The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1849-05-09
WORK FOR MAY, SOUTH.

tho noSI lUnpOrtaUt nOntn IN tne WnOle
year, when we tako into occo unit the cul.
tivation Of the young growing crops; be-
cause much oflhe future labor will depend
on the quality and quantity of the work
done now. Ifis be well done, as it should
be, the crops will not so soon become foul;
. and if much oft be done, tho planter will
be able to receive an earlier return.
Working Cotton Fields. Young cotton
plants must bo cleaned out as soon as
practicable after the first leaves are de-
veloped with the sweep cul,ivator and
hand hoe.
Wedding Corn. Keep your corn fields
in good order, and free from weeds.
Cane Fields. See that your cane fields
are kept clean, and as soon us the plants
have grown about l9 inches high small
quantity Of earth should be drawn towards
them; and in the course ofthe two succeed
ing dressings, bed should be formed for
them FIVE or six inches in depth.
Tobacco Plants. The earth around
these should frequently be stirred with the
plow, cuitivutor, or hoe, and kept free
from weeds. AS soon as The plants arc
sufficiently large, they should be primed,
topped, suckered, and wormed.
Harvesting Winter Grain. Most Of the
!, winter grain that was sown in October
last, will require harvesting this month.
That 10 be used for feeding stock should
be cut just before it begins TO turn yellow;
but that left for -four should be Gu, when
the grains are in the milk.
Six Cocoons. Silk worms will hive
wound their cocoons from the lst to the
20th Of this month. Those you wish 10
reel, may DO left in the hot sun dny or
two, or they may be exposed q few hours
in ON oven or kiln, heated sufficiently
warm to cause bees wax to melt. Those
Intended to produce eggs for the next crop
must be selected and placed on sheets Of
moist paper, in q cool, dark room. From
100 to l2O pairs ofmillers will produce
an ounce Of eggs. Each female lays
from 800 to 500 eggs, averaging about
500. An ounce of eggs contains about
10000. If well saved from good millers,
and safely kept, they will nearly all hatch
and produce good worms. Our climate
is admirably adapted to the production Of
the silk worm, as is shown by the fact,
that while an average Of 80 to 60 per cent
OF the worms are lost in Europe, from eli
mate, food, and disease, scarcely five per
cent are lost in this country.
Kitchen Garden. Plant endive, shnlois,
lentils, peppers, and generally all that is
recommended for April. "The old gar.
.deners of the country" says Mr.. Dim,
"Pretehd that nothing will come to perfec-
tion if sown in this month";" But, from
sixteen years experience at New Orleans
he feels justified in stating that the plants
require only TO be set further apart, be.
cause they grow more vigorously an ac-
count OF the increased flow of,he sap.
Fruit Gorden Shru6bery, &c. Keep the
enrah loose and clean around your grape
vines. Plant and water cuttings of Cane
jasmines.-.-Am. AgriculturaHst.
IHE USE OF QUININE AT THE WEST.
"A medical correspondent of the Surci.
col Journal, writing from the West, snys:
the immense quantities Of quinne sold
here would astonish an Eastern dealer in
drugs. Five hundred ounces by one
druggist, in small village, are often dis
posed of in a few days, and in the larger
towns, fifteen hundred or two thousand
ounces are no uncommon sale by one
house in from twelve to thirty weeks. In
speaking OF the fever, or fever and ague,
rs it is called, for which the medicine is
used. the same writer says, though gener-
ally prevalent, and in some seasons almost
universal, (as in 1888, when every man,
woman, and child, was down with it,) vet
the mortality, as compared with fevers at
the East, is as one to fifty. When man
is seized with the chills, the physician
prescribes sixty grains Of quinine in six
equal doses, and il he is restless, adds
one.eighih of grain of morphine to one
ofthe powders, and generally in twenty.
four hours the patient is we'll. But with.
out this invaluable medicine, the patient
is often down for weeks, and even months.
CASE OF MURDER.-A Jury Of Inquest
was impanneled about eleven o'clock last
night, to inquire into the cause of the
death of woman named JULIA FAY,
who died about o'clock yesterday after.
neon, in one Of the buildings at the foot of
Hasell ST., known as Patton's range
The examination of witnesses occupied
the Jury until after one O'Clock. 1t ap-
Peared from the evidence taken, that her
husband had given her severe beating
on Tuesday morning, with stick Of
wood, and after her falling in the piazza,
from It's effects, kicked and stamped upon