The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-06-27
SARGE PLUNKETT.
The Old Man Continues tho Observations
OF Last Weeks Trip.
Atlanta Constitution.

atlanta Constitution,
OF course We could not tell Of all
our observations and the incidents of
last weeks travelling round in one
letter.
Two things VIC noticed on the farm
of John Keller, the Switzerlander, so
uncommon as we'll as profitable that
We would not fail to mention it.
When this Swiss gentleman first set
tied where he is he was pretty bad off
in the matter of language and, to
state the truth, he could cuss me now
and would never know it. This in
ability to converse with his ncighbors
and passers by caused much wonder
ing as to what was his reasons for
planting his fruit trees in one long
row clear around his farm instead of
in the regular orchard style common
in Georgia. After the whole farm had
been encircled in one continuous row
of fruit trees, then he began running
straight lines of trees across the farm
both ways, the distances between
rows making divisions of about fifty
acre fields. At last, when the trees
had taken root and Keller began
stretching wires around it occurred to
the active minds of Georgia crackers
that the Switzerlander had sense and
that was the best plan for providing
posts that was ever seen in Georgia.
So it is; this man had given a lesson
which should profit US before he could
speak our language. In the matter of
fencing expect that this farm of 400
acres is the best provided of any in
the State. Mr.. Keller says that if he
had hedges he would cut them away
and plant the fruit trees. He has not
his whole place wired as yet, but the
trees are growing and the most of them
bearing, to answer for posts aud the
stretching of wire as he needs the
fence is small matter. This man
has been shrewd enough to make other
people pay for his wire and for the
stretching. By renting pasturage is
the way he has done this. There are
times when he has as many as two or
three hundred head of cattle and
horses upon his place at a small
charge for keeping them. The manure
alone would pay him, as he had it ar
ranged to pen them at night. In
passing over this pasturage ground
Brown and I saw what We had never
seen before, nor even heard of-a flock
Of goats as milk producers. Mr..
Keller has fine flock of Mamie goats
as well trained to milking as any herd
of milk COWS you could find. He says
that raising few goats on every farm
could be pro6tably followed and that
it is just as easy to have milk produc-
ers as not to have. Me and Brown
did not know that goats milk was so
valuable as this man assures us it is.
He says that one pint of goats milk
is as rich for butter as a gallon OF the
best Jersey milk. He milks some
three pints a day from many Of his
Nannies and has select line of Gus
toners who pay much more for this
cream and butter. So it is. We live
and learn. I guess there are many
other things in the world that me and
Brown know nothing of, but we are
going to pass around among the for
eigners of this stripe more than we
ever did before and find out what we
can and tell it to the world. There is
plenty Of room and a warm welcome
for such men as this little Switzer-
lander in the South, and it is to be
hoped that the young generation will
be encouraged and profted by watch
ing their farm management, as they
may be charmed by contact socially
If their tongues are little tangled
in talking United States.
Brown and 1 have studied and stud
led to find way to say something tho
very incest about the ladies who treat
us so we'll on these trips of ours. 1t
is hard to say anything Of nice dinners
that would not be repeating. Mrs.
White, the good wife of the Postmas..
ter at Panthersville, gave us a red
ham gravy the day we dined with her,
and this very gravy has been .he keep
ing of us from getting off something
nice about her clever treatment and
splendid meal. Brown does the poet
ical work for this firm, and he declares
that nothing but thoughts of that
gravy trotted through his brain when
ever he called up the muses.. Gravy,
gravy, gravy! Red IVY from Goor-
gia raised meat, cured in the old-time
way, is subject that Brown cannot
handle, nor can he collect the great
variety of other things that were upon
the table into pretty poetical bou-
quet, because the red gravy will not
down, but every time his thoughts
confound-Brown is monomanlac on
red gravy. But there is something in
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. White bet
ter than their table. So pretty does
it seem to me for a Georgia boy and a
Georgia girl to settle down and build
up such home as this couple are
building. Both of them were raised
in this neighborhood. They played
t0GeCner III young cH!IuuOou, meuU w
the same schools, the same Churches,
were sweathearts as young folks and
are now happy with bright family a
growing upon the same old hills.
What could be nicer and where could
you improve upon their example ?
Brown takes delight in Setting
back" as he calls it, one of these cx-
ira smart fellows that VIC often meet
in travelling We were eating a lunch
under the trees by spring near East
Lake the other day, and Brown found
his opportunity. AS VIC rested for
our horse to eat, a smart crowd came
to the spring where We were. There
was one of these extra smart fellows
in the crowd. He knew heap more
about the old fields and hills and
woods than 1 did soon saw that,
and kept quiet. He told story after
story about some of his regiments 8
exploits when he was with Sherman
II, bo1o,,,od m Mocce.