The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1868-06-13
sAG IRCU u q URAL &C.
From tho Southern Cultiyator.l
Cooperation among Farmers.

I1DlfUBS 4S3 SOUTHERN Nts NtsCULTIVATOR 81
desire to call your attention to few items
which i think affect the interest and prosperity
of the South. Among tho first is, to unite
upon some plan by which we can be freed
from tho detestable bureaus kept up in the
South. If our country was freed from these
excrescences, We could enact laws that would
boar equally upon white and bluck. The
negroes would learn to observe their contracts
in good faith, and avoid the consequences of
vagrnncy, DO. ]; and in planning our crop, We
could calculate with some certainty on it's
cultivation.
Again, exort your influence to have judcious
game ea,os established throughout the South.
We could then render those struggling negroes
to some extent powerlcss for harm, by depriv-
ing thom of the privilege of shooting our stock
upon our own premises.
LIS there not enough generosity and phil
anthroPy left, amidst the debris of our once
glorious country, upon which to build at least
an independent and happy country7 would
like to see every farmer resolved to paw wages
to their laborers. Tho condition of our farms
will very soon demand such course as a
matter of necessity. No thinking man can
for moment deny this fact if he will take
stand point from any portion of the South,
and witness the universal dilapidation upon
every farm barns, gia-houscs, cribs stables
and fences, all crumbiing into ruin. Nor will
1t be otherwise, so long as We continue to give
portion OF our crops to the negro rs his hire.
All contracts have failed to induce negroes to
repair your plantations, and will fail so long
as he is interested in the crop only for his
hire, care not how cautiously or how stronr
the obligation may be drawn: nor can you
! force him to discharge those obligations through
those pestilential negro bureaus of tho South.
Further, fear the universal use of improy
cd agricultural or labor saving implements
foreign or artificial manurcs, will be greatly
retarded, SO long as they are the objects Of
speculation, as at the present. Can this state
OF things not be changed to the advantage of
the farmer and the country? Suppose there
was an organization in every locality in the
South to supply its members with all the
necessary improved and labor-savins mplem.
ents manures, seed, and stock, to select an
agent or agents, to act under a reasonblc salary
whose duty it was to purchase those articles
from first hands and ship to the county depot
which should be located at the most eligible
Po'ne 1or transportation, and each planter or
"ercnant to receive his articles at the depot,
paying Tor them only cost and transportation.
Each member specify all tho articles he wants.
& ana replace, In the hands of the agent moneys
cotton, or any commodity sufficient to paw cost
and transportation. I presume the railroads
would d'scrlapinatc in favor of those articles.
by thls or some organization, We could be
supplied with all tho necessary improved and
iabor-saving implements, genuine manures
improved stock, seed adapted to our soil and
climate, and that too, at greatly reduced
prices. We, as a people, scarcely know how
to plant, much less to farm. We must shake
OFT the lunous lcthargy which hangs over us
hke mighty incubas, adopt the motto, fewer
hands and larger products, avail ourselves of
ali the tr'siy improved and abor-saving implc-
ments, make what manures We can and buv
only what VIC cannot make and raise. Let
every mcmper OF our organization communi-
cate, to the society, the result of his plans and
the secretary of our society epitomise the
matter and supply the Southern Cultivator
with such results as may be of benefit to the
masses. The present prices, of the necessary
means for our advance in agriculture will
scarcely justify the planter In entering
largely upon this scheme, we must mature some
plan by which the farmer may invest at no
risk, but with certainty Of success. All
Persuasons predicatcd upon theory, to induce
emigration of industrious laborers to our
country, will prove abortive until VIC establish
the fact, that our climate is congenial, and our
soilrcmunerativo; then thcr cwil be no neccssi-
ty for emigrating societies south. Please be-
stow some thought upon the subject and
mature some plan for our adoption, by which
We will be enabled to board, clothc and educate
our children, and prove to the world that we
can, and WILL be a happy and independent
people.
Very respectfully,
II. NJ. HUNTER. NJ. d.
E./ala, AM., Apr1, 1868.
We commend the suo0ostions of o,,r oorro,