Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-03-02

prevention of washing and the saving of all
little showers.
10. If it becomes too wet, turn in all plows
and break strait through the middles.
IL. Plow, or rather sweep, often, after al
most every rain if you can.
! II. Cotton-seed as manure, put in early
and deep, works well with guano,-the cot
ton-seed not to be killed before putting it in.
IL. So does any vegetable compost.
! IA. Guanos of different kinds should be
intcrmixed.
Thus much did we purloin from DR.. BIS.
confab unbcknowins' to him 1t must speak
for itself
Once more to the Hints:
The editor says and truly says:
For fear the worst may come to the worst,
SOW down as much as you can, early in this
month, of spring oats. They will feed beasts
while the wheat can be saved for man"
The old rule was, to "just let March catch
you sowing OATS" but it has not worked well
of late years from the fact of the rust taking
the late oats Let us hope for better this year
and sow all we can. OF verify it will be
needed before the summer is ended.
I'd, Cotton VS. Corn" The question as
to which should be planted in greater abuu-
dance, is put and answered by the editor thus
We have heard it surmscd among the
planters of our State, whether it would be pol
icy to plant more cotton or more corn this sea
son? Almost without exception, we have
heard the question answered as often as asked,
"why, more corn of course" And yet, we
venture the assertion that these very planters,
who answer the question in this way, will this
Spring chop out more acres of cotton than
they will "side " acres of corn.
We believe, that were it possible, planter,
while on his plantation, should ignore the po-
itical troubles of the day, and pitch his crops
accordingly. If he has lands that will yield
better profit in corn than in cotton while
corn is selling at one dollar bushcl and
peas at the same price, and fodder equally as
dear, and cotton at ten cents per pound, why,
by all means he should cultivate that land in
corn. While on the other hand, if his land
is best adapted to cotton, let prices range as
they may, it would be folly for him to plant
more corn than cotton. And so we think,
every planter should reason with himself
| First, study the capacity of his land to pro-
ducc crop, and then learn the probable av-
erage price of that crop when sent to market.
And if the net profits are greater under ordi-
nary circumstances, then that is the crop for
him to cultivate. Otherwise, planting would
become speculation, and no speculation
should invite Investment, when that invest
mcnt cannot be tpynod over" Gas spccula-
tors say) in less than twelve months"
Logical enough. And what's the use of
agitating such a question? How can you
get people to agree to plant less? Our plan
ters might counsel together and come to the
conclusion that to do so would be wise Yet
every rascal of them would 90 off and plant
more, thinking to himself that while so many
others were planting less it would be fine
time for him to say nothing to nobody slip
in and make his Jack
Sd. Next, our editor gives fall account of
his own system of saving all the farm yard
manure. 1t is explicit and sufficient, and
proves him an adept in that important bust
ness of the plantation. This is a matter,
however, in which farmers must regulate
themselves according to varying circumstan-
ces The general directions may be embod-
cd in two words: Save all Upon the point
of putting it out, the authority before us is
clear for scattering broad cast from the wag-
on and values his " domestic manures on the
plantation, for cotton corn or any other
crops, in the following order; pig pcn stable,
sheep, COW compost, lot.
4th. And now we come to little matter of
which farmers cannot be too often reminded,
the subject of Curry Combs. Let the Far
mcr Il Planter speak for itself.
"There is small item of expense, to which
we would call the attention of our readers, we
think it advisable to incur every Spring, but
which we fear, most of our planting readers
never trouble their pockets about. 1t is the
expense of buying a curry comb for each
mule or horse on the plantation, and when
bought, requiring the oversccr to have every
one of them used while the teams are eating
in the morning In these scarce times it be-
hooves every planter to save all he can, and
we give it as our firm belief, that mule we'll
curried every morning will do as much work,
and keep in as good working order on eight
good ears of corn at meal, as one never cur
rled will on ten Of the same kind of ears at
each feed If you doubt our assertion, just
invest quartcrin curry comb (for ten
cents comb is not worth taking homc,) and
try the experiment for yourself from now un-
til your crop is laid by"
This exhausts the subject
5th. David Dickson, Esq, of Georgia, is
the cotton-raising wonder of the age,-so
many of our readers have heard Indeed,
many of them have the Dixon cotton-seed at
So per bushel, but whether any have got to
cultivating forty-eight acres to the hand and
nearly sixty acres to the mule, is another mat
ter. Dickson does it. But we have not so
much to do with Dickson now, as with our cd
itor's proposition to him. Here it is:
{" We plant annually ninety acres in cotton,
ninety acres in corn, thirty acres in small