The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1867-05-29
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The Rust Observation-Disclosures Oats.


the subject have not as vet ELECTED fact
upon which to found hope, for the dis.
covery Of its prev ention. Did we know
Tor certainty, the cause of rust the pro.
bab'lity is. that some intelligent, investi.
eating mind would discover a remedy
Perhaps series Of patient, scrutinzing
experiments, conducted bv some farmer,
possessed with proper intelligence, may in
time discover the cause. Such a person
would be benefac,or. Rust is on the
increase, and TIE injury annually felt from
its effects are serious.
In this section Of South Alabama. we
have been comparatively free from this
enemy, until few years past. First it
attacked the oat crop, and become so Sc
r'oos and regular, rendering the crops so
uncertain, that the majority of our farmers
abandoned the sowing Of oats entirely
Cotton, for two or three wear. before the
war, suffered in some localities. During
the war we heard very little Of it-owing
to'the fact that there was 80 little cotton
raised but last year the complaint was
general, and the destruction great. Rye
also has become almost as suhjec. to rust
"a oats, and the past season noticed its
appearance In the corn. We have been
compelled to give up our wheat patches,
on account Of it. Two wears ago I took
some trouble to obtain bushel Of wheat
from Autauga county. warranted rust.
proof. carefully drilled it in fresh land.
II grew sp'enddly; but about the time
it was in The dough state, the rust seized
it and cup the spou," went my wheat.
| did not save ma,ured seed. sowed
four wears successivelv, quantity Of oats
seed carefully selected and from locali-
iies where there WAS no rust. I tried than
on nav 'and-fre.h and-and old land,
but the result WAS the Same did not
make head. In 1863. heard of kind
OF oats raised in the eastern portion Of
'his county, and said to he rustlproof-
Upon enquiry, became 80 well satisfied
tha, they had proved 40 for several wears
previous, that procured twenty bushels,
anil distributed about one half among nv
neighbors. | have made four crops of
these os's-full. heavy crops. and on dR.
ferent so'ls. have not vet seen rus,ed
stem Of them. Indeed. I have seen them
growing hy the side Of the black oat in
the same field, where the black oats were
entirely ruined, but not a stalk Of these
touched-even at the turnrow, where the
seed werermixed in sowing, stems Of each
growing side by side, the one blasted, the
other green and thrifty. Ny neighbors,
with whom | divided seed. have had the
same success. have been unable TO as.
certain where the oats came from. The
rerson from whom procured the seed
called them Golden Chaf,," but in this
Leighborhood We know them as Rust
proof Perhaps you may be familiar
with them "up in Georgia." but they are
not generally known here. They head
lower :han other oats-,he best land pro.
ducing them from waist to shoulder high;
straw light and small, leaves short very
hardy, not subject to blow down; 70 uature
early; not subject to injury by drought
or other extremes Of weather; grain
plump, and heavier to the bushel tn an
any other varieties. do not think they
will make as heavy crop 10 a favorable
season as some others, but they are GER.
tain. Let the season be as it may, they
make some crop. | think they do bes.
sown in October-a bushel to five pecks
TO the acre.
Oats are necessary and profitable crop.
They come in at a season where our work
animals need the change from corn TO q
more cooling food. In July, our mules
being cloyed and fevered on corn and
70 !der, show their gratitude when we fii
their troughs with well cut new oats, by
the greednsss with which they devour
them. Give me good oat crop, and I
+ can Law by with a fat team, and sell the
corn saved. But the feeding plow team
being hobby with me, will say no
more on that scorcs at present
Rust has become serious raider upon
the farmer, and think few pages Of the
Cultivator csnno, be better occupied tba o
ia discussing ways and means to put i,
down. Perhaps some peculiar manure
may eradicate il. or seed indigenous may
render it harmless. Is its causes in the
soil, or in the climate or has some new
growth been developed on our lands that
sends forth its Injecting malaria pnon or,