The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-03-16
AGRICULTURE.

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! LEVEL CULTuRE.-At the beginning
Of farm life, in order to learn the most
|!mproved methods, employed a first
class farmer and gardener, fresh from
England. He persisted In mode of
cult Vation precisely the reverse of
what had been used to see--allowing
the mangels and sugar beets, the corn,
potatoes, peas, beans, cucumbers, mel
ons, tomatoes, cabbages, etc., to go
without hilling up. Manglcs and sugar
bcets stood high above the ground, the
dubious parts exposed to the sun, many
of the mangles falling over and grow
ing crooked. The part of tho cucum-
bsrs above ground which L insisted
was rather a root than stem, and
should be surrounded by earth was left
entirely exposed to the sun. / thought
the sun would parch the roots and they
would break or be injured when the
stem should fall from the upright to q
horizontal position. The. Englishman
would have his way, but agreed |
should treat somo Of each sort Of plants
In my own way. So n few Of all sorts
were hilled up, and fully as we'll
worked In other respects as his, during
the season. For a few weeks mine
grew as we'll rs his, and the cucumbers,
gathering of cucumbers, peas, etc, the
dry season set in, mine perished, while
his continued to bloom and bear; and
SO of the melons. My potatoes made
about half crop of small tubers, dug
from dry hills; his yielded bounteous-
ly or large ones, dug from moist earth,
at The same tire and In the same field.
SO with the mangels, sugar bects, etc.
they fired early in the season and sue
cumbed to tho drought. Without this
experience, If one had said that milling
up growing plants would have killed
them, should have joined in the re-
sponse Of a million farm ers, denouncing
1t as false and contrary to experience,
because they did not perish on tllc day
they were hiiled up. Ever since have
avoided hilling and ridging about grow
ing plants, and cultivated the soil as
lcYcl as possible.
THE osier willow will grow in almost
any soil or situation but to produce long
switches the ground must be good.
Ihhy arc very easily prOpagated from
cuttings of last seasons growth.
Make them ten or twelve inches long
and plant very early in the spring; rs
soon IT'S tile ground is settled. If they
are to make trees, plant them from 6 to
IL feet apart. If planted about ten or
twelve inches apart OH tho bank of a
ditch and kept trimmed they will make
an excellent hedge in few years, a,,..
the roots will prevent the banks from
washing away or being broken down.
me young growth makes excellent
withcs for tying bundles and many
things for which strings are USUALLY
employed. Nurscryhen appreciate
their value for this purpose and use
them almost exclusively for tying bum
dies OF trees. We would particularly
call tho attention Of farmers to this
cheap tying material for binding corn
fodder. For this purpose they should
be cut down every year and allow
young suckers to start from the root:
these will grow from four to eight feet
long during tho summer. We cannot
give any information as to the value or
profit or them rs an article of mcrchan-
disc, except that some persons tried 1t n
rev years ago, sail they had no diff
Guilty IN raising or preparing the will
lows LOWS for market, but they did not find
ready sale for them. There are several
varieties of osier willow in cultivation.
put SallX Vtminalis is the best.
WARTS ON llORSEs.-A correspond
ent OF an English agricultural journal
gives the following simple remedy for
curing warts of different kinds on
horses, mules, and cattle: Anoint the
wart three times with clean, fresh
hogs lard, about two days between
times. l have had warts on nv
horscs-blccding warts of large size,
rattlil.e warts, and seed warts. to
the number of more than one hundred
on one horses head. | have never
n find 2,
third application of the lard. All dis
appear after the second application.
For cuts, bruises. gals, &C., the appli-
cation OF fresh lard-cithcr for man or
Deast-is worth more than any patent
linimcnts IN use. It will remove pam
instantly, and does not irrttate raw
flesh, rs all linimcnts do.
FRUIT IN CELLARS. Fruit in cellars
Is likely to suffer from heat rather than
cold. In tho slow operate on Of ripcn-
Ing, heat and carbonic acid are given
OIL. Whenever tho temperature ap-
proachcs 40 degrees, the outer air, if
colder, should be let in to reduce It..
IN the house cellar the accumulation of
carbonic acid would be Injurious to the
health of the family, and it is highly
Important that this be removed by ven
~! lIuiI cellars apart tfOm
the house, this Is not necessary, as the
presence of this gas, so injurious to ami
mails, ls neutralizcd by the atmospheric
air.
IHEu OF dyna,natc for slaughtering
purposes is meeting with much opposi-
Cloh IN Europe, since such a method,
damages the heads Of animals valuable
ior sale as food, besides the time occu-
pied In arranging its application and
the FISK of injury to persons and prop
erty render the system less expeditions
than that of killing by the old method.
quite Uscful Engine.-A young grad.
nate III mechanical engineering Of the
iolytechnic College, in Philapelphia,
has recently designed steam fire an,