Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-02-24
GOOD REPORT.
Farm Work Well, Advanced
Around Meeting Street.

Around Meeting Street.
Meeting Street, Feb. 18th, 1909
Editor Advertiser:-We have had
rain enough. this week to have made
a corn crop, and it is still raining
this morning.
More rain, more rest, runs the ne
gro adage, though that doesn't less
en- the ration bill nor the burdens Of
the housewives and their daughters
Well, it is not likely that we will
have any fires today--forest fires.
Should we compare this section
of country with Cincinnati, St,
Louis or 'Shecargo' you would think
the comparison very odd one, yet
at this particular season they are, in
one respect, somewhat alike-Smoke,
smoke, smoke! The atmosphere is
filled with it morning, noon, and
night. But for your watch or that
peculiar feeling of emptiness in the
upper abdominal region few hours
after breakfast you would not
know the dinner hour.
Everything savors of old fields
it tastes like tit smells like it.
even green cheese swaps its fertili-
zer smell for that of old field. The
odor of wild onions is only thing
that holds IFS own.
3: To Gen. Sherman is accredited the
saying War is hell" Perhaps if
he was here now he would amend
that by saying fire is hell"
We have never seen the like Of
so much burning of,and cleaning up
that has been going\on here for the
past few weeks in all of our lives.
Some very necessary and some very
unnecessary and destructive. In
many instances those who burn are
careless, and valuable timbered land
and pine thickets are burned off
with all underground, and that is
extremely detrimental to the timber.
In fact nothing should be burned on
the farm. Broom sedge fields
should have been ploughed last Au-
gust and the brush from the clearing
should be hauled to some portion
@ofsthe farm not in cultivation and
}eYen the briars ought to be deposited
in some gully. And tleyare always
/ nearby and are prina sacie evidence
tfias our fathers wers Bible readers,
especially of that portion which says.
take NO thought of tomorrow" It
seems incredible that an Intelligent
people should have been guilty Nof
such wantom waste Of land as eSis-
! ted prior to the war. The scars
are in evidence wherever there are
hill lands all over the South.
We are digressing, our purpose
was to tell you that there has been
more farm work done in this section
up to this time than is usual. Gen
orally it is Christmas until about
the first of March. This year, how
ever, the liquor was non est, or run
short, and every body had to 60 to
work for pastim..
There has been a great deal of
plowing done and but for the recent
rains people would have had land
prepared for March corn.
The present indications are that
every available acre of land is going
to be planted and if there should be
vet June many acres of it aban-
doned.
Tie bankers and guano dealers
must be doing a good business if pat
ronized by all we see going to town.
And what fun it is going to town.
With the average negro tenant it is
next to a burial.
Notwithstanding the scarcity of
labor, time is no object to them.
We often see two or three able bod
led men with one wagon and per
haps aone horse wagon, pulled by
an ill-fed mule. The time lost in
unnecessarily going to town by peo-
pie in the country at soc per day
would more than pay their taxes.
But you can't change it. And what
we can't cure we must endure, the
more gracefully the be tier.
The land grabber and the town
farmer and the negro tenant have
got the country by the throat, or to
use little slang got the coon and
gone"