Year: 1869

From the New Orleans Picayune.l


Our planters should not be satisfied


with the experiments they made Isst
year, OF the prscticability of their so
adjusting their crops as to make their
receipts from cotton and sugar clear
gain.


The money they have made this yssr
from their crops, has not arisen alto
gether from their abundance, but from
the fact that ths raising OF all the corn
they need, and much more than ever be-
fore of most other things which they for
merry raised, has enabled them to retain
the proceeds Of their money getting
crops, either FOR the paying OF debts or
the improvement OF their farms.


Our planters will see from this how
easy il is for the South, and for each ciii-
zen who is engaged in agriculture espe-
cially, to become independent; and the
more sedulously they strive to make
everything which ia q necessity to them
at home, the more secure they will, in
all respects, be.


And to maks this the more perfect,
they must not Ooufae themselves 80
much to corn, either as an article Of food
or OF product. This il easy to raise, and
the culture OF 1t so understood that they
are prone to c0Dfins themselves to it /;
but wheat, rye, barley, oats ard rics are
grains equally as productive, and, in
their respective places, more useful as
food. By proper alienation with corn,
cotton and other crops, they can be made
with hlanuFes to lmpr0Ye the land of the
farmer, while they will, by coming in at
a different period of the season, and de-
pending on different conditions for their
development, more surely assures him 8
certainty of food for himssIf and his de-
pendants.


This will apply with much greater
force and reasOn to root crops, which are
far more productive than the grains, and
far more profitable when used at home
for food, and to corn, peas and other
leguminous crops which seem both to
fattsn animals and enrich the land.


BY raising an abundance of these, the
farmer can have his meat. and milk,
and butter in the greatest abundance,
and spare NOM them s suit ciency to ma
tsrialiy meet his outlay for other things.


II the planter will thus make his farm
the well supplied home of himself and
family, with his stock kept around him
within protective distance, all fat and
well sheltered the year round, he can at
the same time put a large area Of ground
in cotton or sugar, and hardly miss the
labor be will thus employ in other things,
which are planted and gathered at other
times, or, II be should ahridge the
amount OF such crop, he can have its en-
tire proceeds clear Of all eua barrassna ant,
fact which Of itself will make him feel
richer with a dollar, thus securely his
own, than with a thousand which he
must pag out for food CT clothing which
he must buy.


We are urgent, therefore, upon our
planters to not only continue to raise
their provisions, as they did more than
ever this last year, but to improve upon
that in this, giving more diversity to
their cultivation, and to aim especially
at mSkiag their stock, wnethgr intended
for food or work, the happy objects OF
their care.


Nor need they eonhne their raising Of
stock TO these uses. We can lead Ken
lucky In raising animals for sale We
have produced as good racing horses,
and when the effort has been made. as
good animals fGr the Ioad or dEaft as are
TO be found snywhere. This can be made
as true OF our mich and beef cattle.
whenever the Jrt is made, and or our
sheep and hogs also.


Aud there is this advantage In a stOek
growing country, that there is not the
same likelihood of wearing out the
land u as there is 10 e grain or cotton
producing region, where the former and
the seed OF the latter are removed for
sale.


We would, therefore, now, In the be-
ginning OF the year, urge our planters
and farmers to plant first for food for
selves and stock, and TO make the latter
a speciality, and then to provide for their
cotton and sugar