The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1868-08-12

""'S va" Piou'o" III cuBcnclu anu
Barnwcll. So that Our proposition
stands good, that considered simply as
a cotton growing region, meet to Abbeuiie,
Fairfield District IS equal 10 any other
District in The .State. Let us not de-
spair, but go bravely to work and
bring in labor to develop, it's other re-
sources. The experience of the past
is the best augnry Of the possible tri-
umphs of the Future.
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Combination,
The slowness and reluctance of our
people to combine for purposes of car
nest work is due not simply 10 tlioir
being an agricultural people (for some
of the States Of the great Northwest
are agricultural, and yot their people
readily organize Tor work. but to
their being accustomed to crops that
require their personal oversight dur
ing the entire year, and to a peculiar
system Of labor. Hence to remedy
this fault at It's source, moro attention
should be paid to wheat, rye, oats,
fruit and other crops, that loavo spare
time to their cultivators, land which do
not require system of labor extond.
ing from January to January, AS
subsidiary to this, VIC must bring in
farmers and laborcrs, accustomed to
the crops and the system, which, to
some extent, the times seem to dc.
mand. For if n planter completely
changes his crops, and still supports
his laborors from january 10 January,
of course it wou'tpay. lie must plant
and discharge his hands. When the
crop is to be gathered, he must hire
them again. Cotton, rice nnd sugar
oro the only crops that require and
will pay Tor labor during the entire
year, and We have learnt, to our cost,
how badly oven cotton pays, with
froe labor ut its present price. Some
abuse our planters for not giving up
cotton altogether. We believe it
would be n suicidal policy to do so.
Rather let it be cultivated, but on u
smaller area and much more highly
manured, and let the time thus saved
be devoted to introducing gradually
greater varictp in our crops. Change,
but change slowly and cautiously.
Fcstina lcntc This is the dictate of
wisdom, and 1t Is very certain, that,
whether it be 50 or not, human nature
is opposed to sudden and complete
changes. and our system cttn only be
changed in the way VIC recommend,
that is, gradually.
But how do the habits of our people
prevent combination in companies,
corporations, &C., for economical pur.
poses : Why, any planter will tell
tell you, his ncighbor can assist him
very littlo by advice in making his
crop, that lc has to watch It and work
it according to his own Judgment,
and if no runs of to get advice from
timo to time, he will be pcrplcxed by
contradictory theories, and will proba-
bly, lose it altogether. In proper
ton as he becomes good planter,
therefore he learns to be sclf.reliant.
Hc forms the habit Of visiting his fcl.
lowmen, not for purposes ofhclp in his
business, but simply for social pur-
poses, and hates to be mixed up in
companies, which take his capitol
from beyond his own personal con-
troll.
Such, however, is not tho method of
turning capital to the greatest ac.
count. Farmers should reflect that
thore arc many more profitable in.
vestments than planting, and should
bo willing to take part in thcm. They
should remember that other people
have business capacity and sense
greater, In some instances, than their
own, and should be glad of q chance
to combine with and benefit by them.
No great fortune was ever rapidly
made except by variety of invest
ments, or by extensive and humorous
combinations with othor mon. Let
us learn to combine.
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BUTLER DEsCRIbEb ny A HErUBL1-
CAN SENATOR. --Sonntor Fowler, in hts
last speechn the Senate, calls Butler
liar, thief, perinrer, scoundrel Gend,