The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-27
How lie Made Farming Paw.

F. H. Barber is well known as one of
York cOunty's most successful farmers, says
the Yorkville Is. C.) Enquirer He lives at
Richburg, but owns about 1000 acres in
Eastern York, where he does most of his
farming A reporter met him the other day
at Lesle's, station which he is building up
on the Three C's. The old gentleman had
| just finished settling his accounts with his
troopers and having made large crop was
in real good humor for telling how it was
done.
He said to the reporter:
you can put in the paper that | aver
aged more cotton to the mule than any other
man in York county"
''How mnny bales, Mr.. Barber"
''Ten bales to the mule with twenty-six
mules-26O bales. Now let me see you beat
that if you can"
"Was your crop as good this year as
usual, Mr.. Barber"
mo, no. [ can't say that it was, but
| here is another point for you. 1 have just
paid one negro who runs a two-mule farm
on my place 1899 So. He makes that much
clear after paying everything ne owes me-
living and everything. and nearly every
one of q dozen others have cleared over
$50 apiece.
"Now people say there is nothing in farm
| ing, but say there is. There is more in it
| than anything else-there's everything in
it. That's my experience, and know what
| Pm talking about when l say it, my young
friend. l merchandized seventeen years,
and made money. have
one-third interest in the Fishing
| Greek factory, aud it's making as
much money as any of them, lei me tell
you, but l get larger returns out of the
farm than anything else. You can make
the farm pay 50 and 100 per cent, but you
can't squeeze any such profits out of the
store or factory"
'But how is it that so many people fail to
make living on the farm, Mr. Barber2"
They don't work, that's why. The ma
jority of farmers want three Sundays a
week, and nobody can get along by working
only half of the time. Suppose you would
take three Sundays week in your business,
| how would you come out? You'd bust,
wouldn't yous That's what you would do,
and that's what anybody else who tries it
will do. Now the farmer don't have to
work any harder or longer than anybody
| else. He don't have to work fir m daylight
till dark. Not 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 man
who would work it by the factory bell. l
| just want him to put in ten hours day.
and at the end of the year I'll give him
$3.50. That's fair, amt it! That's as much
as the factory hands work; but if he'll
work by the bell he'll be worth every cent
of $3.50.
Then, there is another thing. A good
many people try to farm. and they don't
know anything about it, Take the common
notion about guano. Most people will pu
$50 pounds on an acre. They will lay off
their rows about threa feet apart. and if
the wind is blowing they will take one of
the horns, so as to keep the guano from get
ting out of the furrow, and string it along
the row in fine white line. They are so
careful about wasting it that If the string
happens to get broken for foot or two they
won't even go back to patch it up. Then
they mt in their cotton, which comes
ND aud starts to growing very nicely, but if
q little dry weather comes along the cotton
turns sickly and they say the guano b-rns
it I'D. But it amt tho guano. 1t is the
poor land that burns it up. Now think
about it. They put in that little srreak Of
guano. The plant comes up and grows
rapidly while it lasts, but 50 soon as the fer
tilizer is exhausted, of course it dies down,
because thcro is nothins left FOR it to feed