Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-03-29
Of the Yerkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM UNION.

UNION, S. c., March 26.-Here is an item
on farming, which l think surpasses any
thing that has been published as yet, or at
least nothing has come under my observation
that equals it: Mr.. Smith Wood, living near
Pinckneyville, on Pacolet River, with two
mules, made last year the following fine
crop: II bales of cotton, averaging $50
pounds to the bale; 275 bushels of corn, 80
bushels of wheat and 400 bushels of oats.
Mr.. Woods farm is of a light gray sandy
soil, easily cultivated. He says he cultiVa-
ted about seventy-seven acres with the two
mules, that he used about $50 pounds of
fertilizer per acre on the cotton, and that
he sold the entire crop at an average of 9!
cents per pound. He told me that his crop
turned out better than he expected, and
that he would try to make thirty bales to
the mule this year.
A great many farmers have almost aban-
doned the use of soluble guanOs, and are try
ing acid I am told that the ingredients
of the acids and the soluble guanos are very
near the same thing, and if such is the case
I think it is wisdom on the part of the far
mer to use the acids, for the reason that he
will save from 25 to 33 per cent. of the
amount spent in fertilizers, I hear from all
sides that the acids last year paid as we'll or
better than soluble guanOS.
l am glad to say that the farmers are not
only ecOnomizing in the selection of grades,
&C., but they do not buy as much as they
formerly did. They begin to appreciate
pains are taken in saving and making ma
nure at home. There has been a great
saving in making the fertilizer for the crop
within the last year or two, because the sale
of commercial manureS has fallen off greatly
during that time, and the cotton crop steadily
increases every year. Some may say that
there is as much guanO used now as at any
time, but the price has been reduced, Well,
if this is true, let the farmers make more ma
nure at home, and they will force the gu
anO companies to sell their fertilizers still
lower. But | am sorry to say that the de-
mand for commercial manureS this year is
greater than it was last.
The oat and wheat crops are looking very
we'll now, but it is likely that this cold wet
weather will give them q back-set. The
fruit crop, think, is all killed now; If not,
it will be very inferior.
Mr.. Jas. II. GoSS has received the ap-
pontment of postmaster at this place, and
/ must say that there is no one whose ap-
pointment would give more general salts
faction. He is an efficient and accomoda-
ting officer. There were several applicants
for this office besides June Mobley, and /.
1unny tIlllS lltpeilcll W Ollc VI olSIi, q bSli-
ocrat- Radical -Greenbacker, who bears an
honored name. He got up a petition with
lot of names on it, went to Greenville, |
hear, and Robertson, Blythe and many of
that sort signed the petition. One day he
approached Bishop Dickinson, of Brooklyn,
Il, y, a colored man, who was inattendance
upon Conference here, and asked him toslgn
the petition. Dickinson said to him: s'Sir,
YOU will have to excuse me; have nothing
at all to do with politics, and even i'll did,
know nothing whatever about you; you are
an entire stranger to me-" We are all sat
isfied. Goss is the man we wanted to have
the office and he is the man who has it!
About three weeks ago, Mrs. EliZabeth
Fowler died at her home near Jonesville,
in this county, at the advanced age of one
hundred years, three months and four days.
The new Presbyterian Church is going
lp very fast, and it is thought that It will
be finished in May. The congregation
have sold their old church building to the
trustees of the public schools and school
will be opened in itsoon. The congregation
worship in Nicholson Hall until the new
church is completed.
Our recent complications in regard to the
appointment of treasurer for this county
have been finally adjusted by the reap
pointment of Mr.. John H. Gallman to
that Office. NICoLO.