The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-03-08
Valuable Corn.

VdludUl6 OOIus
Our esteemed friend and tip-top farmer,
Mr.. G. T. Hollis, of Cross Keys has placed
on our table four worry fine ears of what is
known in that vicinity as the "Hollis Vel
low corn," mainly from tho fact that it was
successfully cultivated by the grandfather
OF Mr. Hollis, and has been kept in the
Hollis family ever since and yearly main
tanned its reputation as one Of the most pro-
lifo and hardest species Of corn ever
planted in that section of the county.
One of the ears on our table is from the
crop Of 1886, free from the wevil and per-
- Anothspdjp eleEI. respect.
scratched from the mud last fall after II had
been buried three days by the freshet, and
it is as sounL as any corn could be. In
fact, Mr.. Hollis has been feeding his horses
and mules on the corn that had been sub
merged three and four days, and tho sto ck
is thriving on ii, while all the other kinds
of corn that had been submerged was rotted
and unfit for feeding; showing concln sively
that the "Iollis Yellow Corn" is st orm
or freshet corn, and is valuable for planting
on bottom lands subject to overhows.
Mr.. Hollis also claims that with him it ha Q
stood drought on the uplands better On d
longer than any corn he ever planted, and
has made better crops under the same cul-
tivstion, soil and seasons.
1t is hard finty corn, which may be an
objection to it, to some farmers, but wo
venture to say that if the farmers Of this
county who lost their corn upon the creek
and river bottom lands last fall, had o few
hundred bushels of this sound "hard,
fiinty" corn, instead of the rottsn, soft,
ruined corn which the freshet left on their
bottom lands, they would not think their
lot at this time was half as hard as it is now.
If what Mr.. Hollis says about his corn 10
true-and we believe he is an honorable
man-we advise all who intend to plant corn
on bottom lands this year, to procure seed
from him, and test it themselves. 1t may
save that much of their crop.
r@- We have just received stock Of
fne stationery and other mat erials for doing
frst.class commercial Job Printing. Fer
some time We havo not been able to keep o
stock on hand, consequently our work has
often been delayed, and sometimes exsoute ed
on somewhat inferior paper but in the
latter particular, it has been equal to any
wo have seen from other fRces, at the same
price.
We ask our mercantile friends and others
In the country, to send us their orders and
give their own county printing Office trial
when they want any printing done. We
will do their work as cheap and as we'll as
it can be done anywhere else; and having all
our little capital invested in Union County, |
upon which we pay our share Of county
taxes, and the TINES being ever ready to
defend and promote the welfare of the peo.
PIE, assist in building up its towns,
churches, schools and every enterprise that
will advance tho moral, educational and |
commercial interests of the county at large.
without cost, We think we have right to |
claim the patronage Of the citizens through
sut the county, all things being equal. sela
your orders to us and We will guarantee
We hope to be more prompt hereafter,
md steer clear Of fsult-fnding from our
patrons.
We will tell good joke % on gentle.
man here in town. He wauted some note
heads printed, but on examining the paper
Ne had on hand, concluded it was not good
enough, so he sent the work to another
'ffioe, and upon receiving 1t hs brought a
specimen TO show US, when no found, to his
'hagrin, that it was printed on the very
ame quality Of paper that he refused to re-
,eive from US.