Thank you for visiting SNEWPapers!
Sign up free
Story
October 11, 1839
Cheraw Gazette And Pee Dee Farmer
Cheraw, Chesterfield County, South Carolina
What is this article about?
Extract from a Virginia correspondent in the Farmer's Register discusses prosperity from marling in the south-west, where farmers earn thousands from cotton but return to borrow from marl suppliers, and provides advice on producing and applying manure to offset farming costs.
Clipping
OCR Quality
95%
Excellent
Full Text
South Western Prosperity, -- Marling
STABLE MANURE. -- We extract the following sentences from a Virginia correspondent of the Farmer's Register.
All who have land and can marl, can make a superabundance here, and although they make in the south-west 10, 15, 30, 40 and 50 thousand dollars annually, every tinker of them returns here every fall, and after getting through with his bragging tables -- he takes a man of marl by the hand, and says, "Old fellow! or old friend! walk aside with me, I have thirty thousand dollars worth of cotton: half I have sent on to Mobile, the other half I ordered should be sent on as soon as ginned. and, can you let me have $1000 or $500?" This has not a good look.
The same correspondent of the Register says:
Manure. -- Every farmer may, with ease, raise as much and even more manure at a very moderate price, than it costs him to feed his horses, fatten his hogs, beeves and sheep, &c. I say the manure, if judiciously made, and husbanded, and applied, will more than pay him for all costs in feeding and fattening. Fallow the land and then carry out and spread the manure.
STABLE MANURE. -- We extract the following sentences from a Virginia correspondent of the Farmer's Register.
All who have land and can marl, can make a superabundance here, and although they make in the south-west 10, 15, 30, 40 and 50 thousand dollars annually, every tinker of them returns here every fall, and after getting through with his bragging tables -- he takes a man of marl by the hand, and says, "Old fellow! or old friend! walk aside with me, I have thirty thousand dollars worth of cotton: half I have sent on to Mobile, the other half I ordered should be sent on as soon as ginned. and, can you let me have $1000 or $500?" This has not a good look.
The same correspondent of the Register says:
Manure. -- Every farmer may, with ease, raise as much and even more manure at a very moderate price, than it costs him to feed his horses, fatten his hogs, beeves and sheep, &c. I say the manure, if judiciously made, and husbanded, and applied, will more than pay him for all costs in feeding and fattening. Fallow the land and then carry out and spread the manure.
What sub-type of article is it?
Curiosity
Historical Event
What themes does it cover?
Triumph
Moral Virtue
What keywords are associated?
Marling
Stable Manure
South West Prosperity
Virginia Correspondent
Cotton Farming
Borrowing Habits
Where did it happen?
South West, Virginia, Mobile
Story Details
Location
South West, Virginia, Mobile
Story Details
Farmers in the south-west prosper from marling and cotton, earning 10 to 50 thousand dollars annually, yet return to borrow from marl suppliers despite bragging; advice given on producing manure from livestock to more than cover feeding costs, by judiciously making, husbanding, applying it after fallowing land.