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

Butler Lodge, Ala., Sept. s, 1862.
Farming ThIt Pays.
We wonder how many Of the thou
sands of people who come into and go
out of Charleston 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
clumps Of trees and white houses which
apparently stand in the marshes on
either hand marx the rites Of uome Of the
very finest farms on the continentf
Whether the fact is known to many or
not, 1t is fact all the same. The situa-
tions as 1t appears from the deck of a
steamer is very deceptive. A closer ap-
proach, or visit outright, would dis
cover that the marsh ends short of where
the clrmps Of trees begin, and that the
slightly elevated ground Is occupied in
fact by widely extended vegetable gar
denu in the highest possible state Of cul.
tivatlon.
Probably farmer from the interior,
looking over the low grounds, would de-
cline to accept the whole Landscape as q
free gift. If hs went to buy some of it,
however, be would leasn that he would
have to sell from fifty to hundred acres
of his best river bottom land in the up
country to raise the money to buy one
acre of tho "marsh," and would have to
hunt for seller at that rate.
One of the bsst of ths1e seaaide farms,
as IL well known hereabouss, is ebay.
viou," the property of Dir. John Boyd
lies on the edge of Christ Church Parish,
between the mouth of Sh0m Creek and
Cooper River, and il under the superin-
tendence of Mons. L. Pudigon. ItiS not
model fsrm," perhaps. in tho accepted
ssr,e of that term. That il to say, the
stables are not furnished With spring
bsds for the horses asd othsr atock, and
it Ia not the rule to whitewash all the
ploughs and hoes, and pots and pans,
and grau plots and such articles once
every week or 30, and the work hands
are not drilled In Upton's tsctios and all
that sort Of thing. 1t is just neat,
clean, we'll ordered common sense, 100.
acre South Carolina farm, every acre Of
which is worth as much ~ corner lot
in a city, because brains are employed in
it's cultivation aud management, aud it is
made 10 produce all it can Of whatever
it will produce, to the best advantage in
its season.
1t would be too long story to describe
here the 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 thi. part of tho country is
crude and Improbable. Another object
il to impress two important lessons on
the minds of farmers generally in South
Carolina who have not learned them
already, Tho frs. 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 ,ub.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 psnks,
and experience proves that they are good
for perhaps An hundred years service.
Another lesson relates to hay. making.
The Mews 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 10 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 milch COW. 1t is sheer folly to
starve land and expect to get paying
crops out of it. 1t will sssrve It's owners
hrst. The fne farms around Charleston
are not starved; they are given as much
food as they can digeat.
To help to supply this demand at
"Bayview" plan is employed that will
strike most Southern farmers no doubt as
new. There is considerable number OF
hogs of hno breed pennsd, two or three
in each pen, in corner OF the farm.
They arc fed literally, and their pens
are bedded deep in hay and reaVinss for
the sole purpose Of making manure. The
hog, are not bred for pork and bacon.
They pay fer all thry eat and all the
care tsking, snd more besides, by the
fertilizing elements obtained from their
pens, The row of pens is amply an
opsn air fertilizer factory, of the cheap
est character. The hogs are more yalua
BILE alive than dead, 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 sud lard from beycn1 the
Mi.sisGippi River, and most of those who
have few hogs on their farGns regard
the pens as en- unqualified nuisance
We have said enough, perhaps. to Get
some of our old fogy agricultural friends
to thinking, and that, re are sure, i,
what they most need. There is nothing
like brain-work for making farming pay
-New, and Courier.
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