The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1881-01-21
WORK FOR THE moNTH.-JANUARY.

'hS S'SC'ihSo appropriate IO tllc season. anC
wish all of them y Happy New Year, fruit
iul seasons and abouuding crops, will
health, prosperity and happiness.
This is an appropriate and, indeed, nat
ural time at which to perfect plans for the
year to come, looking backward as well II:
forward that the lessons which experience
teaches may guard against crrors--as i'm
pOrtant to be avoided as to achieve successes
Survey the ground before you consider the
means at your command and do not attcmp,
too much, certainly not more than you can
fairly expect, with the forces you have avail
able, to carry out in good time and proper
order y seasunablc thing to do aud ono
which, if done, will often bring its owu re-
ward, is to.
OPEN AN ACCOUNT BOoK-Not ncccs
Sarily full aud regular system Of book.
Keeping, but, at least, an tcmizcd memo,
randum of receipts aud expenditures from all
sources. The same book may serve use.
iul purpose also in ailording place, always
convenient, fur recording mcnorandums of
farm operations also for entries of many
items which it is not wise or safe to leave
to memory the dates Of engagements Of
hands and wages agreed upon; petty sales
for which payment is deferred, and Il thou
snd items which are Lester made matters of
record for future reference. This, too, is Il
fitting time for taking an inventory of live
stock, machinery, tools, crops unSold and
on hand, and other assets aud this may
pr'pcrly be entered in such Il book. At
the end of the year, by comparing receipts
and expenditures, Il farmer may thus see
how he stands y book where such entries
may be made, conveniently ut hand, will in
future years always have an interest, and
faithfully used, will contribute to the salts
faction Of running i;lrm.
DRAINS.-Do not neglect the water fur
rows in your grain fields, but examine them
that nothing accumulatcs To stop the free
discharge Of surplus water, as nothing more
Injuries til; wheat plant than accumulation
of water around the roots
MANCRES AND CoMP0SrS - Materials
for compost plies may readily be collected
at many odd intervals when "A hand and
team can readily be spared for the work
There is long list of substances, available
on almost every farm, which, accumulated
and MIXED with manure from the stables.
Will largely increase, and ut no great cxpc isc,
the plant food at your disposal Road scrap.
ngS, leaves, 5 'a-wccd, the wastes from the
@&PSs,s h&9HPSSss, jtlkI 1d up f' Poultry manure had
better be kept to itself, i'll Xcs or barrels,
under cover, mixed with dry earth or coal
ashes, and used in the vegetable garden.
WAGONS, IMPLEMENTS, &C.-Do not
delay until the time for their use is almost
or quite at hand, but ut once hava amy ne
ccs>ary repairs made, 81 that when needed
,.l, 60
ing bolts, &c.
We have thought that it would do no
harm to repeat what has been 50 often said
in the Farmer about improving the breeds
of our d 'mcstic animals. feeling rs we do
that about the first of the year all of our
many readers arc more apt to make good
resolutions than at any other one period of
the year. "Thinkiny that now | will try
To make some changes for the better, for
the next year what can | spend some OF
my savings of the past year in that will do
me tie mcst good :" We onSw"r mast IN
hc<dotiy!y, in mothiny MH wW mahc "
! greater return than to improrc tie drcclS
nI !yow domestic dnimnL.
Now that the couutry.is So full of reliable
breeders who make ii specially of raising
| anu i'l'P'oN'"S INC p'''tH vi an "''''''''
animals. the close competition c"mrrlN them
to sell at much more reasonable pricc than
Formerly. Take for instance the price at
which you can obtain thnr"nShhrcd male
pl" of undnuh,cd purity OF blood, one that
will bc sure to ma kc Il mark on all the pro-
gcny, no matter how poor the female pa
rent Is In what other way Is 1t possible
to invest SO small sum that Will BRING IN
a better return and at the same time DC
able 1" see 1t 80 soon In year from the
time the PiS Is bought, with rraS"hap'y S"ou
care Sc c;p have IA numerous herd OF hail
blood p'SS th"t are sure t" pay well Tor cen
| crOlIS feed. an. VIII at the S|mC time be 4