The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-10-04
Hints for the Month.

If every section of tie country had suf.
farrd as this has from drought. IL would
take regular Irish hints 10 encourage
farmer to do anything this month. We
had but single shower from the 10Th
July to the 18th September, and conse-
quently have but little cotton to gather.
and may have little else worth housing.
Nevertheless good time may be coming,
and hence we should not despair but
work with will, and prepare ias far as
possible against the inclement winter
ahead of u.s. AS rapidly MS possible cot
ton should be picked and packed rs to
the selling we are in doubt. It surely
can go no lower; every indication Is, that
it will 90 higher before March; esrscia!-
ly if it leaves the farmers' hands. The
producer never will control the price Of
cotton until he sells it Mt his ginhouse.
When buyers come to the farm to buy,
and then pay the farmer for delivering al
the depot, no may look for the price of
cotton being act by the producer. But
as long 80 it is iiaWked a6Out for safe the
buyer has the inside track. The farmer
vino loses day with wagon and team
and hired hand, hauling cotton to the
depot, had better take One.eighth of a
cent lesa for it at his ginhouse, and use
his team and hired lab0rcr otherwise on
the farm, for this month has twenty.seven
valuable days in it.
Corn should all be gathered and housed
before the cold of winter sets in. Peas
/ shouid be picked aud late Pua vines Cit,
cured and housed. Sow oats even on o
head wherever cotton has grown. Give
two shovel burrows to run around the cct-
ton, SOW the oats, and then with shovel
| n md rvtua 4 4.
| two burrows to throw out the middles and
cover the oats. With nine plouehs we
sowed twenty acres in this way in O deg
and o half in the second week of Septem-
Der, and now have beautiful stand.
Sow wheat az early this month rs practi-
cable, and II the crop is at all promising
during the winter prepare to dress it in
February with 100 20 $50 pounds of
superphosphate per acre, and run over it,
rs soon as the fertilizer is sown, with q
tvo-horse harrow. With this treatment
we made twenty-fIur bushels of u .leat to
the acre last season on old I'd land!
Read carefully the published letter of
Maj. r. A. Griffin on wheat in cotton
land, and If you have only gray land try
DR.. Rayenel's cash Element" idea.--
Don't attempt to grow wheat for sale, but
determine to buy no more -four.
Ii wheat is sown in corn land, much
more pioughing is necessary, simply ue.
cause the land is not in so g,.pd q t;ltf, as
when planted in cotton. On corn lard
broadcast forty bushels cott0n seed per
acre; plough in, SOW one bushel wheat,
previously soaked, five bushels wheat
to one of bluestone for twelve hours) per
acre, and cross-plough to cover. Top
dress and harrow, as above, In February.
Barley aud rye should now be sown
the latter for calf pastures, and the for
ner on the ricSes. land on the place,
highly fertilizt\j, to make POLLING iots for
spring ure. We have often said that
green barley. in March and April uill
come nN-:rer making an old mule young
than any possible treatment that can be
given him the land, however, taust be
very rich.
This is the month in which to gather
sweet potatoes. Take time, for ft is 5
laborious job to shave down the vines as
soon as the potato iB matured, land thaN
will usually grow till the first frost, iEtc
the valley between the beds, and cover
then plough out the potatoes. chose
vines are fine manuring fer next years
crop. In gathering the potato make
three piles-the cut potatoes, The eating
and tho seed--each 70 themselves. Bar.
rel the two last and eat the hrst as econ
as possible. If you have dry, cellar put
the potatoes In there on bed of etraw OF
shueks, cover with the same, and sat as
aoedeG. With no other care we have
thus kept them sound until eaten up The
following spring, for the past three years,
Lend an eye, as well as q helping hand,
to the stock, and particularly vonr coWs,
IF you have more than You can keep cam
fostably during the winter butcher and
sell If at all fat, or sell ON the hoof at
whatever you can get. Better erIlnomy
and sruer humanity is to sell a caw now in
beef ior o song, than TO keel, '.rr TO
shiyer away the long cold ~ e.,is n.swin-
| ter in poverty ana pain while YOU. are
snugly housed and warL,ly wr. ppcd be-
tween the blankets.
Make every effort to do fall plpughing.
Now is the time TO turn under the stub
bic fields. 10 do this job we'll don't