The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-09-15

me!ons-well, thAy ware just the best
! we have tasted this sea Dn. Mr.. Crosby
says he has been very successful il rails
ing them this year, and i'm fact, from
general appearance he seems to have
been successful in all his crops, way
beyond the average, he seems to have
plenty Of everything. His crib and barn
are loaded down with all kind of feed.
Corn, fodder, tops, hay, bran, etc., in
fact our driver remarked on the way
home, II tell you that man lives, he
does, why you ought to see inside his
crb. lie has thousands of bundles of
fodder, and worlds of corn, and hay, and
bran, and the Lord knows what all IS in
there. The house is jess checked full.
He's got more feed stuff in there dan
any livery stable in town." We asked
him how he knew 80 much about it.
Nv hy he jess unlocked de door and told
me to feed, and fed. 1 tell you dis team
haint had 10 sich feed us dat in many
day and don't know when dey will
get such a one again. Why it wuz
regular picn'c to 'em.
Mr.. Clo'by is farmer after our own
heart. Or course we don't pretend to
know anything about farming. But Mr..
Crosby tells us he believes in raising
something else besides cotton, that he
beiieves in raising plenty of corn and
grain and molasses cane, and hogs aud
COWS. lie wants to have his cotton crop
as kind of surplus. That is our own
idea exactly of what true farming in this
country means. We went out to his
lot and looked at his hogs. lie has
iilie>t5t Of them, and they are in splend Il
condition aud are fine ock. lie has IA
be; uJ.ful jersey calf that is going to
In ,ke fine milk COW before long.
Dr. j. +. FAINT, who lives j;ist across t 9
road from Mr.. Closby, came over aud
spent the afternoon with Us. And Of
all the interesting takers We ever listened
to MIR. Faut stands head. We could
listen to him for week and not grow
tired. We have always enjoyed wal
"reminiscences and the good Doctor is as
full of them as an egg is of meat. He
dives not seem 10 forget the minutest
details Of happenings even as far back as
his childhood days, not even emitting
names. lie told us many very interest
ing Incidents of his boyhood days and
later OF his war experience. We became
so interested in his conversation that
time slipped by, and although we had
only intended to spend couple of hours;
NE finally looked at our watch and found
ws hardly had time to get back to town
Lsfad Xlark. The Doctor said we must
see his sew variety Of peas and clover
Eefore we went. So we went across and
found his pea vines with runners stretched
oat two yards long and bearing Il teautiful
yellow cluster blossom, and the little peas
were coming some of them half an inch
long. Doctor says they have eight to
ten in cluster. 1t is a climbing peavine
and will cover an horbor nicely. lie
says they are very prolific and while he
has no special name for them he has an
idea of calling them the mortgage
lifter''-excellent idea, we suggest that
the Doctor adopt the name and get the
farmers generally to use the variety.
His clover is popping up all around
everywhere you look. Its seed is at
tached to kind of spiral and unwinds
like sp!ing, and is a splendid grower.
1t will r come after crops have been
gathered. We hope to have the
pleasure of gettipg out among these good
R ople again.