The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-02-26
Two Sides to Everything.

EDITOR COTTON PLANT: A great deal
has been said about the advantages OF
growing more corn than cotton. Nov
this opens up debatabie subject and the
affirmative side is looked on MS the strong.
est. To test the weight of two objects
place them In balance scales, which de
cides the matter at once, but in this cass
complicated matters come up, and aa the
farmers are always ready to have their
experience tested as to what has been
their success in planting the various
kinds of produce. the Cotton Plant has
opened its columns for the benefit of the
agricultural, that if there are good plans
advised, they can be taken up, and the
worthless modes thrown aside. In tie
inst place, it is admitted that barns full
of corn are very essential; but how often
are efforts made to fill the barns and turn
out to be almost clear failure. Then
what is the consequence II no oats or
other substitute in made, Il fall back has
to be made on King Cotton enough TO
master all deficiencies. Yes, three bales
OF cotton will pay for two hundred bush.
els of corn laid down at the corn buyer's
nearest depot. Right here let US illus
trate: Three bales of cotton are made
on FIVE acres of upland, and let the same
acreage and same quality of land be
planted in corn, and the same amount of
fertilizers be used aud the cost of labor
one half to make the corn, and when it
10 gathered it only measures out fifty
bushels; figure this down to a close cal.
culation and sec wha. the profits are.
The entire cost of making and gathering
the three bales of cotton was eighty dol:
lara, and the entire cost Of making and
gathering the fifty bushels of corn was
forty dollars the bales of cotton each
weighed four hundred pounds, at ten
cents pound the amount would be
$l20; the 6fty bushels of corn at sey.
enty.five cents per bushel would be $37..
so. A clear loss Oh the corn would be
$2 SO, and the net profit on the cotton
81 90. The cotton seed from the cotton
would moro than equal in value the
sbucks and fodder from the corn, and
"Straws show which way the winds
blow"
A planter setting good example is
worthy TO be guide, like Mr.. w. Mar.
tin, near Hodges Depot, who is man Of
good, sound judgment and q practical
planter. He was of late interviewed by
a correspondent of the Cotton Pant on
his experience of fifteen years in farm.
ing, and remarked: at first, for years, he
made the raising Of cotton q specially,
and succeeded to all expectations; next,
be turned bis attention more particular.
iy to the growth OF grain leaving off cot
ton to some extent. and at the end OF
the years of the grain farming it did not
fit up so we'll as the cotton farming did,
He recommends diversified crops and
the planting of plenty of all kinds of
grain, but make cotton a speciality, and
at the end of the year alr business trans.
action fits up to fraction and surplus
in the treasury. Planters are sometimes
etrayed off with cattle experiments. It
is the safest way to count the Gust. prof.
its and losses before the experiment ia
made. "a word to the wise is sufficient"
Of late, a noted lecturer, asking for con-
tributions, in the midst of his speech TO
q large audience, said that the people
we're complaining of short crops and
hard times and al the end of the year
the tongue and buckle would not meet,
but advised them to cut q plug out of
the middle by giving literally, and then
press the two sides together and il would
be all right. All of the audience could
not see into the mystery, but concluded
1t was strategy. Sarcasm or no sarcasm,
it is conclusive fact, that there are two
sides to everything. w. A. MOORE.
Cokesbnry, S. G.