Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-02-12
Correspondence Of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM BLACKS STATION.

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BLACKS STATION. s. C., February 9.-Af.
ter cold and disagreeahle spell for a week,
we are now having quite pleasant weather.
There is yet plenty of snow on the north side
of hills, and house tops. We have had sew.
eral heavy slides of snow from houses in town
since it commenced to melt. The slides would
fall to the ground with great crash, and
might have been dangerous to amy one stand
ing in their way. ..s..,.....
The insect continues to destroy the wheat
in this section. Some fields are completely
killed out, and farmers are despondent. I
have not learned the name of the insect, but
it is supposed to be diminutive grasshopper.
Some persons think that the wheat sustains no
further harm than the cutting off the stalk
above the bud, and that the plant will not be
permanently injured. Those who claim to be
informed on the subject, say the Hessian fly
does its injury by depositing eggs near the
bud early in the fall. In the spring the in
sect is Matched out and destroys the bud. The
only chance for crop, when this is done. is
for the stem to succor, which with favorable
weather in the spring, may result, and fair
crop be made. But as to what extent the fly
has done itsswork, or the injury done by the
present depredator, these are things yet to be
ascertained. The fall and winter weather was
so warm and favorable for their propagation,
that we must expect them to commit depreda-
tions on field and garden spring crops to a
considerable extent.
The shipments of guano To this place are
more than double the amount of any previous
wear, and the sales of the fertilizer are likely
to be equal to the quantity offered. The
merchants here are making extensive prepa-
rations for furnishing supplies to the farmers.
If the supplies to be bought abroad are to
measure our success, then the prospects are
favorable but if, with the present towering
prices that we are to operate under, the price
of the next crop of cotton should fall offa few
cents on the pound, the speculator would be
taken care of, because he would get his prices /;
as he makes his contracts in the beginning,
and is secured by the lien law, which is said
to have been enacted for the benefit of the
farmer only. Should the price of cotton de-
cline, suppose the farmer could stand it, as
he is the old sore. back horse that everybody
rides with golden spurs, and the farmers is
the only occupation that could support itself
within its own means. IF the farmers do not
economic and live independently as they can
do, the fault alone is theirs.
An agricultural club was organized in this
vicinity last Saturday, by electing Robert E.
Porter President, and VIM. D. CASTOR Secre.
tary. The association has a membership of
40 and is known as the Buffalo Agricultural
Club. Why not every township in the coun:
ty have an agricultural club, for their local
benefit, and in the fall have at our county
seat fair? There is no estimating the ben.
eft that would arise from such an association
of the farmers, and without such an organiza.
ton there cannot be much progress with them.
The Airline Railroad Company is making
preparations to register all lands for sale along
the line of the road, and will induce capital
its into the country to buy them. lhls 10 an
enterprise in the ri ght direction.
The Kings Mountain Iron Works Compa'
ny hold 1000 acres of land near here that
is dead monopo y and cannot be OF any
benefit to them or any one else while so held:
Could this property be divided up and sold
in small lots, it might be made valuable as
farming land.
A proposition is about being made to the
owners Of the property, by parties who wish to
erect cotton factory on Broad river, that the
present owners grant the privilege of the
water power and the necessary land adjacent,
to be valued and entered as stock in the COM
pany. This would be better than the profit
less and useless condition Of the land. 1t
will soon be seen what the proposition will
effect. The creditors who hold the property
will meet at this place on the 1st day of
March next, for the purpose, they say, OF
selling the lands
Mr.. Ira Hardin left here yesterday on
visit to Mississippi and Arkansas
j. A. Deal, Esq, one of our representatives,
started to-day for Columbia, to be present at
tho convenino of the extra session of the