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EMPSON MILUS. ?Htcr Hipp Lo YOL. ?. LAI KENS C. LIM S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1886. big job of Clothing _Baltimore Fir?. TUJS SINS Ul1' TUB SENATE. 8K NA TO lt Yoi M.Wss i: l .1 o I M > 1 : K TO CA T I A IN TILLMAN. A Ituvlen of tho ? luti'gtiH itf Halatlmlnlft trallon In Our State < ;<>\eminent--The Board <>r Agrloulturot Vite, l?to. (From thu Ni ?vs ami Courier.) In my article of tho 8th ult . I pictured in their own paint several of tho fault-finders with tho conservativo conrso of tho Son nie during its last session, who, when hold up to their own ?nd the observation of tho public, were so shocked to seo themselves as other people saw them that they sought shelter by attempting to couviuco tho publio that their short comings were nothing but my aloise. Strange mode of abuse tin.;, merely to cull from ono's own words and oxpies sions! Save through the gi neron . ox oroiso of tho advantage of a lew gallant and impartial head-lines, ('apt. Tillman has thus for been the only one to reply. Ho says that "there is an old sin ing that it is the dog who is hit that howls," and "only tho truth hurts." If Capt. Till man is correct, then must nol this ho tin reason why "his dislike to trespass anj more on tho patience of your readers ii overcome by thc necessity of ;< plying to tho letter of Col. Ii. W. Yoemans'?" He evidences tho vitality of his movement by calling attention to tho "c munuuicii tjons which have from time to time ap peared in your columns." This oitation only proves, perhaps, that Tillman dic tation and the sweet assurances of got ting in on the home Btrotoh ; tay be moro potent in certain quarters than, it is bo lioved by ono of your correspondents, will be his loiters to proinineul followi r> in Chester, urging thora to erith condemn Senator Patt orson for uol voting to turn out thc prc-, nt board ol agriculture merely to allow Capt. Till man and his 01 ew a chance to got into the public cheese and bocom . tax-cu+ers. Capt. Tillman raised tho c; of Catch thief against the present board, and lin II nominated himself for ono of then- i ac cessors; but the po&tponom I i v tlie Senate of the bill to iv tho hoard, to use his own oxp Compel him lo caterwaul oil : 0 outsidi for at least one year more boforo ho bc conics a tax-eater, however : ..vere und distasteful it may bo to n poor farmer who has t ? stint, lie will i ' liko the startling cry, "I can't get out! 1 can t get out!" Jhit, Uko the disappointed oflloc-seekor, "I can't get in I l can't get in!" Capt. Tillman became ..< f nt nt io < i tho war-path that, in his desire U. lake my scalp, he liest said I had poured forth a regular broadside ? f mu ?tate mcuts, und afterward dei'.:,; .; him by admitting nearly all ol Iheiii. Al least ho only positivity dcuicd tho truth ot Ono, and afterwards admitted in s atanco tho correctness of that statome ., "that he was solf-coufcsscdly a miserable failure in tin' managemont of his own farm." He intimates that I had a gi il deal of brass, and that my ' ead was addled by tho commission) v's good liquor, lu can;" I considered his ol against tho commissioner and board ol agriculture "reckless and fallacious." And supposing that ho wo o hi tho eyes of every ono oise ttl b i ?8 in his own, ho intimates that ill speaking ol tho disciples of Henry George i could not possibly havo reference to any ono elso nut himself. Ono who i.i BO modest as to assume tho championship of tho rights and interosts of throe-fourths of our citizens, and to caution our United States Senators that they must study in tho "Tillman Oatcohism" i! they desire to hold their seats, should not ho so all posted on thc current h bios of thc day, ho would have known thal ho wai not tho man who said ho Dj reed witli Henry Ucorge as far as ho could in his defence of the masses agaim t tho classes. AH to my statement i which ho positivelj denies) "that he is self .confessedly a miserable failure in tin- management ol his own farm," ? shall draw the record on him. Capt. Tillman's letter, February 2, 1887: "Hut there is nothing but clu ck, brazen and unblushing, in his furthoi assertion that 1 am BOlf-OOnfc'SSedly 0 mi: embie failure in the mi UUj mont "I my own farm. I havo novor made nni inch Confession, and have only said 1 did not feel competent to teach others, and that after seventeen years' lund study I did not know how to farm.'' Capt. Tillman's speech, April 20, 1880: "These farmers cry in pitiful chores .Wo can't got out! we can t get ont !' I havo been in that Hostile nm elf. 1 have folt tho waters rising higher and higher, and looked forward without hop failure after failure in thc cotton Crop loft nothing with which to even pay in terest. I had tO BOll some land. 1 claim no inspiration but common s nsf and that has been burnt into mo by getting in debt, renting to negroes, sud making cotton on bought food for horses ami hands. 1 still do not know how to farm.' "Oh, what a tangled web wc weave When flrflt WO practice to deceive." Will thf Captain still deny his confes sion cf failure? t? so, then who or what waa it that did fail? Was it tho Govoi n mont, tho board of agriculture or tho Senate? Or was it the extravagant, im becile and incompetent Cotton crop that clouded itself in cuttle tish dye and would not gro v, regardless of tho fuot that tho poor fanner had to stint ami could not even pay interest ? 