The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-08-05

OF farming, was that might be able to give
you information upon the subject. Let me
tell you q conversation that occurred the
other. day in Anderson between two gentle
men. One was q townsman and the other
was a country gentleman. The country
gentleman through the Kindness of his
heart invited the townsman down to partic-
,ipate in the pleasure Of this day. The
,town.man replied to the country gentle
dainties, but I don't care to hear thespeech-
es that are going to be made upon The sub
iect Of agriculture They can't tell me any
thing about agriculture. know more
than allsof them put together about agri-
culture" There is great deal of truth
about this assertion. There are great
many men in our country who can tell us
al! about. agriculture, but there is some
difference between the pen farmer and the
practical farmer. The pen farmer requires
only o moderate amount Of brains together
with alittle physical force to do the work
that is done upon the farm, and he can tell
Us all about pen farming. His mind is
trained in one direction, and the practical
farmer has his mind trained in another.
The practical farmer makes his living out
Of the soil of the land and the pen farmer
strives to make his living out of the tolls
ofthe man. We have this kind Of sentence
therefore in sacred writing "Paul may
plant and Apolles may water, but God gives
us the increase" We have planted, We have
fettilized our crops, we have worked our
crops, and where! oh where is the pros
pect for increase7 2 AS we look upon these
prospects, we are ready to say that farming
does not pay-at least the greater portion OF
those engaged In It. Arguments will be
brought forward to prove that farming does
pay, but You may pile argument upon
argument and 1t will not contradict this
assertion. Go over our country, see the
dilxpidated houses, see the worn out farms,
hear farmers talk over their prospects. let
them speak to you Of the crops over these
farms, and these words will speak to you
clothed in its best garb can possibly do.
You may ask me, my fellow. citizens, wheth-
er it is the business that is not profitable
MY answer to this question is this: 1t is
not the business that Is not profitable, 1t is
the managemento of the business that makes
il what it is., There are three things that
are necessary To make EARNINGS q success.
/ It is economy, industry and good judgment:
Without these three things, success will
never crown our efforts as farmers. There
must be continued, constant effort in
order to do something. There must be a
constant continued effort in order to
save something. There must be an
application Of good judgment that what
ever we do is done to our best advantage
and greatest improvement. One Of the
greatest evils that now afflicts US is e1trava-
gance, and disorganization is another evil.
Extravaganza and disorganization are two
evils. that aflict the farmers of the South.
We dress extravngantly, we llye extraya-
gantly, we buy e1travagantly, and above
Eall things else, we expect most extravagant
outlays OF the resources Of our lands. We
here expect to get two bales of cotton where
the land cannot give us but one. We
expect to get two bushels of corn where
the land cannot give us but one. These
extravagant calculations are wrong and we
should not make them. How many OF you,
fellow citizens, will bear me out in saying
that fashions are necessary to success in
farming How many Of you will bear me
ont In saying that this business Of handling
commercial fertilizers does not make Us
forgetful Of the interest we have in our
barnyard manuresf How many of you
will bear me out in saying that the very
habit Of pledging our cotton for guanos
that we buy is not most detrimental to our
interest, because that amount that We pledge
has at that moment had its price fixed upon
it?,, 1. do not object to the use of CONNER.
cial fertilizers, but I do say that it makes
us forgetful of our interests. The labor