The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-03-18

more sweet potatoes than he had use foi
There Ia better pork producing iooa SssneMLS
is no vegetable more useful and univstssny1
appreciated for the table; your cows no5ses:f
chick ems, etc, prefer them ioslmoet Dything.,
You can grow two hundred bushels on an
acre as often as you gould get thirty bushels
Of corn from the same acre. o. Two onunddIoIi dssi
more than the thirty bushels OF corn. me:
Georgia experiment station reports yieios
at the rate OF 500 bushels per acre, the adloin.
Ing land OF same quality making iess snsr
loarny, IiyAt soil and to use plenty OF potash
acid, phosphate and little coton |'t'so1t SEQ
meal. n ar ~ 81, q
GRASS AND FORAGE CROPS.
Botap,calry. the term grass includes corn
sugar cane, millets, sorghums. az well ae tne
smaller genera usually called grasses. All ot
them are grasses. In an economic ana aIts
ticial sense clover, lucerne, medick lourr
cover), peavines, etc., are called grasses, De-
causes similar In their uses. SO farmer who
has been killing grass all his life, and who
never soWed grass seed proper, may ycompno-
mise on the above named kinds. NOW - Inc
| time 10 get seed, and to commence planting
some OF them OF these grasses In disguise I'VE
may call them). Next month will be the ume
for planting the main crops. We don't Ike
being poor yielder Of forage. Amber Cane
| Is good, 90 is Links Hybrid, among the sof-
shums Pearl. or cat.taii millet, In an old "a,
VOrlCe ana really nara 10 DeaL LOT Cubtiuk duo
feeling green. But more Of these, next
month. .s.s, X,
In these monthly thoughts It Is not our
aim to 60 over the whole field Of farm work,
but simply to seize hold Of some Of the more
salient features OF the months operation, or
! to press conviction home on some line OF poll
icy or practice. The signs OF the times tindi.
cate that we are on the eve Of very Important
changes In the industrial system and the bus
| mess customs OF the country. The fRrmef6s.
| for the first time AZ such, have awakened 70 g
lively concern In the legislation, finances and
business customs that have prevailed 90 long
and without their participation or consent.
i They are becoming more closely united ana
determined, while at the same time they are
becoming better informed and better pre-.
pared for the reforms that ust be fnaugura-
ted in the near future, This Is q great conn.
try, we are In the habit OF saying and beitey-
Ing. aud yet for TWEEN ty-hve years the indus
into mere struggle for existence on the part
OF large majority Of the people notwith-
standing the fact, there was greater and
more rapid development Of the natural re-
sources and hidden wealth OF the land. II ts
believed that the organization and agencies
that are now at work to effect cartain de1ntte
reforms will not disbaDd and sink back into
a contented apathy when these specific OBJ
jects shall have been attained; but the infor-
nation aud ex Experience that Will result from
one crusade, will serve only to whet the de-
! mand for more sweeping and far reaching
reforms tnat will finally deserve, from their
magnitude and completeness, the sDane OF
revolution, social and Industrial reforma-
ton that shall throw to the winds, the eys-
TENS and philosophy OF the centuries.