The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1868-01-16
AGRICULTURAL,
From tho Columbus Enquirer.
WHAT WE MED.
Economy-Lire at Home--l"erea.se
tie Productions Of or Lan'ls.

tie Productions Of or Lan.ts.
These VIC conceive to be the great
essentials necessary to succeed in plan
ting in the South under the free labor
s;stcm. However VIC may have lived
aud planted, under the slave labor
system, We of the South will have 10
act, in regard to these things, as tie
whole free labor world has and docs
still act, to succeed in making money
by farming.
First, then, economy is essential.
We must no longer expect to lave our
thousands as the proceeds OF our
lands to spend ex;:avagantly in dress,
fine equ;ppagc, travelling at the North
and in Europe, visiting watering pla-
ccs, &C.: to raise our children luxu-
riously, in idlcncss, and teach them.
in too many instances, practices and
habits that will unfit them for useful
ness in society, in after life; but ior
years to come, VIC must expect to nus
band our resources, buy but little, and
only what we arc compelled to have,
and cannot raise or make. II We
have no money to buy fine clothes,
and carriages, and other like things.
and nothing to barter for them, that
is our own, and can be spared, go
without, until We have means tospare:
do not 90 in debt. unless it is to keep
from actual suffering. Learn econo-
ny in all things; it may be hard
lesson for many of us to learn, but
one we must learn, and that in its
.strictest sense, if We ever rise from
the low state of prosperity iii which
the war has left US. Humility is the
royal road to cxaltation-so surely is
economy the first certain step to plen-
ty and independence,
Second, live at home on your plan
tation. This every planter must do
10 succeed we'll in planting.
low live ut home? How IS it pos
sible to live at hcmc, and pay my
debts, unless I plant large crops Of
cotton to pay with, to the neglect OF
the nccessarics OF life? [ answer, you
will not make money, nor pay your
debts, if you TO. The day is past
and gone, for years to come at least,
for any planter to make large sums
of money by planting large crops OF
cotton, as the experience Of planters
in 1866 and 1867 fully demonstrates.
What then will VIC l!o-how pay our
debts? asks every onc. I answer, in
the first place, by saving all you
make, over the real cost OF living iii
plain manner. Secondly, by living
at home, instead of in towns aid cities
and spending part of each year in
travel, &c. Save all these sums, and
they will 60 q great way toward pay
ing your honest debts.
Live at home, by raising every
thing that Jour family and stock
need to subsist upon raise full crops
of corn, fodder, peas, oats, potatoes,
turnips, vegetables, &C.; and be sure
to save all the grass you can on your
plantation, at the proper time-to
sellit for hay, or feed your stock upon,
as you may need. l know y planter
near Columbus, who nav has baled
and under shelter in good condition,
gathered on his farm, 10000 pounds
ar 35 tons of good hay. Raise and
save these things, and then YOU Cal
raise we'll your stock of all descrlp'
!tions-cows to give you plenty O
milk and butter, and they will do i
If fed plentifully on peas, turnlps
&c.
Raise your own meat, and some t.
sell. Your peas and turnips, Will
some little corn, will fatten your hog
well. | know a farmer in Russcl
county, who fattcned lO3 head o
legs almost entirely on turnips, ii
1865. Have naltry, that you ma,
have penty Of eggs, &c., to- eat an(
sell. Get into the old fashioned way
toi raising your own horses, mules
&C., and then when SURG that yol