The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-11-10

'Nul'tTUClil area, taT.n area,
acres. acres.
North Carolina...... -, I5U,5GC l9S35, ,4l0
South Carolina ... oI75O.O0O 10 los $50
GeorSia......... 81, 10000 230i7, ,94I
Florida ............ 1881 500 o373 al
Alabama .............. 81, ,4G2 $50 Ia 96I I7X
NJ Mississippi.......... 30179,S40 1921 lib
Louisiana ............. 26, 4G1 i40 7O25,SI7
ie1as .................l75,5S ,5S1 $40 1896, ,523
ARKANSAS. a .............. SO, 4OG,720 1887 ,29G
Ienncsscc........D 20 DlS4,O0O 1851 ,2l4
Of these acres devoted to farming pur.
poses, there were improved according to
the census Of 1886, in
North Carolina. G,527. .G54 acres
South Carolina .................. 4l73, ,354 acres
Georgia Observation-Disclosures. S207 126 acres
f!orlda.. 0i7, GAO acres
Alabama. ............." G375, FOG acres
Mississippi......... 5,220, 173 acres
TeXas....."..... ...............1 T., GO 0i3 acres
Arkansas. .......... 1886, COB acres
Tennessee. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. S49S, 222 acres
1t will be seen that while the superb
cial area of these States is 45G, 900 600
acres, the titled area is scarcely enc. tenth
OF tie whole surface. Of this area H.
347, ,G08 acres are devoted to cotton; H.
54S,Sl4 to corn; 2,845,675 to oats; g.
3I7,798 to wheat l4l ,513 to rye; l47,-
93G to barley. The product of which in
1850 was OF cotton, 5,G8S, 1S4 bales corn,
23S, ,435,37j bushels; oats. 1854 ,89S
bushels; wheat, 2O,442 ,GGS bushels; rye,
G55,670 bushels. barley, 147 1886 bushels.
The relation which Gotten culture bears
to other crops in these States having
been ascertained, it may he interesting 10
know the yield per acre in order to un-
derstand the money value of the crop to
The farmer 1t has been found that the
land in North Carolina yields one bale to
2.o7 acres; South Carolina, bale to 32I
acres; Georgia, a bale to 3.54 acres +;
Florida, bale to 3.SG acres Alabama.
a bale 10 3.92 acres Mississippi, bale
to 2.92 acres; Louisiana, bale TO 219
acres; Texas, bale to 2.69 acres; Ar.
Kansas, bale TO 2.S4 acres Tennessee,
bale TO 3.27 acres.
1t is easy from these figures to estimate
the money value per acre of this crop !;
and it is also easy TO understand its vast
Importance as the source fom which the
cultivator can draw the ready money
which he requires in the transaction of
his business. And it should be borne in
mind that in my estimates l have given
the cereal and cotton crops (the most
important productions thcrc) Of ten large
States, and more than 100000 people.
Now have no desire to discuss the
fluctuations which have attended this
branch Of agriculture during the last
fifteen years, nor the changes which have
taken place in the division and manage
ment of the lands devoted TO this crop. 1t
could not be expected that out of wide
spread disaster, and with an entirely new
social organization, there should spring n
constant and uniform prosperity, or that
without experience tho laws regulating
industry and business should be thor.
oughly understood. That ill.regulatcd
labor and markets returning from q
period of imitation to their normal con-
dition should have broken up the planta-
tion methods, is not surprising. Nor is
1t surprising that q system ofsmall farms
should not have been entirely successful
in the hands of those unused to the econ
omy and management of small landed
estates; in fact, many Of whom we're en-
tirely ignorant Of the management, of any
estates whatsoever. But that the System
of land holding and farm management
which succeeds in other great agricultural
sections Of our country, may and will sue
ceed at the south, there can be no doubt.
True, the necessity for one mode Of land
management here and another there for
time, must bo apparent to every careful
observer. That tenant management and
proprietor management must go hand in
hand for the present. is obvious. But We
must be aware that long continued, prof
liable farming has attended those alono
who have given personal attention to
their lands, and whose industry and skill
have been stimulated by the cheering in
tluencc OF actual possession-a stimulus
which every American must feel who, be
he tenant or landlord, enjoys n citizen
ship which removes him entirely from
the condition Of either the tenantry or
the peasantry of the old world. The
division of large estates into small tenant
farms, subject to well defined system
Of cultivation, is Of great advantage to
the tenant and owner alike in the present
condition of portion of even the well
disposed and industrious population oi
the cotton states. But l cannot forget
the tendency to Independent ownership