The Greenville enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1870-1873, 1872-07-10
FARM AND HOME.
Thoughts for the Month.


Thoughts for the Month. m.ft
Where crop has been we'll
managed and properly worked up
to this time, very little labor need
be expended upon it hereafter.
Cotton will require q little hoeine
TO remove stray weeds and
bunches Of grass, and light plow.
ings occasionally to keep the sur.
face loose and mellow. All are
agreed that n cotton crop should
receive light workings, as long as
they can be given. without break
ing the limbs or knocking off the
bolls. The reason is obvious.-
The cotton plant does not mature
oil its fruit at once, as corn docs
its ears or wheat its head, but sue
cessively, and it must be kept
therefore in working state as
long as the season will warrant
During the last stages Of growth,
when any additional bolls started
would be likely to be cut off by
frcst, it is desirable to check
growth and throw the whole ener.
gy OF the plant into developing
fruit. at this point the piows
may be stopped, and sometimes
the cotton topped to advantage
About the 10Th of August is the
psra1SSah aShs %hs. Is the taggRiaas s4geoald
1t however the weather is wei. and
warm and the plant disposed to
grow very rapidly, it usually ac-
complishes little or no good.
CORN.
Late corn should receive special
attention-it needs more assistance
than the early planted. The
ground should be, kept clean and
mellow, to enable it to withstand
the excessive heat-possible
drought. That planted after the
middle of June, ought to have some
stimulating manure like cotton
seed, to make it mature we'll be-
fore frost. Drilled corn for forage
may still be planted !; bottom land
for this purpose, is preferable to
upland. 49,. ......... r...
FALL OATS.
| Our readers will bear in mind
the uniformly favorable reports
from oats sowed at the last plow.
ing of cotton. In the very excel
lent Essay on oat culture in our
April number of current volume,
the cost per bushel Of oats thus
sown is estimated at only ten cents
Why should q Southern farmer
buy western corn for his stock il
he can raise oats at ten or even
thirty cents per bushel. Every
successive year confirms us in q
high estimation of the .oat crop
and particularly of one sown in
the early fall.
PEAS, ~ ,.....-
i This crop is often neglected toe
much, because it is supposed to be
able to take care OF itself. On the
contrary it is greatly benefited
by workings snd ought to receive
them. When planted to itself il
should be ploughed and hoed as
regularly as any other crop, unit
the vines take possession of the
land and exclude other growth
If planted in corn it should bt
? hoed and exclusive possession o
8 the land given to it after the fod
der is pulled. We are great ad
vocates of q pea crop-havin,
learned by long experience it
very great value.
, 40 SMALL, GRAIN. ~.
Oats should be promptly stack
ed or housed---it is supreme foil,
to make crop and then by lit
3 tie delay or neglect, lose it,
(. Wheat should be threshed as sool
I as possible-the grain well summed
2 and then the family supply o
!. flour for the next twelve months
I ground, summed, sacked aud pm
q in some dry, airy, place. Thu
: prepared we have found il muc
. easier to keep, flour than wheat. =
!. A good plan for summing wheat
q to- have light elevated tresslt
J, work running out from the side Z
a the barn on level with the set
q ond story, and q track extendin
n into the barn laid upon it, so ths
y a truck with wheels may be run /
# or out rapidly. The wheat place