The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-03-17
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The mails seem to
have lost my second ar
ticle on wasted manure.
| regret the delaF. but
your paper has been so
0verrun with news Of
late, | do not see where
you could have given it
space had it not been
lost.
But before I say any
thing more about vast
ing manureS, let me say
| am talking about san
d.y land. such as is ger :
orally found in our
county. If you have stiff
! clay lands you needn' t
tread this.
But to the alum: we
left it in thin, laminat-
ed cakes on the mud
hank across the old rice
field. the weather dry.
But that night q heavy
rain came and dissolved
the alum again and it
was washed into the
canal, and the tide car
ried il into the sea. II
the rain had been slow
and gentle the alum
would have soaked back
into the bank Just
so with manure: rising
moisture will bring the
! cream OF it TO the sur
face in Grv weather as
IT did the alum. The
sun dries of the water
and leaves the soluble
portions Uf the manure
on ton. and the first
rain. if it is heavy. will
carry away the solution
II YOU allow it TO run at
all. Most Deople think
if no gullieS are seen.
that the land is doing
all right. They do not
seem to know that
water il allowed to run
at all will make the land
door. MANY times your
best friend in one case
is ant to be your
worse enemy in another.
This is the main source
Of waste-Gne heavy
rain may 'Csa YOU hun.
dreHS Of dOll:rs.
II the rows are SC
made that the water
is compelled 10 snak
pway where it falls. the
plant food held in so,u-
tion gces back into the
ground. and in a wet
spell. By the time the
land becomes saturated
the most Of the plant
food has gone below, SC
the water that has tC
getaway across the rows
then is not rich in plant
food. But, YOU say,
water. if allowed tC
i'crosS the rows to pct
awar. will wash the
land: and so it will il
YOU let it all come toone
place to cross. But II
the rows are as highiat
one end as at the other
and has no low place in
it then the watercroSSes
gently at every plare: q
little at a place. and get:
away after deDositin2
its mud. leaving nc
white saud TO grin al
your folly. for when you
soc white sand along
the rows there it. some
thing wrong with the
rows or with the owners
of the rows.
I passed 4 field last
week were a Young
farmer changed his cot
lon rows from a moder-
ate slant TO a right
suare up and down the
hill near a branch.
didnot say. what a fool,
but I Thought it hard
enough, for that is the
best arranQement nc
could fix for to lose
his manure and his
land. But / was once
just as big a blockhead.
I cleared up a piece OF
rich hillside and let it
wash away before the
stumps rotted out, and
had to abandon it.
Again, If you do one
thing right it will cause
another thing to 60
right. and If you do one
wrong it will cause an
other thing tn go wrong.
Sow rows properly laid
of will keep the water
that falls en- the hills
from drowning out the
low places. for usually
fen times as much wa
ter gets into a bottom
as 'alls into it.
1t may he tco late
in the season to do
much good this year,
but 60 to thinking and
get diSguSted with
yourself next year if
you have lands like we
have in
POSSUM FORK.