The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-06-25
Immigration Indac.men,. ovef-stat.d.

last Friday, I wss handed pamphlet,
purporting to be "Some account OF tho
Resources of South Carolina" and its
general inducements to immigration
This pamphlet contained O letter from
Mr.. Alfred Kempson, an English farmer
latterly settled in South Carolina. Mr..
Kempson gives very wholesome advice
to those proposing to seek now homes
amongst us as tillers of the soil, and in
my judgment states very accurately
what any industrious immigrant May an
ticipate. But as much cannot be said OF
ultimately evil effects by its dissemina.
tion. For instance, this pamphlet says:
"His Exoellency, Governor Scott, late
Executive of South Carolina, in recent
interview, stated as follows: I have 8
small farm of 300 acres, but circum-
stances have prevented me from giving
the attention to agricultural interests
which ought to have done. Therefore,
while I raised very good crop Of both
corn and cotton last year, it was not
what fair cultivation OF the soil would
produce, or what I expect to produce
from the Same ground this year. To
give you On illustration of what eau be
produced on an acre and half, 7 put q
lot OF land under cultivation, which waa
formerly the site of the Military Aca-
deny, adjoining the grounds of the Ex-
ecntive mansion. did no more to it
than would have been done by a good
farmer in the West, where have resided
for many years. From that one acre and
half produced 100 bushels OF corn; q
ton Of corn-blades, worth two dollars o
hundred in the market; and thirty bu-
shells OF cow-peas, which range from
dollar and half bushel, according to
the season OF the year. used princi-
pally, stable manure, and not as much OF
that as would have put on the ground
ii had more. I mention this as sam
pie of what may be done with the ordi-
nary Northern system of cultivation.
One OF the principal causes of small
crops is, that the plowing is done With a
single mule, and the land is barely
scratched. I learn from reliable sources
that in the early settlements Of the State,
it was not unusual to raise forty bushels
of wheat to the acre. Two years ago I
sowed my wheat in the carly part of Sep
tember-the custom has been to SOW in
the latter part of Ootober-and I cut
from two acres, and threshcd out sixty
bushels of wheat"
AaOu buo ltS lOuILQ
head-"Agricnlture and Its Proiucts''-
says:
''The above statement. by the highest
official authority in South Carolina, and
O practical Western farmer, conveys
vivid idea of what may be done by every
industrious emigrant, besides assigning
reasons why that immigrant will be re-
warded by making South Carolina his
future home"
should soy, the above does convey
vivid idea;" 80 vivid, indeed, as to be
actually binding, and is unquestionably
"a very good CROP" at least, of corn and
peas; but if lesa than what his Exoellency
''expeots to produce from the same
ground this year." I hope he will give
his benighted fellow citizens of ''his be-
tloved State" full statement OF the yield
and an accurate description Of the me-
thod Of cultivation, the quantity OF ma
nure applied, and any other information
he may choose to incorporate in his ac-
compsnJing affidavit, which latt.i shall
BIO condition precedent in the report.
But Mr.. Chadwick's pamphlet further
says:
Owe append few additional facts,
taken from official reports: The average
harvest under our present system of c1l-
tivation, is about twenty-five bushels OF
corn per acre, fifteen bushels of wheat,
twenty bushels of oats, fifteen bushels
OF rye. forty bushels of barley, 100
bushels of Irish potatoes. 150 10 400
bushels Of sweet potatoes, 500 pounds OF
tobacco, forty bushels OF rice, and about
600 pounds OF cotton. All of these qaan-
titles have been doubled and trebled by
careful cultivation. In one instance,
200 bushels and twelve quarters Of corn
were produced, with corresponding
growth Of oats. All that agriculture ro-
Guires, therefore, in South Carolinn, is u
substitution OF thorough tillagc for the
superficial scrapiug of the soil now so gen.
orally practiced.
Well, il this is not manufactured out
OF tho whole cloth, am deceived. I
venture the assertion, that no County of
South Carolina, since tho traditional
days. when ''it was not unusual to rnise
forty buahels of wheat to the acre." nor
before those plentiful times. ever ave-
ragged fifteen bushels per acre, or twonty-
five bushels OF corn per acre, or fifteen
bushels of rye, or forty bushels of barley,
or 500 pounds of tobacco or GOO pounds
of cotton. md vet thia m N, n Int eore