The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-04-26

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a. 9oLgMDtAy Maroh 8.-South Carolina
sh6rd5 very great enticemeuts to the
tAgricustukalf Immigrant. Columbia il
E.SesE Hsa5 PIE geographical centre of the
hete tho statistics show that the
4lessaak tHq4tality 10 between November
fAPstk that the summer heats
Ff1Ss ION 4eAdeF no snpRladies. This rule
q dida goU4 hsill &hs State North and
q; NoiqmRisi and OH the South and
llHaEdown to the oonst. SIEVE
FtAE soE fhe towns directly on the Sen
board ara equally ,hesishy. Charleston
dtsinna alsmaiier mortality than any oitv
OF the North. with the Elm. , execution
OF Portland, in Maine.
In addition to this gene. Il salubrity.
che State enjoys the inestimable adyan.
tage. Tor an agricultural country. of
having no winter. Ploughing may be
and ls carried on in every month of the
year. Ehe average mean temperature of
Columbia tor the month OF February,
1913. at a. NJ, was over forty. eight
degrees. and at 3 P. NJ. it was fraction
over sixty degrees. suppose the
month OF April would not make as GOOD
showing % this,in New England or the
Hosth' veal. But the number of trees
ana plants that grow ont OF doors in %.
!nmola, and give spch an exceptional air
OF yerdure to the winter landscape. of.
::oEas proc: enough Of the mild ohsrao.
ter Of the climate. Here prow and fion.
rtsh in the open air the camelia iaponioa.
the lanrnstinusl the cape jessamine. The
English aud Spanish laurel, the Chinese
hawthorn, so'caiied. the holly, the Obi.
neae aud Australian pine, the live oaks.
the tree boz, tbs mock orange and the
magnificent magnolia, beaicie ylrionu
others. Mono of the plants or trees I
nave enumerated shed their leayes dur
ing the winter, and thore need be no
nner shade trees than the mock oTanr5
and the massive and graceful live oak.
Coin mbia is the heart of great cot
ton region The crop.is cultivated TO
| the exclusion OF others that can be
raised with equal facility, though not
with equal profit. There is nothing like
cotton for profit. Land that will not
bring ten hnshels OF corn to the acre
9TtH produce half bale OF cotton, worth
94D to- $50. Nobody ean be long in a
eofton Igsowing country without sharing
lin!the fluctuations Of it's culture, and. as
an agricultural. abiuring oil climates
where it'will not grow. There is no la.
bof IN raistng it that is not easy and en-
tlalng. and il, exhausts the land no more
than-thi ne down, il you but return the
ssed 70 Rte ground. Corn can be pro-
duoed:ns well here as in Pennsylvania.
II has been, worth all winter in Columbia
over By ia bushel; and hay, which ia
uaofs dif1onit to raise, bat which an ex-
perisnced English gardener here sayg he
can raise, end has raised, at the rate Of
two tons to the acre, simply by heavy
top'drosslng, is steadily worth 345 to
S30 ton in the seme market. But it
ought to be said, that, except on river
bottoms, grass does NJ. naturally fiou-
rish in climate where cotton grows.
lac summer heats pnrch md wither it.
There is plenty OF old plantation land
IN the market ut extremely low prices.
Lands that were held before the war at
S25 and $50 an acre, and cheap enough
a. that. can now be had at 81, IS. "a,
70 aud 8l0 an acre. These lapds,are ali
IN working order. and need only good
farming to make them more nsof,tahle
than they ever were. The old planters
wore nearly all ruined or greatiy.embar-
rasseds by the war; and thosa who Aursive
cannot readily adapt themselves to the
changes that emancipation. has brought.
hqt labor is plenty. and there ,beems to
pc no serious obstacle to revival of the
!aErtnnltnre OF the. State on the new
basis. The transition is naturally at.
tended by difficulties, but none great
enough to conquer ordinary enterprise.
With every facility for making such snre
! aud profitable crops as com and cotton.
the temptation to an agriculturist would
appear to be very much greater hero
than is offered on the Western prairie
lands. Let any man take q price cur.
| rent OF Western agriculture products at
the point where they are raised, and he
will be amazed OF the com parative unro.
munerating figures they show, ,contrasted
| with those in South Carolina. HAY ak
dollars ton, corn twenty-five cents a
bushel, pork four dollars 100 pounds,
and other things in proportion. Let
him compare these prices with those of
the products OF q South Ca:o ina upland
plantation. where everything is as che er
fnl and healthy AS on the best rolling
prairles, to say tho least; and where
thero is no wintor OF sufficient rigor to
necessitnte either extra clothing or ex:ra
fuel, and no weather to impede agricul.
tnral occupation Mt all times of tho year.
The "middling" or standard grade of