The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-05-11
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The annexed art,ols is copied from the
agricultural department Of the Nashville
U1ion and: Amsriican- by the way, ono OF
ttszbess papers, on our exchange list
and though intended specially for that re-
gion. Of country, wo think the facts set
forth are equally applicable to this sec
ton: s. 81 -.
Nuaaereus conf plaints come to rs from
every part of the country that farming is
notprefta6lo, and many correspondents
are asking in piteous tones, aWhat shall
We do;a we reply as we have often
dane before: 60 to work yourselves; en-
rich your land By. sowing clover and haul
ipIe: ont all The manure that lies wasting
about your stables and lots SOW more
grsss plant moro corn; raisemore stock
hire fewer negroes live within yonr In
come w66ether that income be great or
small Stop all the little leaks, suoh as
lowing implements exposed to the weath-
, er;awafking with indi iferent tools, there
bystbrowing away all t6e.proft on your
Labor; getting up late in. the morning
entrusting the care Of your stock to neg
igent hirel;ngs j; wasting feed by leaving
stable doors open for cows, poultry and
other animals to pull down and waste !;
letting your lands wash into gullies; per-
n,itting sassafras and persimmon bushes
nsaftain. a growth of two or three years,
s so that il Will take weeks instead of days
to clear up the land for blowing; keeping
moro work stock than. you can prohtably
employ permitting Jour fences to become
40 low that outside stock will be tempted
TO break over and destroy your crops
Make the,best of your situation. Become
satisfied with your employment Nothing
else soffers 30 sure means OF support;
LOOK through the country, and you will
findseYery farmer who attends strictly to
his business, in the possession OF all the
nncessaries, and most of the comforts OF
life.
Let us look atr it in another point OF
view A merchant or mechanic works
throughout the entire year. Every, day
he ceases to work he loses days work.
Rain or sunshine there can be no money
made by them unless they are at work;
How different the farmer. The rains OF
summer that work q loss to others make
his gains. At night his crops are grow
ing and ripening; and while heyis enjoy
ing his ssneeded refreshment, aftor o labo-
rioua. DAVIS work, Nature, his strongest
ally, works for him. The winters SHOWS
and freezes, that produce 80 much desti.
tntion and want to the Iaboring class in
cities, enrich his land and prepare it to
bring forth q more abundant crop.
Now let any right thinking farmer
count tho sctual. capital he has invested
the number of days he labors, and then
set opposite his profits, and no will find
thattherei is no investment thatpays bet
ter than q small farm. He gets his house
rent private use OF horses, his provisions
vegetables and money cnough to buy all
the neeessaries of life.y
Z tsTake; three thousand dollars and invest
in farm of one huadred acres, and one
thousand more and invest in stock and
implements, and we confidently assert
tliatyan industrious man can make twenty
percent, counting everything, house rent
frewood, etc., which merchant would
have to. provide should he invest four
thousand dollars in stock of goods.
The best proof; however, that farming
{ is profitable:is that there are fewer bank
rnpts found among that class than any
other. We are not now referring to cot
ton planters or those men who rely ex.
elusivaly oinone crop. We hold thatthere
can: be.no prosperity without "a diyersif
eation5of drops. The history of agricul
sufeid0 show any. people prosperous
who relied on one crop exclusively ;tor g
siingi failure TO rprodpoe that article viii
eat up the profits Of years. Take the
cottenrlands Of the South. Many OF. them
hare become permanently sterilized and
thersis ia not wealth enough in the Unitee
States to reclaim them.
BY diversifYiDg the crops rotation o
scrops iss practicable and 8 consequent pos
sibility sof improvement IN tho sou, which
by adding to she value Of the capital IN
vested 10 ITSELF d profit. In, Middle. Ten
snessee no farmer is jaGtifed in confnine
Z himself TO one. crop, for we, can grow will
profit all the most desirable products o
both North and South-rice and slgal
only excepted. - z
LABOR CoNDUoIrE TO Love IlIBE.-Ir
view Of the shoct;duration of life entailec
by some occupations, it must be regarded
as o eonsoling, yea, q sublime fact, thai
Tslabersi in: general does not tend to shorter
life; but, on the contrary, by strengthen
: ing health, isngthening life; while, OF
Z the other hand, idleness and luxury are
productive Of the same results as the most
unhealthy, occupations. DR.. Guy, al
Englshman, in calculating the average