The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-05-04
The Wheat Crop in the soutl.

The editor OF the Union Springs Heratd
gives the following as a mode of prepar-
ing and cultivating wheat, which will
insure it from rust and secure q large
yield:
June is the month in which to begin
your preparatory work for next crop of
wheat. Select high, we'll drained piece
of land, however thin it may be, in pref
erence to low land. Lay off in rows IL
inches apart, with a shovel plow, fol-
lowing in each shovel furrow with a
subsoil plow, or scooter II inches long,
made of iron or steel, l4x24 inches, not wi
der or your horse will not be able to pull
it, if put in the ground as it should 60. If
the land be thin put in sufficient manure
to give the peas q good start, before run
ming the scooter furrow. In these fur
rows drill from one to two pecks of
speckled peas per acre, and close these
by splitting out the middles with enc
shovel furrow, followed by the subsoil or
scooter plow. Bore two holes with a 6
quarter auger into AKA inch scantling 6
feet long, one foot from each end, into
which insert two small hickory poles,
which when fastened to the names, will
serve as shafts and traces. With this
implement you can knock of five rows
simultaneously. When the peas shall
have attained a growth of about eight
inches it would be of benefit to run one
furrow, with small shovel, between the
rows.
During the month of August, while
the peas are in bloom, turn the vine un-
der, covering them entirely with soil if
possible. To accomplish this, twist two
heavy chains together, to be used as a
drag; fasten the two ends to the single
tree, thus forming bow, which should
at the nearest point be two OF. three
inches in front of the turning plow.-
This drag will hold down the vines, en-
abling the plowman to cover them up. j..
In October, between the 9th and 18th
SOW broadcast 80 bushels of cotton seed
on each acre. Turn under with two
horse plow, following in each furrow with
your scooter or subsoil plow. So broad
cast one II bushels ofgood seed wheat, and
then SOW broadcast one sack a bushels) OF
chloride of sodium common salt) to each
acre; cover by dragging harrow or very
heavy brush over the land.
Prepare your seed wheat for sowing as
follows: Take tub, fill half full with
water, and dissolve salt in the water un-
til freshly laid egg will float, showing a
space the size of nickle above the
water, then stir and skim off all the
wheat that rises to the top. Continue
to stir as long as any wheat will rise to
the surface. Feed the skum to stock
AS soon as the defective wheat has
been thus removed take out the sound
wheat, and repeat the operation until all
the wheat designed for sowing has been
in the brine.
In January, scatter, broadcast, one
barrel per acre of gypsum (land plaster)
over the growing wheat.
Ifthese directions are followed you may
confidently expect to reap, next spring
20 bushels per acre of as good wheat as
can be imported AS the result of the
years operations you will have $40 fol
each acre treated as above directed, and
your land, which is now poor, will then
be rich.
Repeat this process the second, third
and fourth years, emitting the cotton
seed, and after the second year use only
two bushels of salt-and 40 bushels o.
wheat per acre will De the result for the
fourth crop. For the fifth year five times
as many bushels of corn per acre as cal
now be raised on the land; and for the
sixth and seventh years, from one to two
bales of cotton weighing 500 pounds each
barring Providential interference.