The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1914-02-13
SANTUC

Santuc, Feb. 9.-What! january
gone already? 1t seems so quickly
that we had hardly got a grip upon
1T, but /, myself have done a goodly
amount of work, the best is, getting
in some oats where 1 was unable te
get them in last fall (the way all
good farmers ought to do.) We are
sometimes told that it>does not paw
to sow eats after November Is, but
according to some experience l have
been able to pick up some of the best
oats l ever saw a mule bite on, was
raised from sowing in the last week
of January.
There are various ways to practice
cruelty to animals. 1 saw two teams
of mules, hitched to wagons, pass
through here few mornings ago.
They came in sight trotting pretty
rapidly, and they went out of sight
trotting and their nostrils were ex-
panded until they stood out almost as
big as mans fist. Now some people
seem to think it is business to run
mules almost to death, and seem
pleased if one comments, "He Is
rough They seem to be trying for
the praise, "He is a mover" Thew
certainly move the mules on the road
but you might fail to see where there
has been so much moving in the fields.
Generally the mules are so near run
down when they set to the fields, they
are scarcely able to do much work. I
think some men ought to be made to
run their work sometimes.
L heard a farmer say a few days
ago. that he had worked hard, took
money out of his pocket to paw for
work, and built up his land to high
state Of cultivation by rotation and
other ways-and all of it is about i'm
possible to hire hands for stated
wages, and he is forced to hire "crop-
-pers" and they are making big crops,
getting the benefit of his work, his
money expended, his husbandry of
the farm, and it is not costing then,
one cent extra for making their big
crops. They have good thing. And
now it is Just like that. The negro
cropper getting half (nearly all, if
not quite alD of the white man,s
yfr' gferk' Nought is a nought, and
figger Is 1igger, none for the white
man, all for the nigger. And it is
getting now'where man cannot get
any extra work done without paying
a big price, and through the winter
months furnish horde of idle wom-
en- with fire wood, easily worth two
dollars cord and they would not do
a lick of farm work for you before
March l, not even to half finish scat
ering cotton, unless there is to be
made "big money!" only CAD around
from place to place, or as I said sit
In the chimney corner and expect you
to furnish trees for wood and teams
to haul it. But quite a number of
times the men are at work, but they
are then inclined to charge you 75c
or $1.OO day for work done for you.
They are generally blind to all the
favors, may l say, that the white
men are doing for them in season and
out of season. Endeavor to do as lit
tie for you as possible but strive to
get as much from you for the little
done. Now what is to be done. The
farmers need concert of action, I
know they, the farmers, do not wish
to practice oppression-they are al
ready far too liberal already, in so
far as furnishing everything but the
actual labor of working a crop and
eiSh giving Hall VI IL. NOW CnaC is
big pay, but concert of action in COM
pelling cropper to do as much in
building up the land that he works,
as you do, if he is going to get half
OF what is made. saw a scheme that
is not original with me to be honest,
but when a man goes to the public
works, he will likely come back some
time and ask you to pay him similar
to the pay of those jobs-tell him to
take his family with him if he rents
house from you, he can keep his
family in your house in idleness and
you are really giving them a stick to
crack your head with, and it is better
to make all public works men take
their families with them or they stay
with the families. 1t is no interest t.
farmer or the consuming public for
the farmer to furnish houses for wo-
men and children and cannot hire the
labor OF the men. Hey Denver.