Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1869-02-19

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difference? Z" For tho very reason at which
we have limited abovc-thc one is hard and
solid, the other soft and spongy. But at this
point we hear an objection: "It is too hard
for the cattle they can't caew it," &c.
Friend, you will make money by steaming,
soaking in weak brine, or grinding your corn
and feeding the meal. This is often and
mostly done Fast, and it pays well, or Yankee
wouldn't do it. Look we'll to your seed corn.
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Manures.
Nothing pays the farmer a better pcrcen-
tage on tho investment than manure. The
best farmer is not he who cultivatcs the largest
number of acres, but he who raises the best
and largest crops upon a given number Of acres.
The soil is somewhat like the man or beast
if you work il. vithout nourishmcnt, it soon
dies, or becomes worthless. The subject of
improving the soil is now engaging the cara
est attention our best farmers, and wherever
manure is used, it has paid at least a hundred
per cent. upon the outlay.
SOLUBLE PnospnATE.-Tho rapidity with
which phosphate manure stimulates the
growth of vegetation depends upon the read
mess with which it may be dissolved in water
and taken up by the root. A very good meth
cd of making the phosphoric acid of ordina-
ry bone dust soluble, is to spread it between
layers of fresh and fermenting barn yard ma
nure. The heap should be covered over with
a thickness of several inches of dry earth, to
ohooch oil kLo ~,o o,o1,aJ c....t ~ l-.-
yard manure, and the organic matter in the
bones. The whole should be under cover to
prevent the mass from being soaked by the
rain.
HOMEMADE GUANo.-Collcct a barrel Of
bones and crush them; mix with a barrel of
oak or hickory ashes moisten with soap-suds,
apply a quart or two at any timo. Use as a
special fertilizer on melons, squashcs, early
corn and cucumbcrs, allowing a gill to a hill.
TIE SOUTH AGAIN IrsELF.-The Metro.
p%oiitan, after a cheerful review Of the now
very promising commercial situation, at the
South, comes to the conclusion that s3, 900.
900 bales of cotton, next year, will put the
qmietus on radicalism, and wind up the whole
machinery Of reconstruction"
The spirit of trade, Owe are reminded is
an o%bsequious one and worships success. Let
the South raise 5000, 900 bales of cotton this
year, and the very men who called loudest for
the enforcement Of tho reconstruction policy
will %solemnly disclaim ever having been the
enemy of its people.
THE MULE TRApE.-There has been. for
some time past, an unusual demand for mules
in Southwestern Georgia. From the follow
ing paragraphs it appears hat the demand
still exists. The " Atlanta Constitution" of
Saturday, says:
Since January 1st, 1869, and up to yester-
day evening, three hundred and sixty.scvcn
car loads of mules have been brought to this
city, per Western ana Atlantic Railroad
Estimating a car load at twenty,one head, we
have seven thousand seven hundred and seven
mules. About three hundred have arrived
by dirt road, making eight thousaud In round
numbers. Notwithstanding this large influx,
the market continues lively, and tho demand
a~o:ivo, at full prices.
Tho Columbus Times" Of Friday, says (:
Ten mules were sold at Harrison's auction
sales yesterday The average price was 1926.
Some brought $3.50. Tho animals were we'll
broke, but common ones. Other property
good prices.
HANDSOMELY STATED.-The editor of the
"San Francisco Bulletin" has Just passed
unscatched through a trying libel suit. He
does not, in the hour Of his cxultation, turn
upon his enemies, but extends to them his
hand, and in substance says: Gentlemen,
your efforts wero vain. You can not stop
history making, you cannot mufle truth. The
press is the organ of thought in the body pol.
tic. If you can not bear its power, stand
from under. This victory is not mine, or !
might vaunt myself and taunt you. 1t is
simply n step forward of journalism. It is
tile shaking off Of a parasite which might
| houo 1iatnrhed Int neuar ooy,1d ho uo oboIoc