The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1868-07-15
For tho southern enterprise.

Messa Editors: In our ramblings. IL was
our good fortune, on the 9th Of jane last,
to be present at the meeting Of the Fairview
Farmers Club. The-farmsrs in thfs section
Of the District, believing That great good
might result to the planting interest, from
persons interchange Of the results Of their
experience, (which will be accompanied
as we learned, by an exhibition in Ncvem
Der next, } Of the products Of their fsrms ana
plantations, have formed Themselves into
an Agricultural Club. The Club was or.
ganiz"d with thir,y-one members. This is
certainly move in the right direction.
Agricultural meetings are wholly felieyed
OF oil party association. The time. W. be-
lieye, To- moHe 10 The great cause IL agri-
culture is highly propitious. II was quite
an interesting meeting. Every member
seemed To he much devoted to the great
causei and II Is one in which every man.
woman and child, who eats bread, should
be Interested. There has never been a
time whem greater Inducements we're offer.
ed. and hVre fortible reasons sut,gested, =,
Than are now, why all the people should Join
In one mighty phalan$ and lay every shoul'
der TO the wheel Of improvement. TO advance
the science of cul,iSating the soil. Through
such organization. the intelligent, energetic
and practical farmer will make advance
ment in agricultural skill; to get new aud
more efficient agricultural implements
how to produce more corn, cotton, wheat;
&e., on less land with less labor.
DO we, as farmers feel an interest in that.
old and usefri occupation Of plartingf or.
are We unreasonnbly devoted to the early
opinions and usages Of oar fathers and
grand. k,theisH
! The cultivation Of The entth Is the
first and greatest business OF man" The
man who has experience and skill, and sue.
Gees in plaoting-and consequently wishes
| TO be useful TO his fellows-must publish
What he knows for the benefit Of others -
We want light, experience, improved i'm.
plements, successful tncd-s Of Surtare, com!
Parisons, views and discussions upon oil
thess matters. 90 ... ..
We are cultivathg on mich land. I'VE
believe in little farm we'll titled too
much territory 10 the greatest evil farmers
have to cope with. This truth Is seen ev-
cry day, let ne mend the tratter." Az
farmers. we are wearing out our energies
and our lives in fhe heart. break ing /"
business Of working unimproved lands,
with our present inadequate sysiem Of Ia.
Dor, unsuitable implements. ana no manure
We hone every right thinking farmer will
set his face against this temptation 10 work
no more land than he has the means 10
work well-that twenty actes can be work
cd TO more advantage than one hundred
Read the following extract from speech
of DIR. George b. L ring, President of the
New England Agricultural Society. What
astonishing results In farming has been
made on we'll managed Mrnr of twenty
acres:
~ know q man 10 Massachusetts,, who III
1885 bought twenty acres Of land lie
has applied to it all the accurate knowl
edge Of farming he could get There is 40
month In the year that something does not
| lloom on his farm, but through the SHOWS
Of january and the suns Of August, there is
something green tRere, and BE slways,
from the frat day Of January to the last
day OF December. has some crop to send 10
market Twenty acres Of land is oil he
has Fon walk through 1t and you find his
alternate crops growing Fh'rows, Just as ac-
crrately rs the web and warp of a cotton
mill goes through the loom-carcfull,, ac-
cnrstely and Proreriy-what is the result (,
From 1886 until this time. Il s67) that man
has made $a6o 900 of Of bIs farm of twen. T..
ty acres. He has saved his money and in.
vested It carefully lie has educated his
boys well, Kept himself in good condition,
has made his $3.50, 900. ard has done It l,y
that careful. accurate, systematic farming
oi whish have spoken. His land happen
ed 10 be in good locality, near o market
but be might have devoted himself to Just the 9
same farming shat man does on 500 acre.
could he mott Don't you know many
little farmhouse In New England. SURROUND.
ed by twenty acres Of land and a few annie
trees. or two or three hard looking peach
treas with ew starved cabbages in one
| corner OF the grdhnd, and COW with a,
small bag coming up to be milkedf Z That
man could have done so with his twenty
acres jhst aS easy as with 500. He didn't
choose to do 1t, but he applied himself with
care and system and accuracy. and hae
made just as large fortune off from his
land a5 The man who has made a. 900 600
out Of Gotten NM In the last five years."
Our letter is already too long. but before
closing we would specially recommend to
the citizens Of Gteenvilie and adjoining
Districts TO bold meeting at Greenviil.
Court Hbuse, at an early day. TO consider
lha adv anta1sa of fnrminn nm AnH;nnll,.l