The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1872-03-30
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Few-ealtiyat6rs Sof The soil ssegh 70 be
|'awaretefthel Esdddrfasa peWef of even a
'lo0ss and iighssdilas rsssiai piant food
that hes heenaartifieially yaapphsd. saw
Ia strikingiiaktagoeo6 hii isssWIy years ago.
.Ehs, place aaFhieh i nttladpome thir-
t;s .e se4Sss sso Y=sasEu tats4ss,.llaa, ats4s save
some ten OF, ,tweptyaeres iyhicMhad been
partially, cleared and seultiyated. This
had been bs nearly Ie exhausted 4 by injudi-
cious culture, but ss The; labor of clear
ing new land was great to me then, I
planted the 6ld 1fsid.. .Thee soil was
light sand aanR Eardlyp repaid for the
planning aand G cd11sdfe / noticed that there
|Was About thaltt sR6fe 1oaa q steep hill
bide which produced ven T. cultivated
this th; susif6r ssvSfa years aud That hill
|tside always producearaelluoA fstranger,
passipglo one day, s.oppad and isauired
who lived here, and reuanrkadfatlat he
settled this place twenty scnraiRgo, but
that, losing hisiwife, bar became discour.
aged and sold out. AS The, rwas gabout
leaving I asked him what he had done
lg to that hillside h5 side te paka isdps9dace SO
much better than the other land fwhen
it looked poorer and more barren. He
replied chat there be had his coypen.
II haa been q years aai since his ,cafsle. trod
the land and YET, Ia as pa poor + as as IL looked,
tproddcsdr van. s'" zdEd yod a
VIthisfno~ tBifty- ITO years .since that
piece of land was COW pshHed, And it
| shows unmarked differenUed di6so It's pro-
ducts fuim ,ths.s0ibarouhd 1t. q aaw
4 RLam often asked sisf gdano any 'bene-
fit the second year2" / answer Sinhesi-
tatipglg that,dspisasaTHa ysars ago I
planted aPisceEes land iaIsugarnaifs and
,naapEsd heaFily Eithrgaan9 inthe'drill.
made fse eropioe e7cane,andniA the
fail planted the samed piecegf gf,land in
wheat without, manure. eAs ths,Mheat
|; grew, the; rows ,Eherea,thse cane. was
planted showed a marked diferenespver
the other portions of the 6eid and the
yield Was double. ). ,.s.s. -
Two years ago. .odf; I; planted PA ted. field iu
Norsay oats, usiPgg, oguapo. and abone
dust; last year planted the same field
initcottoh, using two Ra6dfed pounds of
Pacific guano'andibo6s ddsE.2 aEaa Year
Pthe same" field ssab planted aii a6tton,
using two nha6dtea opodidS 'of iPaei6c
! guanoeto the acre9 butfrom some cause
twhich, Il capnot, comprehend athesserop
was aIshortiorie. .Bhhrseason dsFlaMted
the same Geld iDniJ prolific corn With
out uiahuresofEany RiEd ana Akesyield
has been such as TO satisfyoHlc that the
soil had q sSs sSs'aai9eeas lg9pdI portion Of the
chat the co corn 2sa got t6e a bepaciis ii Of 81 This
field produced, on an aysrage, thirty
bushels to the acre. There may be
something in the variety of corn, but
not all !; on the other fields that had mot
been previously guanced, the yield I was
| not more than Half. ,ssohss'A sac
1 Thus il is very plain to See that ma
nures, judiciously applied, are bot iex.
hausted BY the first CROP nor do the
rains wash them sway or leach htaen
through.'7f thsfain wash the feftiliz.
ing properties OF the soil ansas aAA .s1-.l.
1t is bad culture thas wassesslieA eAseiI, hot