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

| 80 SSSaohu 10 ulueEcut tnlUR from farming
here. There We have got to learn from q
boy up as we have to handle all sorts Of ma
ehinery. Some Of the farms are 600 acres in
extent and employ man and double team for
every 80 acres, so that on some ten men are
kept tho year round. First-class men get from
thirty to forty pounds year and free house,
fuel, &C.; second-class men get from E25 to ESQ
and so on down to the tenth man, with tho
understanding that only the foreman is married,
the rest living in room fixed off for them on
the farm. In another article will give de-
seription of the help, their food, SC. When I
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 fields and spreading them out again when
ploughiug, the slow laborious way in planting
pototoes and other things, struck me as funny.
| On some Of tho larger farms in Scotland as
many as 100 acres are planted in eight to ten
days. Potatoes follow oats, aud after the land
| is thoroughly narrowed two teams begin on one
| side Of the fold and with double mouldboard
ploukls make drills "a inches wide then come
| the manure teams, two to three abreast, each
| throwing the manure into Q single furrow as
shO hSAsoo VAIN oionB utIcT persons Win
small forks spread the manure more evenly in
the furrow. After the potatoes have been
planted, which is done by q machine planting
| two rows at q time, the potatoes being out by
hand first, two more teams split the drills right
| in tho middle 30 as to cover the manure and
seed, the drills being as straight as an arrow.
When the potatoes are above ground they get
one or two cultivatings then ere hilled up again,
(hsrdly any hoeing being dons,) with the mould
board plow. In the fall when harvesting we
use machine with two horses attached; be-
ginning on one 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 teams IS they get full. As many as six
acres day can be done this way. Tho machine
| il constructed so that il has two big driving
| wheels, one ON either side Of tho drill from
| the centre beam there is fastened big steel
| coulter, which goes under the drill wheel
| with sixteen spokes revolves very rapidly right
over tho coulter throwing tho potatoes and dirt
against 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
the school lyceums of this city, upon the
novel and momentous question of "womar
suffrage"
Tho debatsr upon the "anti-woma a
side, was doubtless engaged in his first ef
fort and this fact, together with sligh,
impediment Of speech, and 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 m-mado
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 He
hadn't c-c-oreated Eve, there never would
have been all the s-s-sin there is now in
this w-w-world. If He hadn't made Eve,
she never would have p-p-pioked the apple
and eaten it. Nn.no, she never would
have picked it and g-g-given it to Adam
to eat. Paul, in his Epistles says
w-w-women should k-k-keep still. And be-
sides, Ladies' and gentlemen, women
couldn't 6ll the Offices. I d-d-defy any
one to p-point out woman in thi, city or
c-c-couuty that could be sheriff. Would
q woman t-turn out in the dead of night to
track and arrest m-m.murderer? e? 1 say
mol Ten to one she WouH elope w-,o.-,oiM
himE'
And amid thuuders of applause and
laughter the gallant defender of mans
rights triumpdantly took his seat.-Har-
per's Magazine for Nay.
Montgomery, Ala, May :20.-Francis is
NJ. Taylor, Probate Judge Of Winston