Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1869-01-22

VI 'ho "aSot Pohoti"tcSt toWaTu INC clay, inc
longer the plant will require to evaporate, aud
hence the longer tho plant will receive the
benefits Of the moisture"
VARIETY IN CRops. Cotton is on uncertain
plant, and if farmers embark their all in it and
tail, disaster and ruin will bo ccrtaiu for the
whole South, which after years Of war, desc
lation, and agricultural and commercial rover.
Sos, has SO lately and with such great Difficult.
" startcd out again OH tho highway Of pros
pcrity and wealth. 1t should not be forgotten
so soon that tho diversified and early crops of
the past season, small though they were,
brought the planter money aud supplies at
time when lie was driven to the lust extremity
of the season. It is II poor policy which de-
votes tho rich and productive acres of the
South to cotton for tho purchase of grain,
flour and provisions at famine prices. Cotton
may fail or prices mny not pay cu; the cost of
ts production, but the thrifty planter who
may have devoted portion Of his lauds To
corn, wheat and esoulouts, will be left in in-
dependent aud easy circumstances. Paut
plenty of grain and vegetables, increase your
interest in oattlo aud hogs, and our word for it
the end of another season will find the pco
pic OF tho South in a more prosperous and in
dependent position than they have ever occu-
pied .Mn.phis 1vuiaachc.
DON'T CULTIVATE ORDINARY LAND
WITHOUT MANURE. Rccpllcct, it costs you,
on our average soils, ten dollars or moro to
make and gather an acre Of cotton. If you
do not look closely after your hands, it will
cost you good deal more than that. Now,
evcry acre cultivated, that will not yield crops
worth ut least the above amounts, will not only
be no profit, but run iu debt. Larger crops
still are required to obtain profit on hired la
Dor. Lands, then, which will not yield such
crops we must let rest, or manure them suli.
ciontiy, or We lose money. At least half of
our poorest soils hitherto devoted to corn aud
cotton should be thrown out to rest and the
balance enriched. How long will it take us
for every acre on which we can make net
profit Of ten dollars we continue to cultivate
five which lack FROM three to ten dollars each
of meeting the actual cost Of cultivation.--
There are few lands which will not yield
profit if commercial manurcs are judicially
applied. Southern Cuhiuaior.
FACT IN THE History OF THE VELoc
lPEDE.-Thc "Pall Mall Gazette is authori.
ty for the statement that fifty years ago the
velooipedc mania was as prevalent in England
az it is in France today. 1t was then known
as the pedestrian Hobby Horse" 1t was
Identical with tho French vclocipele save
that it was worked AS tho French instrument
ID now started, by putting the feet on the
ground on each side. Tho patentee was a
Mr.. Johnson, but it would appear that the
invention was not his, but came from Gcrma-
ny. The following description is taken from
an engraving of the year 1Sl0
"rho machine is Of the most simple kind,
supported by two light wheels running on the
samo line; the front wheel turning on pv-
OF, which, by means Of short lever, gives
the dircctoa in turning to one side or the
other, the hind wheels always running in one
direction. The rider mounts it, and seats
himself in saddle conveniently fixed at the
back of the horse Gf allowed to be called SO, }
and placed in the middle between Che wheels
the feet is placed fat on the ground, so that
III the first step to give the machine motion,
tho heel should be the part Of the foot to touch
the ground, and so on with tho other foot al.
tcrnately, as if walking on the heels, obscry,
ing always to begin 'ao movement gontly.--
ln front, before the rider, is placed cushion
to rest the arms on while tho hands hold tho
lover which gives direction to the machine,
as also to balance it if inclining to either side
when tho opposite arm is pressed on the cush
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. WHoLEs ONENESS OF AppLEs- Raw mel
low apples arc dgested in an hour and half
while boiled cabbage requires five hours
Tho most honlthful desert that can be placed
upon the table is a baked apple. IF eaten
frequently at breakfast with coarse bread and
butter, without meat or flesh, it has an admi
rsble effect on the systom, often removing
constipation, correcting aciditics, and cooling
of febrile conditions more efrectually than
the most approved medicines Liebig SAYS
they prevent debility, strengthen digestion
correct the putrefactivo tendencies of nitro.
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