The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-08-18
NO REST FOR THE FARMER.
A Characteristic and Interesting Let
ter from "Old Timer"

spared from the cotton mere is 1OQQer
to save and the red hulled, speckled
pea is ripe and ready to be picked
and the scattering weeds in the corn
along the roads, fences and bitches
need cutting, for they will scatter
millions of seed to trouble next year;
then they look bad and show a
slovenly if not a lazy farmer; then
litter should be placed in the stalls
and lot to make manure for next
years crop, fences to look after and
as the poor old fellow thinks and sees
with his own two eyes, how these
details will pay, he squints his eye,
mops the sweat from his brow and
looks out on the sunbeams he almost
means, then brings deep sigh and
exclaims: Amt it hot?" and he
sits in his easy chair or hunts cool
spot and finds it not, his arder cools
and the weeds are left to grow, and
as his conscience graws away at his
Incidence, he huns, There is rest
for the weary" and the green fields
of Eden, come to his vision in these
long dog-days of earth.
They bring on physical inertia,
and he longs for cool weather, and
when it comes how he longs for it to
be hot, never satisfied, and before he
is half prepared here king or rather
tyrant cotton is open, and so it COOS
from year to year, and the man who
works and keeps at it will never lack
anything that is good for him.
Crops have improved and fair
yields will be made where proper
cultivation was used, but many fields
were too wet to cultivate and the
crops will be poor on them. When
will we learn to drain the low lands?
Then crops will be certainty, not
before. Many fields of good corn are
in the land and the farmer who does
not intensity on corn is not in it, so
also with cotton. High farming
alone will pay-fewer acres, more
manure, fast cultivation but shall
low will succeed any year. To try
it is to be convinced, for crops on
low broad fat beds will do much bet
ter dry years, also wet ones.
A gentleman from near Augusta,
Ca, made inquiries few days ago as
to the mode of applying fire to fruit
trees and flowers to kill San Jose
scale. Perhaps there are others who
have it in their orchards and for
their benefit will give it: Get some
rich pitch pine splinters or feet
long, split them so as to make
bundle easy to handle, tie them so as
to keep them from falling apart;
when we'll lighted begin at the
ground and 60 upward until the
limbs are reached, then on the other
side until the flames reach every
particle of the surface. Then the
limbs, begin next to trunk and go
to end or as far or a little beyond
where the scale extends, then the
next one, until the whole tree is
singed or brought in contact with the
flames. Care should be used not to
let flame rest too long but keep torch
going at a steady but moderate gait
and the tree nor foliage will be in
jured in the least save few tenoer
leaves be crispled at the ends. All
tender house plants and roses can
be treated, only have small smudge
or torch to treat them and no harm
will result unless fame is kept still
too long, but it is death to scale and
all insects. This is not pretended
process, as the writer discovered 1t
by accident and found it effective on
all trees and plants after loosing
nearly all his orchard treated with
lime sulphur wash. Trees treated
in spring, summer and fall with the
fire or torch treatment will be entire
ly free from scale and other pests as
well. Trees treated near here in the
orchard of Mr.. R. G.. Johns last spring
bore a fine crop of fruit this year and
trees are in healthy condition. These
trees were badly infected and would
have died last spring had they not
been treated. Save the orchards
and plant out more trees and use
two or three pounds of kainit scat
tered around them each spring with
good care of trees will give plenty OF
nice fruit and the good old days will
return when every home nearly had
a. Jug of fine cool sweet cider sus-
pended in the we'll by a rope. How
refreshing in hot summer day!
Only last week neighbor j. passed by
with a large demijohn in the foot OF
his buggy. Cherrily he called out:
Come, Old Timer, and take drink.
1t will do you good With thanks