Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-04-07
Tugaloo Home.
April Sd, 1881.

Nessrs. Editors: - Extremes in any direo-
tion give rise to more interest than regular
n,onotonous routine Of every day aotualities,
and in the absence Of something better have
concluded to writo local for your erudite
columns, noticing some of the freakishness
of the weather Of late. It is an old saying,
If March comes in like lion it will 90 out
like lamb and Woo versa. but il there has
been any lamb like weather in March It must
have beon like ono TINT mover had q
shepherd. There is saying that tho Eat
of April is all FOOLS day. Last Friday
proved moro proverbial than March and
gaess II fooled moro people by boing one Of
the most unpleasant daye Of the season, in.
stcad of. being spring like as usual. Tho
wind blew perfect gallo all day and Sstnging
cold, and ut 6 O'Clock p. NJ. the mercury
stood at the freezing point; at 2 O'Clock A. NJ.
at go and at 6 A. NJ. at 24o! Last spring the
fruit crop was destroyed whilo the mercury
indicated 2Go Fab, but this season tho crop
has escaped a like fate with tho mercury at
240. 1t seemed cold enough to kill the trees
and noticed tho young buds on tho forest
trees are killed, yet wo will have plenty of
peaches in this locality if the weather is
favorable from now on. was at mill race
on Saturday after tho freeze up and eat iciclcs
at O'Clock p. NJ. and examined the blooms OF
peach tree in few feet of the ico and
found over half Of the blooms uniniured!
This sounds q little like tho old hunters yarn
who killed gobler so large when swung from
his shoulder the head dragged in the snow
in wheat harvest time. Whom demonstrated
at by a bystandor for speaking Of snow on
the ground in harvest time, after little ro-
aeotion tho old hunter remarked he believed
he had two tales little mixed. The past
winter has beon remarkable for changes, slop
and slosh, fog, seet and snow aud it would
seem that porigee or perihelion or both
might have had something to do with the
many changes. Tho weather begins to be
more genial now. There il q soft azure hue
porVades tho cloments; tho "voico Of the
turtle dove is heard in our land again," the
every direction preparing for big cotton
crop and we are impressed with hopo on, hope
evor.
Tho people in this section are bona 6de
on tho fence law question. Tho gates etaud
as n memorial of things that wore. and largo
woodland pastures have been built. This is
owing to surplus Of rails and surplus of
scrub stock and q kind Of graduation change
from all out Of doors to q pent up arrange.
mont. In ohor words, pcoplo ike to make
changes gradual. a decade of years or less
will vanish this absurdity and flno stock will
be enclosed On lots of cultivated grasses and
clover.
Much preparation is manifested with the
farmers in the way of thorough preparation
of the soil, buying guano. &c., for the crop
of 1881. This is commendablo. AS progress
and improvement is mado the demand is in.
creased and those that supply that demand
will surely bo remuneratod. Deep propara-
tion and shallow culture has enabled the
writer to DO succossful in the tillage of oil
crops, but by oil means los tho preparation
be doep, whether tho after work is deep or
shallow. Whore the subsoil is we'll broken it
makos the earth filter like, regulating tho
moisture as we'll as the temperature.
Everybody has had or will have the
mump,, if there proves enough for oil to
have them.
The High School at Fair Play, with Prof.
w. p. Calhoun rs principal and Miss Salliu
Barton assistant, has beon ovorw holming
this session, but tho mumps have thinod
the ranks some. In short time thcy will
return and fall into line again.
The wheat looks very small, which is a
favorable omen of good crop. Oats that
were sown in tho full arc very promising
FRANK.