Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-09-19

left waste. There arc no fonoes, no uuoul.
tivated hooks. 1t is divided only by
occasional drainage ditohes, aud tho drops
grow close up to the edges. As soon as
one crop has been harvested and conveyed
by tho train oars to the barns, preparations
are mado for another. Fortilizors nro
thoroughly spread and turned under.
Other machines break the ground and
prepare it for new seed, and before Mother
Earth can feel that one weight has been
lifted from her bosom, she is threatened
with another. Everything is done systom.
atioally and rapidly, yet without hoste.
Every crop is treated by itself 10 suoh
way that there is little or nothing left
to chance. If hay is to DO cut, it is oil
douc in one day, whom the prospect is fine.
IT rein is threatened, an army Of workers
rapidly places every straw under waterproof
covers, and no harm is done. Again it is
as rapidly spread and allowed to cure.
Then, before any injury can happen to it,
it is loaded up, run off to the weigh yard,
balod, strapped and stored, or else immedi-
atoly sent to bo sold, according to the state
of the market. If nightfall soems to
Interfere with the proper gathering of any
crop, electric lanterns arc so placed as to
light up tho feld and tho work goes
steadily on. Nature is made bond slave.
If sho smiles on tho farmers labors, sho is
allowed to do so without Interfering; but
if sho attempts to overturn his calculations
by any of the usual methods by which she
damages crops-storms, drouth, rains, &c.
she is made to stand nsido while artificial
aid is given to them. Is it too dry7 Omen
the irrigation pipes, aud sprinkle all tho
land with refreshing showers morning and
evening. Is it tco wet2 Open tho drainsand
haston off the surplus water. In an
elegantly kept park, surrounded by flower
gardens, stands the family house. It is
ouly one story in height, aud covers great
deal of ground. Thoro is no questioning
tho good taste of the occupants. While
comfort is apparent in every part, tlcro is
no lack of tasteful ornamentation. Thore
is luxuary without profusion, and elegance
without waste. Nine DeoanviIle is said
to bo lady of fino education and accom-
plishments, and her house shows her to be
of refined nature, 1t is comfortable
without being slipshod, stylish without
being stiff. In tho large hall, and in fact
oil around the house, are numbers of birds.
The gardens are miracles Of beauty. Aud
yet the mistress is no idler for all her
aesthetic tastes. She is tho manager of the
household, as her husband is the manager
of the estate; and from all accounts she is
no less successful She attends to oil the
household accounts, superintends tho
household work, and directs tho manage
ment of tho gardens and poultry yard.
She has large force of servants, both malo
and female, solely under her control, and l
understand that the profits of tho poultry
yard are all ceded to her for pin money.
At an early day shall pay another visit
for tho express purpose Of learning tho
details of cost and returns in this kind of
farming. Two thousand acres backed by
100000 and man of executive ability
and busines talent, ought to be worth more
than gold mIao. At any rate, NJ. Deoan.
Vile has found it so. ! ought to add that
he has built modorn village of moro than
fifty houses for his employees with Qo-ope-
ratiye stores.