The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1881-04-15

will be joyful news to the editors of this
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Old maids, feather beds, and inflated bal.
looms are unavailable.
John Smith gets hisymail from GA, 4,279'
Pos' Offices, hence letter dgected to John
Smith, United States, will reach him.
When caoay is sent through. tho mails
II is earnestly requested that both ends
OF the package be left open so that The
employees of the Post Omcsa.may test its
quality.sS. ..... y. s
Babies can be sent MS third class sisattcrt
provided sucking bottles and napkins accom-.
pany them,
Eggs are not mailable uulessl they are
fresh; and should they become chickens on
transit they become the property of the Post
Office Depot =
When you enclose money order in n
letter always write full and explicit di-
rections in the same letter, so that any
person getting the letter can draw the
money. A,E
Alligators over ten feet in length are not
allowed to be transmitted by mail. -
Young ladies who desire to send their
Saratoga TRUNKS by mail to watering
tify she Postmaster General at once IL They.
must not be over seven feet long by thirteen
high.
Garlic, Onions, Assatoedita, Gum Cam
phor, Swiltzer, Limberger, and iSapsagc
sent through the mail should be Jleft open at
the ends.
Butter and lard are mailable only in tire
Summer months. Wrap them in fold OF
tissue paper open at both ends. The butter
must have all the hair c)mbed out of it.
When you enclose money to any of the
parties on the official list of frauds please say
little prayer.
Letter carriers are required to have pcne.
tratlon enough to know when letters should
DC delivered to jealous wives, hence if he
delivers letter from your girl to your wife
you can have him discharged.
The placing Of stamps upside down OH
letters is prohibited. Several postmastcrs
have recently been seriously injured while
trying to stand on their heads to cancel
stamps placed in this manner.
SMALL FARMs.--A writer who SC ,n,s to
have given the subject much thought, saws
many farmers have an idea that the reason
why they are not much more successful in
their business is because they own only very
small farms. They think that if they had
three or four times as much land as thew
now have their profits would be largely in,
creased. Probably ninety nine Of these
men make serious mistake, where there is
one who is correct in his conclusions They
have land enough already. Many of them
have great deal too much, for they run
over the whole Of it and get small crops,
while if they had less, they would cultivate
it better and obtain larger returns. 1t is
not tho number Of acres, but the manner
in which they arc titled, which tells ON thc
profit and loss account. Some farmers OBJ
tain larger income aud larger profit
from thirty than others do from seventy.
live acres Of equally good land. 1t seems
to be one OF the greatest mistakes of Amer
lean farmers that they arc continually striv-
ing to get more acres under their control
and paying too little attention TO the thor.
oush tillage of the land they already own.
The more they have the more they want,
and the less careful they are to cultivate it
well. They do not increase their facilities
for making CT obtaining fertilizers as fast as
they enlarge the area Of their farms.
Many man would be better off ten wears
hence if he would now sell one. third or even
one-half of his land and use the money
thus obtained for the payment of his debts,
or in the improvement Of what land re-
niained, than he will be to drag along with
the whole. Hc has not capital enough to
carry on his business in profitable manner
lie cannot make needed improvements be.
cause he has not the means with which to
pay for them. His money is locked up in
land which he has not capital enough to
properly manage. He cannot pay cash,
and for everything which he buys he is
charged from ten to twenty pc: cent too
much, and is constantly harassed with debts
and business perplexities. He would be
much more happy and prosperous with less
land ind freedom from these annoyances.-
Thirty or forty acres, besides wood lot, if
properly managed, would return u larger
net profit than the average Of the large
farms which are now so common And
these small farms could be managed by the
owner and one or two of his sons, or hired
man, and thus much of the perpexity and
trouble of having hired help would be
avoided. 1t would make less work in the
house, and not only promote the happiness
and prosperity of the farmer, but also be a
benefit to his wife and family.
Earthy mold should never be washed
from potatoes, carrots or other roost until
Immediately before they are cooked.
Kerosene will make the tin tea-kettle as
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