The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-10-02
RAISE YOUR OWN SUPPLIES.

oats and wheat as soon as there IS enough
rain TO snable them to plow. By doing
this, We can feed our stock after the mid
die of May without corn, and will supply
our people with bread after the middle of
June. There will be more profit in this
kind of planting than in giving liens for
breadstuffs and for grain to feed our stock,
in order to make cotton at nine or ten
cents per pound. The South can never
prosper until we make more of what We
consume at home. No people can make
ends meet who buy all they eat and wear
and food for their stock abroad, and try
to pay for it by producing cotton crop.
They cannot prosper where they have the
money to pay cash for these supplies,
much less can they do so where they
have to buy at credit prices. The coun.
try could not prosper with these drains
upon it, even if labor was industrious
and reliable. 1t is utterly impossible for
it to prosper when labor is as unreliable
and triaing as We find it in very many
instances now. As things stand to-day
we believe there will be about twenty.
FIVE thousand bales of cotton made in
Anderson County, but when the debts
for supplies are paid there will be very
little left. We had fine crop of oats
and wheat this year, and they have large
ly reduced our debt as County, and but
for them We hazard nothing in saying
that the people would have come out
badly in debt on this years farming.
The cotton crop, as estimated, will, we
hope, average nine cents, or forty-fve
dollars per bale, which would be one
million one hundred and twenty6v
thousand dollars, and yet this money
goes almost as fast as the crop is marketed
out of the State to pay for supplies. The
larger part of this Indebtedness is for
bacon, corn, -four, and similar articles,
which we should raise at home. There
is no reason why we cannot raise all
such articles in abundance, if we would
only profit by experience and plant heav-
lily of small grain and corn instead of so
much cotton. By this means we could
make this the most prosperous section of
our State, if not of the Union. By rails.
ing grain abundantly We can raise also
an abundance of meat. Hogs will thrive
as well upon oats as on corn, and our
lands produce fine crops of oats if sown
in September and October, and fair crops
when sown in the earlier part ofNovember.
If we would SOW heavily of small grain
and intensity our cotton culture-give
one acle thoroughly prepared the fertil-
izer and work which we now give to two
acres-our cotton crop would be nearly
or quite as large as it is with the careless
and imperfect cultivation it now gets,
and then we would keep large portions
of it at home to enrich our County, in
stead of sending all our surplus to enrich
other people, as a consequence of our
own bad management. The advantages
would not stop there, for as soon as we
began to accumulate surplus at home
it would seek investments in various
kinds of manufacturing. This, in turn,
would stop the sending of money abroad
for the articles manufactured, and as the
industries increased would be the source
of income from outside communities.
We ought to make our own cotton and
wooden goods of ordinary wear, our
wagons, buggies, agricultural implements,
builders, materials, our leather and the
articles made from it, and hundred
other articles too numerous to mention.
Of course the arrival at this state of
prosperous production would be the
work of years, but it would come about
much sooner than people imagine if the
laws of political economy were observed
by our people. 1t would not require
more than two crops, properly distribu-
ted in variety, to make the people of
Anderson absolutely independent of the
West for meat, for corn and for -four.
The way to accomplish this is to plant
largely of oats, barley and wheat now,
and of corn in the early Spring. Then
plant as much cotton as we can fertilize
and cultivate thoroughly. Such course
on the part of our farmers will do more
to avert the troubles of the hard times,
and bring about a renewed prosperity,
than anything we can do.
The Pendleton stock show on next
Thursday, the 9th inst, will be notable
event, and will doubtless be attended by
an immense number of persons. Gov.
Perry will deliver an address upon the
occasion, and there will be numerous
exhibits of improved horses and cattle.
1t is probable that extra trains will be
run to carry persons to the exhibition,
and pleasant day in every respect may
be expected. Pendleton never does
things by halves, and the coming stock
exhibition will be ahead of anything of
the kind that has ever been held in the
up.country.
The Republican party recognizes the
danger which threatens their party, and
hence they bave induced Mr.. Blaine to
make visiting tour of the principal
Northern and Western cities, in the hope
that his magnetism will attract the favor
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