The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1873-04-05

the forces of the plant are all directed
to making weed-afterWards these are
diverted into fruit making channels.
But nature will brave its course aud
time n,uat he given for the 6Ist to com.
plets its work, ero the It'd, turns.
Certain poculiart;es of cur clim ito
must also be considered in tlls cpLnec-
tion drought rarely fails to occur in
July or August. The result is suspon-
sisn of vegetable ac,ivity-grouth and
fruiting are brth arrested. Previous to
this. the conditions for making fruit are
geaeraIly favorable. With an early
start therefore good "bottom" crop is
almost ccrtsin-much mere so than
either "middle" or top GRIP. AS
young plants arc not 90 much affect ed
by drought as old ons very late
planted crop, may Somtimos pass u,
checked through drought aud make n
= g"od late crop, but tho chances are in-
ferior to those Of AN early plan. cd cue.
BY the way of question: Do our
farmers take these uuguzines7 Or do
they say Cant fud time to road ?" Or
arc they opposed to book farmiu. ?"
ooh, pshaw" NO here some old Eel
low cay, ''What does bo,,k farming
amount to?" Well, now, what ia book
farming? When did this prejudice
against reading originate? II We go
back twenty FIVE years, when it was sup.
possdlthut nobody bit proressio nal
nan could write for tho papsrs, and
when the first agricultural papers we're
DEF endent on the contributions of
"theory men," thoro night be soms
reason To distrust tn sir value Bit tirn es
have changed some in twenty fvo years
Readers have become thinkers; thinking
loads To talking, and it his been ,li.cov-
cred that man who can tslk can also
write his talk; aud as result, our pa.
per to-day are fillei with the expert :nce
of practical men. Theory, un'uppor
ted by experience soon e1,,un'or, a
stumbling bio ok Publishers have learn
ed his fact and that their su.ccs, dc
pends upon the ability to discr min ste
in the scl,ctiou Of sound .:,a,ter OF pub
LEGATION:
And the farmer can't find time to
read Can tho mechanic find timo TO
learn his trade ? Better by far that
one half Of each day be spout, if nccess.
airy, to l,arn how to dn The w.,rk to bs.t
advantage before undertaking it. One
ac.s we'll titled will produc, more profit
than three cultivated in tho usual slip
shod manner. This has been demon.
strated hundreds Of timcs, aud nas be.
come an admitted truth !; yet the whole
lanI abounds with farmers too lazy, to O
negligent to study the more successful
method. The one thing nscdlul t. pro
tect the farmer from tn: imp ,si,iou of
m"nol.olics and elevate his calliue to ito
proper position among the productive
industries, is more reading.
Were the Agricultural Sue ic,ic< to
expend one half the present amount paid
in premiums, in distributing among the
farmers Of their respective counties the
standard agricultural paper', th-J woull
pus in motion an influence fur soud
which all OF their previous efforts have
never accomplished
1t is justice to ycn.ark right here,
that We have in our own State one of
these very practical Agricultural Maga
zines. 1t is the "Rural Carolinian,"
published bp walker, Evana 4 Cogs.
we'll. Price So per year, Write for i. /,
Done? Well we have flushed our
chat. We notice great deal of guano
this year arriving at and being carried
into the country from 0ss:rscbtirg Bo
carsful. Not too much
The extra cotton YOU mak will just
about pay for the gu,no! Won't
h2 We heard gentleman, who
has had considerable experience, II mark
the other day, as a wagon laden with
the rcdolent phosphate passed; "If the
s4n'c ha aulins was done in bringing in
straw inr.r ehs lot, Is it takes to carry
thcS' tertiizers hons it weuld pay mach
better"