
the General Government being
the universal proprietor of the
territory, has beer the great Sc
cret of the rapid development Of
those States. The necessary sub
division which will take place Of
the large plantations of Virginia,
the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama
and Mississippi, it is fair 10 sup
pose, Will exert, to more or less ex-
tent, a corresponding influence up
on the course of population.
There is another circumstance
which has not been generally esti-
mated in connection with this sub
ieet: that the nature of the soil
and the character Of the staples Of
the South viii give employment.
to children and females in many
rural occupations for which their
strength is inadequate in higher
.latitudes. For example, in the
culture of Cotton there is need of
many more hands to gather. the
product than to cultivate the plant.
This is labor of the lightest sort,
in which fingers villa ceomplish a.
great deal more than manly
strength. The whole family of
the farmer can proftabIy aid in
gathering the crop; the child of
twelve years Of age will perform
as much or more Of this work than
the man, and for this reason the
returns of a farmer who is the
head of q family will be far beyond
the profits of the grain or grass
grower Of the Northern States.
Experience has shown that the
culture ofCotton is for this reason
proportion far more success
full with small farmers than upon
the large plantations. Perhaps
the system of small farms cons
compares with that Of large esz
tates more advantag ousl in re-
spect to the culture Of Cotton than
any one agricultural product.
This is well known to the people
of the Cotton districts, although
we believe there is a very general
impression elsewhere that the
profitable cultivation Of Cotton
requires large outlay Of capital
and labor
The foregoing are but very few
| Of the consid derations which Justify
the belief that . current Of emf
| grafton will soon be directed to-
wards the lands Of the South, and
that the rayages which the war
has made viii be obliterated with
in a briefer space than has been
anticipated, and the population
more than compensated for the
diminution it has borne.
! AN ACT TO EsTABIIsH An ADD
TIoNAL CLASS OF FLoUR TO BE
/ 3 r4IITn FANIT,Y FIoUR.