Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-08-29

.l-, From the Albania Planter.]
ON THE APPROPRIATE CLIMATE FOR PARTICU'
r LAR CROPS.
Withdrawn by necessity from the active
duties of the profession Of a planter, / shall
occupy the leisure with the object of en-.
ploying my time and in the hope that I may
be Of some service to others. am not a
believer in the often made remark that any
fool can make planter" but in its very
contrary, that there is no business that calls
more often for the exercise of a sound Judge.
ment, or where so many circumstances are
to be considered in directing it. A good
planter should be close observer, and the
experience of one year often makes better
one than years of practice to the unobserv.
ant. II is impossible to lay down any rule
for cultivation that ought not with propristy
be varied to suit the season, and what is
saidmust be understood as very general
There are some principles to be carried out
and objects obtained, and the work is to be
directed with these views. Every plant has
its appropriate region where it aourishes
most, though care and attention may extend
it beyond. 1t seems to be the plan of an
allwise Providence to scatter the goods and
ills with an equal hand. The orange and
the banana, the apple and pair, the sugar
cane and the sugar maple, and thousand
other things mark climate and evidence this
fact. Each has its equal share of these equal
gifts.
shall only allude to few that come
more generally under the care of the PLAN
ter. The sugar cane begins at the equator
and extend up to 3oe, and though grown in
Louisiana as high as 3le, must be consider.
ed a forced growth and the taking in the
crop often limited by ice.
The appropriate region for cotton is from
32o to 34e, and all attempts at successful
cultivation below 80 have been failures
where it has been long enough continued to
produce its appropriate diseases and enemies
| am aware it is now grown with advantage
below that latitude in Texas and the Flori.
das, but it is to be remembered that it is
new cultivation there and so far an expert
ment. The lands in Texas are very fine
and are cultivated with skill, and it has not
been very certain crop. The two last
seasons have yielded better crops than those
preceding them, erhe result Of long con.
tinued cultivation in other States has proved
the correctness of this general truth. ltwas
some years ago the only growth Of perhaps
the most fertile body of lands in Louisiana
lying in latitude 3lo. | allude to the Bay.
Gus Beuf, Rouge, Robert and Coti, and
now the sugar culture is substituted for that
Of cotton throughout this neighborhood. A
small colony Of large planters from South
Carolina, removed to the head waters Of the
Escambia in 1918 and in the same latitude.
They, for many years, made extravagant
crops. These lands are now all abandoned
to that use. The plant had increased in
the size and lessened in boil bearing, but
the principal cause Of their desertion was
the ravages Of the worm. All crops do
we'll when new to the country and SOIL
Many years continuance and to some ex-
tent, is necessary to fully determine their
suitability. There is but very little land in
Louisiana, Alabama or Georgia, below 3le,
where it is cultivated to any extent. The
West Indies formerly grew much cotton,
whereas none is now grown. These facts,
though they do not establish, must justify
the doubt, whether they can be relied on as
lands when long and generally planted
The cold of higher parallel seems wanted
In destroy the lary;p of insects.
The region for Indian corn is from $50
to 37o, and though grown well above and
below, the product is not the same per acre.
Where grown in the colder climates, the
size of the stalk and the ears are dwarfed
and the fodder not so valuable. Where
grown too far south it runs too much into
stalk and blade and less into ears, and the
product decidedly less per acre. If this be
so, the system Of cultivation should be adap.
ted to it.
The region for wheat is where that for
corn ends, and for the Irish potato where
wheat ends, and think the same may be
observed of the other fruits OF the earth.
The orange, the peach, the pear and the
apple have their appropriate latitudes. If
these remarks are correct they would seen
to Indicate that you should advance or re.
strain the influences of climate on the plant
so as to bring it in size and fruitfulness TO
grow in its best latitude.
My most deliberate reflection has induced
me to believe in the general truth Of the
foregoing remarks and it has been the guide
to my cultivation. purpose to make
communication on the culture of corn, as
without being intended to do so it seems
that its usual cultivation in fact carries out
this idea. A PLANTER.
OKRA FOR WINTER SoUp.-Take clean
tight cask, sprinkle layer Of fine Liverpool
salt over the bottom; on this place layer
okra pods cut green from the bushes now
sprinkle another layer Of salt, and then
another layer okra, and so on until the cask
is full. 1t will shrivel, but lose none Of the
peculiar soup juices. When wanted for
soups take It out and cut it up, and place it
in the pot without salt, as the salt already
in the okra will diffuse itself throughout the
soup and make the seasoning about right.
There is method of saving tomatos, but
it is attended with much trouble, the safest
plan is to make tomatos into catsup. Then,
we not only have the tomato, but the other