The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1877-06-08
HOW TO CATCH A BEAU.

How to catch n beau?
Surely you, winsome lassic--
Surely you should know.
Let me tell you, Ell PEASANT,
That there are many ways,
But will only mention to you
Those that win mems praise
When your friend drops in to see you,
Greet with happy face,
Laugh and sparkle brightly
With your rarcst grace;
But, with all your pleasant humor.
Though you wear fine lace,
Ne'er forget your mothers labors
And her careworn face.
Learn to labor-help your mother
In the household cares
Learn to bake, to cook and iron
Don't learn idle airs.
True, man does not deserve you
If he'd make you slave;
But recollect that men, tho rich,
Love women who can save.
Learn to be good, true women
Master every art
That TO home and those you love best
Pleasure eau impart:
School your mind and heart and fingers,
Learn what you should know,
And then you need ne er ask the question
How to CATCH n beau?
SWEET PoTATOES.-Andn now for the
potato patch, as we call it. Plough your in
tended potato patch two or three times, be-
fore setting out draws, having it in rows
Plough and reverse, getting the soil i'll fine
tilth When the time is near for setting
out, take single shovel plow, open your
beds to the depth of three inches, put lit
tie pure stable manure in the trench, and
await the rain If the rain docs not come,
set out with water-halfa pint to each hill
the earth being pressed firmly around
the potato root and little dry earth sprink-
led arc und ,hc top ground. Next is the
setting out-somc say one foot, some say
two feet, apart; say four inches. The best
cultivation is to plough your potatoes all the
time, pulling the earth up around the little
plants with the hoe the first working. New
er bar off, thereby saving the small roots
which make potatoes, and saving onc-half
the ploughing. In 1876 made $50 bush
els sweet potatoes on one.haf acre of land
by this modc-giving one hocing, or pulling
up with the hoe and two ploughings to the
potatocs.-P. l. Tanner.
Chicken CnoLERA.-For few years my
chickens died so rapidly that | abandoned
all care of them thinking it labor lost. In
1872 commenced feeding with air Stacked
lime | lost a very few that summer. In
the summers of 1873 and 1874 lost none
at all by that disease. put hall Il pint in
n vessel and filled it with water Cor milk If
had it) and put it for them to drink. AS
they drink off the top fill it up again
Sometimes mix half pint with peek of
stirred. up feed and give them. The lime
also helps to form the shell for laying hens
/ give them lime two or three times a month
and always when | see any signs of the dis
ease. | raised about twenty dozen last
summer, and healthier, brighter looking
chickens | never owned Hiiunn Farm
Low RENT FOR FARMS.-Ncw England
farmers must have hard row to weed II
this life. The majority OF them are tenants
and Boston paper says, the land OF mora
ideas is dotted all over with farms that have
been run down hy two or three successive
generations of owners who have rented tc
changing tenants until at present hundred
acre farms are everywhere in market to rent
That paper says, "thc pastures VIII summer
two or three COWS and horse poorly, AND
the upland fields and lowland swalcs will
cut hay enough for winter supply for the
same number Of animals, leaving ton OF
two of the best to be sold iu market towards
paving the rent" What farm in the South
cannot do better for both owner and tcnan
than these New England farms:
TIL. inunGation Of III, which swcp
away great part of the old Tyne Bridge
Newcastle, Ene Gland, was long remembered
and alluded to with emphasis as ''the flood
4 few years later MIR. Adam Thompson
was put into the witness box ut the .Asslzes
The counsel asking his name, received TO
apswcr-". Adam. sr,--Adam Thompson.
Where do you live 2" AT Paradise
sir" Paradise was village about n nile ant
half west OF Newcastle, but now closcl,
adjoining the town. "Ard how long have
or ,AYcl il ParnHt$Sc agriHt$ the he rG5d GSnI pVWGa va M
reply.
\ man down East returned his news
paper to the printing Office with ',jackass'
written on the margin. and in the next is
sue the editor stated the fact, and wound