Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1873-08-14
IIie,a The Rwal Cd,oltnian for Aatgusi.
Thoughts for the Month.

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Most of our crops will soon be made
SO far as human labor, skill and fore
thought may avail. For the rest, we
must trust in Providence, preparing in
the mean time, to gather and save oil, be
it little or much, which may be given us
as reward for our toll. Let any clay
ing by that remains to be done, be care
fully and scrupulously attended to, es-
pecially thedate corn, of which we hope
a large area has been planted. Little
cotton picking will be done before next
month, (except Southwark OF this lati-
tude); but now is the time to get every
thing ready-gin-house and its machine.
cry, baskcts,sssacks, etc. Wheat, rye,
oats, must not be neglected this season,
and we trust preparations are made, or
making, for planting largely. Read
again the articles on "Small Grain,'' in
various back numbers. There is sound
advice in them from practical planters,
who speak from experience. experience.
Fodder-pulling, as we have often said,
does not pay under the present labor sys-
tenn. 1t is doubtful if it ever paid. Be
that as it may, there are many who can
not, or think they cannot dispense with
pulled fodder. If, then, fodder must be
pulled lett be carefully taken care of, and
properly cured. After it is stripped
from the stalks, it is often rendered
nearly worthless, in showery weather, by
bad curing. If you can get one days
good sun, or even less, you may bundle
in small sheaves, stack, and in few days
pull down again, as the weather permits,
and thus bring it through, looking toler-
ably bright even in unfavorable weather.
Sweet potatoes must not be forgotten.-
Pull up the weeds when you can no
longer use the hoe. Leave no means
untried to make syour crop a heavy one.
"Make hay while the sun Shines" and
turn everything to good use that will
serve for forage-crab.grass, pea-vines,
millet, sorghum, etc.-and don't spoil
your hay in the curing as is often done.
1t is the prevailing neglect inss this mat
ter, and not the lack of good material for
hay, that SO often makes the Southern
homegrown article SO poor. Our crab
grass-always abundant, as every farmer
knows to his sorrow~-though not the
best in the world-makes better hay
than the better part of that brought here
from the North and sold at heavy prices !;
but if cut after all the life has gone out
of it, and then exposed to dew and rain
for week or two, nobody can blame our
poor mules and cattle for turning up
their noses at it. In connection with
dry forage, do not neglect to have a
plenty of turnips. The Ruta Bagas
should have been planted in July in the
middle and upper country, but it is not
yet too late, if a stand has not been OBJ
tained, to SOW on rich, well prepared
land. See previous numbers for further
suggestions.
Colonel Waring, of Ogden Farm, who
has been travelling in Europe, and MAX
agricultural observations by the way,
was impressed everywhere by the close
economy that is practiced-economy in
land, manure, food-everything, in fact,
but labor, which is almost drug. "The
best of u.s." he says, "waste in every hun
dred acres, ground enough to support q
family in Germany, and manure enough
to support two families" We Ameri-
cans are m industrious, enterprising and
energetic people; but we-and especially
is this true of the people of the South
are not an economical people. We can
earn, but we have not learned to save.
In this we should allow the farmers &C
Europe to teach us q lesson.
1t is we'll now to keep in mind the au-
tumn fairs, and consider what you can
exhibit with advantage to yourself and
with benefit to the agricultural interests.
Whether fairs are benefit to the farmer
or not, is considered by many an open