Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-11-29

was pointed out TO us. There is
nothing there but the name al
though it is one of the Oldest places
in the state.
We saw but little to interest us
from Greensboro, N. G. to Char
louisville, Va. The lands are mostly
all poor, the greater portion of it in
scrub woods or scrub old field pine
and cedars. None of the original
forest is big enough to make de-
cent back stick of wood and none
of the old field pine large enough
to make two rails And hills, hills,
hills, all covered with brush or
scrub trees with now and then
patches of corn or tobacco to break
the monotony. One sees compare
lively few decent cottages. The old
time colonial mansions that ence
dotted these barren hills have all
..isappeared. 1t may be that some
disappeared through misfortunes of
war, and others through misfortunes
of insurance companies, both are
alike dangerous and destructive.
Everywhere you look little log cab
ins and higher log tobacco barns
greet your eyes, all daubed with
mud. The tobacco barns have q
furnace under them and the dwell
ing, chimney at one end, one
door and one window. Why the
Good Hope people had better houses
before Columbus discovered Ameri-
ca. II Won have any essecisl ilesiEsi
to see sule enough" poor coun-
try look around Reidsville, N. c.,
or Danville, Va. We ventured to
inquire how all those poor people
live up here. Why said one, better
than you think for. % They live on
cabbage in the summer and rabbits
in the winter" This whole country
abeunds in rabbits, squirrels and
'possums. Everybody told us you
just get back off from the railroad
and you will see some good lands
and fine farming" The engineer
who laid off this section of the
Southern must have been an econo-
mist and didn't want to despoil any
land fit for cultivation with road
bed. If his purpose was such he
succeeded. Pretty well all the towns
of any importance along the road
buysand manufacture large quantities
of tobacco. There are some large
warehouses in Danville.
Lynchburg
We were told is fine tobacco
section though it looked not muci
different from other sections passed
over. This section is reputed to
grow better quality of tobacco
and it is air cured or permitted to
cure without the artificial heat as is
applied through a furnace in the
tobacco barn in other places. In
Virgins you ask a farmer now
many acres one may cultivate in
tobacco or corn he tells you he
doesn't know. They measure farms
by hills and corn by barrels. For
instance one man told us o good
man might cultivate 10000 hills in
corn; 0,000 hills in tobacco and
SOW 10 bushels of wheat and 10
bushels of oats, but he would have
to have some day help" The to-
bacco would yield from five to ten
thousand pounds and if of good
quality would sell for $4,000 to
$4,000 per thousand. Most of the
corn we saw looked as if it might
make from ten to forty bushels.
These people would express it from
two to eight barrels. They use some
guano, 200 to 400 pounds per acre.
Land rents for the fourth. One old
farmer boarded our train near Dan
vile and gave us the history of an
ia acre farm which he had
brought to high state of cultiva-
tion with clover and cow manure.
He said he would rent his other
place for the fourth or would take
$1,000 per acre on five years time
at 4 per cent, but said he u have
got to git the fifth for that place l
live upon." One may look from .
car window and see that there must
be lot of poor people and 3 lot Of
most ignorant people right under