The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-06-25
Remarkable Stalk OF Cotton.

Yesterday q stalk Of upland cotton taken
Tom o Thirty acre field near Gadsden,
some tVeuty miles below this city. The
stalk 10 remarkable one for any season
In this vicinity. Il Is, by careful meas.
urement, thirty-two inches in height, and
by close count has City forms and two
blooms. The stalk appears TO us to be q
hybrid Of the cluster and common varie.
ty. 1t has evidently made rapid gtowth
ih the last fifteen days, as is shown by
the openness of it's limbs. Such stalk
would reach over fye feet In height by
the 4th Of July. A field OF such cotton
should have five feet between the rows
and nothing less than three feet between
the stalks. This would give about 5000
stalks to the acre. With 100 good
average pods gathered to the stalk this
would show 100000 pods gathered, and
with 100 pods to the pound of cotton in
the seed, just 900 pounds of lint, or two
good marketable bales of 450 pounds
each.
In crops of such growth distance is all
important and no crop Of rank growth
can possibly make anything like full
yield without it. We recall here an
incident often told as an illustration Of
courage in handling cotton crops OF
abnormal growth. The late Captain
Huguenin, of Upper St. Luke's, had q
field Of cotton on Bear Island. Year
after year he had lost crops upon il owing
to overgrowth, though the plants prom
ised an overwhelming yield. One season,
when most promising he made close
inspection Of the field, accompanied by
his experienced oyerseer and trusted
driver. He saw an immense growth and
at once ordered everyDther stalk cut out
with sharp axe, 30 as not " disturb the
roots of the remaining plants. He
visited the field again shortly afterwards
and seeing still an enormous growth ne
| ordered, against the strenuous protesta-
tions of the overseer and driver, every
third row cut out. The result was an
enormous crop, and Bear Island proved
| gold mine ever afterwards. Other
planters on the coast had the same ex.
perience and it il we'll known that in
the Mississippi bottoms the distance
between the rows is six and seven feet
with full distance between plants on the
row. There can be no doubt about it,
the cotton plant mus! have sun and mir
and if It is crowded It will not often give
half the yield that /! would with proper
space.
Of course this matter requires judg.
ment and that common sense in the con.
duct OF the crop, which is worth piles Of
all other sense TO any planter.
| We would like to see two acres of this
thirty acre field eXperimented on-one oi
them given the usual distance and the
other stretched to the utmost distance
which judicious experience would
warrant Columbia Register.
= A colored preacher, who had beer
put on trial before jury in DarieD, Ga.
for some offenge, was brought in no
guilty tho other day. Tho defendant
said: "Read that again" "Not guilty.
was repeated. With spring be bounded
into the air, giving vent to religious eiac.
ulations. The colored women, who
crowded the court room, set up hallelu
jah chorus, in which the preacher Joined
aud the judge had to sit still and let them
have it out.
= The people OF Pickens County be
lieve in railroads, and are willing to pay
for their building. They are now paying
a tax of 81 mills on the dollar on account
Of their subscription to the Air Line
road, and in several townships they hav.
recently voted to be taxed per cent
upon their property for the purpose O
completing the Carolina, Cumberland
Gap and Chicago road.
= A special from Dalton, Ga, say.
that Lem Jones, dsreputable citizen o.
Spring Place, Murray County, Ga, wht
has persistently refused to provide for hi
family, was taken from his home OH Sat
urday night and terribly hogged by (
party of twenty masked men. He wa
told that if he did not do better the dost
would be repeated.
= 1t is reported that General G. w. C
Lee had resigned the Presidency Of tn,
Washington and Lee University at Lex
ington, Va. It is stated tonight, upor
the highest authority, that General LIE,
has rendered his resignation in conse
quence of i'll health, but it is believed
that some arrangement will be made 4
relieve him.
- Five hundred and forty.one Nor
mons sailed from Europe on Saturday
bound for the United States. Tho ma
trimonial industry In this country cnr
never thrivo 80 long as the mcnopolis
Saints are allowed TO import paupe
wives free of duty. A prohibitory tariff
should be promptly enacted for the pro
lection of the home market.
= Agriculture must have been in &
backward state In the eighteenth century
on the banks of the Potomac, since, it il
new stated that George Washington haG
one hundred covs and yet was compelled
to buy butter. 4 hat reads moro like 6
Texas than Maryland yarn.
George A. Flyers. of Baltimore, {
white man, has been convicted of beating
his wife while aha was in delicate con
dition of health. He was sentenced t
receive fifteen lashes, and to four month,
In. jail. :, He is tho second white man
sentenced 10 The iash for wife.beating.
= 1t 10 estimated that forty leading
hotels in New York entertained au aver.
| age of 5000 transient guests daily. In
Guiding tho lodging houses, it is believed
that not less than $4,000 transient guest.
find q resting place In New York every
night
- 1t is said that 955 farms in Iowa art
owned by women, and that twenty dairy
farms are managed BY women. Their,
are 126 women physlcians and five womeI
attorneys. .at.law in the State.
= BY actual count said to have beer
made there recently, 22.30s vehicles
passed a certain point on Broadway, New
York, between tho hours of n. Nd. ant
l6P.m. 3
Five colored school teachers hav,
been indicted at the present term Of
court in Aiken for forgery.
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