The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-02-13

cost Is the manufacture into syrup. The syr
up ia almost universally liked by children
and is one OF the chenpest and most whole
articles Of food that comes on and she ek
very fair article OF sugar may be made, Whicn
will answer for many II not all the purposes
Of the household.
In the same patch, alternating rows OF cane
and potatoes, the rows being three feet apart
The potatoes, of the earliest variety (Early
Rose), and the cane were planted on the same
dsy It and ee'be Gems good
dem" sandy upland. The potatoes afforded
SUPPLIES for the table from April on to June
when they we're dug, yielding good crop, tne
cane being then about Walst 10 snouIaer hdsm 81,
otherwise the cane would have made gooe
yield. the potato crop not having Vlslply al
fected the prospect The experiment woulo
have been tried again had opportunity pre-
sented. ,.1
II a sweet potato crop could be planted VIII
the same ease as cotton crop; If the potato
produced abundant seed like corn or peas
could be dropped as eaSap food crop G
for man and animals. II the more thrifty
Yankee could make sweet potatoes as easily
as we OF the South, he would fatien MS nogs
and beeves, feed his horses ana Ihuies' III ~
and children; and ship them by the trair
load TO the Southern cities. The number Q
bushels Of potatoes 'saved for seed ana peg
ded for slips In February or Marcn, usually
controls the area planted, with greater o.
less supplemental planting with vines: Tn
man who will discover cheap ana enecLive
and always reliable, method or preservinl
sweet potatoes during the winter ana spring
will deserve an enduring monnment 10 hl
memory, and the everlasting gratitude OF I'M
farmer. But even II restricted to the use
the potato in its fresh state, 1t Will repay lou,
fold more attention than II ever has received
80 Ian nn
70 the South is proving very blessing. 1t II
very early. prolific, easy OF CULTIVATION, eass
TO harvest. and exceedingly fattening. Bacot
ought not to cost q Southern farmer NOR
home. a III II b he " viii avail himself OF natural ad
vantages, and escape the cholera we aavls'
every farmer to get seed OF this new var1et!
in time TO plant In April and May, and agaiI
in June and July.
February and March pigs make the cheap
weigh, easily from $50 TO 200 pounds: Th
sows should be literally fed so as to induce
bountiful supply OF milk. and az soon as tn
pigs will eat they should nave Penty Oh o,6e eSf.
greens, slops from the kitchen. They shoult
grow from the very beginning, and never D.
permitted to squeal for food.
sroCK.aRowINa GENERALLY.
We have often insisted upon more attention
to stock.growing as source OF dlrect reVenu
and profit, as we'll as means OF restorInl
and keeping up the fertility OF our SOIL SOILS In
mutton and butter. the most conven1en
forms In which the results Will reacn IN
market, are not sufficiently In demand. o
the prices offered by dealers In cities ant
towns are too low. To this 1t may be urge'
in reply that farmers ought to demand, AM
thew will as certainly obtain, the same price
that are paid for the same articles brough
from the West-provided the quality be tn
same. Now, how does the beef, mutton, but
ter, etc., offered by the average farmer IN on
Giles brought from Cincinnati, Chicago and 81
Louis? Is there any reason why Georgia o
Alabama farmer may not make as GOOD pee
or butter as the Illinois or Iowa farmer? w
know that he does not, but why not2 more
beeyes, butcher them. ship them to Atlant'
and Montgomery and New Orleans In refrie
orator cars, and sell the dressed quarters 10
less than six cents per pound laid down IN IN
retail butchers stall, how can the Iowa fai
which they certainly do? And II the Iowa
Illinois farmer can produce beef at sucl
prices, on land worth fifty dollars an acre
may not the Georgia farmer do the same OF
lands that are worth no more than a MIN ..
much ? The same questions apply. with ever
more force to butter and other products OF Tn
dairy.
These are pertinent questions and are enti
tied to consideration: Our farmers ought =
supply our city. and town population witt
beef, bacon and lard, mutton and milk ant
butter, and at a less cost than the same can D.
brought from abroad or can be producea o:
the consumers themselves More than that
we ought TO compete with the western men y
Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Wash
ingtOn.