Utilize all wastes as manure. Make your corn crib rat proof. Too rich a soil grows too much wood. Insects are as often scavengers as pests. Sell stock only when in good condition. . Fit the collar to the horse and see that it fits. Pure-bred animals are uniform in their color. Regular feeding makes animals more content. Use such f?rtil izers as the crops demand. Broad tires are at a disadvant age on a rough road. Keep your watering troughs | scrupulously clean. " Decaying organic matter in the I soil gives warmth. Fertilizers for wheat or oats! should be kept near the surface. Mellow soil is more penetrable j to air, rain or sun heat. Land too steep for cultivation j may be made good pasture. There is not enough attention j paid to the selection of seed.. A cow was not made to trot, . The cow gait is a walking one. Lime is generally abundant, i but some soils are deficient in it, . One of the greatest wastes on a farm is that of fertilizing mate rial. " The manure of a well-kept ani mal goes far towards paying for | winter keep. Do not look for a better year for I the farming community than that j ; of;1891. Cotton seed-may be safely fed more heartily in winter than in milder weather. - Study your farm. No one else ought to know its needs and ca pacity as well as you. Bone meal decomposes slowly, and therefore its application is felt for some time. Some crops clear the soil of weeds. This should be considered | in a system of rotation. All waste matter should be ap plied to the furface as mulch or worked into the soil as compost, s The value of commercial f?rtil -izers-4ePen?i on their containing the elements which the soil needs. A foul watering trough is an I abomination. The dog under the wagon de?s | no harm. Farmers should live on the fat | of the earth. --Make your soil the hfttter__fer_| every crop it grows. The stingy man breeds froml poor stock and underfeeds. Have you considered the shrink age of corn in the crib? If you have no silo, take good | care of your corn fodder. Concentrated foods should al i ways be fed with those mor? bulky. Just enough feed to sustain life I is a loss of growth or other pro-1 duct. The droppings of a mature ani mal are worth more than those of I a young one. Have, everything ready for work aa soon as the frost is out of the ground in the spring. There is no profit in making one hand wash the other-one crop make up the loss on another. Putting all your money into some new enterprise is like staking it all on a single throw of the dice. A man shows his mental and moral status as much by what he condemns as by what he accepts. Liberal feeding returns two profits-one in the increased pro duct and the other in the manure It is more profitable to buy linseed or cotton seed meal than corn ; but no butter ration should be without corn. A heap of manure is a blessing when spread on the soil,{but a curse when rotting against the side of the barn. A farmer in Missouri grafted a tomato vine into a potato vine and got two crops, one from the top and the other from the roots. The coarser the manure the less value. Worthless land is often made valuable by underdraining. If your neighbor knows more than you do, beat him at his own game. Ifyouhavoa small farm, en large it by putting more work and manure on it.-American Farmer. If a farmer buys a mule colt for $10 and in a few years it grows up and becomes worth $150 he is ex pected to pay taxes on it at the in creased value, although he has gone to great expense in feeding and at tending it. If a phosphate man buys a share of stock for $100 and in the course of a few years it becomes worth $300 he claim? that he should pay taxes only on the stock at the value of $100,. which sum he first, paid for it. In the meantime he has not fed the stock (although he may have watered it) and has been at no expense in keeping it, PoLlTIGAL^o THE HON. JOSEPH H. EARLE. He Counsels the Democracy to Stand Together-Conservatism in Politics Never so Much need ed KS Now. To the Editor of The News and | Courier : Your circular letter has J been received. You ask that I ex press my views as to the political J situation, and as to the course that the conservative people of the State should pursue. Never before perhaps in the his-1 tory of South Carolina has it been so important as now for the people to be conservative in all that they | may say or do in political matters. For never before have tho white people been so divided in senti-1 ment and separated into factions j by internal dissensions. The con tinuation of this condition will necessarily tend to drive them fur ther apart, and will prevent their co-operation for the good of the State. I have no axe to grind, nor have j I any personal wrongs . to avenge. I opposed the election of Governor | Tillman in the last campaign with j all the earnestness of my nature because I believed that he should be defeated. The people, however, decided otherwise and he was tri umphantly elected. Those who opposed his election were naturally sore over their disappoiniment, and a large number of them are still dissatisfied. But under our sys tem of government the majority must rule and the minority must submit. The more quietly and gracefully that they yield to the will of the majority the better it ( is for all concerned. Governor Tillman has been many times condemned for his un just criticism of others, and un-1 just criticism of him by his op ponents will not injure him, but j will tend to his advantage. If it was wrong in him to slander others when he was a candidate, it is simply wrong in others to slander him while he is Governor. L?t his former opponents deal justly with him and give him due credit for all that he may do or try to | do for the good of the State. That he has done mauy things that are to be commended none can deny; that he has done some things that might be condemned all will admit, but any man in his position and surroundings would be liable to make some mistakes. Then I wouldsuggest to the Anti TillmuTntes that it would bc wall? to deal fairly with him and to avoid committing the same sin of \ which he has been so often ac cused. Don't follow his example of making unjust accusations against him and by magnifying little faults into grievous sins. This course will not bring the two factions together, but can re sult only in keeping them apart. My deliberate judgement is that Gov. Tillman is at present as strong with the farmers as he ever was, | and i believe that he will be re elected over any ono who will probably take the field against j him. Such opposition would in tensify the bitter feeling which now unfortunately exists amoung j the white people, and could suc ceed only by invoking the aid of the negro vote. Victory at such a cost would be too dearly bought. Give me Tillman a thou- j 3and times before a Scott or Moses ! When the Convention meets let j trim be nominated, if a majority J )f the delegates are in his favor ; md if nominated, let him be j elected without opposition, so far is any Democrat is concerned. Dur best, wisest and most! ?onservative men should be sleeted to the General Assembly, j This is far more important than j the election of any man as Gov ernor. With a good Legislature a | bad Governor can do little harm ; srith a bad Legislature a good| Governor can do little good. Respectfully, Jos. H. EARLE. THE HON. W. D. EVANS. He Does Not Think the Situation | at all Serious. To the Editor of the NOWB and j Courier: Your favor of the 16th instant to hand, and I note that you say that the political situation in South Carolina is serious, and that you desire to obtain trom me an expression of views upon what course the conservative people of the State phould take to bring about the unity and harmony of party, etc. I will freely give you my views, provided you will pub lish what I have to eay. I do not think the situation at all serious, because I believe the Government I is safe when it is'the hands of the| people, and that the State Govern ment is more completely in the hands of the people than at any time since the war no one of or dinary intelligence will deny. As to the best plan to bring | about unity and' harmony of the j party it strikes me that if you and | others like you who have labored in season and out of season to de stroy the party for the last two years, because you could no longer dictate its policy and command its leadership, would in good faith ac cept the Democratic doctrine that in party affairs the majority must rule, and be willing to give and take gracefully, then all would be well. But to go into a Democratic primary and bind yourselves aE honorable men to abide-the result and then to lead an Independent ticket and vote for a Republican for Congress against the Demo cratic nominee, as Judge A. C. Haskell did, and for him and hie sympathizers, among whom I count the News and Courier, to be solicitous about the unity of the party, is certainly to me_ a very strange state of affairs. It looks to me like the proper course for all such, who are now so solicitous far the welfare of the party, to pursue would be to ac knowledge their error and put themselves as quickly as possible right before the true Democracy, the people of South Carolina, by doing less talking and indulging .in less abuse of the representa tives of the party and prove them selves entitled to consideration in in the party by voting the party ticket at the next general