1 appeal to tho reason of the public il i man whose cotton crop failed year after y ai so that ho could not even pay Interest and docs not yet know how to farm should bo placed on the State bo n d ol agrio II lt nie .' Is such a man a proper persona;;" to commission to travel in other States without limit as to tho expenditure oj publio funds to investigate the practico operations of agricultural oollegi ft? Thc Bible tells us that he who WM faithful over a few tilings was miele ruler over many; but neither Holy Writ nor - va reason or common sense tells us that a mon who has faded in the management nf his own planting and does not know how lo farm slum ld bo placed over tia agricultural interest of tho State, Coo fmaing the beam in his own eye, nfl li tcfoks the mote in tho oyo of the Coven; mont, and playing "leap frog" over hil Own admissions of extravagance and in competency repeatedly prefers the same charges against tho board of agriculture. Let us investigate the operations of tins board and ascertain whether my brass and the commissioner's good liquor have most disqualified me, or his signal suc cess os a larmer has best qualified him tu sit iu judgment on tho merits of tho hoard. (J ust here, as au act of simple justice to Col. Butleri lot mo say that J neither drank any of his liquor nor did 1 take a drink with him during my stay in Columbia.) The hoard of agriculture comprises a membership of livo. One of these posi tions was tilled for two years by Gov ernor I lagood and four years by Gov ernor Thompson, Charges of the nature preferred hy Capt. Tillman will not hold good against this fifth of the board in tho eves of the public. Col. J. N. Lips comb, for lour years secretary of State and master of the State Orango, is another member of tho board, Who are the best judges of Col. Lipscomb's .it for OfHoe, tho poopleoi South Caro lina, w ho huvo twice eudorsed him foi tho responsible position of secretary cd Slate, and the farmers, who 'nave unin terruptedly chosen him for chief of theil Order, or those who are miserable fail ures in their own avocation? A third membership has been filled hy Col. 1). C. Duncan. I can point to no more Conclusivo evidence of bis Illness and Capacity for thc; position than tho fact that ho hm been repeatedly oho. en hy t In* most progressive and iutolligeuf farmers and mechanics for president ol the Agricultural and Mechanical Society of the State. \V. D. Johnson, a large and suecossful planter, who wai a chun collet under the old regime, is a foin tl member, and Mr. A. S. J. Porry, a mer chant, is the fifth nud last membor ol t he board. To Mr. Perry Vs energy and enterprise tho State is inde bted to il largo e xtont for basing tho estimate of tho royalty paid by tho Ooosaw Company on crude rock instead of dried lock, a measure which resulted ih tho rccovory of Si, DStt.-lO for tho State und an annual in orooso in its roveuuo of $5,000. Tin operations of the board cn' agriculture were made au object of scrutiny hy tin economic oaueus of the Legislature ii December, 1>SS.">, which was micro nco pi o in its ideas of rotronohmoht as t> be dubbed "three for a quarter." Tin investigation was conducted hy Repro BOUtaliVe Popo, tho recognized teador 0 the economic wing o? tile House, an. for tho information of the publio, an? that acortain party may he struck wit! another "realization of his own error mil the orrors of those around him,'' will quote a syuop.ua of thc report a riven by tho News and Courier Decem ber :*., LS;v>: "Air. Pope presonted an olaborat statistical report, fully endorsing th bureau of agriculture, and staling tlel any iutorfe reuoe w ith Hie bini a i ut th) linn; would be unwise, and injudioiottl A long discussion, followed. Kvcrybod oudoised thc bureau." Stimulated, u doubt, h}* tho criticisms of Capt. Til man, to the offeoi that the hoard of ngr [..allure was spending lots of money i lawyers' fees, w he n wo had un attoruoj general with a big Hilary to attend t such matters, Mr. G. W. Shell., of Lui rons, introduced a resolution in th April Convention, which the News an Courier considered "Capt. Tillman Convention u'd the way through," ai pointing a committee of three tu invest gate Hie chargej. Messrs. Shell, Dargan and Davis wei appointed on the committee to obtal tho dosircd information. The commi teo, hy way of a report, introduced Ce Li A. Hansom, who would oxj \dn tl matter fully to the! Convention. ,At tl close of Col. Ransom's statement, whit tho Columbia correspondent of H News and Courier said was very oloi mid explicit. "Senator Talbert inovi that tho report of tho agricultural buroi bc received as entirely satisfactory this Convention, Mr. Dargau move d amend hy returning tho thanks of tl Convention to Mr. Ransom for his pla and explicit statement. He wa? glad ?co that Hu- bureau had thc judgment retain iu its n i vice so loved-hcuded : officer. Adopted amidst applause." In view of charges of extravagance ai maladministration against tim Sta Government specifically made hy Cai Tillman, Mr. Prince, of Anderson, i troduccd in the sam? Convention a riv lotion providing for aeon mitteo of t to examino the books and ollie? H of t BOVOral State departments. This resol lion was referred te the committee resolutions, and was reported b ick wi the following comment hy the said co: mitteo: "Tho committee on rules a resolutions hi';,' leave to report that th have carefully considered the resoluti submitted by Mr. Prince in reference tho appointaient pf aoommittea to vestigate