Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1914-05-27
OUR GEORGIA LETTER.
"Uncle" Iv Tells of Crops. Fish
Stories, Visit From Parks
vile Friends and Mr..
Cheatham's Bees.

Cotton that mao SooN ued' VI
guano put under it ls growing fast,
also the corn, but where but little
fertilizers were used before planting
corn nor cotton is growing much.
It has good color so just watch
out later on and see the difference
two mcnths from now when the
next and next application OF guano
is put around both cotton and corn.
Some have already put the first ap-
piication tn corn but it has beer 80
very dr. that You can see but little
of it's effect set But just let it get
a good rain and the roots begin to
suck in their feed from the manure
and will wonder how it will grow.
A good many in the neighborhood
have not done any work in their
crops this week, having, just hoed
and plowed both corn and cotton.
Next week should il rain you will
hear the plow boy soon and late,
and if it doesn't rain they will go
over their cotton with the hoe and
get the few punches of grass left
uncovered by the plow. They will
also thin cotton where left too thick.
This is in the month of May and If
I am not very much mistaken we
never till about the middle of June
get the dirt to our cotton. SO the
crops down here are at least a month
ahead of the crops on the clay lands
up where we came from.
The oat crop, especially that
sown since Christmas, is but little
account, except for forage.
Watermelons are being laid by
and strange to say during all this
dry spell the vines have kept green
and growing right along.
In a letter from one of my chill
dren in South Carolina he said IL
was being reported around that my
family and l are not at all satisfied.
Just let me correct that report by
saving, we are and have been salts
fed, and there is no truth i'll the
report.
I notice Flat Rock correspondent
likes to read my nonsense. No more
so than | like to read the letters of
every correspondent to your paper
from the town of Johnston on the
Eas, to Plum Branch on the West
and from every section of Edge
field county. Yes, love the Edge
field people and ever will. / can't
help it and don't try to help it; nor
do I care who knows that | love
the people Of my home county
where | was born and grew mp.
would be an migrate if l didn't.
am still lover of children and
ever expect to be, l can't help lov-
ing them. Do l love the bad chill
dren too: Why of course l do.
They are the ones that need our
love most, for if we don't love them
we are sure not going to,put forth
much effort to help them. And
don't you know that love begets
love- Now | don't want to be mis-
understood, | don't like the bad
'uns, but the boy or girl that fails
to respond to love have never
met.
Now for the boys and girls I
propose to tell some strange truths
about down here ia Georgia.
Hogs fishing, COWS coming home
before night. How does the hog
10 its fishing, you ask? Well, just
1t this time nearly all the streams
nave about dried up, and the hog
lust waaes about in the holes of wa.
.er and sticks his head under up
20 his ears and woe TO the craw6sh
iSh or tadpole that he corners, and
t is seldom he lifts his head from
he water that he hasn't something
hat saits his appetite from the way
le smacks his mouth. And why do
he cows come home before night?
TO be milked? No, but to get in
he smoke that their owners mot
I'D have at their cowpens to keep
he flies away. Yes, Just across
ield in front Of the home we live
II, about an hour before sunset you
rill see j smoke begin 10 rise, and
n a little while you can see the
COWS making their way to the pen
md there they stand and chew their
:ud while their owners milk them
nd no flies to bother either cow or
mixer. Their owner told me he
lad stools for his COWS to sit on
,ut he was only Joking. the stool
vas for himself and daughter to sit
N while milking.
Well, who should come driving
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