election. In my opinion the best and only way to unite the party is for the opposition to Governor Tillman to accept the inevitable and bow gracefully to his renomination, which is a settled fact, provided, however, ho does not in any seriofia way antagonize his Alliance breth ren. Yours, W. D. EVANS. Bennetrsville, Feb. 18. SENATOR J. JJ. M. IRBY. He Does Not Feel That He Should Have Been Asked for Advice. To thc Editor of the News and Courier: I have the' honor to ac knowledge the receipt of your let ter dated Feb. 16,1 1892, which would have been answered before this but for my absence in New York. My reply must necessarily be brief : The "political situation" in South Carolina is not now seri' % notwithstanding that it might. j appeared so a month ago, for .ue conservative people of this State aro always to be relied upon to do tho right thing at the right time. According to alf political rules for the government of parties, mi norities are .expected to show theil allegiance to their party by sub but it seems that this rule mustbe GEO. R. LOMB/ MACHINE, BOILER aM GDI WORE! ] AUGUSTA, Is the place to get Machinery Prices. 50 New Gins and 62 New Eng If you want a First-Class CO' for a New Catalogue and Reduced COTTON GIN. See the extra fir work. Mention THE ADVERTISRR wh< IF YOU AR Fi P0P?L?R PRICED, STYLIS] We with all sincerity recommend see the immense stock of I. C. LEv. Tailor Fit A-TJG-TJSTA., Thorough-br Farmers would it not pay you Barn-yard Scrubs. WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS, SILVER LACED W SILVER SP> Will be glad to have you call trated circulars. HENRY Dealer in Gener GRANITES Ashley Phosp Charles SOLUBLE GUANO, highly ammoniac DISSOLVED BONE, highest goods; ACID PHOSPHATE, for composition Agfa Element, for Cotton, Wheat, Peas, & COTTON AND CORN COMPOUND; SMALL GRAIN SPECIFIC; GENUINE LEOPOLDSHALL KAIN GENUINE FLOATS, of highest gradt FHE ABOVE FERTILIZERS ARE OF VERY 1 They are rich in Ammonia, Pliospl pounded with a special view to the war .hanent improvement of the soil. Special Formulas made to order of Special inducements are offered foi For terms, Hand Books, Agricultui Element, Peas, ftc, address Ashley Phosp CHARLESTO? -r-"fr viol-ated in Sou^h -Carolina when I nine-tenths, of the . people repre sented in convention riominated Tillman as Grovernor. ijAs I take it, the way to secure and;j maintain unity and harmony in Any-'party inJSouth Carolina, or elsewhere for all factions to subfmit their claims to the primaries/: and then like men abide bv the j result, presume that it will be \ generally admitted that if a majority of the Democratic electors wanii Governor Tillman to be chief magistrate of the State, the minoritV has no right to complain, but srjould give him full credit for all thjat he says and does. It is sheer nonsense, as long as we pretend to hajpe a Dem pcratic party, for a , disappointed minority, stung by defeat, to bring about discontent and then demand that the majority must submit to avoid a permanent breach 01 the .party. It seems strange to me that you who have kept up a constant fusi lade against Governor Tillman since his inauguration, should now call upon me to advise what course the "conservative people of the State should pursue to bring about the unity and harmony of the party." I do not mean~7t& convey the idea-here that Governor Till man is the Democratic party; but he, as- the Governor under the Democratic Administration, is its exponent and will bo held respon sible for its failures. I might well, on the other hand infer from your course, as the lead ing editor of the State, that the peace, and harmony, and unity of the party can only be obtained by the defeat of Governor Tillman. This unity and harmony of the party (if it has never been broken under and by the leadership of yourself, Williams and..Gonzales) and if your paper, the ?reenville News and other Demociatic papers of the State had deal; as fairly and as justly by the Democratic Administration of Gorrnor Till man as they had by otier Admin istrations since 1876, the party would now be united aid harmo nious. When the Rinfwas nom inating and the people electing, it would have been a gre!! political crime for the majoriy to have shown their discontentby abusing the Governor, who is tb exponent of the Democratic part in South Carolina. Very truly youri? JOHN L. IRBY. Washington, D. C., FeL 19, '92. A convention of the Republican party of South Carolina -ns been called to meet in Columbia on [April 19th to elect de|gates to their National Convention, which June 7th. {RD & COMP'Y, \'?LL: ENGINE ail GB SUPPLY HOSE. - GA. and Supplies and Repairs t Bottom ines in stock. 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