Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1864-03-09
SAVE YOUR MEAT.

ers in the annexed style.
SAVE YOUR MEAT.
We urge upon the people of the Confedera-
CIV to begin early in the year to economic
their provisions, bacon particularly. Ofmeat,
few people have more than half allowance,
and they ought not to have any more, and
don't need any more. The balance should so
to tie army. We doubt, in fact, whether peo-
pie who stay at home are entitled to even
half allowance of meat, when they can get so
many vegetables aslare to be had by proper
management. But what we say is, save your
meat. Don't go to work and eat it all up by
June, and then have no meat at all. Make
o nice calculation, divide it out properly. and
run it through the year, so as to have o little
all the time. When you eat up what you
have now, it Will be impossible to get any
more for love, or money.
RAISE HOGS.
Now is tho .imeto feed and attend we'll to
the pigs which came last fall. At twelve or
fourteen months old. you will have to, kill
them, and make your meat, next winter. b.
proper care, you can makcthen weigh from
100 to 200 pounds, at tire age mentioned.
Don't let them get poor, stunted and NANCY
now, for.i you DO, it will be almost impossi-
bic to get them started again. There is no
telling how much meat can be raised by
proper mana cement, even " hen corn is scarce.
The slops ard waste from the kitchen will
make many a pound of meat. Every house
keeper, whether he or she has much q" fttlc'
of this worlds goods, can go far towards rails
ing his or her own meat. If you have no
pigs, obtain u1e or more, as soon as you can,
and go to feeding them. You can accomplish
wonders with them in twelve months.
WORE The GARDEN.
Begin early to work ycur garden, ana work.
it we'll. No one has Alright to talk about a
scarcity OF food ~wio~owns or rents a quarter
Of an acre OF araAle ground. A quarter of an
acre, we'll cultivated, will support u family
through The spring, summer and fall.
"he probability is, that we ate going to
lave q good crop year this. year Bat you
oush. rot 70 lepead on that. Prepare Jour
garden, by string the soil deeply, Tor any
-1reught that may come; and don't depend
upon the plough, nor the hoe, but use the
SPADE. Trench Your garden deeply. Drive
the spade in, up 10 tho handle, and prepare
the sub soil we'll for receiving aud retaining
the moisture.
Ifyour garden has rot been we'll mlnu1cd
during the fall and winter, that important
duty Should be attended 10 immediately.
Give your soil a bcun!ilul supply of manure,
aud be sure to let it be of the right kind
leaf mould we'll rotted, or stable manure,
thoroughly dccsycd. No manure should be
put upon the ground for late spring Or sum
msr crops, which has to undergo TIE process
Of fermentation, or decomposition, after it is
put upon the sell. Ifso, it will fire, and de
stroy iae vegetables.
Early peas, cabbage, radishes, lettuce, &C.,
should be sown the first epleasan: day that
comes. We have had excellent weather for
attending to these things
But we wish to urge upon our people the
necessity Of having good gardens during thee
times ofscarcity, and beg them to remember
that in order lo Kaye good.sardens, they must
stir the soil Acep!S-mnst resort 10 the spade
-and must mn!ch their vegetables TO protect
them against the heat and droutl..