The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1875-02-03

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materially into the calculation.
An application Of the compound !
already given, upon al acre OF
poor land in September, at the |
lime of sowing, with the same re-
peated early in spring as a top |
dressing, will at a cost Of twenty |,
dollars give from one and q half
to two tons Of nay 1t 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.
Some idea can be formed Of the
nutritive value Of clover hay by
referring to Bossin gault's table of
nutritiye equivalents, who makes
one ton Of the hay worth forty
bushels Of oats, twenty-fouI and .
half OF wheat, twenty-tour and a
half Of corn, twenty-five and Il
half Of rye, aud twenty-six and
two thirds of barley. The market
value Of these articles will indi-
cate the real value Of one ton Of
clover hay.
Now this is but little over the
half Of one crop from ao acre Of
poor land, at cost Of twenty dol
lars in fertilizers. A second crop
can be had the same year and
nearly equal in quantity and value,
and the same amount realized for
two years more without addition
al preparation or sowing and with
but a moderate expenditure for
fertilizers as a top-dressing.-
Similar treatment Of land, already
in good heart, will be attended with
good results much more favorable.
Glove: is o valuable feed for
horses, cattle and hogs, but is es.
pecialiy so for work animals, con-
tanning, as it does, so much Of the
fesh-forming principles. As a
green manure, perhaps there is no
other crop so valuable-certainly
none possessing so many other
valuable qualities. Having long
tap.root. penetrating the soil from
twelve to eighteen inches in depth,
the sub soil which hiss mover been
touched by the plough point is
partially under-drained by being
rendered more porous and warm
ed by . freer circulation of air,
whilst it is forced to yield it's rich
treasures forages unused. At the
same time the leaf is drawing
from the air (the source of all Or
ganic manures) fabulous amounts
Of the elements Of fertility. Thus
drawing from the air the organic,
! and from the sub-soil tho morgan,
ic manures and assimilating them,
upon decay, restore them to the
surface soil where they are easily
appropriated by succeeding crops.
The cost, therefore, of producing a
good crop of clover should not be
charged alone to the clover, because
the value of the land is greatly enhan-
ced, and the yield Of other crops that
follow vastly increased. The cost,
when properly divided between the
increased value of the land and the in
creased production Of fsucceeding crops,
will be very small indeed upon the
clover when compared with its real
value. have no hesitancy in saying
that three facts can be established in
favor of clover--that it is the most GER
tain crop We can raise, that it will pro
duce more feed for stock at less cost
than any other crop. aud that it is far
superior to any other crop as fertiliz-
ing agent. Whilst I feel equal to the
proof of these assertions, yet the time
and occasion will not allow the discus
sion in detail.
Assuming, then, that our estimate
of clover is correct, We come finally to
consider the influence it should have
in the future of the South. Unfortu- |
nately ter the Southern people, cotton
seems to have demanded, remuueratiny
prices, and all have gone into it rcck-
lessly, hoping thereby to lift them
selves from the mire into which the
general wreck has thrown them. The
all-cotton system, under this Upas
shade of government, has tended only
to sink them deeper in the mire.-
Cotton field laborers as rulers inau-
enced by their willing and thlevish |
tools, commonly known as carpet-bag-
gers and scslawags, and backed by |
a hostile National Government, have,
by their boasted system of conisca-
tion and by taxation, so arranged it as
to make the production of cotton cost
nearly all that it is worth in the mar
ket. whilst very considerable portion
Of the supplies used must be bought
at just as much loss as they cost. I'm
der this system the cotton planter
proper (unless he has set up little