The Greenville enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1870-1873, 1872-08-14

... GREENVILLE SOUTH CAROLINA ADJUST ID 1878

posure, &c, from yellowish brown
to- chesnut brown--tbe stem and
leaves often assume q reddish cast
before maturity, appearing at a
little distance, TO a casual observ.
er. as II they were rusted. ~
Provide from II to 2 bushels
for each acre you, intend seeding
down. If any of your cotton
fields are to receive another
ploughing, sow oats in them lust
before ploughing. We have evi
dence enongh now, to authorize us
to commend this plan without
reservation, in soils and climates
like those of Middle Georgia. 1t
not only insures a good oat crop,
ont serves the scarcely less impor.
tant work of keeping the bare cot.
ton fields from washing. Consult
the article of Mr.. Alexander on
page 260, July number. In his
experience, even twenty-five bush.
els OF cotton seed applied to same
quality of land, could not bring
the yield of the Ja1ary sowing
to that of the August, put in at
last blowing of cotton without
any manure
Spring sowed oats are more
liable than fall sowed, to rust and
/
to be cut of by drought. Fall
sowed rust proof oats have anoth.
er special advantage over the
spring sowed, arising from, a pc.
cnliarity of the oat itself, one
which is perhaps its greatest de.
feet, viz: a low habit of growth
on poor soils and dry seasons not
stretching up high enough to be
easily harvested. Now i'm our ex.
perience, this oat, sown in the fall.
has never failed to grow high
enough for the cradle. Ito.
Oats grow better ON land that
has been recently cultivated, than
upon sedge or other old felds.-
They will grow very well, howev.
er, on the latter, if they are prop.
erly prepared. They should be
turned over at once. to give the
soil an airing, and the vegetable
matter time to decay. If the turn
plough is followed by a subsoiler.
all the better ; but it is well to run
the turn plough pretty deep so
tt at the vegetable matter may not
be disturbed when covering the
oat seed. At seeding time, (from
the 1st September to the middle
OF October,) scatter the seed, har.
row them in, and then 90 over the
field with a smoother" When
oats are sownea very late, a ridg
ing of the land is desirable-,he
plants in the hoIlows being there
by protected from the cold, and
the freezes throwing loose dirt in
to the hollows, cover the plants
more or less, and prevent their he.
ing lifted, out of the ground. The
drill leaves land ridged, and this,
for the reasons given above, is
claimed as ono of the many ad
vantages of that machine
Where the condition of the land
permits the employment of that
implement, we prefer always to
use it in seeding down to small!
grain or grasses. Any land
which has been we'll turned over
with a good two.horse plough to a
depth Of 4 or inches, and then
narrowed and finally rasped down
with a smoother. will be in con.
dition to be seeded down with a
drill. Stnmpy and rocky land
only, therefore, need be excepted.
CLOVER AND GRASS.
AS September is the best month
for fall sowings Of clover and
grass, preparations therefor should
be started a. once, if not already
made, 1t is hardly necessary to
state, that clover delights in stiff
clay ard lime soils. 1t may how
ever be grown on comparatively
light, sandy soils, if well ranured
with dissolved bones and some
form of potash. There is no diff.
Guilty in growing it upon bottom
lands of almost every description.
Pipe clay bottoms, which are diff.
6cult to work and not very pro.
dnctive, may be seeded down TO
clover to very great advantage
All that is necessary here, as in
all other cases, is to get the land
well broken, the surface soil thor.
oughly pulverized and dressing
OF fertilizers, stable manure or
snperphosphate, applied. On,
all, except very fertile soils, clover
needs some assistance in the way
OF manure, during the early
stages of growth. Ofcourse, like all
other crops, it will produce most
heavily on highly manured land.
But most of our red clay lands.