Nebraska advertiser., 1869-11-25

AhNOA0 AkLGG AAAN
used, theyCshouldEE be used to keep
stock ia, not out.
We copy the following excellent ar
tfcIe from the Southern CUtiUatOT, to
show how people in that section Of
country aresregarding&hesfence ques-
ton.
FENCING STOCK OUT OR IN.
The Livingston Agricultural Club
has rendered the public a valuable
service By its clear and able report on
the question Of abandoning the use
of fences and the enactment Of a stock
law. (which appeared in theSeptember
number of your Journal. 1 regard the
fences, that may besaved By proper
legislation, without detrement TO any
Interest. as equal TO one-hGlf Of a fair
rent Of some farms, taking them as q
whole. mother words, relieve South
ern farmers of the present expense OF
fencing out intruding stock that
. would have no moral right to con-
sumo. or damage in any way, the
crops grown by any person on his own
land. and YOU will double the val
ne. of all productive soil. 1t is obvi-
vious that the higher the tax imposed
TO keep stock out Of a wheat, corn or
cotton field 20 make a crop, the less
Involvement there is to cultivate the
same; consequently, there is less de-
.mand for labor than there would be II
this were removed. The poor, who
now keep a few hogs, loose far more by
the depreciation of their wages,
whether they work by the month
or 7 on shares, than they gain by
o this untimely free stock range. Stock
raised in this way in well settled
o. counties, costs the community at large
full ten times more than it is worth to
the wners. This remark is based on
NV own experience, this summer. /
have kept a number Of young hogs for
q neighbor all summer, in a good
clover field, well fenced, for nothing,
because it is far more cheaper for me
to fence them IN n small field, than
out of several large corn fields. In
deed, to fence many fields against
so many small, shad-bellied swine.
jumping sheep, and unruly cattle,
taxes on common land more than the
use of il is worth. Hence, many mill
ion acres lie out as q common waste,
that would be cultivated, to the meal
eulable advantages of all classes and
interests, If this fence buTthen were
taken of. Then q poor farmer, who
Is barely able TO pay for fifty acres
and a mule, could plOw, plant, SOW,
and gather in his crops, without the
expense of working one PANEL of
fence beyond what encloses any little
stock he may choose to keep. Give
this announcement TO buy land in the
South, and defend honest agricultural
industry from all invasion by man or
his beast, and you will o o change
sQuatters and bad renters into indie
Observation-Disclosures andeOnseryative
freemen.
1t is D mistake, to suppose a poor
IabOring man in the South can never
lay up enough money to pay for a few
far more than the great Cincinnatus
had when he was called from the pillow
70 save his country Arom the greatest
peril. Fence, taxes AMI all others, on
land, are now so heavy in the aggre-
gate that poor men a hardly afford
TO own any.
In New York State this onerous
fence tax does not exist; laboring
men receive q dollar a day as farm
wages. Here. I hire good men at fifty
cents q day. There, a farmer makes
fifty tons Of hay with less labor than
I can fence a meadow for such a crop.
So long as the poor, unwittingly COM
pei farmers to throw away sOmuch La
Dor in mauling fence rails, their
wages must be tOtC, ID. LEE.
Another correspondent in the same
SAYS
Il pQr
TO some ofthe a1iso
on the subjectO Oh
of the largest planters IN the Soa1Cry,
present, said he would pay five hun
bred dollars TO have the law pass-but
the estimated cost of fencing was too
small. Here il seems to be almost i'm
possible TO hire freedmen to cut and
sDlit rails. The labor is to heavy for
Cuffy. now that he is his own master.
e Again many Of our planters are COM
PEELED TO adopt the patch system" of
planting. And to get twenty acres of
land worth cultivating they are forced
TO keep up the fencing around one
hundred acres of land. Hence. we
see at once, thatthe estimated expense
Of fencing will not approximate the
actual cost in many instances. This
planter says the cost Of keeping up his
Fencing exceeds his tax annually.
Some tenants, the squatters and in
habitants of our towns and villages.
who have no means of pasturing their
stock, but dependthrough the summer
on their grazing upon broom sedQe.
on the old field and commons, would
certainly oppose such a law-most
landlords could provide pasture for
the few COWS of their tenants. But
those who have no land of their own,
such as the mechanics of the country,
and other business and professional
men Of the country, and towns, would
be seriously injured by it, for a short
time only; for we do honestly believe
that the great increase in the produc-
ton Of forage would so diminish the
price Of cattle feed that in the end they
would be benefited, to say nothing Of
interest they would take in the i'm
.provement Of their stock, besides, the
thrOwn-Out land of the farmers would
be enhanced greatly in value by the
dense growth of grass which would
soon cover it, and the land pixies would
cas- to ruin it by hunting for the
bramble roots, by throwing up the
clay and making the old field look
9 Ike a graveyard or battle field.
gTEAluNo FooD FOR Cows.-Mr.