Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-07-26

llbIlt bI III lDDhS ike IL ought 10 run less
than twenty-five. The whole field.
however, was badly injured by the
storm on Monday of last week that was
pretty close kin to a ClOudburSt. The
water flooded bitches. broke over ter
races and cut ugly slucs that are likely
To be i'm evidence for quite a while.
Looking at this field from a distance,
Mr.. Ashe was able to point out some
interesting comparisons as the result
of corn following cotton and turned
| under clover. The boundaries are dis
| tinCtly marked ly variations in color,
| the clover land corn being a dark green
! and the cotton land corn being appre-
| ciahly lighter. The harvest promises
to he i'm about the same proportion.
| From the big corn field. we crossed
another cotton field and entered a
woodland pasture, enclosed by n good
substantial, large mesh wire fence
| Here to my surnris", | found small
! flock Of fine SOuthdOwn sheep. Il
bought ram and two ewes three years
ago" explained Mr.. Ashe, and there
are nine now. | used to raise sheep
| and for one reason and another | got
out of it for a while; but | am not sat
sfied to be without them. Mr.. Moore
| Burris and | got a ram and two ewes
each, and what we are going To do.
cannot promise. You know the dogs
break out among them every once in
a while, and you can't count with any
certainty what you are going to he able
| to do. Dogs got amongst Mr.. Burris's
yesterday and killed two or three. But
so far my experience goes If you can
| only keep the dogs away from them the
rest is easy"
| Across the sheep pasture. we came
on another big cotton field, another
| cane field and then another twenty five
acre cotton field. The sun was now
well down and we started back fol-
| home. cutting across still another big
cotton field, and skirting a third past
| ure, the one in which Mr.. Ashe keeps
| his yearlings. He has about twenty OF
| these, and he is adding to the herd
when cattle got down so low in price
l quit fooling with Them" he said. but
now it is beginning to look like ii Is
going to be worth while again, and an
| giving them more attention" The
yearling pasture is surrounded by q
good, strong barbed wire fence, and cv-
cry night the cattle are driven into g
| pen, where their accumulated drop
pings are more easily available for use
whenever desired.
| Passing through a field of pea
| on oats stubhle, Mr.. Ashe mentioned
| the interesting circumstance that the
oats recently taken off were sown last
September i'm growing cotton. After cot
ton picking was commenced, but before
it was half over. the oats were put IN
three burrows To the row. and the yield
was about the heaviest that was made
| on the place.
| When we got back from our some
what strenuous walk, we found supper
ready, and from the unusually bOunti-
| full spread, Notwithstanding the short
| time i'm which there had been to pre-
pare it, could not help feeling that the
ladies were making hOnored company
of me. They had lots of good things
including delightful country cured ham
and lot of tempting extras, and prac-
tically everything produced on the
farm, except the coffee, sugar, salt and
pepper. That l enjoyed it all goes
without saying; but | could not helI
| feeling that if Mr.. Ashe lives that way
all the time, or most of the time, il Is
up to him to cultivate large measure
of sympathy for the people who have
| to depend altogether upon the grocery
stores.
After a good nights rest and break
fast at sunrise, Mr.. Ashe had a little
mare hooked to a buggy and he took
a drive down the big road past the
farms Of the Lindsay boys" Mrs. VIM
| Ashe. John Love and others. The
Lindsay boys, sons of the late Andy
| Lindsay, are Mr.. Ashes near neigh
hOrs, and he says, with good reason too
so it appeared, that they are the ''pret-
tiest" farmers in the country. Their
corn and cotton rows run as straight
and even as if each one was according
to accurate measure, and all their crops
are perfectly clean. Mr.. John Loves
| crops are also fine.
| One of the most interesting things
that was called to my attention was the
way Mr.. Ashe has reclaimed piece Ot
practically worthless bottom on the
| farm of his sister n-law, Mrs. William
| Ashe. Mr. Ashe has been supervising
| this farm since the death of his broth
er, Mr.. VIM. Ashe, some nine years
ago. The branch was running along
the surface of the ground over a long
stretch of bottom, and the whole thing
was q big swamp. There were places
| where a man could stand on an appar-
emily solid spot, and with his weight
shake the underlying mass of jelly-like
mud for distance of ten feet in every
| direction. Hundreds of dollars had
been spent during previous years in ar
| effort to secure adequate drainage
without success. After studying the
situation carefully and finding that
there was plenty of fall short dis
tance, from the lower end, Mr.. Ashe
cut short ditch, removed RATS and
| logs and left the action of the water
| to do the rest. Now the bed of the
stream is full eight feet below the sur
face of the field, and the former worth
| less bottom is producing enough corn
to supply the entire farm. Mr.. Ashe
| thinks, and so do |, that this is most
capital, practical illustration of the
value of the law which requires people
| to clean logs, RATS, etc, out of streams
during the month of August.
| Driving on back to McCOnnellsville
we took Mr.. ]. NJ. Williams in the bug
gy with us and went out to take look
at his prize corn field. He has about
seven acres within a quarter OF mile
of the station that promises not less
than 60 bushels to the acre. Mr.. Will
liams put his land in good shape
planted an ordinary gourd seed variety
and put on about 700 pounds of fertlli
zers in two applications. This corn is
now all but made. \ drought would
hurt it some, but not badly.
| only got glimpse of Mr.. j. 7,
| Crawford's fine patch. We heard the
train coming while we were looking al
Mr.. Wiliams's corn and had to hurry
back to the station. Mr.. Crawford has
! twenty acres right IN the centre O1 the
village. He planted Marlborough Pro-
| life. put 1.200 pounds of S-3-3 to the
acre i'm two applications and 200 pounds
of nitrate of soda as he laid it by. Mr.
|C. J. Hughes. the county demonStra-
| ton agent who has seen all the best
crops i'm the county, says that in his
opinion, Mr. Crawford is ahead of ev-
erybody. He had no idea that the yield
| from this field will he less than 1.5OO
bushels and will not he surprised at 200
| or 800 bushels more. Mr.. Crawford has
very little to say, except that he thinks
| it is the best corn that he has ever
| grown.
The McConncllsville farmers have no
complaint about the seasons they have
| ! cen having. Rain has been coming
about as needed and generally the
crops are clean and in fine condition,
With the exception of tn" cloudhurst
on Monday Of last week, the seasons
have Leen better than if they haG he"I'
made To order.
LOCAL LAcONICS.
Until January I, 1911.
We will send The Yorkville Enquirer
from this date till January !, 1911.