The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1886-03-12

levcl-hcalcd ihrmcrs-and farmers who
succeed are llyel-hcadcd-arc the ones
who do not have their smoke houses, corn
cribs ana hay and fodder stacks in the
West, aor their fertilizer piles in the wares
house Of some distant city, but are farmers
who realized the vast aud varied resources
that arc placed SD near them, and who use
natures abundant resources to make their
crops-we say crops, because they make
their own provisions regardless of the cx>
ira labor that may be cntalcd upon them
but are ever mindful of the terrible bug.
bear and incxnrablc mastcr-dcbt. 1t is
useless t. say wc have entirely cotton
prod lcing country. 1t is proved every
day tha, there is money in farming, but
not in the ali cotton farm. Raise all you
need on the farm, and then plant several
acres Of cotton for surplus money. Cotton
must be the surplus crop. Reduce the
acreage Of cuttor ouc>half and manure aud
care for your land, and in three years YOU
will raise equally as much as before the re-
duction, and not work as hard. 1t requires
poor crop than good one.
Make your manurcs at home. The vile
and fraudulent compound sold to you as
guano is not worth hardly the labor it takes
to haul it to your farms. Rcplcnisa your
lands with grasses, pca-vincs and other
manurcs that contains living substantial
| tood-somcthing that will give bone and
sincw, so to speak, to tho land. DO not
milk your land without feeding it.
1t is absolutely certain that the all cotton
plan is a humbus and we must diyerge from
it. The lcvcl-hcadcd farmer has seen it,
and is to-day in fair and easy circumstances.
| Do not plaut more than yon can command
the labor to cultivate thoroughly aud rotate
and diversity, prosperity will begin to draw
upon you.-L LDHom Plant.
| TERRACINu LAND. We are 6 lad TO sec
that the farmers nil over The country are
| beginning to see the benefit Of terracing
their land instead of using the old hillside
bitches. \ careful study of the matter
will convince any practical farmer that ter
racing is the only way to save tho land aud
make gradual improvement possible. BY
this means the land is made to absorb
moisture which would otherwise. ruu off, it
stops washes, and the fertilizers that are
used from year to year, instead of being
washed away by the rains, are caug.t by
the terraces, and thus all that the plant
docs not take up is left in the soil. Those
farmers who have experience with this
matter arc enthusiastic in its praise, aud
common sense teaches that it is good thing.
| Whenever this country is once tcrraccd
and the barren hil,des Of this Piedmont
section is reclaimed, we may expect to see
a wonderful change in the condition of tho
| country. --LuurcnS diucrtiScr.
| 4 HARD WORKING MAN.--Every year
every local paper give from 500 to $4,000
in free lines !.r the benefit Of the vicinity
in which it is located. No other agency
can or will do this The local editor in
proportion 20 his means, does more for his
town than any ten men ana, in all fairness,
he ought to be supported, not because you
happen to Ike him or admire his writing,
but because 4 local paper is the best invest
mont community can make. 1t may not
be brilliant or crowded with great thoughts
| but financially Il is more Of 4 benefit to u
community than the preacher or teacher
| Understand us now, we do not mean NOR
ally or intellectually, but financially, and
yet on the moral question you will find the
majority Of tho local papers arc on the
right side Of the question. To-day the
editors Of local papers do the most work for
the least money Of any men on carth'--
E:cchomyc.
| Born AFTER Ills MoTmER's BURIAL.
-Rev John Lindsey, now preaching in
Richmond county, n. G., was born four
months after his mother had been dead and
buried. His mother to all appearances,
died and was buried iu Stcwartsvillc ccme.
terry. The night following her in,erment
persons for securing the jcwclry buried
with the body unearthcd the remains, when
consciousness returned and she was enabled
to return to her home. Arriving at her
late residence she raped at the door, and
was answered by her husband, who was
ovcrjoycd to meet again in life his beloved
wife whom he had mourncd as dead Four
months afterwards Rev. Mr.. Lindsey, was