and report in reference State O?loerS, and reflections on si otllccrs ior extravagance and mnliulni (stratton, and we are satisfied that Bl report or reports are unfounded and i warranted, and we respectfully reco mend that said committee be not i pointed. Tho report of tho commit was adopted w ithout di ssent, thus tabli tho resolution." We thus seo my hr ondorscd and Capt. Tillman's char rcfnte:d amid applause and by the una mons voice of his own Convention. Oap}, Tillman says I have failed point out in what way the farmers benelitted by the hoard of agrieulti and do not show where tho cl TO, Ot M) tl have spent has gone, and cannot si any adeepinto results of its oxpenditi I have just replied to (/'apt. Tillman the language of his own Convention, will now reply to him in his 0WB I guage, lu section "8" of a sor iou resolutions introduced iuto tho A Convention, and known ai the Tilbj resolutions, ho btyh'stlio doubling of license tax em fertilizers, which wo mala: the tax tilly cents instead of tv, ty-live, ns it is now, "n small, indi tax on guanos, which fiirfuors will v m '!> pay to bo guaranteed aga fraud." Tho lloare! of agrionlturi giving that very guaranty to tho tarn to-day, at twenty-llvo couts por ton. It/onlu iv? pi i rei a very advanced logio I think, to put any either ooiir.'.ruc.l on this language of Capt. Tillman t that the board is rendering a service Hm farmers for half tho prioo Capt? '. man says thoy aro willing to pay. services of tho board, howovor, aro confined Li thia particular, but am tho bcncAtA which tho farmers shan oommou as Citizens, rc-adting from expendituru of thia ?9170,0041, maj enumerated tho following: First. Tho purchase, on behalf of tho State, of Agricultural Hall, tho lot upon which it is situated, ami its equipments, inohid tug its ehemieal laboratory, ?Sro., valued al 835,000. Second. Tho ohango in tho i manuor ol asscssiug tho royalty paid by thc Ooosaw Company, resulting, as I havo previously mont io ned, in the ro oovormg of $1,9<33.40 and an annual in orease of thc public income ol' $6,000. The estimate of tho amount to dato de rived as the resulhs of this enterprise on thc part o? the board would bo in round numbers about $20,000. Third. Thc in auguration and eonduot of litigation which has resulted in tim recovery in our Courts of 5,000 acres ol' land in" tho heart of the phosphate territory, valued at $00,000, and tho recovery of a judg ment against the Pacific (?nano Com pany for past due royalty of $53,570.*18. Fourth, l ader tho auspices of tho pres? cut bonni ibo royalty paid tho State during the seven years of its supervision llOS beeil increased from $310,710, tim aggregate paid for tho Keven years just previous te Hie establishment of tito de partment of agriculture, to $080,560, an increase of $030,823 in favor of thc pres ent board, and collected without uuy < x pOUSO whatever to tin- public treasury. Filth. 1 will merely allude to its oombiet of tho public interest in ti '., and fishe ries; to its attempts, to encourage immi gration; to tho mngnilleeut handbook whioh it has compiled, printed and dis tributed, se ting fortli tho advantages, resources, Sec of tho State; to its ser vices at tlie dutcrcnt expositions; to its experiments, its correspondence, publi cation and distribution of seed. Tin work of this department, has Ins n fully commensurate with what might haw been expected from tho distinguished mon who havo eonduoted it. ( 'apt. Till man ami his allies have proposed Governor fiiigood and Col. Duncan for members of tho now board, and Chai coller Johnston was sehcled by them os a member of tho trovoling oomutittce, t i investigate agricultural college., ii. olllCl States. Thus we. see them cmlorsin.; three of tho members of this very board which they charge with extravagance and incompetence. They denounce Prof. Mcllrydo's experimental farm in Columbia as a farce, and, with theil usual consistency, some of Hi m an urging lum tor director of tho.-c provid ed for by the Legislature al its last ses' siou. Capt. Tillman thinks tho Legit laturo should have bei ?i governod ou al agricultural questions by Iiis Conven tiens. Daring his November Cot?veil lion tia re were several thousoud lan a n in Columbia, notwithstanding whiol foot, tho attendance on his Uonvontioi was very slim. Capt. Tillman aeknowl edging himself l<? bo thc only represen tntivo from his Congre isiouol district who represented tho farmers-tho fov who were in his Couvoution, br lh< :- ?vera' thousand who WCl'O prosi nt OIK took no notice of itv As to Hu sins ol the Senate, that bi tl; passed thc experimental station lull, til bili io tax colton seed meal and thc bi to repeal tho lieu law, three mcostiri recommended bj Capt. Tillman's Cor vontion and merely postponed action o tho bill to reorganize thc department i agriculture until tho next session. Tllll we nee the Senate really rejected none ( their proposed measures, while th House passed two of their bills-tho i: pcrimcntal station bill ami thc bill t reorganize tho department of ngrioii turc, it rejected three Of their men tiros outright- thc joint resolution cal lng a Constitutional Convention, tho bi to tax cotton seed meal, and til i bill t repeal tho Hen law. Under these ci oumstancos tho question might bo aski with propriety which of these two bodii conformed most to tho roquiromouts i Capt. Tillman and bis followers, ll "l'armer I louse " or tho "Sinful Sonnte I can only account for thosilonOO wit 