The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-06-06
ESQUIRE rewel Talks About Crops, Etc.

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esquire Eewel Talks About Crops, Etc.
never saw cotton look better the mid
die of Nav than it did this year, and now
the first of ] une 1 think it looks about as
sorry. You have to hold it up between
YOU and the sun to see it, or rather we
have to get the field between US and the
sun 80 wo can see the cotton. Corn is
doing very well, but it needs rain and a
little warmer weather than we have had
for the last two weeks. Nearly all of the
farmers in this community are up with
their work in the corn and cotton, and
arc now ready for harvesting the small
grain, and it is not much, except spring
sown oats, which are very good: Wheat
and fall sown oats are nearly failure IN
this neighborhood. 1t is good time for
us to begin to look out for next winter
now as soon as wheat and oats are cut.
By all means try and sow PEAS on the
stubble land. If you can't SOW it all in
peas sow as much as you can if it's only
one acre. It will help the land and at
the same time help to fill your barn with
some of the best hay that we Southern
farmers can make, and don't forget the
late roasting ear patch. Haul out what
compost you have on hand and apply 1t
literally in the drill on some of your
stubble land and bed on it and plant in
corn and you will have good roasting
ears to eat from the middle of September
till frost, as we'll as quantity of good
feed for your horses and mules. Tho
way we do we cut down the oorn-stalk
and ALTO the ground-as many as we
want to eat at q meal-and shuck the
ears, and give the stalk, shucks and cObs
to the horses, and we eat the corn. Be"
sides having all the good roasting ears
to eat that you want in the fall, you will
from an acre of land have load or two of
corn to throw on top of your corn pile at
gathering time that will almost look liko
It had been given to you. It is a good
plan to SOW few peas on these patches of
corn when you clay it BY" So it is on
all of your corn-sow half a bushel OF
whippoorwill peas to the acre the last
blowing and it will do the land good
without any material injury to the corn.
I have seen some good crops Of oats made
where peas had been sown on oats stub
bic, and, too, without sowing any Just
come up volunteer. am going to plant
peas in the drill on some Of my oat land
and cultivate them for seed, and If get
a good stand of oats / will let them stand
if not will have the peavines to plow
under next winter to make cheap cotton
on next year. 1t is not good plan to
plow too close to corn after it begins to
isioint;" it breaks the roots and it will be
a week or two before it will grow any.
II is best to use heel sweep in plowing
corn or cotton either after the first plow-
inr and not use very long plow. The
corn is not sc apt to twist and turn yell
low after blowing, even ifit is dry. I
use. to hear old men talk about plowing
Wrirht up 10 corn" with a long plow when
T was boy, and it would wilt and turn
yellow. and wouldn't grow any more
until it rained, so that the corn could
revive and send out another set of feed
ing roots. have seen it plowed that
way-iust stove the plow down into the
clay. and 80 close to the corn it would
turn il over to one side. It was q good
way to clean the grass and weeds out,
and the corn, too. They would say that
the corn was going too much to root. l
don't SEQ how it is that some people per-
sist in drumming around" cotton with
small plow, with board attached to the
side next the cotton to keep from cover
ing it up, when hand can hoe about
twice as much in day where it is "run
around" with q side.harrow as he can
where it is plowed close with small
plow and left on narrow, ridge 40 that
It falls down in hoeing. All who try
side-harrow will use it ever after.
We are beginning to need rain now, 1t
having been about two weeks since we
had any. There were several showers of
rain and hail up on Brushy Creek the
first of last W eek, but none here, 7 have
heard that cotton was badly damaged In
the neighborhood of Mr.. Richard Elrod
bv the hail on last Monday evening, some
OF it being beat into the ground by the
hail stones. We have had several little
hail storms this Spring through this Sec
ton, but none to do any material damage
before this,
some have commenced cutting wheat,
and think the most of it will be cut this
week in this section. AS poor as the
wheat crop is it will be great help to US
poor farmers, coming as it does at the
time of year when money is the scarcest
with farmers. So advise that all farm
ers, renters and all, sow wheat-a few
acres, at least. It will help you when
you-if you are like we ere at our house
very rnuch in need of it. That is
good way to keep flour cheap, and at the
same time be independent. 1t Is q
mighty good idea for person to board at
the same place where his business Is, es-
peciallv if he is farmer. The old say
ing is, "live at home and board at the
same place."
Our fruit crop, except the grapes, is an
entire failure this year, but we are trying
to make few watermelons so as to bridge
over till another year, when We hope to
have an abundant crop OF fruit OF all
kinds. In the meantime my wife has
been looking after the fried chicken crop,
and don't know what we will do with
the fine gang of birds she has unless the
editors and candidates will come to see
us, for our preacher won't eat chicken.
I don't see why all preachers don't love
chicken, for it is the only chance country
people have to get fresh meat in summer,
for they can't step out to the market like
town folks and get beef-steak or leg O.
mutton to set before their guest.
Our County Commissioners did not
think enough of our road, or else they
forgot it, to appoint an overseer, 80 ne
could warn out the hands according to
orders published and work out the road.
So we thought it would may be save them
the CfOu Die auu LILO SOuuty SoW0 VA
pense to come, and we volunteered and
worked it out without any overseer, and
don't think it would hurt few more
of the roads we have travelled If they had
been worked little the same or some
other way. So, boys, when it rains fall
in and give them one days work any
way. You all know whether you have
worked your road or not. If not, then
work tha worst places aud keep the ditch:
es open. That will show to the world
that you are law-abiding people, as the
man once knew said he was. Said he
"I am law-abiding man, for I Won
pay debt except the law says So" Tha
is, he had to be sued and made to pay hi:
debts. Don't stand back and wait fol
the law to force you to work your roads
when it is to your own individual inter
est to work them.
The health of this section is very good
so far as we know. News Is scarce jus
now, but as soon as we can "lay-by" ou
crop we will try and look up some, If W.
have to 60 10 Pickens, or maybe we vii
60 to somo foreign country-the Darl
Corner of Greenville, for instance.
think Mr.. Cleveland will appoint M
Ambassador to that Court.
SQUIRE FEwEL.