The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-10-30
RAISING STOCK IN THE SOUTH.


Every Cotton Planter should Raise n,
Leatt Stock Enough for his Own Use
Tropical Animals, like Tropical Plants,
tho Kost for this Climate.
Gen. johnson Hagood before tlc State Agri-
cultural and Mechanical Society.
In response to the request to say some
thing at this meeting upon the rearing OF
live stock, I have not had the time to
prepare an exhibit of profit or lo2s in the
pursuit; nor does the SPACE allotted TO
the discussion, amid other matters of in.
terest claiming yonr attention, warrant
the going into detail upon the methods
to bs successfully followed. a consider.
ation of the balance sheet, and Of the
minutie, by attention to which @ credit
Is established, have most interest for the
oY4crical farmer when new subject Ia
brought TO his attention, or he is urged
10 resume neglected branch Of his bus
iness. will Oily, however, attempt 10
present in this connection some general
views, which may elicit from others an
expression of experience and opinion
more valuable perhaps than my own.
propose, too, to consider the subject
FROM THE STANDPOINT OF THE COTTON
PLANTER.
Stock farms pure and simple, in my
Judgment, can be successful only in par.
ticnlar localities in our State, viz: those
where alluvial lands permit perennial
medows without commercial fertilizers
or those, as in some of the lower coun.
ties, where "range" over lands of little
market value may be had.
On the other hand, I am persuaded
there is scarcely cotton planter in the
State whose interest would not be pro-
inoted by 9 judicious attention 10 the
rearing of live stock. and the conversion
of his pursuit from the production Of a
staple to that Of mixed husbaudry. TO
what extent this change would be Judi
cious depends upon his special surround
ingg.
The minimum of stock that his plan
tation should carry may however be safe
ly put OF so much as will consume the
waste of his harnynrd, with the summer
pasturage Of his lands not under the
plough; and to be carried through the
winter upon the gleanings of his corn
and cotton fields, with the shucks and
straw necessarily harvested with his
crops. Without stock these products of
the plantation are waste; with them they
are money. The maximum of stock to be
carried each planter must determine for
himself. It depends upon the special
adaptation of his lands to the cereals and
grassts, and the natural pasturage his
unploughed lands afford.
The facility and extent of his market
10 an element to be considered, If his
production of live atock is to. go. beyond
his own consumption, and the character
and abundance Of labor available is Of
prime consideration. The cotton plan
tation neeGs numerous human hands.
Machinery may do large part Of the
labor upon stock farm, but the labor
ers, fewer in number, must have more
fidelity and intelligence. White labor
cannot ue successfully worked in gangs
upon. a cotton plantation; it iB we'll
adapted TO stock farming, and In any To-
cality the higher wages stock farming
gan afford, In consequence OF the small
number needed, will always attract the
best laboFers, whether white or black
Before emancipation, aur planters gen.
orally exceeded the minimum above indi-
Gated ofgtock on their plantations, without
making special provision of cereal and
iorage !. crops. y, "a consequences exeeps IN
g but ths @ abnuJance S,a s ne % tho sl,9i, "a
nas sno aon.auuS y. ", sso suppy Was
,,a nv ;h e, ahn ~ 3uL egus. Slnce tne
-,.a,,;t;n,' Insa W. ,,,a5a Ln,,n ,OJ - .. ous
oIrsas. : . n,ath % 49, nva na,aa ao I've onSo1 5
,n,,tss, gsr .,,,r,r,, ara Snn,o; DeSi .ina aha
and hn,'as ara :o,roo ruu ~ Io .ule9
the the in , aan,a . cotsrorv s onOusn - 70 p'e'ea
iS Tha tm ;,o ;anrs.as oa.sssry, svSy,,, &c oo,,o
H., M Az s i;sas.;e eeppy u Tusson calsea
try almoak exclusively to its production;
has, however, Be reduced the price that
our people are beginning to ( OK -. their
error They are beginning ~ .ee that
all cotton is q poor business, and that live!
stock at home Is better than live stock
on the prairies, however cheap the latter
may be placed on thu markets When
we ses the day ia which South Carolina
shall produce all the live stock, cereals
and forage used or consumed Within her
tJ;j Triaa;sTf and iit,I yy,;;f,i,;s, ;,1,Is 80
and cotton, 20 10 market aa tie expo. %
nent Of profit, then, and not till then.
will our agricultural industry be placed
upon o firm and enduring 6asis of ianc-
GEES.
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=. =
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VI iis,sS, 20 Mnicn the iueSli-
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Otilef. s 49, y ~.