The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-10-03

there is high, ranging from s100to $500
an acre Young men cannot afford to
buy at that price and they have to emf
CRATE. Heretofore they have been going
to Kansas and up into the bleak North.
west. Georgia's SONS put in telling work
while they we're away, and other South
ern States can draw hard working,
money making settlers if they make the
effort.
ECONOMICAL FARMING
is one Of the secrets of the Ohioan's sue.
cess. He works and his family works,
some in the house and the rest in the
field. They are thrifty, progressive and
substantial. They have highly cultiva.
ted farms, good barns, well.kept stock
and ane houses. Ohio's farmers look
well-to do. They have exceptionally
comfortable homes. Many, which are
really handsome, are miles out in the
county. The owners of the finest farm
land IN the State say, though, that they
do not net 2 per cent a year on the value
oftheir farms. Even the grape growers
lin thas Canaan along the shore Of Lake
Erie say that there is very little money
in the, vineyards and fruits. 1t is true
too thst Southern farmer would almost
starva en- what a Buckeye farmer would
live on and grow rich from. Up in the
Northwestern Reserve the use of CONNER
cial fertilizers is unknown. A man who
used phosphate rock there would be as
much of an exception as the planter in
Carolina or Georgia who does not.
Georgia's farmers were Impressed by no
fact raore strongly than the economy Of
the Oaio farmers in making their own
fertilizers in the barnyard aud thus saw
ing 8 beavy item Of expense. The grape
growers do net use fertilizers at all,
except occasionally for one or two varie.
ties.
CRATE GROWING AND sWIEE.MAKING.
| TIE Catawba is their favorite grape,
and It grows to- perfection on Erie's
islands. Two tons to the acre is a good
yield, Anet profit of two cents pound
| ,is considered an excellent return. From
the catawba good quality of champagne
can % made. The vintners prefer to
maks poor quality. They get plenty
of sparkle in their wine, but make it
sweol. and it leaves headache. Their
ciarsts they adulterate abominably, and
their white wines are too vinaigrous. An
Ivold German grape grower on Catawba
Islanei brought out two bottles which
could have been passed off for Rhine
wins, He had more grapes three years
ago :san he could sell at a paying price,
and s,e made 1,1OO gallons of wine. It is
| THE snre juice of the grape, but is not
pslasable enough for the American
threat, and he is likely to carry his cellar
| for saars to come. Ohio grows a great
many peaches, but the trees are short
liyea. The varieties are the same as
thos., grown in the South. The Bartlett
peas is the standard there as the Le
Costs is here. Alderney and Holstein
are sl,e 1ayorite herds of cattle, and the
PersseroD, Clydes and English shire
horae. are everywhere. Up in the north.
ern Fart of the State the farmers are as
sesssd by law, but the reverse is the case
in tas southrn part OF the State. Around
Columbus the farms are m mortgaged, but
in csher sections they are mostly free
from incumbrance.
'fHE LABOR QUESTION IN OHIO.
Labor is higher than in the South,
bus che employer gets three times the
woEs out of his white help than the
Sout:tern planter does out of his negro.
"Wa do not want your negro labor" said
the &srmers, and their wives spoke the
sau,a way. In towns the wives hire
whiss girls, if good ones can be obtained,
othsfayise the mistresses of the homes
do &aa work themselves. If they have
daughters the help question does not
worsg them. All over the State the
rotation ofcrops is the one method of
farming, and no crop which the Ohio
farn,ars plant takes half the skill and
braii which cotton and rice require,
the growing of which crops, by
the way, is the highest and most
scien ,sfc farming in the world. With
the Western farmer it is grass in Ger.
tain ..sld this year, corn the next, oats
tue next, wheat the next and hay again.
And Il is that rotation year after year.
Two .ons of hay, and sixty bushels of
corn, thirty bushels of wheat to the acre
these are the good yields and away
above The average.
INTEREST IN THE SOUTH.
At.Jolumbus, at Wellington, Sandus-
Ky anrl Dayton the farmers and the bust.
ness Dsen, too, became much interested
in ths South. An excursion Of business
men will be arranged to come South in
Janpa.;;, and February. One of the far
mers is expected q little earlier. They
are tempted by the low prices of land.
Farms at $40 an acre, on which 500 worth
of cotton can be grown any year, struck
them IS something worth looking into
without delay. Those who come will be