Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-06-13
VOL. VIII.-----N0. 4S.
Hay Making in the South.

| "a Bflct Essay, read before the Beach
Island Farmers Club" at the October
Meeting, @
! GENTLEMEN: AS it is expected that each
member of this Club shall make a,report of
some experiment, take this opportunity to
present the following, on hay mnking
| About the first May, / had a ten acre
! lot OF good riverbottom land plowed up.
/ with double plows, from ,o 10 inches
I deep; the land was then we'll narrowed
/ with good two horse iron. tooth harrow
across the blowing. and then rolled with
cast iron two horse roller, in orderto make
the SUI face as smooth as possible. The land.
was soon covered with crab grass In con-
sequence of the hoi dry weather, had al
+ most despaired of realizing crop; but after
the heavy rain which fell about the lst Of
/ September, IL revived and grew off rapidly.
and continued to improve until the latter
part OF September. when it was from two
TO three feet high, at which time / cut it
with scythes. The plan adopted for GU
ring was, to have what was cut in the morn-~
| ing turned over and stacked up about four
! or five hours after il was cut, and that part,
ot-It that had {rorh four, TO six hours SUI ON
1t was then put into. common size shocks
and remained until the next day about ten
O'Clock, or until the dew WAS entirely off,
at which.time they were again opened and
| The bay again spread, and emained so until.
evening, when. it was put into shocks agaib,-s
and remained so until the dew was of next
day, when they -wpre,opened and spread as
above stated in the afternoon, such as was
sufficiently cured had packed in { barn.
measured one acre. and obtained from-
that 1915 pounds Of well cured hay, which
sold Tor rs cents per cwt. in Augusta (; it
was weighed at The city scales, and al that
low price amounted to $57.56. At 81 per
hundred, - the amount would have beeny
S76.75 at Sl,25 per hundred SlI5.l2.--a
These prices are not unfequenily paid for
an article in no way superior think there
were three or four acres in the lot as good
as the one | measured ;-the balance not
more than two.thrds as good. AT the rate
sold, the whole lot would amount to $500;
and OF course still higher at increased rates,
as shown above. se
would simpIvcaII the attention of the
members to the fact that if this crop had
been made nndns >farnor tiIaI Northern hay
rommands in Augusta, which is about ST.
SO, it would amount 1920, or 500 per.
aero. ..t E- --a.a,-. .tg4 ..
Ny impression isthas two crops may be-
taken from the same land by commencing
more profitable with the same amount of
labor. -t i""sn '-cp
All of which is,respectfuIly submitted
ssg -. JONATHAN Nj. MILLER,
.GoopALE, near Augusta, Ga.
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HEN PERsUADERs.-- The Springfield Re-
publican, in speaking Of n new inyentionfor
ahen's nest, whereby theeggs drop through
atraP door az so deceives the hen that
she keeps on laying, is responsible for the,
following: .
Blobbs met with a loss, however, with
one of the pcrsuaders. Blobbs had a love-
ly young Shanghai pullst, of boundless am
bition. Bobbs bought a persuader, and
his lovely Shanghai used it. She went upon
the nest in the morning. Blobts saw her
go. and his heart bounded within him.
Alas lie never saw her come off again.
AT night,-he visited the persuader. In the
upper compartment vas handful Of feathr;
ers, few toenails, and bill in the lower,
compartment were three dozen and eleven
eggs Blobbs saw 1t all I! Her delicate
constitution had been unequal to the effort,
and. fred by young ambition. she had laid
herself all away" y
OPINIONS OF 'DIsAppofNrEp MAN
| Tie man vino is proud of his money has
rarely anything better to be proud of.---.
Trees with double flowers are too. often.
the emblem Of friendship there is plenty
| of blossom, but no fruit. There are many
men who, delight in playing the fool, but
who get angry the moment they are told so
In medicine, a,Brougham goes mach further
than knowledge. Society has right to be-
particular Fit is SO often deceived Com
mon sense has become such rare commod.
hy that the world has entered into a taci.
compact TO live without IT, Wealth itself
4, .s'not so much despised ---itis onlytbemsn
who issthe possessor Of it. Every woman
is bore with master. mind that is to say.
with Q mind, 70 be master, il she can. No
man lipiF9 should say an i'll word against
| thedoctors. Gop) lmeUts are the coin that
we pay a man to bis face--sarcasnis ara
what, we.pay bin ont with beliind his back.
Toad .eatingis always in fashion, In France,
there is ,eothmg Young . e&Geptipg your o6.
iels danfiqae, aneh .,tr Ia " =, ,I'.'t 81.
| 2 LADY FREEDoNs We crrtaialv woaid
tinker the WORLD here and there, iftit wera
commend able4but particularly for the
uses of embarrassed young lAdiesss Says-a
certajn otherwise anonymous t'Ina4 toaus,
at the end Of "a long commuhication ;"0nca