The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-01-15
A SUCCESSFUL FARMER.
MIR. X. II. Barber Tccii. Why scmc
People iou't Make Money at Farm

People Don't Make Money at Farm
ing.
, |; Yorl;ville 8. C., Enquirer.
r Afr. =. II. Barber is we'll known s
one Of York county rnost successit'
, farnert. he lives at Richburg, Au
; owrsr about fou thousand acres /
Eastern Xcrk, where he does most 0
) his farming. 4 reporter OF Iie En
ou;rer met him tie other ssay dat Les
s.ie'., q station which heis building Vi
on the Three C's. The old gentleman
| had lust finished settling his accounts
with his croppers and having made
large crop was in q real good humoI
for telling how It was done.
Ee aaid to the reporter: You ca-
put in the paper thai averaged more
cotton to tie mule than any other mai
il York county"
"IEow may bales, Mr.. Bssber?"
:"Tsr hccl2s &c the G:.:e Nth twenty
six mules-26O baits. Nov let ne see
you beat that if you can.
''Was your crop as good this year as
usual, 1Ir Barber"
"No, 40. I can't say that it was, but
here is another point for you. I have
just paid one negro who runs two
mule farm on my place $399.56. He
makes that much clear after paying
everything ne owes me-living and
every thing-and nearly every one OF a
dozen others have cleared over SI55
apiece.
"Now people say there is nothing
in farming, but say there is. There
is moro in it than anything else
there's everything in it. That's my
experience and I know what Pm talk
ing about when 1 say it, my young
friend. I merchandised seventeen
wears, and made money. have a
one-thiri interest in the Fishing Creek
factory, and it's making as much
money as any Of fGhem: let me- tell you,
buoI get larger returns out OF The
farm than anything else. You can
make the farm pay 50 and 100 per
cent. but yon cent squeeze any such
profits out of thesJore or factory"
''But now is il that SO many people
fail TO make a living on the farm, Mr.
Barber?"
"rhey don't work, that's why. The
majority Of farmers want three sun
days week, and nobody can get along
by working only half Of tie time.
Suppose rou would take thee Sundays
a week in your business, how "ou!c
YOU come cat? You'd bust. wouldn't
YOU? That's what you would do, and
chats what anybody else who tries it
Will do. Now the farmer don't nave
to work any harder or longer theu
ANYBODY else. He don't have.tc work
from daylight till dark. Not a bit Of
It. have piece of land over next to
the factory and have had (. Standing
offer FOR the past three or four years Of
$3.50 year TO any young narn "no
would work it by the factory bell. l
Just want hin to put il ten hours
day, and a. ne end Of the year IN
give him $3.50. That's fir ANT IL?
That's as much as the factory hands
work: out if he'll work b.; the bell he'll
tbe5 tbe5H;e;:; - Z eZeys;-- aes-e cent 81 S22O.
i;ias. uiIufG Z, vass,2i' 6iIzzdS. -.
good. many people try 10 farm, and they
don't know rything abouCit. Take the
coInmcn notion ahoUt gUanc. Most
people put $50 pound on an acre. They
viii iay of their rows about 5nree feet
apsrt. and if the wiad is blowing thsy
will take cne Of these horns: SO as to
keen the guano from getting out OF
the furrow, an6 string it alols tins row
in fine w bite line. Ghey are so csra-
iiil about was'iugit tnat If the string
happens 10 get broken toi loo. or t"o
they won't even 60 back 20 patch 1t
up. Then theyput III their cotton,
which comes up ana starts tc growing
very nicely, but if. little dry- weather
comes along the cotton turns slckly
and they sag the guano burns ii up.
Eut it Amt the Suano. 1t 10 the poor
land that burns it up. Now think
about it. They put in that little streak
Of guano. The plant comes I'd anc
grows rapidly while It lasts, bus so
soon as the fertilizer is exhausted, OF
course it dies down, because there IS
nothing left for it to feed Gu, SO you
see it is the pocr land that does it.
Now. to prove what say. liza nun
dred aod fifty pounds of guano scocch-
es the cotton SO it wont grow, two
thousand pounds ought to set lt.alce,
oughtn't it? But itwon't. 1t's ny ea'
experience, that tie nore fertilizers
you use the more cotton you make,
anG, in order 10 demonstrate the mat
ter to the satisfaction Of everybody: l
an going to make Il special expert
merit next spring, and put two thous-
and pounds of euano on one acre. Ana
Pm not going to burn anything up
either. See IL do"
$50 you rent your lands, pay wages
or work on shares?"
''On shares altogether. It is the
most aetislac5orv w&v for oil. | furnish
everythirg-thc mules, tcols ana sup
plies. The crorper furnishes nothing
but The labor. II make be makes,
and # I lose he loses, so YOU see u Is
| his interest 70 work, and tho harder
tie better. @iye them the aait OF
ever1 hing tley make, and that el-
courages them TO make all they can.
Sone peoplc dent give out t'To-ti1fas,
/ but icr ne Eli You Ect f9 iIooo Vs."
; 6: the hall IS anyCl them.
E:r. Barber is DrssiGentands secretary
end treasurer of tbe Fishing Creek
Manufacturing COMPANY, kaa a large
store at Lesslie:s and lives as &leA-
| burg. Ha has recently connected these
! trrae points by . private telcPAone
lire end placed himself within eas.E
speaking distance Of al oistaeE z!
once.
| The Grady Monument Fund.
| The Gradr NOT im@nt fund has noT