The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1867-07-27

tho sick could be fed, and have substituted
roog aqd hstBs gStIiered sthess eeldg eand
woods sd one ihsianes husband tba ndi haG tidrel. I'd
cd some sixty miles to q relative, who had
loaned him cow then. milk, and there was
Joy in that family when the COW came. They
hsd tasted s ofqpd for weeks but roots end q
kslbs, ,ahd 4aa aasaiesweas baab shaSiaasd bGtt tie
milk restored their vigor. The man also
brought small parcel Of seed corn, aud the
COW was harnessed to the plough and small
paach Of laHd was prepared for a. future a crop.
tbs hmsIy consisted of hther, mother, snd
Eve ehildsen To the question, W'swhy don't
you work 7" go, sir, tell us where we can get
even a peck Of corr 81 q pound of pork, and
we will most gladly work, but everybody is
like we are." And this is the, condition Of
thousands. -
Corm.-More has been plahted this year
than last In many instances but little cotton
is planted, and the energies Of the farm dcvo-
ted 70 corn. Yet they are all 30 badly in debt
that an effort is made TO- grow all the cotton
possible. In the census the corn crop is put
down at 15 ,065, ,60Sibashels It will fall far
below that this,year. I doubt if it reaches half.
TO furnish any permanent relief it should be
double! The plant we'll cultivated and looks
pr99'miHsllrgf, g,1d ~ ted, s,aaatsra j,n. els.i
Wheot.-Only 1885, ,631 bushels are report
cd by the census for this State. For the lack
of seed. and labor, but assmall breadth was sovn
last year, sit is being harvested In good scoadi-
tion and yields well. but so pressing are the
wants of the people, that bdt'ia little will! be
left for seed. In many instances the green
wheat and and rye have been out up md fed to
the mules to enable the farmers to work their
glowing Cotton and corn crops ~ <i'lfiIi
d 0ats.-But a small crop. only s36,s74
bushelf, were made, us reported by the census
it is, therefore, Of small CONSEQUENCE, though
an effort has been made this year to SOW con-
siderable, butthe scarcity 1of the seed and the
poverty Of the epeople' have prevented anything
Ike the usual breadth being put in,
Rice.-The census reported 119, ,10O,52S
pounds of hullcd or merchantable rice. The
great destruction of the expensive fixtures on
the rice plantations by the war has nearly bro
ken up the cultivation; added to this is the
want of capital and Of labor, and the cultiva-
ton of q plantation is the exception rather
than tho rule, snor will the vast rice fields
be again cultivated till new system of
labor lis established; resort must be had
to the Chinese. IF proper efforts are made
have no. doubt abundant labor of that
kind could be procured at San Francisco
And the Chinaman once domiciled on these
plantations, there willbe no further want for
labor, and cheap labor, too, for there is scarce
ly any place on this continent where China
man can live SC, cheap as on the rice planta-
tions of the South
Tobacco.-This crop has been considered
of small consequence in this State, the. census
only reporting 1O4,912 pounds. /. Whether
there be really difficulties of soil or climate, or
both, in tho way of successful and profitable
cultivation, I did not learn. AS part of the
State is on the same range of the Blnc Ridge
with Virginia and North Carolina there seems
no good reasons why it cannot be grown as
well as in those States. H it
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