'which they have treated tho slaughter < their pot mea. un s in tim LioiISC, ai thc ..llUO and cry-' they h ive raised nv tho more postpom ment, of ouc of tht moOSlirCS by tho Senate, upon tl ground that the measure postponed w the only ono which opened up nu OVOUl to tue position of "tax-eater." Mr. minion asks ii I have forgoth that some years ugo both thc Agrioi tund Society mid tho State 'Irani pa-sod resolutions urging tho Legisl turc to abolish tho lien law, which, . cording to Cant. Tillman, ?8 my "j aversion" m. I his "damnable lieu low and explained thc nonconformity of ? I?cgisliturc to thi? roqnitcraont of t two organizations in tho following lu guage: "Had either or both ol* thc 0 ? ganizations represented any c msidoral contingent of our agricultural popit tion; had there been fewer polltioia among them and more real honest far ers, there would havo been more he paid to their wishes." Botweou t caprice of fortune, tho "Farmer ll >m und tho "Sinful Senate," tho reen inondations of ('apt. Tillman's COOM tiens were shown very little quart Perhaps by striking out tim iso "organizations" and inserting in 1 thereof tho word "Convention" I Captain eau tinda Solution of Iiis trou very m arly in II?H own language. Tho Scriptures toll us that w in n blind lead the blind both fall in ditch. How, then, can a mau who ?I not know how to farm lead tho farm of tho SbitoV Should some of Cn Tillman's propositions bo adopted, fanners would soon pray to bc dclivc .from their friends. I allude to doubling 0? tho royalty on river r? and thu license tax - measun s wli would ultimately result in the incn of tho tax exclusively paid by farm from $25,000 to $150,000, which, as indirect tax, Capt. Tillman rays, winners would hat ' to pay. So far n alludes to tho license tax, though, t would not feel it, as they would a di tax. Quito a compliment that, to fraternity, which compares us to foo children, who would not feel tho won unless thoy saw tho blood. in eon Sion, tho farmers havo but two grou of complaint against the Logislut l'ho application of tho license tax ex .uvely paid by farmers to goncrnl S purposes, and that on cotton omi visions in tho hands of formors. Tl two grievances, I havo no doubt, Legislature will corroot at its nott sion. D, W. YOIJUAN Sanders, S. C., March 1, 1887. Thc bu dior's children oro little sha the upholsterer's aro Huh tackers; butcher's are young lamb?; tho carpel uro chips from the old block; and the a man's arc little pets. Tl.M KU TOIICS I Ol? FARMERS. now TO MO TWIN;; WOltK AT THIS si: AMIN. .'.n:V,r ! lima of I nieront, Prom an Vulltorl Ililli? Source, i i. I., joae in th.- Baithcra Cultivator.) After tho winter's sleep, typical of death, the resurrection of spring is about to begiu. Tho suu, rising higher and highs r iii Mn' lu-avens, is pouring down bis raj s moro directly upon tho earth, warming its surface, and walting plants from their winter sleep. Mau, no less than tho inanimate objects nrouud him, fools tho quickening impulse and ia im pntienl ; > put seeds in tho grouud and do his part in roolothiug tho earth with vordurc. llappy oro thoy w ho eau placo thom elves In completo harmony with natui'O, who UOVOr waste their strength iu no equal cou test with her inexorable laws. On' of tho leading objects ol thc Cultivator is to establish and preservo tili-- harmony botwCOU its readers and thc material w ? ld in which thoy livo, to en id." tin tn t<> ste how cold and li at, rain Hud ? lUtshiuo, earth and air, v. lien right ly uni iv.: i st. od, may all bo conducive to mai:.. welfare; how co-operation willi tho forces <?1 nature may lighten his labors and increase their productiveness, whilst antagonism With them not only increases his labors, but renders them improductivo nod fruitless. Now tho three hading features of nature which confront tho fanner this month aro a low temperature, compact ing laius and high winds. Whatever he plants or prepares t<> plant, ho musl have ii constant oyo t<> these throo things. First, ns to cold. Seeds need heat to make them germinate. Where will they lind the most ot it, near tho fiurfaco or at greater depth? If a cold body is placed before a tiro, which becomes warm sooner, its outer surface t>r il- interior? Has not tho heat to travel through its surface before it eau reach its interior? ls it not perfectly idear then that the surface i- tho Hint to become heated? Now at tho end "1 winter, the earth is to bo regarded as n cold body. As long as tho nights exceeded tho days' iii length, thoCartu was losing roon hi it than it ri ceived j In other words, growing colder. As tho ? un conies northward and thc days become loagor, tho sun not only throws more lient upon tho ca/rth, but projects thc heat moro perpendicularly upon its surface, y,n that loss ol tho heat glances off, or ia rollcetod from its nur noo, and more of it i- absorbed or goi;s ' . warm U. Tho earth, thou, in spring, IU its relation to tho SUI),' i? lik" a cold body hold before a lire. Its surface first becohu s wen.i d an 1 afterwards thc beat pellet rates deeper tiuil deeper, What is the obvious ?mi rene." lo bo drawn from t11 i> v Phot io carly plantings, Heeds ihoilld not be'. uriel deep ill tho Soil. On tho contrary, that thoy should bo placed just as m ar tho surface as thc re quisite moisture cnu lie scoured. Again, as it is dosi rabio that BI ed conic up promptly when plautod, less com? fading rains and baking wind ernst thc earth over them and hold them