Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-29
aELI PERKINS, IN ENGLAND.
A Visit to an Ancient Castle-Talking
With an English Farmer-The New
ShOddy PrOprietOrs.

CHATsWORTH CASTLE, ENGLAND, May
14.-To-day / visited Chatsworth Castle
and Haddon Hall. The former belongs to
the Duke of Devonshire, whose son, Lord
Frederick Cavendish, was assassInated in
Phoenix Park, Dublin. The latter belongs
to the Duke OF Rutland, family running
back to the Tudors. Chatsworth is the
finest modern castle, and Haddon is the
most beautiful of ancient castles. Had
don was built as far back as 1900. 1t is
still fairly preserved. Its walls are hung
with tapestry, and much armor and old
plate are shown. The Duke Of Rutland
occasionally comes here with lot of roll
licking shooting companions from London,
and has dinner served on the old plates
that Cromwell, Henry VII, George ~,
and Queen Elizabeth used to eat from.
The servants who show the castle are
said to be quite rich, all made from fees
paid by visitors. You pay boy three
pence for opening the gate, pay girl two
shillings for showing you through the
rooms, and pay another boy threepence
to let you out. These poor, ignorant peo-
pie make a kind Of dime museum of these
ancient castles.
WHAT AN ENGLISH FARMER SAYS.
/ was glad to get away from these old
castles into the hedged fields ana have a
good talk with a sensible English farmer.
Such a man was William Greaves. CT
Bakewell. Mr.. Greayes cultiyates see
acres of land round Haddon Hall. He
rents this land from the Duke of Rutland,
and it costs him, with taxes, 81 200, or
$40 an acre. This land is worth from $40G
to $500 an acre. according to location. So
he really pays about , per cent. on the
value of the land.
When / asked Mr.. Greaves what he
raised on these 500 acres, he said:
sit does not pay me to raise wheat.
Since American wheat has been sold in
Liverpool for 81 10 per bushel our farmers
have stopped raising it. We cannot raise
wheat when American wheat is selling in
Liverpool at 81 %, unless in small quanti-
ties, for the straw, to thatch our hay stacks
with"
'What are you raising?" l asked.
swell, hay. oats, potatoes, turnips and
cabbages- / sell my hay for SIS per ton.
American oats haven't come TO England
yet. | sell my oats for 50 cents per bushel,
and often raise 40 Bushels to the acre. If
American oats ever come to Liverpool for
70 cents per bushel, l will stop raising
Them"
'Do you feed oats to your own horses?v
i asked.
ssNo; have learned to feed American
corn. l can get my Indian corn from Liv-
erpOol for a dollar bushel. So | sell my
oats and buy corn. A bushel of corn is
worth two bushels of oats to feed.7
s'Do other English farmers do this?''
'tNo, not generally. The average Eng
lish farmer is slow TO learn, but he will
find out this secret after awhile. 1t is
only our smartest farmers who have found
1t out. Our nobility, like the Duke of
Devonshire, over at ChatswOrth Castle,
have been feeding American corn to their
sheep, deer and horses for two years. and
corn is growing in popularity in England
every day"
SHOW much did you get for your wheat
last YEAR,"
81 sold it to our town miller for 81 40
per bushel. He is a local miller, and il
ne had been posted he could have gotten
American wheat cheaper from Liver
pool"
"What do you get for your hOgsw
asked.
~ sold my last hogs for eleven cents on
foot, and my beef tor sixteen cents on
foot"
Chow could you get eleven cents for
live hogs when you can buy clear Ameri-
can side pork in Liverpool for ten cents?7
''Well, my hogs were sold to the local
butcher, who wanted fresh meat. No one
but lunatic would ever think of sailing
a hog in England nowadays. America
furnishes every pound of bacon and pork
used. 1t is being shipped here from Chi
cago in 600 pound boxes. 1t is cured in
dry salt. We take 1t out and smoke it
or they do so in Liverpool, Glasgow and
London, and then sell it for the English
Bacon"
1 have now found out that when my
wife has bought English bacon in New
York, it has really been American bacon
smoked in Liverpool.
AIr. Greaves informed me that he paid
his labOrers SIG month during the sum
mer. and they fed, clothed and housed
themselves. He also told me that he paid
them 81 80 week extra during harvest.
He thinks his men can, after feeding their
families and paying house rent, lay up 81
a month during the six summer months,
but he says they seldom lay by any
thing.
"Do they live better than they used to-"
l asked.
Yes. They have meat every day. The
laborers nowadays live better than the
farmers used to. They buy the necks and
head pieces, and American bacon is sold
for from eight cents to fifteen cents. Our
laborers buy the poorer portions. They
also eat unbolted wheat -four, potatoes,
eggs, milk, and everything that the old
Squire used to eat"
"DO Engnsn farmers ever ship wheat,
oats or barley to Liverpool or London p
ssNo. Our produce is all consumed in
the villages round about us. / don't sup
pose there is a pound of English flour or
bacon in Liverpool or London. There are
also fresh meat emporiums in large cities
like London, Birmingham, Manchester,
Liverpool, Coventry, ETC., where Ameri-
can fresh meat is sold. In little towns
like Blackwell, Warwick and Rousby there
wouldn't be enough sold to pay for estab-
fishing an agency"
''How do you get the American corn@
stAgents come down from Liverpool
every month and we make contracts with
them to ship it to us.o
believe that live Americans could come
to England and establish agencies or
stores for the sale of American corn, ba-
con and fresh meat, and make a great
deal of money. Dealers here make about
80 per cent. on bacon. Any man could go
into the thlckly settled part of London
and open wholesale-retail store, and
make fortune simply handling American
corn, bacon and meat. lie could snip
over his bacon in dry salt and smoke it in
London. Cured in this manner, it would
be- deliciously fresh.
THE NEW sHoDDY PROPRIEToRs.
Many rich storekeepers, tradesmen,
English and Hebrew, in London, are buy
ing up numbers of small farms in tn
we st Of England simply to give them SO
cial position. 1t is only the land owner in
England who is looked up to socially.
These tradesmen are hated as badly by
the old owners as are the carpet-baggers
! in the South. But they care nothing for
| local prejudices as long as they can boast
| in London of their landed possessions in
Exeter. The English Squire only reveres
| the hereditary Lord. He hates the new
owner. The other day, in bennington,
wealthy Hebrew went into the old fish
market which had been kept for four gen.
erations by the same family. This fish
mongef would have fallen on his knees if
| Lord Warwick had come into his shop,
but with the rich Hebrew it was different.
The rich Hebrew came in with his fingers
| covered with diamonds, and three large
| chandelier diamonds sparkling in his
! sOiled shirt front, and said:
81 shay fish man, 1 want score Of dem
oysters"
"They bent for sale, sir,'' said the fish
m0nger scOrnfully.
docs you link can't pay for dem oys-
| tiers? See here"-pointing dramatically to
one of the big diamonds in his shirt front
! zone Of desc stones would puy all your
feesh, oysters and your whole shop"
S'If had them bloody things dou know
| what I'd do with them?" asked the fish