The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1867-06-05
A Word to Farmers.

has the 1OlIoWlng sensible remarks:
As it is our privilege to advise,
we must have a word or two with
our planting friends. We recog-
nize in them the wealth of the
State, the financial power and
prosperity Of the State; and such
being the fact, it behooves US, in a
modest sort Of a way, to have a
word with them about their .busi-
ness, their interests, and the gene
raj prosperity Of the country.
True wealth is not in what we
make, but what we save like
reading, not in what we have
read, but what we remember; not
in what we eat, but in what we
digest. So with the prosperity Of
any people it is the internal
wealth, or domestic wealth, that
is felt through every fibre and
nerve Of our social system. 4
community Of interests is true
economy aud prosperity.
AS it is to-day, what do we see ?
What money our planting friends
got for their cotton is fast leaving
the State for corn and bacon; our
wealth is but transitory-but bor-
rowed-if we may so express our
selves for the Northwest say it
is theirs; and sure enough, they
get it by sending us corn and
bacon, that we must have, when
we could have raised it, had we
studied political economy as we
should have done. What we have
to say to our planting friends is
this: Plant enough corn for your
own use, BY all means Better
plant enough to sell u few bushels
to your city town and village
neig ghbors, who make their living
BY their professions, trades, &c.
Make as much cottou you please,
for cotton is sure money at al
times, but do not forget the corn
field, peas, potatoes, and especially
your hogs. Ifyou do. not or can
not sell provisions: do not come
into the market to buy, and there
by enhance the price Of such artl-
cles. to the hurt Of those who live
not by farming. But where you
can sell, you do good in two ways.
First, your farming is an advan-
tagc to your neighbor and State.
Secondly, you put in your pocket
money that would have gone out
Of the State, if you had not have
had what was wanted. You are
thus enabled to improve your
lands, or to invest money in stocks,
if desirable.
We must live within ourselves,
help each other, keep our money
circulating at home among our
selves build up our homes and
towns invest in home stocks or
railroads. Such can be and ought
to be done, if you will only be
something more than mere cotton
planters. But when the country
is depleted Of it's wealth for the
necessaries Of life, that could have
been had at home, it is premedi-
+o+ad nnrdrr Of Our own financial
happiness and prosperity.
Let this year proclaim the tact
that all Of our planting friends
have provisions to sell, and that
cotton must play second fiddle to
the corn-crib and hog-pen. When
such is the case, the day of our
prosperity as people is dawning,
and. if continued in, we will soon
stand in the sunlight Of unembar-
rassed and true wealth. Cotton is
a good thing in its place, but not
when cultivated at the expense OF.
all our provisions-remember that
truth, and act accordingly.
CROP PROSPECTS BEYOND THE
BLUE RIDGE.-The GreenviIIe En-
terprise says:
Last week foundes on the other
side of tlnbtue mountains. Our
peute from Greenville was through
Pickens, by Eastatoe and Jac0sSee
Valley. All the way from Green