The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-07-19
! subsoiling will be necessary to
min the primeyal looseness of tho

soil.
y l4Wh!io 0anvassing for the stock law
n somsasserted that the enclosed region
woJ soon be without laborers that
rents would have no place for their
stoc and would move out. But, as
sop of us believed, the thing works just
the'ther way. With us, and suppose
wit you, renters had to repair fences 70
prcect their crops. But they soon saw
tbs it was much easier TO move old rails
an fence q pasture than to repair fences
arMnd all the fields. Nobody has ever
tbught of refusing them pasture any
| qpre than hoase. Nor are the rents
aiy higher. than when they had fences to
rpair. Take case illustrative of many !:
Ii. G., u renter, was much opposed to the
Foposed change. He and his son went
,t an election and helped to defeat it for
time in our township. He boasted that
te and his son could kill the votes of the
Hand and another tenant as often
Es they wished to try that thing. But
Ehe law provided for it, and it was Con-
Ecnient to take that and few other farms,
where owners were willing, within the
Enclosure of another township. GIr. @.
EHas furiously mad, and threatened to
peave, though 1t was the first Of April.
lBy moving about sixty panels of old
| fence he got an excellent and convenient
pasture, much better than the landowner
had. Still, ho grumbled; he did not
like to be beat in that way. Towards
the close of the year it was siguified to
him that he might go out to where he
could find things as he liked them. But
he made contract to rent over in the
township which had voted for the stock
law. However, before he moved he and
his man disagreed, but not about pas
ture. Then he had to move out on q
large old place, where he could repair
fences TO bis hearts content. Now,
guess what he did He and an adjoin-
ing landowner, who had also been op-
posed to the change, resolved on having
title fence la,c between themselves. Ac-
,cording'y, they put up gates, threw an
i ltside fence around both places, and
: made them pasture. A mighty revolu-
'd6nFbf thoughts and feelings in one
shors year was that. But this year they
are happy in having the great enclosure
extended far beyond them. And many
such cnses have we.
10Y When moving for the change,
nnanY. of us held it as g theory that the
stack law would enable not fsw to hol6
hetnsfarms from which the old fence law
Was shout to drive them. Now, we are
kappy,to know that we were not mis-
aken, Almost every neighborhood fur
lishezIone or more cases to the point.
ffsIa pne as fair sam pe. Mr.. II. owns
lbslb sixty acres. He had cut his last
fg; Ees to repair his fences. His neigh
bob the brothers g., had talked the
mEster over, not very recently, that he
cas id not "hold the fort" much longer;
~ - the place would be of very little use
lPhny one who did not have adjoining
and; that they would take it at last and
livido it hetwesal them in q certain man
Der. But the stock Law came to the res
tRrp of IL, and the brothers G., who fa-
IlR@ed the law, have candidly acknowl-
lts&ed that t'that game is spoiled"
|E E'n the tame principle the law facili-
ttAs the diiding up of large old farms,
II nd unwieldly and Improbable to their
IL overs. Mnhy of these have several
III Kindred acres of cleared land all in one
Ioy and slirting around this, iu one
Il al.e thirty.i1 anaihe- iorty: in another
! Sii. in anothS seventy, and in another
i & undred aorN of wood land. These,
d ii, some of theold field, cculd be read
d il3sold under he no fence law system.
d 81 tho owner cnnot do that, because it
sA wold render moe than half of his land
j prcticflly worthless. The stock law,
y hUeve, has bean change already.
81 Thre $re men va prefer an exhausted
E d fielE that is petty level and clear of
4hnpSand stone, to the best heavily
All 9nDer4 forest. Here they Can use the
ri itproyA implemats of culture And
tAail tIAai acy ci4Tsssl that wit, $he same outlay of
#lllbor tHy. can pa,kor, their fertilizers,
ietad lay p, more mo4y than they could
IS Slearing bind, rollin and burning loys
{3br . do hn of years hitching on roots
%.nds hoehg around Gees and stumps.
31enee, tlhre is arisir. class of enter
a,tlsIpg faSners who, got able to buy
i.,lal atior will buy cid, or what will
( Snak8a f,ld. Far les Importance
/, mon ta5ied to havirf land all in one
= eod ifonly there iss road from one
lsEplaoet hnother. 4
4 SOY to the grasse3 I have this to
say lave rode about little this spring
atidsAmar, anA l.c::sn; l.;:s;f Cav OF tns pio-
8 nees the grass bus;Sess, I have no.
4: siced carefully the clder, millet and
. luc6s (Which is the bit of all the for
q sgs ants) that have bIsn sown, end I
Es, eIbs at hazard noting in saying that
81 7s ery acre five or, si:syears ago there
Is. fSa kwenty now. It istrue, the stock
eSs IS made it necessity. But human
a ge is curious thiBgS It is hard to
ia| tht p out Of old ruts. When ouf ittdg-
sne Is com fincad that Il It would be to our
Z, ,snj test to make some caange, we still
i something to push us II little. Ten
sago thlre were very few among us