down, ono should alwey; bear in mind tho tem pe ni ture H ai which di lieront st eds will g. imil...ic. A tubb) of the lowest overage tempt ratures ul which some of our com mon cultiv?t* ! plants will geri) hiato is presented. These ligures have laen learned from actual experiments, lt is to bo regretted thal tho tomporuturo of germination of others of our ordinary crop plants, like cotton, peas, etc., can not bc given: LOWEST AVKUAQE rlttlPBRATURK OF ill'.KMl NATION, Wheat.1 ' dogroos. Harley.I! Gorden Pea.i Lu " Indian Corn.I . " Scarlet Boon.iv " Squash.51 " Crom tho above wo may draw tho fol lowing conclusion: That in auy given locality tho avorngo tomporatuio for tho month of March is 50 degrees or above, corn moy bo safely planted during that month; if it is lower than l? degrees it would bo unwise to put tho socd in tho ground. Now, if a farmer has a tlier m..meter (as every one should) and records thc highest and lowest tempera tures of tho air each day (say at two o'clock and at SUDriRC), and . M ikes an average ol all, he em opproxin atc quito closely the average temperature of tho upper layer ol thc surface Boil, In ninny Localities tho nvorago temperatures of tho (liiToront months can bo learned from observations already mode by signal oillcors and other obsorvors, True, expe rience has pu tty well settled about the right timo in each locality win a a par? tioular crop sbotild be planted, but soa so n s vary a good deal, and llio ov?rago temperature of the bist or second llOlf of Maich may vary thr. e i four de grees. An invariable date for plooting .mu.o? be ilxed, ami m cud id thc hap hazard way 0? gut BSing that "it will do to plant Corn, it Mould bc better to lonni doiluitely and aocurttoly that tho soil M as warm enough to bring it up promptly. Fanners uso trees as ther moim tors -plant corn, they say, w hen the "dogwood blossoms," <>v when thc "poplar h al ia as large as a squitTol's oar." These are useful signs, but why not usc the th?Tmomotor itself and de termino ibo niatter still more definitely. Uordoneu and florists regulate thu tom? .a.uatttjt?S? 1 Hu ir green-houses by tiler i. ancWBBt wby should not a farmer use tho saiuXf inst rinuent, in bis calling, whenever ?t ls praoticablo? ile may not bo ablo to heat tho soil, except to a very limited extent, by fermenting manures, but ho can lind out when thc run has heated it su 'ojoutly, A good stand o? . on. is a mattel- of the iir.st importance; replanting is VOTJ? objectionable. iAery precaution, therefore, (including at ton - lion to tempi rature) should bo token to hove tho crop como up promptly and uniformly. lt was aaid above n farmer could not warm up his laud, but ho con do sonic - tiling in tho same direction by planting early corn on Heathorn .slopes. Thoso warm up soonor than northern slopes, because the sim's heat falls moro per pendicularly upon their surfaces. If a farmer wants a part of his corn crop to mature very carly, ho can solect for it a southern slope, with rathor light-textured but dark-colored soil. A loose soil is cabed for that water may sink in it freely ; a close, wet soil n always cold in tho spring, and a dark soil is desirable because a dark soil absorbs lieut hotter than a light-colored one. Next to Cold, compacting rains and drying winds aro to bo guarded against. ; How? I'irst by keeping tho soil well tilled \v}th bunni.. Heavy rains cannot compact a now-ground. Second, by not I bringing nj) too much clay to thc sur face. If a thin soil, will jluy subsoil, must ho deepened with a turn plow, ii I should ho done very gradually, only ? little clay brought up at one timo; and i: I is hotter if this he done just in advance of a small grain, inst? ail of a crop which has to he plowed and hoed. For thin, 1 poor soils tho scooter itW'O-llOl'SO) is <l< - oidedly preferable to the turn-plow. The manuer Ol Covering ti. . seod ! affects also tho crusting oi ii soil above them. If the land is rolled, or it the ser.i is covered with aboard which toa eertaiu degree compresses thd M>U lik ii roller-and ia tims loft flat, crustiug much nu / . . . it to ensue, tlian if the seed is covered wi lt a plow and the land left lightly ridged, Corn planted iu a very shallow drill and covered with a double, foot plow, makiug a very small list or ridge over it, is in better condition to como up well than under any other mode of planting we lcm ?w. Opinion is divided as to tho planting corn in irater furrow*. The greatest objection is tho i l . nf tho furrow' with water after h?avj md the consequent baking and luirdcuii i tho Boil when it dries oft'after water has stood upon it. lu a wet spring, it is difficult to secure a good stand under these circumstances, and the corn, when quito young, i.s liablo to he drowned out. But those disadvantages, which aro ad mittedly great, are, wo think, more than counter-balanced hy thc great easo of cultivating tho crop. 