The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-10-29
,PnSsum-Corner News.

Well, Mr.. Editor, 1t has been some time
since you have heard from us, but we are
still alive and kicking. and you know it
isn't long until spare-ribs, back bones and
sausages will be around and then, Oh, my
what time we'll have, and how fat we
will get. Come up and spend Christmas
week with US, and we will go to see the
girls, go hunting and have big time gen.
orally know the girls will be glad to
see us come, and I don't doubt but that
they will pronounce us JOnne CT belle, for |
overheard one say the other day: Isn't
he good looking, though" She was
speaking with reference to myself, yuu
know.
Well, 1 believe everything is quiet in
this part of the world, and everybody
seems to have plenty of work to do. Tur-
nips and small grain is needing rain very
badly, but cotton is faring very we'll with
out it. The cotton crop generally in this
neighborhood is very short this season
There won't he as much cotton made as
the people during the summer thought
there would be, but is doesn't m"ke much
difference, for We ought to quit growing
so much of it any way, and it will take
few short crops to teach us that lesson
and show us the financial ruin that at
tends growing all cotton and giving no
attention to grain crops. 1t seems that
some of our farmers in planning for their
next years crop deceive themselves by
making this kind of calculation: "If
plant an acre in cotton it will make say
900 pounds seed cotton, or 300 pounds
of lint, which I can sell at 81 cents per
pound, making in money $3.50. / can
sell the seed, IS bushels for Is cents per
bushel, making S3,70, or total for the
acre of fsoS 20. Now, if plant that acre in
corn it will make say 20 bushels, which
can sell at IS cents per bushel, making
total for the acre of SIS, say S18, to allow
for fodder apd shucks. Now if T plant the
acre in cotton can buy the 20 bushels OF
corn and have 5000 left as profit, and so
TIL plant cotton" And he does plant cot
ton, forgetting that 1t costs him about s
cents per pound to grow cotton, which
leaves him profit of 81 so with which to
buy his 90 bushels of corn. And so many
of his brother farmers made the same cal
culation he did that there Is hardly any
corn in the country, and when it Is ship.
ped here it costs about 81 per bushel, and
80 his acre of cotton instead of buying 20
BUSHELS of corn and having 5000 left as
profit, BUYS him Ii bushels corn, and he
goes in debt for the other ISL bushels.
This calculation may seem to be q little
exaggerated, but isn't 1t about the kind
you make reader? leave you to answer
the question for yourself.
Rev. L. T. Weldon, the efficient pastor
of Corinth Church, was called last Satur-
day for the ensuing year: Mr.: Weldon
has been pastor Of this Church for the
past ten years and has done good work,
and his congi egatiop is well pleased with
him.
Mrs. Lee Hicks, wife of Mr.. j. e. Hicks,
was buried in Corinth cemetery on Satur'
day, Oath inst. Mrs. Hicks died In At.
lanta, Ca, where she and her husband
we're residing, and was brought to Corinth
for interment. 1t hasen't been very
long since one of her children preceded It's
mother to the Heavenly Kingdom. and
now It's mother has been called to follow:
SIT Can't come to me, but 1 can go to It,"
Rev. l.. T. Weldon conducted the funeral
services.
The little infant daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Morgan died on Saturday, Oath inst,
from the effect of Group. Its remains
were inferred in Corinth cemetery on
Sunday afternoon.
'Possum hunters are having their own
sport now. I hear the toot OF their horn
and their shouts to their dogs while !
write. Well, let them 20 it if they will
watch where they drop fire in the woods
and be sure to put it out. They ought to
remember that everything is dry. and fire
would be hard to manage should it get Ill
the woods. ALTER EGO.