The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-01-28

cocks the crop of six acres in one day, leaving
the hauling and housing as the heaviest part
of thelwork: Implements have been invented
for facilitating the hauling and housing, (mak,
ing the work light one,) and will be used
here when We get to raising clover more extern
sively. When clover Ii. prepared and wilted,
it shotld then be- faxed and thrown up into
hay cocks, to remain about two days.. when II
will be ready for housing, OF course the
Weather should, to a great extent, control its
manipulation! OF that each cne must be his
own judge. BUTT will be said that every one
cannot buy mower and horse rake. This OBJ
jeetion, can be eas1ly met by carrying out the
fandatnenta principle Of the Patrons Of Hus-
banldryA corporation. One mower and rake
can easily save dozen or more fair crops of
clover per annum, and the expense upon each
would be trifing Thus, by uniting together
in the purchase, quite number of farmers, at
a smaIf cost, would have the benefit. of these
great labor saving implements. - .
The value of clover as feed for stock depends
the cost of growing, harvesting, &C., enter ma
terially into the calculation. An application
of the compound already given, upon an acre
of poor land in September, at the time of SOW
ing, with the same repeated early. in spring as
a top- dressing, will at a cost Of twenty dollars
give from one and half to two tons of hay at
one cutting. No account will be taken of the
cost of preparing and sowing the land, working
and gathering the crop, as compared with
other grain crops as the difference is not very
great except with corn, when the cost of the
latter is much greater. ..a.
Some idea can be formed of the nutritive
value of clover hay by referring to Bossin-
gaults table of nutritive equivalents, who
makes one ton of the hay worth forty bushels
of, oats twepty-four and half of. wheat,
twenty-four and a half of corn, twenty -fye aud
a half of rye, and twenty-six and two-thirds; of
barley. The market value of these articles
will indicate the real value Of one ton OF clover
hay: ...,.:. 49,.
Now this is but little over the half of one
crop, from an acre of poor land, at a cost of
twenty dollars in fertilizers. A second crop
can be had the same year and nearly equal in
quantity and value, and the same amount real.
lied for two years more without additional
preparation, of sowing and with but moderate
expenditure for fertilizers as a top-dressing.
Similar. treatment of land, already in good
heart, will be attended with results much more
favorable. Glover is a valuable feed for horses,
cattle and hogs, but is especially SO for work
animals, containing, as it does, so much of the
hesh-forming principles. AS green manure,
perhaps there is no iother. crop so valuable
certainly none possessing SO many other valua--
BILE qualities: Having a long tap root, pene--
trating the soil from twelve to eighteen inches
in depth, the sub-soil which has never been
touched by the plow-point is partially under.
drained by being rendered more porous and
warmed by freer circulation of air, whilst it
is forced to yield its rich treasures for ages
unused. At the same time the leaf is drawing
from the air (the source of all organic ma.
nures) fabulous amounts of the elements OF
fertility Thus drawing from the air, the
organic, and from the sub-soil the in-or-
ganic manures and assimilating them, upon
decay, restores them to the surface soil where
they are easily appropriated by succeeding
crops.
The cost, therefore, of producing good crop
of clover should not be charged alone to the
clover because the value of the land is greatly
enhanced, and the yield. of other crops that
follow vastly increased The cost, when prop
erly divided between the increased value of the
land and the increased production of succeed
ing crops, will be very small indeed upon the
clover when compared with its real value l
have no hesitancy in saying that three facts
can be established in favor of clover-that 1t is
the most certain crop we can raise that ltwlll
produce more feed for stock at less cost than
any other crop, and that it is far superior to
any other crop as fertilizing agent. Whilst
I feel equal to the proof of these assertions,
vet the time and occasion will not allow the
discussion in detail. !, = ~ G.,-e,o,
Assuming, then, that our estimate of clover
is correct, we come finally to consider the infiu-
ence it should have in the future of the South.
unfortunately for the Southern people, cotton
seems to have demanded remunerating prices,
and all have gone into it recklessly, hoping
thereby to lift themselves from the mire into
which the general. wreck has thrown them.
The all-cottop system, under, the Upas shade
of government, has tended only to sink them
deepgr in the mire. Cotton field ilaborers as
rulers, Influenced by their willing and thievish
tools, commonly known as carpet-baggers and
scalawags, and backed by a hostile National
Government, have, by their boasted system of
confiscation and by taxation, so arranged it as
to make the production of cotton cost nearly
all that it is worth in the market, whilst very
considerable portion of the supplies used must
be bought at lust as much loss as they cost.
Under this system the cotton planter proper
(unless he has set up little store to catch his
neighbor's cotton also) has found himself frit-
tering away, gradually though constantly, the
little that was left from the wreck of the late
war. 80
A change is therefore needed-a something
that is more economically raised than cotton,
and more difficult to convert to anothers use,
in order to make the farm self-sustaining, and,
after this, cotton only as a market crop and
the exponent of our clear profits. Our great
want is to procure the prime necessaries OF life
as cheaply as possible, and at the same time to
hold up our lands to high productive caraci-
ty. A judicious shift with clover can alone do
this through this agency (if any must our
lost fortunes be redeemed. With clover as
cheap feed crop and a cheap fertilizer, and cot
ton as a market crop, something may yet be
accomplished with negro labor, though under
the baneful guidance of those disinterested
philanthropists, the carpet-bagger and scala
wag.
TAKING CoLD.-One way is to "bundle up
in furs, or mufflers, tight about the neck; take
brisk walk, 60 into warm room-church,
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