Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-06-04
Agriculture in Pickens.


+ We are indebted to our esteemed and
onte,prising, Captain j, A. Wagner for
the privilege of placing before our readers,
ythe following interesting extracts from a
letter from Walhalla, giving some proofs of
the great progress and results achieved by
the thrifty, and industrious residents Of
that fourishing and we'll organized settle
mcnt. The letter is as follows.
knowing that You still take an interest
in our success, and to show what careful
working may achieve, copy from the
minutes, the records of the Pickcns bis
triet Agricultural Society, at Walhalla, the
report of Mr. NJ Bnlfwinkcl, who received
at our anniversary a premium for the larg-
est yield OF bag on one acre IIc raised on
1t 1880 pounds, and that, after having har-
vested on the same acre, crop of wheat
OF lS3 bushels. 1t ought to be remember
cd that the last year was not very favora-
bic to the growth of wheat in our, region.
The land is naturally poor and broken; it
is one OF the acre lots, about 80 yards north
Hot the main rect near the eastern OK
.tremity Of the lower and in it's natural
state, the land would, most likely, be CON
sidcrcd very unpromising but the expert
mentshows that it is susceptible of HIGH
degree of cultivation and improvement
How readily prejudice occasionally obtains
,currency may be inferred from the fact,
that committee appointed to inquire into
the cost OF cultivating an acre of corn,
wheat, &c, in Pickens District, say within
seventy miles of Walhalla, reported that
the cost of cultivation would absorb the
total value of the produce. Now let us
hear Mr.. Bulwinkcl on the question:
lie makes an acre of ground:
DR..
10 manuring and ploughing the ground
twice for Wheat $5 80
To hauling the Wheat to the Thra-
sher 9 GO
10 toll for thrashing | bushcl 37}
To Seed Wheat | 80
To moving grass 90
To drying and hauling 200
SIS 81!
COnhG CT.
BY 184 bushels of Wheat SIS 50
BY Wheat Straw 600 =.
BY $3.50 lbs. Hay, at IS
ccuts 25 t22-s40 623
Actual profit from one acre S34 25
For arguments sake let us grant that the
value of the wheat straw, having been esti-
mated too high, ought to be reduced to 81;
and that the interest on the capital invested
ought to enter into the calculation, it would
still be evident that a iudicious mode of
farming affords ample encouragement to en-
lightened agricultursts.-A-G GNar Ncfeuyu.
THE McKENNA WiLL.-We promised to
keep our readers advised of the progress of
affairs as respects this WILL and it seems that
matters have arrived at the point that will
Justify us in making another report. We
stated that the Ordinary had received notice
from Mrs. Mittag that she required the Will
to be proved in solemn form, which notice
has beenindorsed by her husband Dir. j. f.
u. Mittag. The Ordinary then, as is usual
in such cases, gave tho qualified Executors
notice to prefer their petition to him to prove
the said will in due form Of law. Phe FIX
ecutors appeal from this req,isition of the
Ordinary, on the ground that there is no
proof before him that the parties re-, airing
the will to be proved in solemn form are com
pctcnt to give such notice-in other words
that tic said, parties would have been inter
ested in tho Estate had the deceased died in
teState. This appeal from the Ordinary will
go to the Courtof Common Pleas, which docs
not sit here until October. The matter does
not rest here, however. for the Ordinary in
the face of the notice Of appeal from the Ex-
ecutors, has Summoned all the parties before
him on Monday the 18th July next, to pro-
eccd to prove the will in solemn form. How
these cross notices and exceptions are to be
reconcilcd, we must he concntt to regard for
the present ~ one of the uncertainties of the
ntnrc'-La"ca&ier Ledycr.
STILL SUFFERING FOR FooD IN Iowa.
We are sorry to learn from, the Iowa pa.
pcrs that there is still much suffering in
Iowa, from want of food During the ear
ly part of Spring cattle died of starvation
by scores, throughout the State, there be-
ing no grain to feed them with and that
affairs are not whit improved at this time,
may be learned by the following picture of
distress, from the Eddyyillc Commercial
1T is useless to deny or attempt to con-
ccal the fact This region of the country
Is destitute of the nccessarics of life. The
stock of food for man and beast is about
exhausted. THERE'S, perhaps, corn enough
to feed those who are Unable to buy -four,
but they have not the means to buy corn.
1t is in the hands ofa few persons, and they
will only sell for the cash, at q dollar a
bushci. Not one third of those who need
to buy corn have the dollar, or any means
of getting it; for the money, like the corn,
is out ofthe reach Of the destitute. We
are no panic-makor, but of this We feel GER
tain, and we speak advisedly, that in thirty
days from this time, unless those who have
n surplus agree to part with it on time, at
a fair price, it Will be distributed and car