The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-03-07
LOCAL NEW g..
COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE.
Squire FeweI Relates the Happenings
of His NcirlbOrhOOd.


The snow came just in time TO save our
oats that were beginning TO come up. So
I reckon the old saying that 'ill is the
wind that blows no good" is as true as
ever. Fall sown oats and wGoat have a
fine appearance since the snow moltsd oil.
I have been thinking long time of
giving the readers of the INTELLIGENcER
my plan Of making corn. So l reckon as
1t IL nearly time to plant / had better ad.
wise them now. My plan is this (and it is
soou as your stuUble land is roady (for
that is the kind Of land to plant) )-that is
dry enough to plow-take good, long
eubsoil or bull tongue plow and lay off
your rows from FIVE to six feet apart; if
the land is poor say six or seven feet, then
take "Boy Dixie" plow, or any sort Of
good one. horse turn plow and bed the
land up, and when you get ready to plant,
say about the last OF March or the first of
April, open fnrrow on top of bed with
shovel plow and put from one to two or
three two horse wagon loads Of good conl-
post, made of stable and COW lot manure
mixed with little cotton seed acid phos-
phate to the acre. One good load to the
acre does very well, but two or three will
do better, if you have it. Strow it all
along the furrow in the drill, and don't
put it down in piles in the hill. Plant or
drop your corn on 1t in hills from three to
four feet apart, and cover with double.
foot, but don't cover too deep, for corn is
considerably stunted by being covered too
deep. You had better drop two or three
grains to tho bill to insure q good stand
the irst planting, for it don't pay to have
to rep,ant corn-it don't do much goud-
or at least it never did for ne. After your
corn comes up and gets four or five leaves
or blades Oh it, take a cultivator or side.
harrow and "run around" it. In about
week more pow with short plow and
heel sweep, and continue to plow every
two weeks until you have given 1t four
plowings, including the tirst one with the
cul,ivator. Follow these instructions
closely, and If you don't make q good crop
of corn and plenty of it, will take the
blame if you will put In enough of land to
make It. You already know how to make
on that. II we will make our own living
that is our bread and meat and yegeta
bles and all of our stock feed and then
make all tie cotton we can-we would
certainly be more prosperous than We are
when we make all cotton. You don't
have to 20 to another State to have this
demonstrated to you. You can see right
here in our own County. Look at some
one in your neighborhood who has made
success at farming and you can see what
does it and how be succeeds. He didn't
dc 1t making all cotton and no grain.
But the most astonishing fact about it is
this: We all know it and yet we go on as
If We didn't know it.
You have found the Oldest man in
tho County, and now want to know the
Oldest lady. Mrs. Eliza Lee, relict OF
Phillip Lee, is now in her ninetieth year,
having celebrated her eighty-nioth birth
day the 25th of February. She is the
mother of Twelve children, the grand.
mother Of forty, and the great.grand.
great-graudmother Of one, making in oil
one hundred and fifty.one descendants. I
have no doubt but there are older ones,
but they are not very numerous.
Rev. 8. ]. Cowan. the Wesleyan Me:ho-
dist evangelist, has become citizen OF
the little suburban village of Piedmont,
commonly called Simpsonville. hope
bis presence with Us may accomplish much
good.
Mumps are still going the rounds in
Piedmont. There are 80 many moving
in and out there that some one on the
place has them nearly all the time.
The venerable Smallw0od Dalton, one
of Grove Stations oldest citizens, departed
this life on last Thursday night. after
long and painful illness Of dropsy aud
heart failure. He had been a constant
gu utferer for several months procuring his
death, which he bore with Christian pa
tlence and for,itude Besides his great
suffering, he has been deprived of bis sight
fr- several years, which must have been
very unpleasant to him, but, with all
these afflctions heaped upon him he, like
Job of old, bore them with patience and
resignation to the last. Mr.. Dalton would
have soon turned into his eightieth year.
He has been married siXty-three gears
hiss been a member of the Baptist Church
for number of years-having been dea-
con Of the Grove Station Baptist Church
since Its organization in 1854. LIE was
one of the charter members Of Grove Sta.
ti.n Lodge. A. f. NJ, No. 1885, aud has
been Mason for thirty odd years. Surely
good man has gone-one whom the peo.
pie OF his immediate vicinity will greatly
miss. His rumains were inferred in the
Grove Station Cenletory by the Masonic
fraternity, af;er appropriate funeral ser.
vices at the Church, conducted by the
pastor, Rev. Mr.. Montgomery. We ex-
lend to the bereaved family our heartfelt
sympathy in their sore affiiction.
SQUIRE FEwEL.