Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-10-30
From the New Orleans Pieayune.
German immigration.

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try requires the utmost consideration. 1t is
therefore under this view that we shall ex-
tract some items froS: q recent publication TO
which we request the readers attention. says
this writer: Perhaps it will not be out 'of
place here to describe the situation OF ordina-
ry farm laborers in the German States. TheJ
always receive lodgings and board from their
employers. AS regards the first, they are
supplied with warm, comfortable beds, gen
orally placed in the upper portions of the
dwelling houses. Their principal diet con-
sists of leavened bread made of bolted rye
flour, and of Irish potatoes peas, beans, tur.'
nips, cabbage, etc. They rise early in the
morning, and before commencing any out
door work receive bowl of soup or coffee,
made of roasted chickory, peas, wheat, rye,
or all mixed together, and milk. at oclock,
they have breakfast, consisting of bread, and
generally cheese, lard, smoked bacon or sau-
sage, and ration Of whisky. Half an hour
is allowed for this meal. Dinner is taken at
noon and consists of q thick soup, made in
summer of potatoes and green vegetables in
winter of turnips, beets, peas, beans, shelled
barley or oats, boiled with potatoes and sea-
soned with onions, fried in lard OR bacon.
Once or twice vice.. they have palmer
soup, and in addition piece Of corned beef,
or pork, or sausage On SUNDAYS, fresh meat,
such as boiled beef or mutton. An hour is
allowed for dinner. AT o'clock, p. m, they
have meal similar in all respects to the
breakfast. and half an hours time. The days.
work closes at o'clock, though during the
planting AID harvest time it is often extended.
Then the cattle are to be cared for, at!er
which supper is furnished, consisting OF
boiled potatoes, sour milk, ETC., and then they
retire.
In another place, this writer continues: [
have had occasion in my early youth to OBJ
serve the system Of wealthy and most sac
cessful German agIiculturist which has seem
ed 10 me the most economical, as we'll as the
most acceptable to all parties. lie employ,
ed abou. iiGy hands. He had cook and as;
sis;aat for the whole in one mess. They
would eat together the o7crscer presiding at
long table. In the morning early they
would start to work with q piece of bread
and a Grink Of malt beer of home brewery.
At o'clock they would return for breakfast
Of bread, butter, fried potatoes and dump
lngs, coffee and milk for dinner they would.
have bacon or salt beef, dumplings, potatoes,
with small beer or bu.termlk !, for supper,
bread, butter, tried potatoes and dumplings,
coffee ard milk. Sundays, thay, had fresh
meat or poultry, with vegetable soup and
pudding Tor dinner, and breakfast and sup
Fer as usual. The small German farmers that
employ but few hands, consider them as a
part Of the family, and allow them 10 eat ct
the same table with themselves, and the Ger
man families in America generally observe
the sanc practice. We have given TIC above
extracts entire in crdcr that our readers may
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| The latter observation respecting small lar
mlrs is pretty nearly tae s"me feature for
mcrIy existing in our old Creole famii les in
this country, those Of Acadian origin or Ger
man descent, Now, though at he ii:s glance
it may appear that tue provisions THIS fur
u;shed 10 Tie common field hands or crop Ia.
borers must cost !. vast amount Of money, and
therefore greatly increase the outlay FOR max
Ing crop, il V Ill be found rpon closer iaspec
lion that b. proper management Oil the farm
such is npl lie case, and that almost every
ar ;clc d! food iiuS furnished is produced and
raised upon lie identical premises sud by
these same labor hands. This state CT af-
fairs, it is well understood. can only lie at
tai: ed upon Il country farm where all the
different branches oi rural ocon":hv arc fully
carried out Ic;cc, should our Lluisan;.
planters adhere, under the altered circuni-
s.arces Of our Present labor system, to The
anccit routine Of mere staple crops. such a'
rice, sugar, Cotton or tobacco, it wpuii, ci
course. be an mpossibllity Of furnishing IN
the n:, lab.r hads Anything like the above
enum rated stores OF provisions end vctuGls.
But if tic owners of vast landed estates in
! our southern climate intend to carry Oh the
culture Of thei.' plantations o. iarms upon
an extended scale, it might then be important
to consider whetuer u variety Of different
branches ofrural hu4band.y would not be The
proper way OF obtaining the greatest posi-
BILE result, under the altered circumstances
4 oil our labor order. Forilstancc, should ono
hail Of the available force upon An estate be
assigned especially to the rnising OF all the
elements oil the vicual!ng department., such
as the dairy, cattle raising, orchard, vegcta-
bic gardens and isld and poultry attending
sections, then the rest Of the valid labo'er>
might be exclusively charged with making oi
the marketable :tapic crops. It is in thi'
manner that, generally speaking, rural econ
omy is i.ac,iced in the old countries of Eu
rope, more particularly Germany, where al
extended landed estates are leased for a SUN
) ber OF wears, to what are called the renters
o. paohters, who, in their turn. apply the
above mentioned system OF diversified Gul
/, tu7e in order 10 be able to produce every
: necessary aliment upon the farms required
for the labor hands and who, after this pro-
cess, realiz. from the staple products sutfi'
!, cent to paj not only their rents, aud the Ia
Dor hire, bgt also competency for them
selves Us remuneration for their. iIperlntcn
dcncy and professional skill. Perhaps these
! Of our readers who can remember long fore
= gone times will be aware that such way Of
. rural husbandry existed even in our own
/, /, State upon y number Of country farms and
: plantations, where everything that coz Id be
. required for the farm people was actually
p produced upon the very spot; ard when lit
= tie was bought either from the storekceperS
=. in the country or from the commission fac
+, :, tors in the city, except the mst indispcnsa-
;; bic articles. such, for instancea5 rope and
balng for the putting up tie lotion in ship
O ping order That planters nuar again re-
:. :. sort 10 some such manner of managing their
= = estates appears altogether selt7svdeni, because
: laborars have become much norc cxacting
than formerly, it is only in ths way that the
u farm owners will be enabled o save them
e selves from utter ruin; foritis beyond dis
e pnta that when a planter is'ednced to lay
> in his provisions, such as tiar, bacon, rneat
> and ali the other various a,icles ennmera-
$ ted above from the stores, j order to retain
n n his labor hands, he will, rcase OF the fail
u u urc of his staple crop, becme ruined deb
!. y tor neither able to pay IS Workmcn nor
=, T. store furnisher, and finally have to sell his