The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-02-20

wet olo MoCner Earth Is. This week
to Thursday a. m, 4.69 inches. w.
had few days Of sunshine and wind
la March, the land dried fast. Farm
ers began to feel the effects and, like
birds (began to twitter and sing) e
talk about plowing-they wanted t.
see things moving cropwards. Monday
the teams were harnessed and houl
ing, one thing and another, across the
fields and otherwise, but--now,
All fair weather amt the best"
More rain, more rest,
Yet there is much to be done, ever
II land is wet, for all plowing cain,
the BEST" and there is yet long way
to planting time, unless some wishes
TO plant spring oats, and for that VIC
ned some plowing weather. There has
been much work done by some, and or
some places very little. To be, as tc
speak in person, your humble writer
has done considerable towards improv-
ing pastures, as has also a few 9th
ers-as 1 am getting to where 1 be-
Eeve good pastures are good crops to
raise. The most negligible thing of
all is the neglect to stop the washes
in the land. 1t seems some men don't
care for saving land, and don't seem
to realize what menace their neglect
is to neighbor, and what it will mean
to the children of today when they are
to take possession, and to future gen.
erations. l am speaking for the foun-
cation of Union county, and say that
every man ought to try to keep his
washed sand off his neighbor, as his
neighbor can't get any damage pay
for this.
A few days ago saw a man from
Mississippi and some one in the crowd
suggested that perhaps he could tell
us something how to work the boil
weevil. He said that he would not
like to undertake to tell anybody just
what to do, as things are different in
different sections; that he became ac-
quainted with them in 1909, and that
thousands of dollars had been spent
experimenting, and the thing that
topped all others was early planting
and swift cultivation. That even il
you pick up the first squares that
drop, send hoe along to chop out
weeds, and keep the plow going even
every week. This was on good lana
That was about as much as could be
said, and from a man farming among
them, and who knows, guess. I got
it free, gentlemen, and so / pass IL
on to you, for what it is worth to you
During our cold spell of weather, d
+ neighbor asked me if thought it had
killed the boil weevil, and said, "Na'
for I believe many of them will sur.
vive the coolest weather that we ever
have here, and as many Of you car
blieve the same thing, as wish, and
none of US in this county will know
much about it. We have had weather
close on to zero, in time, and had cut
worms, bud worms and many others
One cold day, in cold winter, cut q
dead eak tree for firewood, and under
some loose bark was hat full OF
wasps. Water had got under the
bark and was turned to ice, and the
wasps were frozen (not to death) OF
mixed with the ice and was apparent,
ly dead, and I put some in the sun.
shint, shielded from the wind, and
they soon showed signs of life. You
may drown, or soak or rot an insect
but I believe many will pull through
of any species, our coldest weather, SC
am not trying to fool myself that
the boil weevil will be "entirely kilt
because, forsooth, they are pests.
You may talk about secret societies
or rather societies with secrets, or
ganizations fraternal, if you please
but of all the topmost organization;
in the world, the church is it-Chris
tianity. A brotherhood of Christians
Where neither men nor women no,
children arrived at the age Of account
ability, and upon their profession O.
faith in the Lord and Savior are re
ected. There are no secrets in it, o,
about it, unless it is a secret tina
cannot be defined, any more than tn
working of leaven that leavens tn,
whole loaf. The secret that seems t,
purify, that lends refining influenc,
that you don't see elsewhere, tina
makes one to seem to love his neigh
Dor more, that brings about the Wis
ible change in ones life, so plain tha
| an infdel ought to see and acknowl
| edge supreme being somewhere
| brings all closer to God. That is tn,
organization of organizations.
am still not hearing much from
! many of the correspondents, and an
/ now thinking several of them hav
done like grandfather's clock, stopped
never to go again. Flint Rock is no
the only one who has almost become ,
stranger, and ! wonder if Puella ha
quit entirely, and Dollie, has, or was
moved away, and some hive got "scat
tered" got married, and have forgot
ten us. Dixie Rose said she woul,
not quit, and we are glad Vero ha
not quit. George Washington say