Cheraw gazette and Pee Dee farmer. [volume] (Cheraw S.C.) 1838-1839, 1839-05-24

This is my first improvement with bone
! manure and it will be seen that It constl.
tutes the heaviest item of expenses in the
above table; equal, and even greater results
might have been secured by substituting ma
nure made on the farm for the bone manure.
Tho labor and all other. expenses, | have set
down at the highest rates and cash prices, al
though performed by my own hands and teams,
40 that in fact, the lime and plaster constitute
the only absolute cash expenditure to which
the farmer is gu jected in improving his land
about here.
I have made various applications oftlIe bone
manure to grass and grain seeded last fall, and
shall continue them through spring. If am
shared to see the results, they shall be COM
municated to you in due time.
Two hundred and fifty.two dollars and FIVE
cents, the net proceed Of one acre of land in
single crop, in return for S23 Is laid out in
manure. The cash expended was not sixty
days out ofpocket.
tits proper here to remark, that owing to the
unprecedented drought, turnips were very
scarce in market, and were consequently uh'
usually high. From the same cause, however,
NV crop was not half of an average one IN
quantity. have made in very good season
GOO bushels per acre, and $50 might be con-
sidered an average crop; which, at 81 l-2 per
bushel, fair average price, form data by which
the turnip crop in this vicinity may be correct
ly estimated.
THos. Ap C.. JONES.
Sharon, near Prospect Hill.
Fairfar Co. Va. Feb. IL, 1889.
Ills seldom our usage to accompany the
communications of correspondents with a
commentary Of encomium; and never
merely for the purpose of paving persona!
compliments 10 the writer's. However well
deserved such praises may be, and much
as our feelings may urge the expression OF
approbation Of such articles, and Of thanks
for The service to our publication thereby
con, eyed, still, for several and obvious rea.
sons, we have deemed it best, and have
throughout so acled, to leave our readers to
Judge for themselves Of the degree of excel
lencc of communications, aud of the value
of their contents. II is only when some
opinion therein stated requires especially 10
be noticed, either for xplanation, recon.
mendatiop, or dissent and apprehension,
that we deem it necessary and proper, and
IN no manner disrespec'ful to any other OF
our contributors or readers, to offer com.
ments Of our own. On this occasion we
cannot refrain from calling attention to the
uncommon and valuable facts stated above
and still more 10 the circumstances under
which the improvements were made; BE-
cause these circumstances even more than
the results, prove that hundreds ofthousSnd'
of acres in Virginia, may be highly I'M
proved, and with great profit, which have
served merely as places Of temporary So
iourn for individuals or families, until they
had spent their estates, and taken the mex
movement, to The western wilderness. W.
allude more especially to the county which
surrounds each OF our towns, and is nea
enough to supply their markets. Commo
dore Jones' farm is so fur removed from on
of these. that few individuals SO sltuate
would have thought Of using itas vegeta"'
market and still fewer as source OF sup