Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1872-11-28

neoIse of the States contiguous have not,
| as vet, been induced to give it that pat.
ronage which is naturally expected, and
so eminently merited. There is screw
loose somewhere, and perhaps several
We think there is one loose in the Pre-
MUM List-or rather in the Entry Fees,
where every Exhibitor is made TO pay
two dollars for contributing to the success
of the Fair. tits true he gets ticket OF
| admittance to me fair during the week,
| hut there are few who would like TO at
tend more than two days. We hope the
Managers will detect allthe loose screws,
and by thene1t year we mayhope to have
an Exhibition, not only creditable TO itne
city of Augusta, but worthy of the AS
sociated Cotton States.
The land in Richmond county Is most
ly sandy-some sand-hill and some sand
bottom-while there is a portion OF ricn
river bottom. The sand-hill lands pro-
duce water melons, potatoes and peas,
peaches apples and grapes; while the
sand bottom lands are peculiarly adapt
ed to cotton, corn, hay, Irish potatoes
strawberries and vegetables of all kinds.
Both these kinds of land are most pecu-
liarly adapted to commercial, and every
other kind of fertilizer, known to agrl-
culturists.
While some of our neighbors still
have cotton on the brain, the majority
are planting the short crops' and farm
gardens. BY contrasting the short-crops
with the never ending cotton crop, you
will have some idea how 80 many pso-
pie make living Oh poor sandy lano'
One acre planted in green peas, Irish po-
tatoes, early squashes, spring turnips'
&C., will yield at least fifty dollars by
the first of May. Then planted IN cam
telopes and watermelons will yield at
least seysnty-6ve dollars by the middle
of August aud then by the first OF Oc-
tober from the same acre is gathered iif-
teen dollars worth of peavines and crab
grass hay. One hundred and forty dol
lars per acre! And If the early vegeta-
bles are followed by sweet potatoes, one
hundred and fifty bushels may be made
and sold at 81, ,25 per bushel. Two hun
dred and thirty-seven dollars How Is
that for high9
Farming on paper is the most lu1uri-
Gus vocation under tho sun, 1T is great
pity that theory and practice, as well az
expectation are so distinctly different,
and SO widely apart. Although the fore
,-oipg figures seem to be very extrava.
rant, ". have neighbors who report
larger ] Yields. Ind having been In the
county but short time. we will not
question the veracity of uchreports, but
can not-as yet-vouch for them e>osii-
mentally.
Labor is scarce, unreliable, and high.
So many hands are employed on the ca
nal and the Port Royal Rail Road at
sl.25 per day, that few hands, and only
such as are inferior, areleft fog tho farms.
The negro in this State Is better of and
more independent than In South Caro'a-
ma. Here the majority are settled on
little farms worked by the wife and chill
dren. while the lords Of Africa, work
out at high wages. Hc is here protected
in his rights by white mans govern.
ment. And we believe, from close OBJ
seryation, they are better satisfied. But
the South Carolina darkies won't believe
it.
Speaking experimently upon the sub
iect of labor, we have found it hard to
get, and in our trouble, we are forcibly
reminded of the following stanzas by q
pifted son of Edgefeld, still in your
midst-a poet unknown to fame-who 80
patheAcalIy describes the situation, that
we can not sorbear using his thunder:
LINES SUGGESTED BY BEING NTaaER-
"a LESS.
What most my cares could ease just now,
And help me feed my PIE ano SOW,
Turn in the calf and milk the COW?
- : " A Niger.
Who all the wood could haul and chop,
NV victusls cook and empty slop,.
THE water draw the floors to mop
NO "N'' A Niger.
wha+-ai, things do that come to hand,
From cooking pies to tilling lands
What makes us all happy band2 80
!" '''' ANigger.
Whatever may be said, or rvainly hop
ed by the advocates of immigration, we,
Southern born and bred, will ever look
to the darkies as the only kind of labor
that will either pay or satisfy. Through
iunorace it is not uncommon that the ne
cro will demand more for his labor than
the employer can give. This begets in
him distrust in the white mans hon.
esty, and hence it is almost impossible
for the two to agree. Nor can we see
how this difficulty would be obviated by
anv other kind of labor, unless 1t be In
tellieent labor. And yet tits worse than
folly to hope that tho negro, when edu!
eated. will coutinue to labor. What the
end will be this deponet saith not. =
T j. Fl. N.
IpLEw1Lpk, Ga. 2sd Nov, 1872.
es A Vermont paper congtatulates
.La ,,aonlo Of that State upon the fact