The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1896-06-24
THE GARDEN.
BILL ARP TELLS HOW III SHOULD
BE CULTIVATED.

II o is Suacessf,,l la Naislng Fine YeRs sta
bles7A Good Farmer VIII Havo GOOD
Garden, and lie is Proud Of HIS lin ei IL
liints forAll. 4. 4 }s,5 81,
Fate cannot harm me. have
dined today" That is the way we
feel just after dinner especially five
have earned it, worked for it bodily
! and wanted it. But have heard folks
say they were never hungry and not
oven thepdor of cucumbers and onions
+, In the dining room would excite their
appetite. haye heard others say they
had the appetite, but were afraid to
Such fo|ks are to be pitied. They
believe tbat work Or pbyaical i s,oerai aKarc;ss
is remedy for both. 1 suppose that
Shakespeare suffered in this way, for
he says, Now, let digestion wait on
appetite and health on BOTH" Certain
| it is his death was sudden und prema.
ture, for he lived only fifty years.
Milton understood this trouble. too. for
he says that Adams sleep was sweet.
being bred from pure digestion. That's
the secret working in The garden II
Inherited that trait from the Old man d
Adam, moan and sleep sweetly,
loo, atteraI have worked in nv gar;
den. There is no insomnia about me,
but Mrs. Arp suffers from it sometimes
when AM snoring like a hippopota.
mus. 5st~ :.
was Eliminating about tho value Of
a good garden to the family we had
an excellent dinner today, and l
counted TIP the cost We have 4 We in
the famil and the dinner cost us only
cents apiece, and there was enough
left for two or three more. We had a
small pidce. of middling meat, about
half pound, that was boiled with the
beans, and there were seven different
kinds of Vegetables from my garden.
The buttcla aud buttermills where home
made. The rice and cornmeal and
huclxlebefries cost a little not much.
Everything was well.cool1ed, and all
that was Wanted was an appetite and
good dige}tion. l ''I
Lam am reasonably proud of my garden,
Tor II IS all my own work. prepared
The ground and dressed it and opened
the furrows md planted the seed and
cultivated the plants and killed the
weeds, and it is my especial pleasure
to watch everything as it grows, and
gather th4 vegetables and wash them
at the back door and call the good wife
and chfldten out to see them and listen
TO their compliments. We have had a
long drought, but had fortified
against it., Every hill was first spadeG
out q foot deep and filled with water,
and it had soaked into tho ground /
lilled up the hole with q mixture of
top soil and barnyard scrapings and
silted ashes and put on some more
water, Every furrow I opened for
beans and peas and beets l let water
Eln in it, $apd then put TIE, fertilizer
~ and }pSS ~ the seed. I,had eighty
holes to dig ggoS oGS tomatoes and forty for
squashes. fN'N? as many more for Gu.
cumbe ,,lln = notwithstanding the
dtroug nj :, srything has grown Vigor-
ously. Ills hard work and takes pa
tlence to lay the fundation in this
way, but y pays. My squash vines
cover srice of four feet square to
each hill, hnd my tomato plants are
tive feet high and iull of healthy fruit
We'll, now to tell the whole truth, I
have hydrant in the center of the
garden anq when the dry, hot weather
was atits worst | opened small treanch-
es close by the roots of the plants and
turned thJ water on and let il run
slowly anf soak in and afterwards
covered LIE trenches with dry dirt,
This, too, i trouble, but it paid we'll.
Some folk} sprinkle, but that does
harm and no good. 1t breakes the
surface and never reaches the roots
sprinkle nothing but grass. Where
water is plenty and convenient there
is no excuse for poor garden. 1t is
better to dig deep and ferlilize and sul-
tive u square rod we'll than TO skim
over half an acre "nigger fashion,
and see itall dry up When the dry
drought, as Cobe calls it, comes. The
intensive system is the best for garden
know frdn long ex perience. II made
me sad tosee the crops on the railroad
between Marietta and Atlanta the
other day. Acres and acres of corn
not six inches high and cotton almost
invisible 1t did look like perishing
10 death in the name Of the Lord. 1t
is a poor country, know, but they
could sowlt down in peas and gradu.
ally improve it SO that a Georgian
wouldn't be ashamed for travellers TO
look out Of the car window as they
ride through it.. s.
1t is astonishing how much In lluence
ono good farmer has over the neigh.
bt'orhuod IL which he lives. They are
very enviol,s Of each other pnd will
try to keep up with the best. / hear
some say mat their oats crop is a total
failure, anti will not be lit to cut. I
a fan E A.s . n 4 Il