The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-02-21
Georgia, who won liberty for US by seven
years Of hard fighting and terrible
suffering.
Advice to all Cotton Farmers.

w. P. Tarpley, of Henry County
Georgia, writes a. follows to the Farming
World of Cincinnati, Ohio, on the sub.
iect of "all cotton" farming:
We have planted and cultivated, and
borne the heat of the day, and the season
has come for 4 few days rest. How
many have made success or advanced
in the old mothe. profession by reflection
and experiment? Each can now see the
fruits of his labors developing. The
Western farmer, that is akin to every
body, looks over his broad acres of corn
and smiles at tho thought of 4 weighty
corn crib and disappointed winter. A
Southern farmer, with diversity Of
crops, feels himself An American citizen.
he has garnered his wheat and oats and
now enlarges his corn crib, and makes
new barrels for his syrup, while his few
acres in cotton bring him few surplus
dollars.
But what il the condition of tho man
who planted al cotton? Truly he is a
melancholy man. He began his work
the first day of January, and has toiled
through heat and dust, and now finds
himself in the same tracks that he stood
in fifteen years ago-so far - financial
progress is concerned. He is perfectly
exhausted, but, the worst of all is, be
realizes that new year will dawn upon
him again with empty hands. If that
man does not need the sympathy of his
people, who does?
have endeavored to picture the con-
ditions of the two farmers, just as they
exit. The one will then ask, how can 1
better myself? Tell him to quit raising
cotton, and he will invariably say that |
am obliged to raise it; am in debt and
I have no other way to get out and,
furthermore, I have not the necessary
means to commence different plan of
operations. The truth is, he does not
know how to quit. He has been going
the same way 10 long that it has become
habitual With him. This is not supposi-
ton, but ia the real condition of two.
thirds, if not three -fourths. Take the
two different plans and compare the
figures. Take the one.horse farm, for
instance. The farmer should sow five
acres in wheat, clean and break the land
we'll, NOW and harrow in some half an
acre of rye in September for early use,
SOW another half in November, CON-
mence the irst of January and SOW teu
acres of rust proof oats, and put thirty
bushels of cotton seed to the acre. If
your laad is not good plant twelve acres
in corn as early as possible; if the frost
does bite it down it is that much the bet
ter, but plant it on your best land or
manure it, if only with muck or rich
dirt. Plant eight acres in cotton and
Eve hundred barrels of compost to the
acre of your own make, which will not
cost you over two dollars per acre. Plant
two acres in sweet and Irish potatoes,
one acre in sugar cane upon loose sandy
loan, ii you have it. You now have in
the thirty y.nine acres. The oats will
mako twenty bushels to the acre at
the least calculation. or two hundred
bushels for the ten acres, at twenty-five
cents per bushel, is orth one hundred
and fifty dollars. Cotton seed, worth
thirty dollars, deducted, will leave one
hundred and twenty dollars. Your corn
will make at least. one hundred and
twenty bushels, worth one hundred and
twenty dollars. The two acres in pota-
toes will make at least one hundred dol.
lars. The one acre in sugar cane, if it
makes anything, will make seventy five
dollars worth of syrup. The eight
acres in cotton upon average land, if
planted as directed, will make FIVE bales
Of cotton, worth two hundred and twenty.
FIVE dollars, expenses Of compost and
ginning, twenty. five dollars, which leaves
two hundred dollars. You have made
upon your diversified crops six hundred
and fifteen dollars, with wheat, rye, fod.
der, shucis, etc., thrown in for good
measure, and have put everything at its
least figures.
Now take the man that plants all cot.
ton. Twenty-Five acres is as much az
one man can work, from which, If he
gets seven bales of cotton, be will do
well. If he manases to gather it all
himself, which is more than he can do,
his expenses will be for guano, ginning,
etc., sixty dollars his seven bales of cot.
ton il worth three hundred and fifteen
dollars; sixty dollars deducted leaves
two hundred and twenty-five dollars
just three hundred and sixty dollars
difference for one.horse farm. Ny
opinion i, the six hundred and fifteen
dollars will pay up all dues and leave
enough to subsist on while making
another crop and have few dollars left.
It is no wonder that man does not sue
coed With only two hundred and Sfty
dollars to feed man and beast upon.
One of the great points to be considered,
if 4 psraou wishes to succeed, is to econ
omize and save. Its surprising 70 know
how little person can live on, if brought
to tho necessity of it, for it is better to
live cheap one year than all your life.
BY following this plan with q determina-
ton to 20 into debt a. little as possible,
in tuo or three years you will be an in
dependent man.
The Nystery Of Dreams.