The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-01-08
orl0N 2. H., soUIH cAR0 FRIDAY. JANUARY s. 1892

isnu over To tenants--pure hearted, GOO,
men they were--whilo he studied mill
osophy and chess problems, living IN,
me OF guilelcss lord and Christian. Bu
nus lands paid him little or no interest OF
nus money Invested, and every year wit
hessed the process of exhaustion aud nov
erty in the soil. We saw things going
irom bad to worsc-iu tho cncroach
mcnts OF swamp, sasssfras aud the BAN
ooo, and in the fearful work of floods
And SO, abandoni pg all hope or success
tui farming, he sold his place to Mr..
Gwyn, tho price paid it is said, being
$1,000 in hand, perhaps more than hall
OF TINS sum having been expended by the
EnSlishman in putting up an elegant
residence on the place ii residence with
the ideal walnut and oak wainscotipc
and gothic gabeJs in abundance His
ampie was n living Illustration OF failure
in the principle of Poor Richard that
He, who by the plow would thrive
Himself must either hold or drive.
Mr.. Gwyn was raised on n farm. and
he had always manifcstcd fondncss and
aptitude for agricultural pursuits. But
| IN the progress of cotton manufacturing
IN the south, he had gotten into the cur
rent, aud mt the timo that he resolved to
exchange the spindle for the plow, he
had accumulated the spare money ncccs
sary to buy the 'IIolly Lodge" farm
this the christening of the Englishman's
place. "What is he going to do with
hat old worn-out and swampy place.
that has kept men poor all their davs in
trying TO work it9' This was the oucs
tion that disturbed many of the mans
friends. There were plenty of peoplc
who considered the money as simply
buried in real estate from which postcri
ty alone might realize the profit. There
were also neiyhbors who ridiculcd the
man when he nj ,vcd his family to tn,
i,,..ys s,',s ,SSises, spysidtuw. -rn-~c--'sec~o-
thousand dollars in the work of fencing
and cleaning out swamp and thickct.
There were some things lid about him
that embraced the word ~ ol."
A string of plank fencing over n mile
long fencing sawed out of white pine
and with split locust posts, each lot of
lumber worth some forty dollars the
thousand feet in New York this was
tho great expenditure that exempliIicd fol-
ly, so it was more than hintcd Then
there were thickc;s through which even
birds could not fly, and u swamp given
over to snakes, frogs, crawlish aud rab-
bits. These next swallowed up the cr-
ring brothers money and his time for
day after day, year after year, from early
morn to dcwy eve, he kept right along
with his work, realizing the truth of the
maxim that
De boss in iicl he'sclf
Is WORT Il dozen hans,
even il ne didn't put his fingers on shade
or mattock. lie kept there all the same
ailippE = - ..-1i2.-i---r-'''Te'
o. ,Se %n,lng veass to relegate or trust to any
lays of money still went on some of the
expenditures being borrowed dollars, but
still no return.
Finally the wand Of the en:hanter was
seen. The old ruins now stood out in u
spread of blo:soming and golden splcn
dor, and where there was once the aban
doned old fields and deserts, with here
and there the narrow patch that attcs:cd
life in the feeble Cornstalks the work OF
the old-timc butcher ami shirk there is
now bchcld n beautiful and broad cX-
parsc Of 200 acres Of Yadkin bottom un
broken by blot or blcmish, and over
cvc-y square foot If which the moving
ing machine can be run without let or
those areas where the new barn has aris.
! en-, O. where the shaprly walnut rcars its
| ample arms to shelter the animals that
| rest and cool under the lcafy foliage
| in the long summer days. Aud the val
ne Of the property today is placed at
| $40, ,000-this against c st OF $40, 600,
embracing improvements and the work
of restoration all in u period of less
/ tl,n
| il he had in the meantime made nothing
whatever in the sale of single bushcl o
Er%:.: or : pound nf hay or meat he hn
made more money in seven years farming
! .han any o,iiur man around with m0r
/ and better land originally, and who ha
been all the while selling the meats an'
the grains and the profit has been simp
" in the incr, axe in the value Of the land
and still; the owner will indulge in
satisfactory smile when he tells you Ii
has actually sold both meat and grain t
half Of his ncighbors WHO once prophc
sled bis ruin. or discussed his 'Iolly.'
Now, wherein lies here
TIE SECRET OF SUCCESS,
and what is there in the example befOr
MS from which the southern farmer gene!
ai,y can learn Il lesson Of usefulness an
value? What, also. is tho available PHI
sical element in this history which h'
brought lIfc to that which had been 81,
en- owe. 10 The province Of the dead?
From the word go, wherever the COW
pea could be induced 10 grow on tn;
worn out land, it was put III and then II
growth turned back into the clay.
the ground WAS too poor TO sprout II
, pea, il WA; cOaxcd into life with anoth
t fertilizer. A. the peas ripcncd tho
{ were partially picked, and then the vim
with the remainder Of It's fruit, was ploN
, cd in deeply with the heavy wo-hor
plows This sowing and turning und
t of the pea has been going on all
] while since the man took the place
, hand. Wherever small, select areas cou
:. be induced 10 grow other crops iii pro-
isc. they were devoted TO the product
y of wheat, corn. rye and oats. To-day {
. whole place is in a high state OF fcrtii
e generally, yielding rich and abundo
u crops that pay handsome dividends
|. the Investment in cultivation Let
% sec what is the present output In I
It farming operations propcrIy-thc la
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