The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-04-20
Plant Cotton.

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always brings the money, and with it you
will be enabled to pay for your guano-
that valuable and indispensable article,
without which it would be very foolish
for any man to try to make a crop. 1t is
more easily applied, and so much better
than stable manure, and so little trouble
to procure. A ride to town or the depot,
and the simple signing of your name to a
slip of paper will be the means of OBJ
tanning for you all you may desire. Stable
manure and cotton seed are too bulky,
and require so much more labor to apply,
that by many their use is utterly ignored,
and the fashionable, cheap, valuable
and concentrated guano has taken the
place of these old-fashioned manures.
Plant largely of cotton. 1t sounds big
to talk about your crop of cotton. 1t
serves to make you interested in the
money market and the price of the staple
both in this country and in Europe. 1t
seems to quicken the hepcrceptive faculties,
and cause you to calculate how much
guano you can buy for so much cotton,
for by many this is the purpose for which
it is raised or, if not, it is the only pur-
pose to which the money received for it
cah be applied.
Plant largely of cotton and neglect
your corn crop, because if You make cot
ton you can purchase corn ION a credit,
and meat, too) but if you raise corn and
Il plenty of it, you will have fat horses,
fat cattle, fat hogs, and money in hand,
and then you will be deprived of the
exquisite pleasure of asking for credit,
and being sometimes refused. This
luxury will have to be dispensed with.
And do you not desire this-ofcousc not,
for it is such a delightful feeling to owe
your factors, to be indebted to your
merchants, to know that almost every
man you meet has your note in his
pocket, past due, and to be button-holed
and dunned dozen times day; it adds
so much to mans popularity; it is SO
soothing to your nerves, so tranquilizing
to your whole system; gives you such an
excellent appetite, and produces such
quiet and refreshing slumbers, that you
cannot afford to dispense with it. Being
in debt is such glorious feeling, so con-
duciye to health aud happiness, that you
feel it to be your duty to yourself, to
your family, and to your friends, to
owe, and to do this plant plenty of cot
ton, for it will be sure to keep you in
debt, and if this will make you con-
tented, you will be happy indeed. You
can, in your leisure moments, sympathize
with your neighbor who has a smoke
house full of bacon, of his own raising
Il corn-crib well filled with large ears of
the golden grain, who has plenty of
money and is troubled about seeking a
safe and secure investment for his surplus.
Go and see him; you can relieve him of
his trouble; your plantation lies adjoining
his. and as a friend, assist him in invest
ing his money by borrowing it, and give
him mortgage on your place. What Il
satisfaction this will be to you, to
know you have done your ncighbor good,
and to know that in !, few years he will
have control of all your premises, and
you be relieved entirely from the cares
and responsibilities of ownership. What
a joke it will be to tell how you have
succeeded in making your neighbor with
his corn and his meat pay the taxes now,
formerly paid by you. But then he de-
serves to be punished in this way, be-
cause he never was much of planter
he only made few bales of cotton, and
was hardly known out of his district
but you are a big planter-you
make your hundred bags, and arc
known in Savannah as gentleman
who is always in debt, whose cotton crop
never realizes sufficient amount to pay
your expenses for the current year. This
is your reputation; do you enjoy it? II
you do, plant largely of cotton. If you
do not like the picture, change your
course, and try to live at home; make
your plantation sclf-sustaining; plant
corn, raise meat, and let your cotton crop
be restricted to surplus only, first rails
ing everything else you need in prefer
cncc to the snowy staple. When you dc
this, then change will come; you will
soon he your own master, and not be as
you are now, and as you have been for
ycars-the slave of the cotton factor and
the commission merchant. Take advice
while there is time profit by the admo-
milton before it is too late, and plant
more corn.-.&mlrrsrM (Gn. Messenger