Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-09-16
Agrifnltntal department.
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PAY OUT!

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The cry has commenced, already, amongst
certain class of farmers, that they will not
be able to pay out This We are prepared to
believe. Such has been the case for several
years. Go into crowd of farmers and you
will hear one class complaining about the un-
reliableness of labor, high taxes, the scarcity
of money, and hard times in general. The
other class have very little to say. They are
not able to discover the pressure of which the
other class complain. The former class ex-
press their determination either to sell out and
90 to some other place, or to engage in some
thing else The latter class are satisfied.
Now, there must be some cause for this
state of things. Some farmers are about to
break others are getting rich fast. We have
no hesitancy in saying that some men have
made more money by farming since 1865,
than they ever made before. They have made
more corn and cotton to the number of acres
planted, and received more for what they had
to sell, than they ever did before. These are
facts which no one will dare call in question.
Why then are not all farmers in good con
dition The answer, we think, is easily CIV
en-. 1t will be found, we are persuaded, that
the most of those farmers who are depressed
in spirits and oppressed in purse. are those who
have been doing kind of gambling business.
They have been raisingall cotton and no sup
plies They give lien at the beginning Of
each year. on the crop to be produced, for
supplies with which to make it. They buy
large quantities of fertilizers and make no
manure on their plantations. They attempt
to accomplish impossibilities.
1t is admitted that Southern labor is not as
good as is desirable, but if by labor is meant
the negro, we are convinced that the negro,
as a servant, is more reliable than any other
laborer in the wide world. This is bold dec.
laration, but we feel prepared to establish its
truthfulness. There is no race of people on
earth, that makes as good servants as the ne
gro. He makes himself ridiculous, we admit
by turning politician but for time we south
ern people must bear with this
The reason why so many farmers are unu-
sually pressed, may be briefly stated. When
the war ended many of them we're hopelessly
in debt. They would not accept the condi-
ton of things, but attempted to live in the
style in which they had lived previous to the
war. Instead of paying off their old debts,
they contracted new ones. They attempted
to make large crops of cotton without an ear
of cornin their cribs, or pound of bacon in
their smoke-houses. Shrewd traders under
stood this, and agreed to run them" on the
lien. Money was made by farming, but the
maker did not have the pleasure of enjoying
it. The remedy for the present state of things
is for every man to make his own supplies and
live economically. Itwas great misfortune
for our southern country, that our people, so
soon as the war was over, commenced running
to the stores for shoes and socks; and for
cloth to make every article of clothing that is
worn. During the war, southern women made
good substantial cloth, and there was time
when our people were comparatively indepen-
dent. That was the time of the war when
we we're cut off from the rest of the world.
Had the South kept this up to the present
time, there would be less depression and op-
preston. Farmers cannot live as extrava-
gantly as they generally do and pay out 1t
is simply an impossibility. The South is an
old country, but the majority of the people
| had TO commence life anew after the war.