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


SIS; the taxes on the fifty acres not less
than IS; making the fence Of one horse
farm cost annually SO, besides the $500
buried out in the woods of that fifty acres
of timbered land, never to yield one dollar
of profit as long as the present fence law
stands. No wonder the landowners of An
derson County are land poor; no wonder
that l. as looor saon-lnadoavner, will ever re-
main poverty stricken, (if the present fence
law is not changed.) Well, the man might
say, if did not need that fifty acres for rail
timber, I want to keep it for home for my
son or daughter What, sir, bury $500 out
in the woods where you cannot get one cent
of profit from it for many years to come?
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 ten years or before your son will want a
home, and you will have thousand dollars
to give him, or you can buy more than fifty
acres of land for him. ...,..
Again, Mr.. Editor, as I am renter, and
may never be able to own land, if the fence
law can be changed am sure it will by far
be better for me. 1t will cause more than
one thousand acres of land to be brought
into cultivation in this County that other
wise cannot be-, You see that will give me
better chance as renter to get better land
to cultivate. The landowner can afford to
give better chance on good land, and will
let his poor land rest, it not being pastured
by other peoples stock will improve and
soon get good again. And i, seeing the
benefits that would result to me as a renter,
would be great fool not to- desire the
change; I would be acting contrary to the
interest of my family and the rising genera
ton. was confirmed in what believe on
the subject by having a 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 avery
small majority, and there was some dissatis-
faction the first and second years. Butnow
all were perfectly satisfied, and would not
go back to the old law for any consideration,
and the County was tue most prosperous in
an agricultural point Of view of any in the
State. They had improved their stock, had
turned their attention to homemade fertiG-
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 I may get 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, Ithink it will
do it, and will make. that COW feed that
acre every year and keep it rich. By hay
ing good stall for the COW, hoored water
tight, cover the floor with top earth, put in
q layer of course litter to absorb and mix
with the manure. When properly mixed
shovel it out and put under shelter In
compost heap. I can now imagine what a
fine quantity L Icould 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 a very low calculation will
be that COW will average three gallons of
milk per day; the milk churned will make
one pound of butter per day, three hundred
and sixty-fve pounds in the year at 20cts
per pound, make $73 then the eleven hun
dred gallons of butter-milk at 1Octs, to feed
pigs, will be $11O more, added to the but
ter, making $1S3 from one acre and one
cow. Why, Mr.. Editor, I could get rich if
they would just pass the new fence law, so
could get few acres of land as home for
myself, my family and my cow.
BLACK JACK RIDGE.