The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1883-02-22
THE NEWBERRY HERALD.

of you pay rents that are not rack rent, yet
have you never thought how much land
your rents for the last ten years would have
bought you? 'Tis better to cultivate twenty
acres of your own land without rents, than
thirty or forty for which you pay rents.
IT'S better that you buy small tract of
land, build cabin, plant an orchard, make
large compost heaps, Drain well, plough deep,
be economic and industrious. Don't buy
much land. Twenty, thirty, forty or fifty
acres as you may be able to purchase. I'm
prove and cultivate thoroughly and you will
have always source Of competence and Of
pleasure. You will be mparably greater
benefactor of this and future ages than he
who ruins thousand acres to buy thou
sand acres more, or diSrobes and mutilates
thousands ofhils and valleys to erect bank
or build railroad These institutions are
useful and progressive in their sphere, but a
virtuous, enlightened contented peasantry
cuitivating their own enriched farms infinitely
more These are the sdo-strata-thc mud
sills-on which lasting civil aud political
prosperity must be erected. ignorance, dis
sension, vice and misery brood and grow in
abnormal conditions, and they are abnormal
when industry aud eco olomv, diligence and
perseverance ia the cultivation of the soil go
begging.
We who have been accustomed to cultivate
large areas have never known nor appieciat-
ed the capacities Of one acre.
With no great time or trouble four acres
can be made to produce one hundred and
fifty bushels of oats. A like number of acres
can be made to produce sixty bushels of
wheat Here then is fo0d for horse and good
bread for an ordinary family. If autumn is
not very dry enough, crab-grasS hay may be
gathered from This stubb!e TO feed five cows.
Four acres of bottom, or land adopted TO
corn will nearly any year, with proper culti-
vation, produce eighty bushels of corn.
Three acres Of clover, potatoes, furnips and
barley will produce meat, milk and butter to
sell. One acre for garden will produce sur
plus. Eigh: acres in cotton can be made
to produce eight 5aieS. which we will put ut
$3.50. This will pay expenses and leave
more or less deposit. BY these figures sc
have sixteen acres 10 o.e horse This could
be cultivated with case aud pleasure. The
constant improvement going on in the land
with rich growing crops, fat pigs and cows
having disended udders, would lend no COM
mon inspiration 10 effort. Fifteen or twenty
acres for fuel and timber would be sufficient.
Dc you say we can't get this land? Have
you ever made an effort! Many will not sell
to you, yet there sre many that will. Lands
are getting ihfo the bands of the few and
the few are not to blame for it. You would
do the same had You the opportunity. It is
a spontaneous greed common to all mankind.
II may be folly in them to engross the soil,
it is wise in you to buy home though it be
small. Their capital accumplateS on them
and they have no enterprise in which to in.
vest, so it is put into real esiate; You make
no accumulation and never will until you get
q basis on which 20 o2crate-a kind OF CEN
tire around which you cGn deposit. Thi, is
no utopian plan, but one feasible and very
inviting, If you can not sc: home Of your
own here. go, go ill you cross the con tnent
In the effort. ZERO.