Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-01-23
The Women's Prayer Meetings.

The Women'S Prayer Meetings.
The women of our town still con-
tinue to hold their weekly prayer
meetings every Monday afternoon at
four o'clock. The next praYer-meeling
will take place at The home of Rev. NJ.
NJ. Brabham. 1t is earnestly desired
that all the Christian women of our
town attend these gatherings. "Where
two or three are gathered in my name'
there am in the midst of them"
Alliance Resolution.
At the last meeting of the Edgefeld
County Alliance the following resolu-
tion were adopted:
RESOLVED, That it is the sense of
the Eagefleld County Alliance, that it
would be to the interest of all cotton
raises to make contracts for CONNER
cial Fertilizers on the cotton option
basis, and also that it would be to the
interest.of Fertilizer Companies to put
up tLeir goods in cotton sacks SO as to
increase the consumption of cotton
and thereby enhance the value OF the
raw material.
Successful Tobacco Culture.
The Aiken Journal and Review says:
"Last year Messrs. Ferrell and Muir
ply of Winsted, N. c., rented land
from Mr.. John Z. Jetfcoat, in Rocky
Grove township in this County, for the
purpose of experimenting in tobacco
culture. They planted fifteen acres
and their crop averaged 1000 pounds
of good leaf to the acre, which they
sold at prices ranging from 2l1a to 20
cents per pound. They are SO well
pleased with their experiment that
they intend to go more extensively
into the culture of tobacco this year.
They are also offering, so we are in
formed, twenty-five dollars an acre to
any one who will cultivate tobacco
under their directions. This is good.
opportunity for any one who might be
desirous Of experimenting Ill that di-
rection."
Try Rice.
Will not some Edgefleld farmer try
raising rice this year? a good deal OF
it was made IN this county before the
war. 1t is very easily cultivated and
yields from forty to sixty bushels to
the acre, and half peck will plant an
acre. An Aiken county farmer in wri-
ting to the Augusta Chronicle about
this matter says: 81 consider upland
rice fine and profitable grain to grow
the grain for the table and forage for
cattle. I select the stiffest land on my
farm for rice culture. 1t would grow
equally as we'll if not better on swamp
land. break up my land very thor
oughly, then run off rows three feet
wide, bedding the land as for cotton'
and using about 200 pounds CONNER
cial or other fertilizer to the acre. l
then open the bed with small plcw,
and drill the rice seed in the drill, us
ing only about half a peck to the acre
Then putting board on my plow stock
| drag it over the furrow, covering the
seed about one and one-half inches
deep. l plant from April lst to April
10th. cultivate with a sweep, as with
cotton. hull it for table use in an old
fashioned wooden beater or huller; or
l send 1T to Charleston to be hulled. l
make from twent y-fve to thirty BUSH
els per acre. have been planting rice
for three years and have been success
full in making good crop each year"
A New Wheat.
For number of years Mr.. e: S: Car
men, editor or the Rural New Yorker,
has been conducting some interesting
experiments in the crossing of rye OH
wheat. 1t is we'll known that rye will
grow on poor land, while it requires
rich land for wheat. His idea was to
produce wheat which would grow
like rye on poor land. Furthermore
these experiments were undertaken to
produce grain that would combine
the hardness of rye and the desirable
qualities of wheat. One of these rye
wheat hybrids is now being introduc-
ed to the public by New York seed
firm under the name Rural New York
er No. 6. Allappearance of rye has dis
appeared, except that the culms just
under the heads are now and again
downy, as in rye. This downiness Of
the stem is variable. Mr.. Carmen has
tried by selection for many years to
fix it without any approach to success.
Of all his rye-wheat. hybrids the
dUwny culm is permanent in but one,
and that resembles rye in sever 9TH
er respects. 1t is reported that No. 6
succeeds and produces heavy crops on
poor, thin land where pure wheat
could not be successfully or profitably
grown.
The Tariff Reduction a Reality.
The Tariff reduction on a great
many woollen goods went into ef-
fort the first of Januarv. and we
propos, to be up with the times,