The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-07-10

Tho Condition OF tho Crops
Efccts of Fertilizers - Prospects for
COrn-Wheat a rad Oats i'm Good Order
Melons and Peaches s-The Ninety
Six Nailroad--Church Matters I'm the
County.
lFRoM AN OCCASIONAL CoRREsPoNpENTl
ELMwooD, EDaEF1ELD. Is. o., July 3.-The
mercury has ranged from eighty to ninety,six
degrees in the shade for the past thirty days
This warm weather has worked we'll for cotton
and other vegetation generally. Cotton is at
least ten days earlier than this time last year.
We generally have, during the month OF June,
the past years q cool spell of weather lasting
from three to five days, and frequently longer,
but the past month we had no cool weather,
having had had all 10 the month Of May. and at one
temperature, has caused cotton to grow rap
idly up to the present time and to form well
80 the cotton crop in our county at this time
is all that we could desire, and bids fair for
large yield, even double what it was this
time last year. especially where fertilizers have
been used extensively. have seen much cot
ton two feet high full of blooms and torms
The seventy five acre field, with the ten tons
or fertilizers upon it, noted to III in my last
letter on I'd Of June, looks now as if it would
even make more tt an the one hundred bales,
ss everything has been favorable. note
another field OF one hundred and fifty acres in
cotton, lying near the Columbia and Augusta
Railroad, in that portion, OF our county known
as the Ridge" being little mixed with sand,
and having had pu7 upon it the present year
about fifteen tons of fertilizers b de fair for one
hundred and twenty-five bales and m6y 90
one hundred and fifty bales, with everything
to favor 1T for the next ninety days. Now to
think, forty years ago, these same lands could
have been bought for fifty cents per acre. and
the one hundred and fifty acres would nos have
Now this goes TO show what fertilizers have
done for different portions OF our county, and
should speak trumpet-tongued to us to hold
on to our cheap lands a little longer.
Our corn crop b DIS far also for good yield,
bat within the past month corn has been
somewhat neglected in the quantity of work 1t
should have had, as the last rlse in cotton has
mostly caused this neglect in giving the extra
time to cotton; and what astonshes me, it still
continues TO advance; but I suppose the ohec4
will come, at least by the Goth Of August
next, as new cotton will be in market by that
time.
The grain crop hos been housed in excellent
order, and will prove a large yield Of both
wheat and Gate, but not much Of the former
has been prepared as yet for market, as the
labor in the farm could not be spared tor the
thrashlnR OF grain, only IN small quantities for
immediate use. But tnls month Of hard labor
will give the labOrer q respite, aud with 1T time
to attend to minor business.
The fruit and watermelon season is Just
opening with us. The peach crop will be
very small i'll the upper portion of the county.
supply. Apples will lie more abundant.
Our great Watermelon .rower Sa nuel Marsh,
notable In the history Of Edgefeld for the past
growers in the county, has, the present year,
concluded to divide MS crop, putting half IN
cotton and half in melons. thinking that it
would pay as well. MIR. Marsh has taken the
years past in thus county.
Negro labor is much better than the past
year. and will continue to improve should our
state-rullng power keep quiet and let the
negro alone.
What we need in Edgefed at this time is,a
railroad directly from Aiken to Edgefield Court
mouse, and from here to Newmarket, in Abbe-
vile. to intersect the Columbia and Greenvile
Railroad at this point, or at Ninety Six Depot,
which is a few miles below Newmarket, as
flther 3 sdn place viii snt Edeeaed, and 60 far to
her real estate. What cay you to it2 The
nearest point tina. any railroad runs to Edge
heid ls the Columbia and Augusta, which runs
T,shsa Tahsa sa miles Of the yag VIZ: the Pine
matteris carried daily now just commenced by
hack, once every day and back. carrying at the
same sam time the passengers. So we have now
month. together With new postmaster by the
name OF Grice, white. The ex-postmaster, the
Rev. Mr.. Walker, has served the people faith
fully and satisfactorily tor the past three
yeais. Mr.. Walker is from Beaufort, came up
during the war, and has made many warm
friends, and is o gentleman in every sense of
the word. This daily u all will no doubt in
crease Cn0 numDef OF your SUBSCRIBERS III This
part Of the State, and is just the thing needed
months ago.
We have now complete list Of new county
officers, all in their places and working harmo-
nlously together, even down to Mr.. Eichelber-
ger, the census taker, who has his subs IN the
different townships at work. thought they
would make an enrolment OF the men at the
same time, but hear not. And perhaps it is
as we'll. Our village can boast OF several diff
ferent religious denominations, oil prosperous
and thriving and well represented, with good
and talented preachers. The Baptist Church
has recently called young graduate from
Greenvilie. S. o., VIZ: the Rev. Mr.. Broaddus.
who is spoken OF in the highest terms. AL
though quite young, he knows his work and
does it well. The Rev. Mr.. Klllgo, OF the
Methodist persuasion, is another man that
NO, hs hard and we'll. and has the good will of
Of hearing HIM. The Rev. Mr. Walker, Of the
Episcopal persuasion, who al:ays wears
pleasing countenance, AM generally leaves his
hearers in the same mood, having winning
expression. Our village has excellent schools,
both male and female, which hos just closed
for the summer vacation. Yours, &C.,
e, SENEx.
THE CHARLOTTE COLUMBIA AND