The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-04-10
cent. More likely 129.
FLORENCE.
FLORENCE. April l.

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correspondent would announce that
the farmers of this county have decld-
ed to begin new era SO far as plant
ing cotton is concerned. They have at
last awoke to the fact that cotton plant
will have to be laid aside to greateN-
tent and the grain crop given more at
tention. The fact of raising cotton at
cost of I to 4 cents and selling it at
about the same figurs will cause many
who have been planting heavy crops
to reduce all the way from 80 to 50
per cent.
GEORGETOWN.
GEORGETOWN, April 1.-The acreage
which will probably be planted in cot
ton in this season will be about the
same as last year The total acreage
usually planed is so small thatit isnot
carefully estimated by anyone With
out facts based upon actual figures
your correspondent would estimate the
acreage at 10 per cent. less.
GREESvILLE.
GREENvILLE, April IA careful
| INQUIRY of the best informed farmers
in this county in regard to the acreage
of cotton to be planted this year COM
pared with the planting Of last year
does not lead toa definite conclusion.
All farmers are behind with their
ploughing, and even if they were up to
date with their work still it is an open
question. 1t would be fair estimate
to say that the reduction OF the cotton
acreage will not be greater than 10per
cent in this county. 1t is probable that
the increase Of other crops, corn, pota-
toes. oats and tobacco, will llabout equal
the redction in the cotton planting.
HAMPTON.
BRUNsoN, April lit is rather early
to make an estimate. The ground has
been so soaked all the spring that the
farmers have not yet gotten their corn
planted, and have not as yet started
on their cotton. After as careful IN
quiry as possible and comparison Of
estimates it would be safe to say that
reduction of from one-third to one
half in acreage of cotton in Hampton
county will be made this year.
HORRY.
CONWAY. April lowing to the
cold and heavy rains farming opera
tons in this county have been much
retarded. There will be an increased
acreage in Horny county this year.
People are increasing lands and I'M
proving their farms. The crops will
be more diversified. The cotton acre
age will be about the same as former
", but owing to the increased acreage
on other crops the comparative acre
age will be less.
KERSEAw.
CAMDEN, April 1.-The reduction in
the cotton acreage in kershaw county
this year will be very slight. The
reduction in acreage as compared with
last year will not exceed 10 per cent.
In a few instances there will be de-
ci6ed reduction in the acreage, but in
other cases there will be an increase.
One planter hopes that his neighbor
will cultivate less cotton, while he will
risk little more, and so when the
crop is all in the acreage will be near
ly as large as last year. Now, this
statement applies to the acreage. A
prominent merchant and farmer said
that he believed that the reduction IN
commercial fertilizers would be fully
so per cent, while he scarcely thought
that there would be more than 5 per
cenl. reduction in acreage. Taking the
reduction in acreage and the reduction
of commercial fertilizers together,
reduction of 20 per cent. in the pro-
duction of cotton may be counted On
this year as compared with last year.
There will be more corn, peas, pota-
toes, etc., planted this year than last,
and decidedly more hogs raised.
LANCASTER.
LANCASTER, April 1.-The acreage
to be cultivated in cotton this year will
be about one-ffth less than it was last
year up in an average. Some will
plant the same, few none at all and
some one-half less, but the average, as
we'll as can be ascertained from talks
with farmers, will be about one't fifth
less.
LAURENs.
LAURENs. March 2S.-Your cores
pondent here has made inquiry Of
various planters and farmers during
the last ten days coming from differ
enent sections of the county touching
the matter of cotton acreage for the
current year compared to the acreage
for 1894. There are so many condl-
tions entering into the estimate that it
is not an easy problem to resolve eX-
cept approximately. The county is
composed very largely of small farm
ers, who may be set down employing
four or FIVE horses and mules and less.
There are probably fewer large scale
farmers, employing from fifteen to
thirty plough animals, than in sur
rounding counties, Again, it IS the
rule among the larger farmers to plant
largely of cereals, and cattle and hogs
to the extent of sustaining the family
are raised and the animals kept and
fattened.
LEXINGTON.
BATEsBURG. April 1.-The very low
price of cotton has had a tendency to
make farmers in this section go
slow" There are various opinions to
the acreage that will be planted.
Some say It will be reduced 33 per cent
and others say 25 percen From what
several prominent planters state it
would be safe to say that the reduction
will be about % per cent. The e1ces-
sive cold in January and February
killed all the oats, and it will be a
great temptation to plant the barren
oat fields in cotton. The corn crop
will be much larger this year than any
previous years.
MARLBORO.
BESNETTsvILLE, April lit is diff
fcult to form anything like a correct
estimate of what the reduction in the
cotton acreage in this county will be.