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 intn fruit making channels.
But nature will brave It's course aud
time must be given for the fi,st to com.
plete its work, ero the tide turns.
Certain poculIart'cs Of our elm, to
must also be considoroi in this cpnnec-
tion drought rarely fails 10 occa: ;a
July or August. The result is suspon.
sisn of vegetable ac.ivi,y-growth and
fruiting are 18th arrested. Previous to
this, the conditions for making fruit are
generally favorable. With an early
start therefore good "bostom" crop is
almust ceriain-much mere SO than
either . "middle" or "top" GRIP. AS
young plants are not 80 much affect ed
by drought as old one very late
planted crop, may somtimos pass III
checked through a drought and make
a g"od late crop, but tho chances are in.
ferior to those Of an early plan. ed sua.
BY the way of question! Do our
farmers take these magazines? Or do
they say "Caut fnd time to road ?" Or
arc they opposed to book farming ?"
ooh, pshaw" wo hero some old rel
low cay, ''What does bonk i,rming
amount to?" We'll, now, what is book
farming? When did this p, ejudice
against reading originate? If We 20
back twenty Eve years, when it was sup.
Possdlthat nobody bit a prorssso nal
nan could write for tho papars, and
when the frat agricultural papers were
delendent on the contributions of
"theory men," thcro might be some
reason to distrus, th,ir value BIT tim 90
have changed soms in twenty fve years
Readers have become thinkers; thinking
loads to talking, and it h1s been li>cov-
cred that man who can tslk can also
write his talk; aud as result, our pa.
per to-day are fillol with the cxpcri:nco
Of practical men. Theory, un.uppor
ted by experience soon e1,oun'sr, a
stumbling bio ck Publishers have learn
cd his fact and ti.,t their su.ces, dc
pcnds upon the ability to discr' min ste
in the scl,ction Of sound matter of pub
LEGATION:
And the farmer cant find ime to
read Can the mechanic 6nd timo to
learn his trsdc2 Better by far that
Que half IF each day be spout, if necess.
ary, to l.arn how to d. the w,,rk to best
advantage bsf"ro undertaking it. One
acre well titled will produc, more profit
than three cultivated in the usual slip
shod manner. This has been demon
strated hundreds Of times, aud nAs be.
coms an admitted truth yet the whole
land abouudA with farmers too lazy, too
negligent to study the more successful
method. The one thing necdul to pro
tect tho farmer from the imposition of
msHoI.olics and elevate his calling to it's
proper position among the productive
industries, iS more reading.
Were the Agricultural Sua icties to
e1pend one halfthe present amuunt paid
In premiums, in distributing among the
farmers Of their respective couutis. the
standard agricultural paper,, th.y woull
put in motion an influence for good
which all OF their previous efforts have
never accomplished.
1t is Justice to remark right here,
that We have in our own State one of
these very practical Agricultural Maga.
zines. It is the "Rural Carolinian,"
published bp Walker, Evans & Cogs.
we'll. Price per year Write for it
Done? Well we have flushed ouy
eirat. We notice great dsal of guano
this year arriving At and being carried
into the country from oas:s5cbt,rg 30
careful. Not too much :
The extra cotton you max will just
about pay for the gn,no! Won't
l2 We heard gentleman, who
has had considerable eLpariencs, mark
the ether day, az a wagon laden With
the rcdolent phosphate passed; "If the
sAne hauling was done in bringing in
straw into, sbs lot, rs it takes to carry
thcss fertilizers home it xeuld pay mach