There are eleven Farmers’ alliances in Col
umbia county.
Fairburn New-: “Mr. H. N. Cochran
brought to town yesterday a bale of cotton Covered
with M bit oak splits, put together tn the tame m in
ner as a cnair bottom. ’ •
An alliance mass meeting will be held in the
courthouse in Greenestoro, on tho 4tn of October,
which will be addressed by President R. H. Jacksoii.
Mr. C. M. Keeter.of Moore’s Mill, Cherokee
county, recently sheared one small ewe and g..t
from her eight pounds of unwashed wool. He also
raised a watermelon this year weighing fifty-one
pounds.
Mr. Robert F. Ezell, of Jasper county, has
made, gathered and w eighed from six acres of up
land, 36J4 bushels of corn per acre without the use
of any fertilizers of any km 1, and only two plough
ings ot four furrow s each time. This lend has been
in constant cultivation for s x.eeti years, and six
vears ago Mi. Ezell sowed it in wheat, and harvest
ed on: hundred and eight bushels, that, too, with
out the use ol any fertilizers.
The county alliance of Jasper has taken tho
following actio r.
