The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-04-21
LETTER FROM ARK NANSAS.
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The Fine Crop ProSpect---lInEiGrant
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Kansas.
PINE BLUFF, ARE, April l2.-The
past winter, which was one Of unusual
severity in this part Of the country,
after lingering long in the clap of
spring, ut last !.es given place to
warm, iaritiiia Sunshine, singing birds
and blooming flowers, which! herald
the uear approach of summer. The
weather continued changeable and un-
certain and very discouraging to plan
terS up to the 9TH instant, when there
was 4 heavy fall Of snow, but it not
being cold enough to freeze, after a
few hours of sunshine all traces Of the
snow disappeared, leaving no visible
sign Of damage either TO the fruit crop
or to vegetation. Since then the
weather has been such as to cause
everything to put on new aspect Of
life ard vigor.
The farmers throughout the country
are very busy making preparations, rs
usual, for large crop Of cotton. This
is goo: corn country, but cotton is
made the leading crop. There is very
little small grain raised here, and what
is, is generally sown late in the spring,
as the abundance Of rain and the hard
freezes during The winter almost in
variablv prove destructive TO fall SOW
| ing.
There has been the greatest demand
on the part Of farmers This spring TO"
supplies l ever heard Of. This is
partly owing to the fact that the influx
of Immigration during the past winter
was unusually large, most o! the new
comers being negroes who lad lust
enough, or but little more money than
ii took to defray their expenses here,
ana owing to certain ;llaugcS. made III
the mortgage Jaw by our last Lcgisla-
ture, a mortgage Oh crop without stock
or some kind Of real estate is not valid
security. Hence many have expert
cncc1 considerable difficulty in obtain
ing supplies. But the newcomers are
not alone in this respect. There Is a
class of farmers here, as there is every
where, suppose, who, from lack OF
foresight and proper economy, or from
other causes, have gotten behind, aud
depend altogether on the credit system
for supplies during the summer, ana
they live hard, they pay such enor-
nous prices for what they consume,
that when they sell their crops in the
fall it takes abont all they have made
to square mp with their merchant, and
thus it goes
Tile little bee sucks the m,ld-
And the hi. bee sucks the honey:
The poor man makes the crop
But the rich man gets the money.
| met Il great many negroes. here.
who came from Newberry, Lexington
and Richland counties, last December
and January. They seem greatly
pleased with their new homes, and are
expecting many Of their friends in the
old State to Join them here next win
te:.. The negroes are already in the
majority here, and their numbers are
nearly doubled every year.
The leading topic OF conversation
here for several weeks past has been
the strikes, the bad effects Of which
lave been SO seriously felt in St. Louis.
Little Rock and other neighboring
cities. Since they have ended, the
talk has turned TO the overflow of the
Mississippi aud the expected rise of
lie Arkansas I will write of this
rise when it comes. +. J. c.