Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-02

The melon growers in Barnwell county
are reported to be In gloomy mood over
their crop prospects. The rains have in
flicted untold injury upon them.
Senator Youmans, Of Barnwell, has
eight acres OF cotton that will make a
bale TO the acre, and sixty acres of corn
that will yield forty bushels to the acre.
The farmers of Marlboro county are get
ting rid of much OF the grass in the crops,
and are really more cheerful. Melons
and grapes will soon be- plentiful and
cheap.
Mr.. Perry Baker, the gentleman ap-
pointed by Commissioner Butler to con-
duct the experimental tobacco farm for
Chesterfield county, will probably make
fine crop of tobacco.
Hog cholera is raging In Jonesboro and
the Miles neighborho0d, Marion county.
DR.. d. F. Miles stated last week that his
stock of hogs had died down from 80 to 7,
and DR.. Jarnegan says he expects to lose
all his.
j.. S. and 81. II. Norwood, of AbbeviIle
county, have two acres OF German millet
on their farm in the Flatwoods better than
anything ever seen in this county. IL is
from seven to eight feet high, thick as
it can stand on the ground and heavily
headed.
VIM. Johnson, of Newberry county, had
the finest patch of German milIet ever
grown in this part OF the country. 1t was
about five feet high, and there was half
an acre of it. He has had it cut, and now
has more COW food than he knows what
to do with.
The Darlington News says: "The crop
reports are bad. In some sections many
acres have been overrun with grass. The
corn crop is above the average and about
IL n IN lao
order, and at present does not promise
one-half a CROP"
William Harvey, Of Tillman, Hampton
county, is oultlVating a tobacco crop,
and at present the prospects are good,
the weed growing vigorously and looking
healthy. The worms are not numerous
nor doing much Injury. He has one and
three-quarters OF an acre planted in
Cuban cigar leaf tobacco.
The annual meeting of the Agricultural
Society of Darlington county will be held
at the fair grounds, in Darlington, on
Tuesday, Aug. 10. This society, one OF
the Oldest agricultural organizations in
the State, has never lost It's interest 10
our best farmers, and the number OF
members is constantly increasing.
The Rock Hill Herald says: There is
still some cotton in the country; 131 bales
were sold here last week. OF this amount
10 bales were locked 100 pounds each and
"A bales forty pounds each, on account of
injury by reason Of the cotton having
been left In the weather. AT 8 cents a
pound this represents S7SS S0-$64S on the
lot Of 70 bales, and $l40 80 on the lot OF A
bales. This ought TO be a warning to the
farmers TO keep their cotton out OF the
weather and In good condition"
In letter to the Newberry Observer,
Col. Thomas W. Holloway, secretary of
the State Agricultural Society, gives the
following good advice to the farmers;
'First, to plant every available spot In
peas and corn; the former in three feet
rows and the same distance apart In the
row. Cultivate well. and when matured
cut few inches above the ground, cure,
and In housing allow as much air to cir
culate through them as possible. Corn
should be planted in the ordinary
way and highly manured; work
rapidly and before frost out down
and stack IN the field until the
grain is dry--the corn thus secured
will make arst-rate food for horses.
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