The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-10-12
Farming That Pays.

pIdtn. W. T.
Butler Lodge, A'a., Sept 8, 1862.
Farming That Pays.
We wonder how many OF the thou
sands of people who come into and go
out of Cha1leston harbor during the year,
and of those who passes TO and fro be-
tween the city and Sullivan's Island
every summer, know that the little
elumps Of trees and white houses which
apparently stand in the marshes on
either hand mark the sitss Of some OF the
very finest farms on the contjnent'
Whether the fact is known to many or
not, 1t is = fact all the same. The sisua-
tions as it appears from the deck Of a
steamer ia very deceptive. A closer ap-
proach, or a whit outright, would dis
cover that the marsh ends short of where
the clumps Of trees begin, and that the
slightly elevated ground Is occupied in
fact by widely extended vegetable gar
dens in the highest possible state Of cul'
tivatlon.
Probably farmer from tho interior,
looking over the low grounds, would de.
cline to accept the whole Landscape AS a
free gift. If he went to buy some of it,
however, he would leasn that he would
have to sell from fifty to a hundred acres
of his best river bottom land in the up.
country to raise the money to buy one
acre of the "marsh," and would have to
hunt for seller at that rate.
One of the best of those seaside farms,
as iu vol known heresbouss, is ebay.
vieu," the property of Mr.. John Boyd
lies on the edge of Christ Church Parish,
between the mouth of Shsm Greek and
Cooper River, and is under the superin.
tsndencs of Mons. L. Pud;son. 1t is not
model farm" perhaps, in the accepted
sense of that term. That il to say, the
stables are not furnished with spring
beds for the horses ssd other stock, and
it Ia not the rule to whitewash all the
ploughs and hoes, and pots and pans,
and grass plots and such articles once
every week or 10, and the work hands
are not drilled In Upton's tactics and all
that sort of thing. 1t il just neat,
clean, we'll ordered common sense, 100.
acre South Carolina farm, every acre OF
which is worth as much az corner lot
In city, because brains are employed in
it's cultivation and management, aud it is
made 10 produce all it cen of Whatever
it will produce, to the best advantage in
its season.
1t would be too long story to describe
here tho farm and its varied crops, and
its hot beds and flower gardens and
other interesting features and attractions.
We do not propose to try to describe it
in any part. We have but two or three
objects in view in mentioning it. One of
these objects is to disabuse the minds Of
people at distance of the idea that all
farming in this part of tho country is
crude and Improbable. Another object
is to impress two important lessons on
the minds of farmers generally in South
Carolina who have not learned them
alrsady. The first of these lessons re.
lates to drainage. The land on the
"Bayview" place is worth several hun.
dred dollars an acre. But for the net
work of sub.soil drains in it, it would not
be worth more than five or ten dollars an
acre at the most. So that good drainage
pays. The drains on the place, it may be
added, are made Of rough pine planks,
and experience proves that they are good
for perhaps an hundred years. service.
Another lesson relates 10 hay.makipg.
The Meys and Courier has appealed to
every farmer in the State to make enough
hay for his farm use, and to sell. This
is the plan pursued on "Bayview" farm,
except that the hay is not sold; there is
use on the farm for all that is made.
And this brings us to the next and last
lesson. There is an Unsuitable demand
on the farm always for fertilizers, more
fertilizers, and even still more fertilizers.
1t is poor economy to starve work.horse
or a milch COW. 1t is aheer folly to
starve land and expect to get paying
crops out of it. It will starve its owners
first. The 6ne farms around Charleston
arc not starved; they are given as much
food as they can digest.
To help to supply this demand at
"Bayview" plan is employed that will
strike most Southern farmers no doubt as
new. There ia considerable number of
hogs OF tino breed penned, two or three
in each pen, in corner of the farm.
They are fed literally, and their pens
are bedded deep'- hay and peavinas for
the sole purpose Of making manure. The
hoga are not bred for pork and bacon.
They pay for all they eat and all the
care ticking, and more besides, by the
fertilizing elements obtained from their
pens, The row of pens is simply an
opsn air fertilizer factory, of the cheap
eat character. The logs are more yalua
BILE alive than dsad, but if killed would
give the price of every pound as clear
profit. Yet there are farmers in South
Carolina who buy all their bacon aud
pork and hama and lard from beyond the
MiGnis.ippi River, and most of those who
have few hogs on their farms regard
the pens rs an unqualified nuisance
We have said enough, perhaps, to set
some Of our old fogy agricultural friends
to thinking, and that, we are sure, is
what they most need. There is nothing
like FRAMEWORK for making farming pay.
-News and Courier.
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