The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-01-19

good ears on each stalk, and not three
small ones of inferior size. Just fix the
habit of bearing two good ears on stalk
and not one. You can easily do this by
continued selection of two ears until the
habit is thoroughly fixed in the kind you
want. Selection of seed is of great
Importance, and thing most of us pay
very little attention to. Go throug gh your
corn field before you commence to gather
your corn and pull the largest and
plumpest cars, ears that are we'll filled ct
both ends, and from the stalks producing
the greatest number Of ears.
Never save an ear from stalk that
only produces one ear, as like will pro-.
duce like. After pulling your corn be
careful to hang the ears in your loft,
away from rats, no matter how cold the
loft be, the colder the better. By thus
storing your corn it will get thoroughly
dry, which is very.important thing.
Seed corn treated in this way is better
worth four dollars per bushel than most
of the seed we plant fresh from the crib
at corn planting time isA worth fifty cents.
A better way to procure Eour seed would
be to plant special plai off by itself, so
the tassels from poor sta Ks could always
be cut off before they Mad chance to
fertilize any ears. ThisHwill be little
trouble to do, but there will be money in
it for you. How do you save your seed
corn? Why, in the spring about plant
ing time, we go, some rainy day, and
select the largest ears weicsn find, and
plant them. The very ears re select,
(being the Iargest,) are very apt to have
gro Sn on stalk that produced that ear
only.
Now, fellow. farmers, I am very sorry
to have robbed you of SO much of your
valusble time here to day,fu no doubt
you are very tired of listening to this
long and tedious essay; and in conclu-
sion I will say, if ne farmers of South
Carolina want to prosper we must plant
more corn, terrace your uplands, ditch
your bottoms, keeping all your streams
clear of distractions, and banks clean,
give your corn distance, and manure it
as you do your cotton, reduceyour whole
area in cultivation to within .uch limits
as will admit of thorough preparation of
the soil, most skillful cultivation and fer
tilization. Lastly, the farmer must
appreciate the Importance of persistent,
austrious application to his farm. No
s.. aess man, whether mechanic or mer-
chant, can expect to make a success in
his vocation without unremittiDg appli-
cation. The push, energy anddevotion
to business displayed by the active busi-
ness men of live cities is asstanding
reproach as we'll as an example to US
farmers. Keep up with the progressive
age, subscribe for the Southern gultivator
and Cotton Plant, two of the best agri.
cultural journals in the world,fand see
what the farmers are doing. Talk aboutS
no money in farming, when DrsParker,
of Columbia, made on one acre 203 BUSH
els of corn; Mr.. Wharton, of Georgia, 4
bales of cotton; Mr.. F. E. Mckenzie, of
Greenville, so bushels of wheat Mr..
Wylie, of Lancaster, $50 bushels0 IF oats,
and Mr.. G. I. Lowndes, of Charleston,
1000 bushels of turnips. Gentlemen,
the trouble is in us; not'in the land, but
in the man.-Cotton Plant.