The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-08-09

ing every winter is worth. se- a..ch farm
si5; the taxes on the fifty acres not lcss
than S.; making the sehcc OF one horse
farm cost annually $40. besides The $500
buried out IN the woods Of that fifty acrcs
of timbered land, never to yield one dolla,
OF profit is long as tho present fence law
stands. No wonder the landowners of An
derson County are la,,d poor; no wondc,
that /, as poor aon-inadopaer will ever fe.
main poverty stricken, tif the present fence
law Is not changed.) We'll, the man rnight
say. il did not need that fifty acres for rail
timber want to keep 1t for homo for my
son or daughter. What, sir, bury $500 cul
in the woods where you cannot get one cent
OF profit from 1t for many years TO come I
NO, sir. never! Pass the new fence law, sell
the fifty acres To ME that may now have a
home, put the $500 into an Investment, and
in ter years or before our son will want a
home and you win have thousand dollars
to give him, or you can buy more than fity
acres Of land for him.
Again, Mr.. Editor, az am renter, anl
may never be able to own land, IL the fence
law can he changed am sure it will by far
be better for rue. 1t will cause moro thun
one thousand acres Of land to bc brought
into cultivation in this County that other
wise cannot be. You see that will give ME
better chance as renter 70 get better ian,,
to cultivate. The landowner can afford to
give better chance Oh good ia.id, and will
let his poor land rest, it not being pastured
by other peoples stock will improve and
soon get good again. And /, seeing the
benefits that would result to me as q renter,
would be great fool not TO desire the
change; would be acting contrary to the
interest my family and the rising genera
ton. was confirmed in what believe ON
the subject by having conversation the
other day with gentlemen from North
Carolina. Mecklenburg County. He said
in that County, where he came from, the
stock law had been in force five years. At
first the people were greatly divided. The
County went for the new law only by very
small majority, and there was some dissatis.
faction the first and second years But now
oil were perfectly satisfied, and would not
60 back to the old law for any consideration,
and the County was the most prosperous in
an agricultural point OF view of any in the
State. They had improved their stock, had
turned their attention to homemade fertili-
zers and improved farming implements and
the grasses, and many renters had been able
to get little homes for their families.
Mr.. Editor, / do hope the change will
take place, SO may get a little home for my
family, and then let me me tell you what
intend to do: will take one acre and make
it rich, and make it feed one milk COW
whole year. BY planting some of the
grasses, the German millet, think il will
do 1t, End will make. that COW feed that
acre every year and keep it rich. BY hay
ing good stall for the cow floorcd water
tight, cover the floor with top earth, put in
q layer CT course litter to absorb and mix
with the manure. When properly mixed
shovel it out and put under shelter in o
compost heap. 1 can now imagine what
fine quantity could make, almost equal to
guano, from one cow-enough to keep one
acre rich from year to year. Making one
acre feed one COW, one COW feed one acre
and the result at very low calculation will
be that COW will average three gallons Of
milk per day the milk chnrnnl will rnaLe
one pound of butter ros day, three hun,.re.
and sixty-five pounds in the year ut 2Octs
per pound, make $73 then the eleven hun
drcd gallons of butter-milk at 10cts, to feed
pigs, will be $40 more, added to the but
ter, making $1S3 from one acre and one
COW. Why, Mr.. Editor, could get rich if
they would just pass the new fence law, SO
could get few acres of land Us u home for
myself, my family and my COW.
BLACK JACK RIDGE.