Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1879-09-04


bacon almost a myth, homemade
beef and mutton q luxury, and home
raised mules and horses are scarce
enough to be placed in the same cat
egory. The increased supply OF cot
ton, caused by the direction OF an IN
telligent industry almost exclusively
to it's production, has, however, so re-
duced the price that our people are
beginning to realize their error. They
are beginning to see that all cotton is
poor business, and that live stock
at home is better than live stock on
the prairies, however cheap the latter
may be placed upon the market.
When We see The day in which South
Carolina shall produce all the live
stock, cereals and forage used or con-
sumed within her borders, and her
valuable staples, rice and cotton, go
10 market as the exponents of profit,
then, and not till then, will our agri-
cultural industry be placed upon a
firm and enduring basis Of success.
THE KIND OF LIVE STOCK.
to the rearing OF which the greatest
prominence should be given is also a
matter to be we'll considered. OF
course it SHOULD be that kind
whether horses. sheep, cattle or hogs
to which the locality is best adapt d.
On the average plantation, all kinds
may be, to some extent, advantageous
ly reared. They rather supplement
than interfere with each other.
BREEDS.
Upon the subject of breeds, how
ever, experience and observation have
led ME to very decided convictions.
South Carolina is a semi-tropical
country. the products of the warmer
and the colder regions alike grow
and, to some extent, flourish within
her limits. But the experience OF
her agriculture shows that the greater
success is met with in the culture ol
plants having their origin in the
tropics. Indeed, transferred to her
congenal soil and climate, these have,
in many instances, improved in quail
ty and quantity Of production. In
digo, rice and cotton, her staple crops
for two centuries, have this origin,
and in the markets Of the world have
been preferred to those growI. in their
original habitat. The only hay |
have known successfully grown in
this Stale for market Is from the
Means and the Bermuda grasses
one of Egyptian, the other Of East
Indian origin. On the other hand,
wheat, oats and rye, cereals OF a
colder climate, upon lands Of equal
fertility, do not produce so we'll here
as further north. Indeed, with rye
and oats, which are, more than wheat,
a special product Of high latitudes,
there has been found but one variety
of each which can be cultivated by
us with uniform remunerative results.
1 allude to the red rust.proof oat and
to what is known as Southern rye.
am pursuaded that this superior
adaptability of our climate to plants
of topical origin extends, to a con-
siderable extent, to breeds Of ami.
mails derived from the same region
The mule bred from a sire Of tropi.
Cal origin is seldom found in the
fields OF northern countries, but is
undoubtedly our best plow and wag
on animal. No horse for light draft
and the saddle can compare for use
with us to one that has large infu,
sion Of thorough blood-the blood of
the desert. General consent seems
to have accepted the superiority il
our climate of the Essex and Berk
shire hogs to other imported breeds
Both of these owe their origin large
ly to tropical crosses. OF sheep the
broad-tailed and the Merino-th'
one Of Syrian, the other of African
origin-thrive most readily with us
And in cattle the Brahmin are TIN
h ealthiest and hardest of the breeds
which have been imported into TIL
State. Our native or scrub breed
of cattle, sheep and hogs are Of Eu
ropean origin and varied crosses. The
have become acclimated throug
length of time, and are hardy an
healthy, but, origina'ingia the unim
proved breeds Of Europe existing
the time of their Importation, an
, neglected in their breeding here, al
inferior in many respects. lndivil
) uals among them have sometime
f rare merit. The trouble with them
that Of all conglomerate breeds-tl
progeny is apt TO breed back to SON
: inferior ancestor as to inherit IL
merits Of the parent. Prepotency-
4 the power to impress itself upon Of
e spring-exists only with breeds lor
S established and purely bred. tt
a Brahmin cattle, from their associ
( ton with the religion Of India, hay
l l,ort n, q ,,,ro braa1 lonp