The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-02-07
Rivers and Wilson's Creek. The latter
has been used for mill-stones.
AGRICULTURE.


AGRICULTURE.
/. Number aud kind of improved ag-
ricultural implements Grain sewers 10.
reapers 200, sulkey ploughs rs, guano
distributors 1000, barrows 800, stump
pullers none; total, 1885.
Steam engines in use on farms, and
horsepower? Number in use 155, aver.
aging from 6 to II horsepower to engine !;
aggregate horsepower, 1896.
2. Head of improved stock, &c. :?
Very few sheep. Cattle: Jerseys, 1875,
Ayrshires, %; total, $50.
8. Efficiency of colored labor as COM
pared with last year and with efficiency
Eve years ago? About the same as last
year and better than five years ago.
4. Supply of colored labor as COM
pared with the demand and with the
supply and demand last year and FIVE
years ago? The supply is about equal
to last year and better than FIVE years
ago.
5. Proportion of white to colored farm
labor? About equally divided; perhaps
few more colored than whites.
6. Number of hours to full days farm
work? In Winter from 9 10 10 hours !;
in Summer from IL to l3 hours.
z. Wages paid male and female farm
laborers? Males, from IS to $A2 and
females 81 to S..
8. Extent of field work done by women
and children, white and colored? The
white women and children of the county
work in the fields only when driven by
necessity. The colored women and chill
dren out Of the towns generally work in
the fields.
: 9. System Of labor most in use? La
borers usually work for a part of the
crop, though many hire for wages by the
month or year. Pay stated above.
10. Cost of producing merchantable
cotton? Can't say definitely, though at
the present prices many think it not re-
munerative to grow cotton.
II. Percentage of cost in raising,
packing and ginning cotton? About so
cents per hundred is paid for ginning
and packing cotton.
II. Condition of colored farmers as
landowners and tenants? Very few have
been. successful.
1S. Progress of colored farmers in saving
money and acquiring land? Do not
think colored farmers are making any
progress.
IA. Number and nationality Of foreign
born immigrants in county? Number
$50, pretty equally divided between
Irish and German. They receive from
SIP to SIS per month, are good iaborers
and seem anxious to acquire homes.
Is. Opinion of Stock law, &C.? 1t has
greatly reduced the expenses of farming,
has added very much to the quality OF
the stock, and is giving very general sat-
isfaction.
16. The Lien Law and its effect
Public opinion is very much divided as
to the Lien Law. There was a much
stronger disposition to repeal it twelve
months ago than at present, owing to the
shortness of present crop.
l. II. The Prohibition Law, its obser'
vance, enforcement and effect? The
Prohibition Law is not in force in the
town of Anderson, but the State law is
rigidly enforced and is working we'll.
18. Quantity and kind of land for
sale, its character and price? There is
but little land for sale in the county.
Price ranges from 50 to 500 per acre,
according to location and improvements.
l9. Number of cotton gins, &c. ?
Number 275; average to gin four to five
bales day. Average distances hauled
to gin two miles. Charges for ginning
from LIS to 1-25. Cleaners not enough
used to give satisfactory answer.