The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1875-10-06
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Rcd Rust Proof Oats.
COL. D. WYATT AIKEN.

tl bCSttUSC IL "do H1ON-
ing oats too cheap" Another year
has come and gone. I have repeat
ed the experiment, succeeded equally
as we'll and am pleased to say, [
have witnessed better success with
more than one of my neighbors. Red
oats can be grown at oil expense Of
twenty five cents per bushel upon
any ordinary farm in the South,
every such bushel will weigh thirty
pounds, and q pound of oats will pro
duce just as much muscle, and fat Us
pound of corn. I have kept q
horse two years without ever feeding
him an ear of corn or q blade Of
fodder, his daily diet being shelled
oats and straw, or cut oats from the
shcaf he has been ploughed,
wngoned, hacked about in buggy,
and ridden under saddle, and there
never was time he was not ready
and willing to do full share of work.
Any land that ever I have seen in
the South will produce two bushels
Of oats where it will grow one bushel
of corn each farmer for himself can
calculate the cost of growing the two
crops.
Red oats will yield more grain to
the straw, and more delicate straw
than any oats T have ever grown.
Sown in tho fall, they will produce O
remunerative crop on good land,
even if frozen out during the winter
to single stool to every square foot.
They are heavier than any other md
have never been known to take the
rust A few years ago, I selected
eight adjoining acres and Oh them
sowed bushel to each acre of eight
varieties of oats. Some were entire
ly destroyed by winter, some were
ruined by rust, and all but the red
oats was more or less damaged by
this parasite Not ovon blade Of
the red oats was touched, though
the acre was in the midst of those
most thoroughly ruined. The time
is upon us when they should again
be sown, though they arc remunora
tive if sown at any time between this
and tho first of next March.
prefer to SOW in cotton land
broadcast, andplough in with three
on four sweep iurrUws. This lays by
aScotton crop as well as sows small
grain crop, hence Il saving of lalf
the labor. 1t is cheaper to SOW in
the cotton field even if postponed
till September OF October, because
cotton requiring clean culture the
land is in better filth, and fewer fur
rows are necessary. The hands
while picking cotton during the
winter will tramplo upon the young
sprigs, and make them stool out bet
ter therefor. Sheep will winter on
oats in cotton field and never.
molest the cotton till they have
eaten up tho oats.
Where cotton is tho exclusive
crop, there is no little vexation and
harrassing doubts at harvest time
to him who ventures to SOW small
grain. In June the cotton and corn
need no attention of the laborer con-
stantly. Hence the policy, almost
necessity, of interesting the laborer
in the ownership at least of the oat
crop. A fair contract, in this regard,
is for the employer to furnish the
seed, fertilizer, and land, and require
the employee to supply the labor of
seeding and harvesting, and at har-
vest time divide the crop, one-fourth
to the laborer and thrce-fourths to
the employer. An acre of land, pro-
ducing twenty bushels Of oats, would
thus give the laborer five bushels of
oats for about two days work,
(ploughing, scattering, mnnuring,
knocking down stalks, and harvest
ing,) and fifteen bushels to the owner,
one and q half bushels of seed, three
and half bushels to pay for fertili-
zer, and ten bushels for rent. I have
never known red oats to sell for less
than seventy-five cents per bushel,
and even at fifty cents per bushel,
ten bushels ore very fair rent for
land that will not produce more than
twenty bushels of oats per aero.
Fair uplands in middle South Caro-
lima will average twenty bushels
without manure and I have seen it
stated that the Mississippi bottoms
have yielded one hundred bushels per
acre during favorable seasons.-Ru-
rul Curo1iniam
GAMBLING AND Su1o1DE.--The fol-
lowing letter has been received by the
wife of W. II. Davis, city treasure +
of Kansas City, Kan, who has been
absent some days. The letter ex-
plains itself
"KANsAs CIrY, Mo-, September ID,
1875, ~ o'clock OF night--Deu,'
Rose Il have lost all, gambling.
1 now make my bed in the Missouri
river. Do the best you con. Go
over to call on DR.. Speck. Get
them to straighten things up for
lyou. w. II. DAVIS"
! The enterprise of true journalism
is illustrated by the case of tho edi-
tor of the Daily Indcu, published
at Belvidere, Illinois, who, being
horsewhipped, got out IN extra con.
tanning full account Of the affair
and sold papers enough to pay fol
the arnica and plastcrs.