The Greenville enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1870-1873, 1870-08-03
aNYILLE. SOUTH CAROLINA, AUGUST 8, 1870.

4 TIC COTu. CduuOt OO HothOsSN c0oh
enough in the fall to plant wheat,
and in the second place unless
the land Ia In a high state Of rich
ness---the crop OF corn, and fol>
leg;ns wheat crnn, exhanet the
soil so much, that continued i'm
| provement is lost, and the end is
not capped by big barns. The
proper time to plow for wheat in
this country, is in August and Sep
tember, ready to sow on the 1st
of October. The wheat must have
/ time to. make root before the soil
freezes. 1t grows in cool weather;
it ripens in the middle of June !;
| it must have it's full time-the law
says 80. He who plants wheat in
this climate in January, may
make some imperfect grain. Would
he ruin his OK team by forcing them
up a steep hill without giving them
time to catch their breathe
Here is a field plowed well with
aidouble team. All the rain which
| falls upon this field remains. The
law of precipitation is ordered SO
as to. give to the plant the water
required for a full and perfect
growth. This is the rule The
sun esaporates according 70 an
4 equally good law. Now let us spp-
pose the field was pIowed with
half the power required, and not
so deep, and that one. half the rain
water ran off, and that, in the
month of May, before wheat has
reached o growth sufficient to
shade the ground from the rays of
the sun, there is two weeks Of
drought. As the soil bas in hand
only one half the wherewith to
make a crop, the sun taxes the
land Just the same as though it
held all tue rain. water, and in one
week the ground is as dry as tho
highway and growth. stopped ;
i whereas, If half the water had
not run off, the chances are, the
san might not eraporate oil the
moisture before the end of the
second week, when the drought is
over aud the crop is saved. If we
want to find. q gold mine, plow
deep.
Greenville County is n fine
wheat country. Pennsylvania
yields an average of ID bushels and
eight-tenths of a buslel per acre,
Report Of Department of Agri
culture, 1868, page 34,) after long
experience as a wheat growing
State. / have made 12 bushels
per acre this year on a very i'm
perfectly improved old broom
sage field.
The plant receives it's life or
death from the wind. 1t is, there
fore, important that the planter
should know what is in the wind.
| Wheat takes the rust after a warm,
sultry rain, which, in this County,
comes on southwest wind. These
winds have usually prevailed in
June, and il the wheat is late in
making grain, it is injured by the
rust. II is believed that smut is
caused by planting wheat on land
which has been taxed too heavy
on those requisites of which the
soil should be possessed for a pro.
duction of a pure, good, clean
wheat suitable for sweet, white
bread. The capacity of the soil
of this County for wheat. when
improved and properly prepared,
and the climate carefully observed
aud obeyed by the farmer, exceeds
the physical strength of the labor.
ers to cut with q common cradle.
When we consider the market
for flour that lays at the very feet
Of Greenville, and the high price
that il commands at all times
throughout the year over the
immense field to the south of this,
and recollect that it is down hill
to market-we feel the valuable
time passing; the want Uf capital
to accomplish the work; the want
ofagriculture knowledge; the want
of that experience; practical dc.
termined will to enter deeply into
a thorough English, German OF
French system, by which the riches
Of the earth may 90 easily be
developed. Who is to do this
works That is the question.
The farmer in Iowa can only
} get Is cents per bushel for corn in
cash, or 90 cents in exchange for
groceries, while today, it brings
s1.70 per bushel In the City oI
Gresnville, and wheat, as rule
%. Easy and quick transporta.
tion in IL hours to the seaport oi
Charleston, on their way to the
hungry armies of France and
Prussia, compared with the costly
freight by railroad from the North.
Western States TO the distracted
States Of Germany. -....
Ihaye the honor. sir. to be your