The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1918-03-21
SANTUCK

| or anywhere else to put in Clal
and | was of the draft age, he * il
not trouble me for no man is h~S
than 1, trying to get things in shape.
Just today / had to make handles for
hoes, some single-trees to make and
could scarcely decide which to do first,
are to get out and smooth out frazzled
odds and ends about the fields, while
1T was too wet to plough. We had
good rains Sunday which were badly
needed. The ground hog knows some
thing after all for on February End
he did not see his shadow and he said
then that the winter was broken and
did you ever see such a change? It
became so spring-like that farmers
thought they were farther behind
than they really were. I believe some
wanted to plant but it is too early
yet. But we want to keep up-to-date
especially since there is such scatyity
of labor
There were several negroes who
made trades some got farms to work
and about March 1st slipped out to
parts unknown, perhaps north. If one
can beat a man out of his wins Sr's
keep or goodly sum of money and
goes north and lets all the others know
big wages he is getting and when he
comes back for Christmas he has sew
eral more wrinkles on the horn and is
hero. His dishonesty is no shadow
In their sight. That is why some peo-
pie are fast growing to be afraid to
| trust tham. A bad state to bring TIE
race to, but they are bringing it upon
themselves. I could say more here,
| / did not start for that but will say
that we are going to try to find our
| selves, or hope South Carolina will
but we must make some cotton. Just
this morning I heard some farmers
talking about top-dressing their wheat
to increase the yield if possible. De
spite good corn crop made, we must
plant green forage crop, or the Sc
we're winter about put oats of the ques-
| tlon. 1t was so cold in December but
little snow saved few oats. BY
the way the annual summary from the
Weather Bureau at Columbia said
December 1917 was the coldest on
record for South Carolina, dating back
thirty-seven years. Some cold, that.
/ am beginning to believe that there
ought to be draft law to make some
people go to work, especially some
negro women, even if they have hus-
bands who give them rations, they
ought not to be allowed to sit in the
house from the beginning of winter to
cotton hoeing time and not do stroke
of work, hardly patching clothes and
burn wood and eat flour. They do not
want corn bread, it does not a@.e,
with them. The country is full ef'
work, white women are doing many
things, scrimping and saving and do
Ing extra work to help in these war
times and the negro women are sit
ting in the houses or gadding about
and probably studying up devilment.
Right now there is lot of work on
the farms that is needed and could be
done by women as well as men. They
used to plough in the long ago.
How about velvet beans this year?
Numbers of people condemn them,
complain that we must plant corn. /
am chummy with velvet beans and
gathered 5 bushels year ago, and have
plenty for planting now. Mine and
my brothers hogs have grazed off
them in one patch, it was on poor land
and while we tried to encourage old
"Mahuzzyly" and her kids to 60 to
the swamp, they preferred the beans.
I like velvet beans for legume crop
that will wait all winter to be hogged
off and trey have many advantages
over the field pea, but don't think I
am against the pea, oh no, plant peas
too.
This township held Sunday School
convention at the Baptist church here
last Sunday but only very small
crowd attended. Almost everybody
was afraid of getting wet, but never
mind, there were several good speech
es made by local talent and I got as
much out Of these speeches as if the
house had been full. Mr.. Henry Hames
the county secretary-treasurer met
with us and we were glad to have him.
Mr. Hames spent quite while at our
house waiting for the train. We were
so glad to have him.
I wish more people could have been
out as it would have looked more
CHEEKY to a visitor.
Rev. Mr.. Cooley, the Methodist pas
tor came up from Carlisle and he did
much to help out the meeting. I hope