Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-06-22
VOL II.""..".NO. 80

ground should DC well piowcd and narrowed
and the seed brushed in. All this may be
sown, if in the fall with wheat, or if in tho
spring, with oats and should not be pastured
until the grass has dropped coat of seed
For summer pasture, Bermuda Grass isSur-
licicnt of itself. But those who are afraid to
plant this, .plow tho ground you intend for
suameys raatprsin Eebruaryor March, and 4
Grab Grass will be the next bsst 50
For spring autumn and winter pastures on
upland, SOW mixture of Tall Meadow Oat
Grass, Orchard, Terrell Grass, Red and White
Glover
For pasture on low land the same, and ifit
be wet add IIcrdds Grass.
But the great desidcyatum, and Of the first
Importance is to turn the wood land into pas
turc and this should be the farmers first
and chief reliance. All the above grasses but
Bermuda will, grow in the shade The prep
aratioI, necessary is to take rail timber enough
to fence it, take out useless timber for FIRE
wood, leave acorn and nut trees and persim
mon, and grab out the undcrgrowth Then
piow AZ wei! rs you can, SOW and brush in the
seed, scatter thc ashes well of the timber
burned; if tenn be sown during rain or on
the snow, no brushing is necessary No stock
shoNld DC allowed to run on it till the grass
has dropped coat Of seed.
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stock should go on it il summer, and if for
summer use none should 20 on it in winter.
No grass will stand both summer and winter
pasturing, nor should any pasture ever be
grazcd too closely, From experience, it is
believed woodland pasture will pay an inter
est annually of more than $50 per acre
In our present condition the Improvement
of the soil is the. point to hcgin at, and this
can only be effected permanently, by the ma
nure Of domestic animals and deep blowing
Commercial! Taaadrcs answers only Temporal
ry purpose anI leaves no lasting Improvement
in the SOIL and cattle can only be sustained
III any increased numbers by grasses Our
cultivated lands arc generally too much ex-
haustcd to raise grass without manure and to
make manure in any apprcciable quantity VIC
must have an increased number of stock aud
to keep that increased number we must have
grasses. Now, the only solution to this diff
liculty is to plant woodland pasture. In tho
woods the grasses will grow and flourish with
out manure, and will thus feed the cattle to
make the manure needed for crops Thus,
you begin systom that may be permanent,
and if rcrscvcrod in, spread to the cnriching
of the whole pl;,psation.
Having fini led the history Of Rev Mr.
Towards expc: ,ncuts with the different grass
cs, and his dirt1tions for preparing and plant
ing meadows and winter and summon pastures,
! can add, ass a ytrifcatiop Of what he has
said of thc Bermuda Grass. my own expert
cnco with 1t for the last twenty wears, which
fully confirms all lie has said as to its excel
lencc Tor a summer pasture. The Bermuda
Will ro3t out scdcc and almost all other grass
os. but DR.. j. W. Simpson, at Laurens c.
H., has his front yard sci ii, Bermuda, and 4.
Fotch grow in the same soil in admirable har-
mony, and produce a continuous summer and
winter pasture that is hard to excel. This
vetch, fort is lugllmnious lies dormant from
spring till fall under the Bermuda, springs up
IN September, and affords green pasture till
spring, then goes to seed and dies out. This
certainly is vetch Mr.. Howard has not tried,
for it;doos not answer the description Of tho
one he mentions, and seems, from the trial l..
have seen made of it, to far exceed anyN ctch
known for its winter growth, and grows too
in The shade.
And there is a South Carolina grass that by
description far exceeds most if not all tho
grasses aboyc mentioned l alludc to the
NJ cans Grass.
Ilrave taken especial pains to ascertain the
maximum Of food per acre the grasses used in
Germany and all the grass growing parts of
the United States will afford. That informa.
tion gives this answer, that incl Iolland, New
York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Ken
tucky, tho best grass lots will not keep moro
than one grown OK to The mere in a fattenine
condition during summer. l have a letter
from the laffcnted Ex- Gov Means which saws.
seventy heHl of cattle, cows and younger stock,
were kept in fattcning condition on ten
acres Of bottom set in the Means Grass. And
have arothcr from gcptlcmanin in NIississip-
di, saying that an ac"c Of the Mississippi bot.
toms set in Bermuda Grass VIII keep thrco
grown oxen in a iattcning condition during
summer. Now, Mr.. Howard says, an acre Of
L''ccrnc will keep five horses during the year.
Thus You have fair criterion to Judge of
the value of the different kinds Of grasses, and
of the perfect adaptation of most of the very
best varieties to the soil of South Carolina,
Thus VIC have the Means Grass, not known to
be grown anywhere but in South Carolina;
the l.uccrnc, sown by myself in the garden at
I.aurcns G. H., of Mr.. John Darlington, decd.
thirty-iivo years ago, growing rs hourishinelv
during the past summer as when first planted;
tho Bermuda, tho next hest, and the Cloyers
and Terrell Grass, tho Herds Grass, Timothy
and Cana. Besides these, we have grass
/ believed to be tho male Of tho Means Grass,
which bears no seed, now growing in Mr.. II.
| A. Maxwclrs garden in rcndlclon, ard on,
Mr. Van Wyck's farm close by, that may bds
made almost as valuable rs the other, without