The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-06-17
Commissioner of Agriculture.

- AL SACuauBo t6lls VI u udu WuO
plants two or three weeks after the crop
is planted, a new bill of corn every 6f.
teenlh row each way And this is the
reason. If the weather becomes dry after
the filling time, the silk and tassels both
become dry aud dead. In this condition,
if it should become seasonable, the silk
reviyes its growth, but the tassels do not
recover. Then, for want of pollen, the
new silk is unable to I'll the Office for
which it was designed. The pollen from
the replanted corn is then ready to sup.
ply silk, and the filling is completed.
He says nearly all the abortive ears, SO
common in all corn crops are caused by
the want of fpollcu, aud he has known
ears to double their size in this filing
E1.
A negro who borrowed money
enough of q Raleigh merchant TO get a
marriage license, explained his action by
saying that he had a pretty good sized
cotton crop, and had heard that the farm
hands talked of demanding more wages.
He had therefore looked about, and hav.
ing found healthy widow with three
able. bodied children would marry her
next Sunday and put the children to
work on the farm on Monday.
1t is important to know that cedar
brush lodged in fruit trees will prevent
the ravsges of the caterpillar. These
pestiferous insects will not weave their
webs in tree that has even few small
cedar twigs lodged in its branches. This
information we have from gentleman Of
Chester who has knowledge of the mat.
ter. Give it a trial and save your trees.
Chester Reporter.
- Mr.. Sam Williamson, living three
miles from Greenville, on Wednesday
unearthed a pot on his place containing
over $4,000. During the war the place
was owned by an aged bachelor refugee
from Charleston, and it is said he told
people in the neighborhood that he had
his money buried. He died and bis
body lies buried on the place.
= Companies that insure against loss
by wind storms are fast being organized
in the West. One of them has this ad-
vertisement in q Kansas City newspaper
ssThe black monster of the air has al
ready appeared in 1886. Take out tor.
nado policy in the Pioneer Cyclone and
Windstorm Company"
= The State Democratic Executive
Committee at its meeting on the Sth
instant decided that the Convention shall
meet on the 4th day of August next, and
it was determined that circular should
be issued to the several County chairmen,
urging an immediate and thorough
organization of their County organization
- Judge I. W. Hooper, judge Of
Munroe County, Ark, has gone to the
State penitentiary to stay two years, hav-
ins,been convicted of issuing fraudulent
County scrip. He will doubtless have q
cheerful meeting with some of the people
he sentenced to the penitentiary himself.
"A three year.old girl fell from the
balcony on the fourth floor of Hartford
house the other day, but she struck
squarely across a clothes line stretched
from the third floor, and the rebound
threw her into balcony there almost
unhurt.
A California farmer sent S. to q
man in the East in exchange for sig
gourd seeds warranted to produce gourds
Of a capacity of forty gallons. After
waiting long for the seeds to sprout, he
investigated and found that they were
artistically carved out of Eastwood. !.
- The Summerville Herald says: ut
is the wish of his friends to make Judge
Wallace Governor, with the view to
electing him to succeed Gen. Hampton
in the United States Senate"