'il successive ploughing* cover nj) and kill grass with I case and certainty, lind al ttt? sumo limo ! throw dirt lo the eoril about n i ital as it I needs it. Jt renders possible, also thc I exclusivo use ol'tho sweep or tempo in the cultivation of tho crop, ami ibo. carries with it, almost of necessity, shal low culture, which is it mutter of tho ll rsl importance. Tl niling eora in the water I furrow also facilitates tho application of manure around the corn, without tho necessity of siding und p issibly edlin/;; its roots. Another decided a ?untoge is that Hie coi n IS hud by, willi tile nu nee i Ital and lev. 1, iii le d of ed. I u our dry, hot climate this ia ,. dosiruble. Win n tie. soi! H thin, tb' . water furrow must bo oom poudinglj shallow; it would m.I ho well lo plan; corn deep in thc raw subsoil. Circu?.; stances alter cases, ami sound judgment must he exercised about every operation of the farm. The question is often asked, whit I manures aro hot. adapted to corn .' As | compared willi cotton, corn lu eds about j tho enlim substances with a somew hat I increased quantity of nitro (eli. Cotton 'I '. successfully usi d as ? manure :'?>i- coin, is by itself unsuited as rt ieitilizer for cotton, and nitrogon is tho predominant elemoi t of cotton .-ced. Ihn i x petit nc . has shown that colton scod il ?inproved as a manure for corn hy tho addition of phosphate, showing thal corn docs not need quito so largo n proportion of nitrogen ti? phospln 1 ic noil : ami p tashas cotton seed contains. A strictly cotton manure is ni o ini])roVed, when intended for corn, by tlioadditi ?n of more potash. I lu Fnunun's formula, for instance, I which is adapted to eotloi on J., liam lands, Hie col ton seed and kanni might be doubled for corn on thc bani?! qm ht? of laud. Cow manure and ashes have al,o proved an excellent fertilizer for corn. But experiment has not succeeded as yoi in lixing as definitely tho proportion of ingredients in a corn manure as it has in that for cotton. ExpciiutcntH made at tho North throw Comparatively little light upon corn-growing at th South, because from lije pie,!. .i,,i::n!i' . >i r.: and grain crops' iu tho l u e r, tho soils ll of tho North aro mach richer in organic I nitrogi a than those of tho South, The winter kilting of onto sovornl years past has throwh a damper on that crop ami ireetcd attention mt her moro to corn. But it is urged upon tho reader to remember that unless arrangements ure made to work tho coin Crop with the plow alone, lt may provo a vory oxpou sive crop. If upland corn is planted in tho water furrow, and this furrow is lilli il ap gradually (not all at once) by succ? > sive plow lugs, and if holten, planted in Cul oks, il is po iblo, hide id it is easy to cultivuto a crop with the plow wflhou) the aid of tito hoe, Start ing the plow carly and repeating thc plowings at short intervals is tho w hole SOOrct. Such cultivation, with judicious manuring, will insure olioap corn. But inasmuch as tho coin crop is moro or loss liable to be cut oil" 'ny drought, it is desirable, in making arrangements for au ample supply of provisions to include lu ono s prograraino moro or loss of tho huger grained sorghums like keilli.' corn. These will make fair yields undor cir? ohtastauccs whore eora would utterly fail, and our oxporienco induces tho be lief that for lei ding purposes thoir grain is nearly or quito as good as C< ?M, This is tho proper month for top dressing grass end grain. A little nitrate of soda-say ?() pounds per acre in combination with phosphates, will often produce a marked chango lt) their growth. A yellowish east ol' the leaves is a pretty sure indication ol tim need ol nitrogen, and it is this substance whioh tho nitrate of soda '-appin S, I 'Ol' oloVl r. plaster is tho usual top-dressing; 100 pounds per acre willhiiihce. Sometimes it produces wonderful effects--occasion ally no apparent resid? follow its appli cation-but noone can predict in ad VanOO whether it will do good or not. (Iruss, clover and lucerne may still bo sown, but it is well to do this in tho first half of tho month, that the young plants may become well established bet?re warm dry weather set-; in. Be sure to finish OH with the roller that tho set .is may ho well ti rm cd in the soil and may como up and grow off promptly. II? thunks flit I'aiior. Mr. F/lilor: I was induced hy rending your good paper to try Dr. Hurter's Iron Tonio for debility, liver disorder and scrofula, and tbrco bottles have (Mired me. Accept my thanks. Jos. U. Bonos. * A youngster, hoing driven rapidly in a eloso CAI ringo through a woodlawn lo a neighbor's to tra, clapped his hands and sahl, "Auntie, uni lt tunny; I'm golu^ rmi to too, and the tm s arc all geing home' MA KY'S SAD I All. Tho OiMlruiMliiK Story of a Little ?yiri In ? Mormon i ;imii\. Jismcuo S AI.'.KV, Utab, March it. Bixtcon ; nil ugo Samuel Batos, a Mor* Mien, thoa th? PQSH0B8O1' 0? t\VO wives. : Ann sud Jane, (he hitter beingchildless, took Mary Lee, an orphan, to i ring up according to tho riten o? tho Church uf tho Latter Doy Saint.1. As Aim badi many children to comfort her tho babe was placed in charge of .lane, n devout Mormon, herself born in tho faith. Marv Leo's parents wore from Langland, lier mother was a delicate little woman, remembered by ninny hore aa a tearful and unhappy person. Times ven? hard with tin ui when they first appeared here, and they grow burder for some reason. lie hil band was about to take a . econd wife, evidently against tho w ishes ol thu companion of his yo.ntli, ho was killed in ti snow slide, and throi months alter that bis widow dud, some said Ol a brokou heart, leaving little Mary alone in tho world. Samuel li?tes waa some thin . of a man muong tho Mormons. Ho was called Brothor Hate?, ilia lir.st wifo was a bard, coarse woman, but .lane, h. whom the little orphan went, j was tender, rather good looking, and il lt ! with a stern mu? unbending faith; . : ti i divinity of her religion, n td a do-1 iiitio i b> "live"' it to tho ciid. The! ; . ivhioh thua fell to her partook of ; her dead mother's disposition. As alie grow h? womauho al she became fair to ;. degree not often seen lu thcttu parts, but in spiril she was gloomy, sau und retie, nt. Surrounded ny Morn ons and taught hy tin- pious .hine, she became almost a fanatic on tin- subject of re ligi?n herself, and readily accepted ?ll that was instilled into 1e r mind ns tho inspiration ol' tie- fiord. t\ year or two ago Mary I.'