The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-09-14

cost OF production in So..:h Carolina,
although you were doing your best to
stimulate it with some 100000 tons of
commercial fertilizer. The Missis-
sippi valley, Louisiana and Texas,
where fertilizers sre yet little needed
on account Of the great fertility Of the
soil, were still making little money
on cotton, and could have gone on
after South Carolina had been com
PEELED to drop cut Of the race il the
price had not changed. Agricultur-
asts may say what they please, South
Carolina cannot turn her attention to
something else and stop raising cotton
without sinking lower than New Epg-
land. Her cotton mills already need
three-fourths as much cotton as the
State raises, and will soon need twice
as much; the oil mills of the State
already need twice as much cotton
seed as are raised here; her fertilizer
factories need nothing so much as a
cheap supply'of ammoniates which the
seed furnish;- her people understand
cotton culture thoroughly and under
stand no other great crop except rice,
which is suited only to portion of
the State.
Had cotton remained low and no
new conditions been introduced, the
growth Of cotton would have fallen off
in the State, the cotton mills, oil mills
and fertilizer factories would have
made less money and thousands of
farmers would have left the State.
Even then your farmers were despair
ing of giving their boys chance Of
making living on the farm, and we're
sending them to Clemson Agricultural
College to learn mechanical and cleo
trioal engineering, and Senator Till
man was finding them positions with
the government outside the State be-
cause there was no place for them in
the State.
saw one Of the graduates of those
days recently home for visit, and
sure enough he brought a wife with
him: Another family lost to the State
and nobody to blame but conditions in
South Carolina at that time. s..
Many of the farmers daughters
were going to the cotton mills and
gradually drawing father, mother and
little brothers and sisters into the
same work away from the farm. South
Carolina was fast approaching New
England conditions at that time. But
most significant to my mind of South
Carolina's decline agriculturally was
the dscrease year by year in the mum
Der Of cattle raised IN the State, for
everywhere in civilized countries sue.
cessful agriculture is accompanied by
successful cattle raising. In the good
old times before the war South Caro-
lima had; in 1850, by the census re.
port, ~, ,686 head Of cattle. In 1900
she had only 255, ,164.
I cannot call to mind any State in
the union or any country on the globe
that did not at least begin to go to the
dogs as soon as its cattle or sheep in.
dustry started on o steady decline.
The number of States and countries
that have risen to wealth, influence
and importance by developing their
live stock industries is legion.
So little understood and yet. SO i'm.
importantis this matter OF cattle rails.
ing in South Carolina, 30 intimate il
its connection with success in agrioul
,ture las every text book on che sub.
ject shows) that if I were an editor in
South Carolina I would initiate The
example Of Roman orator who had a
purpose to. accomplish and eccomnlish.
ed it, and would close every one Of my
speeches, 7 mean editorials, with
South Carolina Must Have Cattle y
The next best thing for South Caro-
lima TO the immigratio On Of substantisl
men, who will psy for their keep, il
the immigration OF raising Of substan..
tial cattle that will pay for their keep
Indiana, not much bigger than South
Carolina, has . million and . quasse,
Of them, and is growing rich from
them. Iowa has over 1900, 900. "A
man who went up to one of these
States where they combine 6attle rails.
ing with agriculture; and do it right,
came back and said the farmers there
live as much better than our farmers
do chan We live better than The ne.
groes. / shsll stop right here and lei
this one thought soak in till mp. neg.
letter. Farmers who want to live