The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1886-06-04

| FARMING IN SCoTLAND.-Worklngo on q farm
in Scotland is a different thing from farming
here. There We have got to learn from
boy up as we have to handle all sorts of ma
chinery. Some of the farms are 500 acres in
extent and employ man and double team for
every 90 acres, so that on some, ten men are
kept the year round. First-class men get from
thirty TO forty pounds year and free house,
| fuel, &c; second-class men get from G25 to ESQ
| and so on down to the tenth man, with the
understanding that only the foreman is married,
the rest living in room fixed off for them on
the farm. In another article l will give q de-
scription of the help, their food, SC. When
came to this country six years ago the old
fashioned way the majority of the farmers cul-
tivated their lands, the piling up Of stones in
the field, and spreading them out again when
ploughing, the slow laborious way in planting
pototoes and other things, struck me as funny.
On some Of the larger farms in Scotland n.
many MS 100 acres arc planted in eight to ten
days. Potatoes follow oats, and after the land
is thoroughly narrowed two teams begin on one
| side Of the field and with double mouldboard
ploushs make drills "a inches wide then come
| the manure teams, two TO three abreast. each
| throwing the manure into q single furrow as
the horses walk along; after this persons with
small forks spread tho manure more evenly in
the furrow. After the potatoes have been
planted, which is done by machine planting
two rows at time, the potatoes being cut by
hand first, two more teams split the drills right
| in tho middle rs to cover the manure and
| seed, the drills being as straight arrow.
When the potatoes are above ground they get
one or two cultivatings then are hilled up again,
(hardly any hocing being DONE with the mould
board plow. In the fall when harvesting We
| use . machine with two horses attached be-
| ginning on ono side of the ield it takes one
| drill at a time and goes backward and forward
throwing all the potatoes on the surface There
are number of women stationed along the
drills with small baskets which they fill and
empty into larger ones which are removed by
the team, as they get full. AS many ns six
acres q day can be done this way. The machine
| is constructed so that il has two big driving
wheels, one on either side of the drill from
| the centre beam there is fastened big steel
coulter, which goes under the drill a wheel
with sixteen spokes revolres very rapidly right
over the coulter throwing tho potatoes and dirt
| against q strong netting side of it, the dirt
passing through and the potatoes dropping in q
row ready to be picked up. c.
Cordaville, Mass. April 9th, 1886.
|
| A Western correspondent sends the
following:
recently listened to debate in one Of
tho school lyceums of this city, upon the
novel and momentous question of "womar
suffrage
The debator upon the "anti-woman n
side, was doubtless engaged in his first cf
fort and this fact, together with slight
impedimcnt Of speech, and a most original
series of arguments, combined to produce
one Of the funniest aud most unanswerable
speeches that | had ever heard. Here it
is almost in full:
"Ladies and gentlemen, the first thing
to find out is w-w-what man was IN IN ade
for, and what w-w-woman was made for
God created Adam first, and put him in
the garden OF Eden. T-then He made
Eve, and p-put her there, too. If liz
f hadn t c-c-created Eve, there never woult
have been all the s-s-sin there is now il
this w-w-world If He hadn't made Eve
she never would have p-p-picked the appl,
: and eaten it. N-n.no, she never woulc
have picked it aud g-g-siven it to Adam
to eat. Paul, in his Epistles say
women should k-k-keep still. And be
sides, Ladies' and gentlemen womcr
couldn't 6l the Offices d-d-defy 80,
one to p-point out n woman in this city O.
c-c-county that could be sheriff Would
f woman t-turn out in the dead of night t.
8 track and arrest a MIN. murderer sa,
no. Ten to one she ,oouM elope w-,o--,cW
him =
And amid thunders of applause and
laughter the gallant defender of man
rights triumpaanty took his seat.-Nar
pcr's Magazine /or May.
Montgomery, Ala, May :20.-Franci'
NJ. Taylor, Probate Judge of Winston
County, was impeaohed in the Suprem
Court of Alabama Yesterday. 1t wa