.'- beennii acquainted with a yoriup; mau li\?ng in a I mining camp not far from lure, a Gen nie, oj cou rae, as no Mormon o ives for g.nil and silvor. Tho youth, Seth Bent ly by name, rarely lost nu opportunity to pay tho girl little attentions, mal at length ii hecamo tho rumor that he was her accepted lover. She won! 1 stroll! away to tin foot hills io meet i.iin, of evenings they Would bo .seen by tho J mountain *.. >k which winds through | the (own, mid t tl Sundtiy afternoons, j [particularly when Brother Bates \viis . [position to tho intimacy, hut wheal' [Brother Bates' ;t; ntion was called to ' thc . i: ?ter, ho fell that it was Us duty P to MI n. J tero. Little hy little Jam \s mind 1 wits won over to hi way of thinking, 1 thoa; h at llr.sl sho had bc? n unsnaped- ? ing. Lk.ni tl y was foi bidden the house, ' und tho f^iii r?*as told that sho must nev- r meet him again. But th y mot 1 Inf ter this, not ns a rt unit of Mary's dis- ' ob-'dientv, but by ivs.-on of f'.entry's I . Isbn would have run from him ne caught j I her, and holding hi r t losely ho I.-kl her ' of his affection tor hor and entrci led her j to become bin wife, arid in return ro- ' coivi il some oucounigcmcnt. From tlmt time on they mel occasionally, unknown to I ?rot hor li?tes or Juno. lu Sept om bor Brothor Bates wont to Now Mexico on un exhortation tour, and w !a ii bo returned ill Octobor ho brought b ick .villi him n M u nion elder named 1 tag Marj i -, be ? na h . ..,?., I j i s ?lftll, ami lie aeoord lingly broached tho subject to her on tho < Isoeo'ttd day ut'hT liia iirrival*. 'J ho girl repel 'i iiini with horror, hut ho pressed . his suit, ami at louglh brought Brother ' Bates to his assistance. At first ?lane opposed tin.? proposition. She was a h sincere Mormon, but her affect iou for I her foster child got tho better of her M faith lora time, and until sho could be placated LUb'.v Crafty had to haag his ' I tit. vj ? on tho willow. Thu means i csu rt cd ' Ito to bring .lane to Seo tho error of her ways aro hi miliar to lill who have had h interoour.so witli tho .strange people who i inhabit these valleys. Brother Bates I bad a vision. Thon Isidor (.'rutty had a vision, Then a bishop who was passing through Jericho Valley had a vision, i'la n tho Sunday school superintendent, tho Sunday Behool teachers, and tho loca! ciders and missionaries hud visions. By a singular concensus of opiuiou all lind Eben tho same thing. "Mary Lc? was Ot Pa choice for Kider Cratty's wife. Still tho girl, now most of the lian; in tear , ??at.: her Unhappy motile,-, dead h years, shrank from thc proffer of thu vhitor, and her foster mother, the kindly but suporstitious .Jane, still de murred, thougu growing woakor and weaker io her opposition. Tho visions failing of the desired effect, Elder ('ratty and Brother Bates went ni? into the mountains soc...' timo last nu nth, and, fasting for fourteen and nights, they wrestled with the hool, and at tho end of their vigil they wore rewarded by seeing ? great light iud hearing a voice from heaven saving ; tal Kider ?ratty should take Mary Leo to bo his wifo, and that further delay would be both unseemly and displeasing to tho hurd. With this revelation and thc tHither assurance that a spirit had appeared unto Crafty in a vision saying that if .Mary heo would marry hilo she Would receive tho requisite alt'ectioa for hor husband by praying for it in tho temple, tho two wi nded their way home ward and Communicated to .lane tho re sult d Hu ir prayers and fastings, in tho face of .such undoubted ovidctieo of tho Lord's approval that good woman could soy uo more, and taking tho girl to ono side she advised her to give up hor Gentile lovor and cling to tho hus band colectod for hor by God, who had promised his servants that if she did not love him now tho spirit would confer great and surpassing affootion upon her at her nuptials. Mary Loo's own faith was strong, and 'u r inclination to follow the teachings of her religion wai great; but it took many more interviews to hiing her to admit thal slio had decided to obey tho com mand. When she at last gavo hot OOH* ( ia there waa much joy in Jericho Val ley, and a great company was made up to go along with tho wedding party io tho temple. They woro to start by wagons on a Monday morning. When tho sun carno up ovor tho moun tain range that morning it saw Mary heo down by tho brook, rovolvor in mind, rtOQO dead. Sho had risen during ibo night, and having nought a seclude! .pot where sho and Bently often met, sho bed taken her appeal al once to tho Judge ot all tho earth. Hor religion would not permit her to marry tho man of her choice und her womanhood ro voltod ag? inst tho alliance which, accord ing to earthly interpretation, tho unseen I lower liad arranged for her. I'M -I U.M \ KT CANDIDATE. hui mun Hie < holte ft>r eTwddciit-Slg'nifl c.im e of II is Southorn Trip. WAHIOKUTOK, .March s. -Scuator Sher man propoboa ?tarting on his Southern trip tliis afternoon. lt is under stood among bis clone friends that Mr. Sherman