The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-03-18
Raise Meats and Breadstufs.


Eufaula Nea0s, and commend the sound,
common sense views it contains to the
consideration of our planting friends
Our planters should not be satisfied
with the experiments they made last year
at the practicability OF their 80 adjusting
their crops as to make their receipts from
cotton and sugar clear gain.
The money they have made this year
upon their crops, has not arisen altogeth-
or from their abundance, but from tho
fact that the raising OF all the corn they
need, and much more than ever before of
most other things which they formerly
raised, has enabled them to retain the
proceeds of their money-getting crops,
either tor tho paying Of debts or the in-
provoment OF their farms.
Our planters will see from this how
easy it is for the South, and for each citi
zen who is engaged in agriculture espc-
cially, to become independent /; and the
more seduously they strive to make eve
rything which is necessity to them at
homo, the moro secure they will, in all
respects, be.
And to make this the more perfect, they
must not con6ne themselves SO much to
corn, either as an article of food OF pro-
duct. This is easy to raise, and the cul-
turc of it 80 understood that they are
prone to confne themselves to 1t; but
wheat, rye, barley, oats and rice are
grains equally as productive, and, IT.
their respective places, more useful as
food. By proper alienation with corn,
cotton and other crops they can bc made
with mapures to improve the land Of the
farmer, while they will be coming in at
different period of the season, and de-
pending on different condition for their
development, more surely assures him q
certainty of food for himself and his de-
pendents.
This will apply With much greater force
and reason to root crops, which arc tar
| more productive than the grains, and far
more profitable when used at home tor
food, and to corn, peas and other legumin'
ous crops which seem to fatten animals
and enrich the land.
By raising an abundance of these, the
farmer can have his meat, and milk, and
butter in the greatest abundance, and
spare from them sufficiency to material
ly meet his outlay for all other things.
If the planter will thus make his farm
the we'll supplied home of himself and
family with his stock kept around him
within protective distance, all fat and
we'll sheltered the year round, he can, at
the same time put large area of ground
in cotton or sugar and hardly miss the
labor he will thus employ in other things
which arc planted and gathered at other
times; or, if he should abridgc the amount
of such crop, he can have its entire pro
ceeds clear of all mbarrassments, fact
which of itself will make him feel richer
with dollar, thus securely his own, than
with q thousand which he must pay out
for food or clothing which he must buy.
We are urgent, therefore, upon our
planters to not only continuc>to raise their
provisions as they did more than ever
this last year, but to improve upon that
in thus giving moro diversity to their
cultivation, and to aim especially at ma
king their stock, whether intended tor
food or work, tic happy objects OF their
care.
Nor need they confine their raising of
stock to these uses We can lead Ken
lucky in raising animals for sale. We
have produced rs good racing horses, and
when the effort has been made, as good
animals for road or drafts as arc to be
found anywhere. This can be made as
true of our mileh and beef cattle, when
ever the effort is mado, and of our sheep
and hogs also.
And there is this advantage in stock.
growing country, that there is not the
same likelihood of wearing out the
land" as there is in o grain or cotton.
producing region, where the former and
the seed of tho latter, are removed for
sale.
We would, therefore, now in the begin
ming of the year, urge our planters and
farmers to plant first for food for selves
and stock, and to make the latter q spe,
ciality, and then 20 provide for their cot
ton and sugar.