The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1892-01-27
FARMING WILL PAY.
Practical Experience OF II Man Who Fried
Raising Things at Home, and Who
Gave His Own Personal Work
and supervision TO Max
ing His Farm Pay.

Editors Chronicie:-I notice in your
paper editorials and letters from farm
ers and others giving their views as to
what is best fer the farmers to do in
| the future, as il seems that farming has
come to be an uphill business il our
day and time.
On the first day Of January, 1887, l
went to farming for myself. My nearest
neighbor was my uncle, Il middle-aged
man. We did not agree as to the man
agement of our farms. He was an all
cotton farmer, or, at least, paid little
attention to anything else except cot
ton.
His farm and the ore Oh which l
undertook &c make NY first effort to
dig living out Of the ground Oil my
own account lay side by side. My
uncle had considerable experience as L
farmer, and was financially able to carry
out bis plans, till l was OF the opinion
that his plan would not do. So went
my own way with a determination to
succeed if energy and close attention to
business would accomplish it.
My idea was to make corn, wheat,
oats potatoes, peas, etc, enough for
home consumption and have some to
spare, and make as much cotton as l
could, rotating my crops, wheat and
oats after corn, cotton after grain and
corn after cotton, raising enough cattle
for milk and beef and some butter to
sell in the town and an occasional beef
to the butcher. | commenced Oh 4 very
small scale pulling the bell cord over
one horse myself. l didn't say to my
hands ';go do SC and so," but I always
said come boys, and Messrs. Editors my
farming was always successful. I in
creased my farming operations as my
income would warrant me in farming
on q cash basis, and soon | was able to
hand my plow over to another and en-
ploy my entire time walking over the
farm and attending to the different
squads of hands, going with the hands
to the field and returning with them,
making use Of all available pasture
lands, grain fields, etc. I can truth
fully say that l always made money
every year that I farmed and gave it
my personal attention., but when I
moved to town, away went the farm,
the land too poor, the seasons too bad;
there was always something "a want of
proper management Of the farm the
matter that the farm did not pay eX-
penses and the rent was short.
My good old uncle took a different
view of the situation. He thought he
could make cottan enough to buy all
hi. corn, flour, and paid very little at
tention to anything except cotton. He
would plant very large crops Of cotton
and use guano. Ry the way, the first
guano I ever saw was some he used.
His cotton crop would all need hoeing
at the same time, and the result was 1t
would cost him a good deal OF extra
labor to keep his crop in good condition.
We farmed several years and hauled
most of our cotton to Augusta, sixty
miles. It was all he could do to make
tongue and buckle meet, hauling corn,
bacon, flour, ETC., to supply the farm.
After several years tria! he was con-
vinced that my plan was the best, and
he caught on and soon things went
smoothly, and he, too, went to making
money, and continued until his death
few years since.
Now, Messrs. Editors, are not the
farmers generally in the cid uncle's
rut., and if they will put their shoul-
ders to the wheel and say, come boys,
and cultivate their lands as they should,
adopting my plan, they will soon get
on their feet again. Let them make
more manure at home and buy less
guano, plant and raise more grain and
erything for home consumption;
raise more hogs, horses, mules, cattle.
ETC., and adapt themselves to their sit
uation, living within their incomes. If
it is small, economizc and cut the gar
mcnt according to the cloth and always
Try to leave scraps enough 20 patch it,
when il begins to wear. Touch the
Gotten factor very lightly. It will lie
MUCK easier to pay. Don't sit around
the street corners and in front Of the
hotels and postoffices and complain
about hard times, when it is all your
own fault and the remedy is ali within
your own hands, anG Will come at your
bidding, if tie proper effort IS made.
The Alliance, Tom Watson nor the
Third party can do you 10 good, bat
you must exercise common-sense and
make your farms self-sustaining, and
do not undertake to raise cent cotton
to buy Kentucky and Tennesse hogs,
corn, flour, horses, mules, hay, etc. /
expect to attend the meeting II the
Augusta Exchange: Jan. -, and am
watching, with much anxiety, to see
which way the cat will jump. W.
Bradley, S. G., Jan. :, 1872.
Gov. Iiliman's Views on 4 Urinary Tor ;
State Offices. I
Especial IL The State. !