The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-02
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The entire expense amted TO - per ton i9e On
Netting ........... .................... sos %
Which IS above go per aero. In isna
from L. acres ! saved 80 ton, which
sold 90 sl2.50 on the place-gross
Cost $3.50 per ton....................... i2s5O
or about S22 50 per acre. This year
have only moved IL once, obtaining about
ten tons, and will probably obtain eight
tons at the next moving. The meadow
will be thoroughly plowed next spring,
and will give much better results next
year. | have always retained for my
own use from four to six tons, which are
not EN- braced in the above l am conf
dent that on our rich alluvial soil Ber-
muda can be made TO yield four tons per
acre, and when there is market at fair
prices nothing will pay better. Very lit
tie attention has been given to saving hay
here until last year and the present. Now
there are several large hay meadows in
this neighborhood, and vast quantities
of hay are being saved. Let US hope the
venture will be profitable and encourage
others. When farmer establishes a per
manent meadow, it is just as natural as
can be that his next move will be to
raise stock-and so it is proving here
A few years ago there was not
a Jersey COW in Issaquena; to-day there
are quite number. Things are coming
around all right. We are poor but proud
and our pride has been so much mortified
| by the dictatorial manner of merchants
that we are tired of it and propose to
| even up things little, and we will do it
| before many months roll by We are not
! fools. We can see where we are being
swindled by all of those who handle our
| cotton, but we were slaves to debt. We
know very well that Z cents is no price
for cotton, with a market likely to be
minus enough to supply the demand, and
we know that the crop of 1898 will go up,
| up, up, just as soon as il is out of our
| hands and credited on our accounts at Z
| cents. Watch it and see. Well, there is
a way out of all this, and that is to get
| nothing on credit. If you can't do so
now, resolve to get into condition to do so
/ in 1894, and do it. We get little inferior
meat and pay IL Il cents for it, when we
can raise it for cents. We pay 81. 40 per
! barrel for meal. when we can grow the
| corn to make it for % cents, and
| everything else at the same or
| greater rates Its a shame to call
i ourselves farmers, when actually we are
! more consumers than farmers. l can
move into a neighborhood of cotton
crGnks and get rich by selling to them
! al d less price Gne very afIlCleS Jney are
purchasing in St. Louis Well, it does
take considerable energy and close appli-
cation and a thorough knowledge of the
markets to succeed with other crops; and
| just there is the stumbling block. In this
section the planter does not work He
! scarcely superintends those who are sup
posed to be at work in his field. He is
sues rations and keeps the accounts with
his negro tenants. Perhaps he is at the
house in. the shade, and l know his ten
| ants are under the shade trees. You see
l understand it. I've been there, and
paid for my knowledge; and l am yet
paying for it, by hard work, to secure
what 1 missed or lost while l was there
I got tired Of it, and | am sailing with my
| back to those times, and if | fail to reach
the other shore, I shall never turn back !;
and now you will pardon me for signing
! myself SCoRCHED