The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-11-21
Good Advice.

Farmers or Anderson, ho A word with
you. Providence has given you 81 much
cotton that you can scarcely get it all
gathered. And, 10 winter is here and
the fields are still white unto the harvest.
You wish it would stop opening, because
the price is so low. You remember that
the children of Israel kept on plaguing
Moses and God about mest, until He
poured down so much of it that they were
gorged and glutted with it till they were
made sick.
Gentlemen, haven't you made mis-
take in forcing your honorable husban-
dry out of its track to make cotton leav-
ing other products to tske care of them
selves? think your first mistake was
wishing to make money by handfuls
instead of getting rich SLOWLY but surely.
For this is the way that God gives riches,
as we are able to bear 1t and use it. But
the next big mistake you made was in
supposing the merchants, railroads, the
syndicates and big plants of the country
had the inside track of you, and you re-
solved to have hand with them in their
speculations. Yet, gentlemen, you have
the inside track of them and of the world,
if you knew it. They are fastening to
be rich and 80 "rnn into temptation and
a SNARE" You hold the foundation of all
business, and if you will have a little
patience, and work your profession
wisely, you will find that you have the
most profitable as we'll as the most hon
orable of all vocations. Instead Of keep
ing yourselves and your families in a
turmoil al the year to make cotton to
buy bread and fish and the fruits of your
own soil, you ought to produce your own
corn, and oats and hay and pinders; to
rear your own COWS and calves and hOr-
ses and pigs. You ought to make open
pastures of Grab and Timothy and clover,
instead of those black forests with all the
leaves nipped up to the big limbs by poor
believing cattle. Make open pastures
that will support and fatten your stock.
Let us be no longer like Mexican and
South American and Costa Rican ranches
with great herds and no milk. Gods
original food for the human family is
tnilk, beginning with it in infancy. 1t
makes strong, healthy, m SECULAR,
robust race to have plenty OF milk and
butter. When Caesar invaded the origi-
nal Germans he found strong and
powerful race Of men and women, sub
sisting chiefly on milk. And to-day the
Germans and Dutch, closely packed as
they are on small farms of few acres,
are supplying London. Lisbon. Pernam-
buco in South America, and other places
with butter largely, where thousands of
cattle roam, and the people are iiii77fiEg on
ai-,~hresd' Vi anaa po,T beef. Let us cut
down the acreage of cotton In this coun-
try from twenty acres to ten, and make
pastures for pigs and poultry. cows,
calves and colts. What this country
needs now is pasture; your old lands re-
covered 6y cloter as it is done in Tennes-
see, instead Of constantly cutting down
syour forest and throwing away to the
RABBITS your old lands.
Gentlemen, you are the most indepen-
dent and resourceful men in the world.
The forests and timbers and rocks and
springs of pure water are yours, and The
soil you tread that is fructiferous of all
edibles and bath aluminium to build you
silver rou-es after few years Is yours.
The only difficulty is you have too much
of 1t and waste your strength and wis
dom, too, scratching great surface.
,ry intensive rather than ertenStUe farm
ing. Pitch small acreage, pulYerize
we'll, cultivate we'll. 1t will please you.
it will pay you. A neat, small we'll titled
tarm with Its shining lnxuriance, pleases,
contents, encourages, pays. l have
known people who never took any inter-
.st in their garden till they began 70
clean the walks and make them straight
a. little taste got up interest, ind dustry
and success. Such farm will save you
q little time from constant tug aud rush
To overtake neglected parts, prepare you
for rainy seasons, and deep pcultureagainst
dry seasons and you will have little
lime to read something s0orth reading and
To deal with your soul. Gentlemen, don't
continually run into cities and towns to
see sights, expositions, entertainments
and p6ntomim-s Of half-dressed men and
women and burlesques on christian civ.
ilization. It demoralizes your purse and
your noble profession, and makes waste
plantations.
The present drift of population towards
depots, towns and cities, will before long
take reaction like all revolution waves.
back to the country and to agriculture
and your profession will have great
boom, e the craze Of the generation does
not run the world on the rocks of anar-
chy sooner than that.
And let us not worry about tariffs and
great Offices and demcnetization. Trade
follows natural law and will take care OF
ITSELF The more you interfere with 1t,
the more tangled it becomes. Congress
has been sitting twelve month on 1t and
acoomplishes nothing. You cannot man
age it. Politics will ruin your business
and with it the whole country. Don't
worry over what God has taken in hand
and what you cannot manage. Your
business is the best in the world for
plenty, contentment, independence, NOR
ality and happiness. Don't be afraid to
plant small acreage, small, gentlemen;
Save your money for year or two and
resolve not to buy every pretty thing. :.
Take care of leins on the crop before it
ia made. You tempt God in selling what
He has not yet sent down from heaven.
Take care of debt. Pay as you go. 1t is
the Philosophers stone. Except when
you must go in debt to get foothold and
start, pay. cash for everything. This
comes down from heaven-"Owe no man
anythipgp And don't worry. The
greatest and best One that ever spoke to
us said: "Take no thought" That is,
don't worry out your life about matters
you cannot control.
AN OLD FARMER.