The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1871-06-14

prevent Gght, aud yet they Justine
lively love Liberty So sincerely, th"t
they are certain to fight, when their
eyes are opened, rather than submit,
without struggle, to Imperialism.
More about Hillside III edsinS.
The restoration and permanent
preservation Of the hilly clay lands of
the Carolinas and Georgia, domand
tio attention IF the people owning
these lands, before all other improve
mcnts in agriculture, and it can be
accomplished at a price per acr, not
exceeding the cost Of the fertilizer
expended on the acre each year.
In On article sent for publication,
appearing in the April number of the
Rural CaroliniAn, 1t was stated, and
repeat hero "A walk through o"y
(not my, as printed, chilly plantation,
ditchcd with great care, mahy years
ago, will satisfy any observer that the
bitches have contributed very much 70
the ruin Of the property, and the
consequent bankruptcy of tho owner"
The exceptions to this almost uni
vcrsal fact arc more the result Of ac-
cidcntal circumstances than Of any
8, ccal care of the land by the owner.
True, tho planters were not all bank
rupt before the war, because they
grew tho commanding staple of the
world, and the great Increase Of the
negro property saved them in spite Of
tho impoverishmont of their lands
If they had forcseen that nothing but
their land was to be counted proper
ty, these hills would hayo bnen hedg.
, ed all around, and they would not
have been bankrupt after the war
!, So far from that, however, they had
, universally, In this middle country
adopted the most perfect system fo
o running off the soil aud water IN thu
}. shortest time that could have been de
8 vised, and it has never stopped run
y ming off yet, aud in some places ncve
0 will. Now they grumblo that drouth
:. are mere destructive than former y
d and that their bottom lands arc co,
J. cred with banks If sand Is thu
st marvellous Thinking men now &C
" he short.sighted policy Of hill-sid
<. ditchipg, and that the only ditc
"a wanted is one to keep tho water
@. heavy rains outside Of the cultivate
q, fields.
@, Tho wise planter wants now to no
or and to utilize cyoIy drop that falls
ar his crops he wants it absorbed
c.. his desp-ploughed soil, ready for
,)s drouth and ii it flows at all, viii
ID. it must, to some extent, in spite
ut subsoiling, ho wants it to spread
his sand over tho CALLED spots, and
It leave it there. Subsoiliug will
~ complish but little, unless he narr
the space over which the water is
flow and prevent its accumulation
in currents, or break up tho currcut
no. fore it washes to the sub oil.
III" There is way 10 do this, ant
md will strike any man Mt on 20 who "
he give it q thonght. 1t mny be done
hey effectively MS tcrraccd garden, {
the at small cost. BY building hedge:
the brakes (no matter about the MAJ
,em along tho hillside, so nearly OF
'atc dead level, that tho flow Of wator
We be checked, aud tho current bro
is up by each hedge, leaving the sol
po- it brought any down, on the ul
I'd n side Of the he'd q, thnt will n>tor
UNI the closest observr, If his attent
itu- has never been cal cd to it. In c
= an olay soil it dos not II cc-sarily m
Of a a level doposi. abov' the hodge,
the grades tho hillside, it tho hedge j
q fl q dead Lowell. NJ ma,ter how N
if. ground tho hedge occupies, lot it
8 to there, for It W II pay tho owner, i
tho takes care Of it, Eve hundred per c
nder per aunum for tho ground it uses {;
If it mattors worry little the first yea
pite two Whit the hedge is made of
,idi. field pine logs or brush will do.
not ter the first or second year, and v
n as the rioh soil has accumulated on