Show SOUTHERN FARMING Noting the decline In population of some of the farming counties oC New I York and Pennsylvania the Charleston News and Courier invites Northern farmers to come to South Carolina in I I these words I Let them know that there arc no cheaper I I or moro productive lands in tho country than there are here that they can buy t ten or twenty ncrca for the price of ono acre llioy would have to soil that they ean farm all the year round with their j choices of a hundred tried crops and a hundred moro In which they would hnvo llulf or 110 competition Including nearly nil the largo and small fruits In BO great demand in all tho markets III tho country that they can grow wheat and corn and oats and hay and so on as well ua in tho I North Unit they can raise all kinds of stock with the minimum of care and expense I ex-pense and a market awaits all they can raise that tho wholo State Is an open I market for all tho butter and cheese and I poultry they can produce supply them with facts and figures showing what enterprising en-terprising farmers have dono and are doing do-ing every year for themselves In all parts of the Stale In the cultivation of tobacco the cereals cane frulls vegetables In 4 hog and stockraising etc etc as is reported re-ported daily but sporadically In all tho local 1 papers of tho Stale and they will como and settle among us as fast as I wheels can bring them to their own over lasting profit and ours South Carolina is full of descendants of settlers from tho same States in the last century and there Is plenty of room for a million or two more I Such an Invitation from such a source is something new It Is an indication that the exclusiveness that ruled there I so long has begun to break down that at last tho object lessons of I great industrial works on Carolina soil I and the effect of them upon the material I ma-terial interests of the State have made an impression upon that race which I ruled so long In Carolina All that tho News and Courier promises can be realized real-ized in a part of South Carolina where I I ntn onii ICI i fnnrl Anrl In many nlaccs O u a deep Northern plough would turn up virgin soil that is soil that has never been disturbed Good small grains can be raised there all but wheat that la not a profitable crop and South Carolina Caro-lina ought to be as good a fruit State as there Is in the Union We are afraid that the presence of Insects militates against the Slate as a stock raising State but possibly that might be obviated by having a summer rango In the higher lands of the foot hills Labor is cheap there not necessarily colored labor there are plenty of white men who can be employed What is true there is the rule in all the Southern States and for that reason rea-son we fear It I will be a good while before the arid West receives any large appropriations for establishing storage reservoirs in our hills Men are selfish creatures and learn but slowly and tho men of the East do not take much interest in-terest in having the West Irrigated |