contemplates combining busi ness with pleasure on this trip. Tho initial conference held here during this winter by prominent Uopublicans of tho stalwart faith, with reten nee to Repub lican prospecte in thc next Presidential election, have resulted in a substantial concurrence in thc opinion that Mr. Sherman i; hy far tho liest nvuilable Presidential timber for the Republican party. Ron nay 1 vania has always been looked upon as a Blaine stronghold, but il is said that tho Cameron inllucncowill from now ho exerted to secure a Sher man delegation to the next Republican National Convention. New York is also counted upon for Sherman, and in tho Northwest ox-Rostniastor-i. lom ral Hatton and thu clique with which ho trains aro to look etd for Sherman delegates. Of course Mr. Sherman can have no difficul ty in s?curing tho Ohio delegation. When Mr. Sherman was a candidate for Hie i'residential nomination of IMHO, ho used Iiis power us Secretary of tho Treasury to "work" the South, and, as will bo romomborcd, ho obtained quito a respectable following in that section. Uo had no scruples iu appealing to Southern collectors of customs and of internal revenue to help him out. It is among the traditions of the Treasury Deport ment thal upon ono occasion he hinted lo .?lr. John L. Thomas, the collector of euMoti r?altimi re, that a Sherman Bdelegalion from Marj laud to the Repub lican Convention would bo vory accepta ble, but that Mr. Thomas was too much tinctured with Bluiucistu to take kindly to the suggestion. Now it is said that Mr. Sherman and Iiis friends aro of tho belief that tho seed sown for him in tho South in issi) foll upon good ground, and that tliis is the time to follow up tho good work, it is reported, therefore, that on his Southorn trip Mr. Sherman will take thc occasion to lay his wires luv Southern delegates to tho conven tion ol'next year. Solaras Virginia is liouccrncd, it is said that Cen. Muhono ?s thoroughly in sympathy with the Sherman movement, and will usc his in llucucc for a Sherman delegation. Col. Uosaduy, the sergeant-ut-arms of tho Sv uute, and who has long been ono of the most prominent managers and work ers in tho Republican party of North Carolina, has long been devoted to tho political fortuitos Of Mr. Sherman, and lu- is relied upon to secure tao North l.'aioliuu delegation. These all think that Mr. Sherman will strengthen his chances by going South and mixing in with tho people, so that other Republi can aspirants for tho nomination will watch Mr. Sheri.ian's Southern tour with considerable interest, if not anxiety. Note-, of sont hom Progress. W. E. (lillian) ii developing a gold nine at Sheppard's, Va. A sash, door and blind factory is being ;roctcd ut Corsicumv, Texas, A gin factory is I icing built at Cors? sima, Texas. lt is rep..:hil that S. S. Marshall & Uro., of Allegheny City, Ru., will estab lish glass works ut Chattanooga, Tenn. A pottery is being erected near Rin con, Tenn., by Stewart A Alexander. Jt is reported t hut a lile factory is to lu; established at Chattanooga, 'Leun. lt is rumored that a stave and bent wood factory will ho started at Jollico, tenn. A . ?mi uny is being formed to build a dri el railroad at Dalton, Qa. K. M. Couch will erect a lath and ?hin 'ie iuiil near iv ;. ser, N. C. James I>. McNeil will build a cotton furn factory, lu by Od foot, at Fayette ville, N. C. A chair factory will be started near ?ibsonville, N. C., by Clapp A Co. A trunk factory has been started at Birmingham, Alu., by [, C. Bandman A Jo. J. ?v D. Nobie, of Anniston, Ala., have >rdi red new machinery to double tho inpurity < f their boiler works. A $'250,000 -tock company is being . i anizi ii at ShclHcld, Ala., to establish i rolling mill. C. B. Hargrove, of Home, Qa., con template starting a rope factory. A company has been formed at Cull ann, Ala., to build water works, with I. Ii, Kartor as secretary and William Bower treasurer. Tho Mississippi Land, Immigration, Mining and Manufacturing Company has nen organized ut Dunant, Miss. Tho iiithorizcd capital stock is said to bo * I, OOO, OOO. rho Trowbridge furniture Company, :apital stock ?20,000, has boon chartered it Atlanta, Qa., by John Trowbridge, Henry T. Troubridge, Leonard T. Koo lah and Qoorgo W. Towers. Tho Southern Bridge Company, of Birmingham, Alu., are putting in new machinery and will add boiler works md tho manufacturing of bolte, mite, nvets, etc. .1. c. Grooloy. of Jacksonville, Ria., \. M. Ives, S. C. Thompson, Mr. l>row ind others have bought (1,000 acres of mineral lands, Which they will develop. Tim if rc? Delivery Affected. Thc failuro of tho Deficiency Appro priation bill affects the postal service to :his extent. Thero aro 170 places at tvhioh tins froo delivery service was to liavo been established immediately, bnt now nothing in this dirootic n can be lono until tho beginning of tho noxt lls'-al year, when the regular appropria tion will be available, in anothor item it was proposed to appropriate ?100,000 to enable tho Rostmostcr-Gouornl to in stituto a thorough examination of tho accounts of all fourth class postmasters, which would have necessitated tho ap pointment of sovoral additional postofttoo inspootore. Tliis investigation waa ren dered necessary lieoauso numerous frauds liavo boon discovered in tito accounts of postmasters whose compensation is de termined by tho manlier of stamps they cancel. There's more hones to tho ?quitte Inch of shad than io anything wo know of,