The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1877-05-04
HINTS ON CLOVER AND GRASS
BY DIR. T. W. uARRISS.

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HINTS ON CLOVER AND GRASS.
BY DIR. T. W. nARRIss.
1t IS not too late yet to sow. Some think
1t is the best to SOW in the Fall. | can't
say as TO this. From my own experience |
would say, that, sowcd in the Spring in
suitably prepared soil aud covered properly,
they are pretty sure to come. The top soil
ought to be fine and freshly stirred For
tins purpose the harrow is necessary If it
Is wished to sow on wheat or oats, the har-
row will prepare the land well and will not
lnJure the grain crop. Unless it is loose
soil, 1t is often better to harrow two or more
times with an interval of week or SO be-
tween the workings. If cultivation is good
for wheat, which seems reasonable, then we
ought not to to stop at one narrowing. So
tar as my observation goes, the effect of one
narrowing is not perceptible. At any rate
1t Is toe small an amount of cultivation to
DC OF much advantage. Whatever number
OF harrowings one wishes to give his wheat.
they must be all done when the seed is sown
the last one or the roller covering the
grass seed. have never had seed fail to
come when covered with the harrow.
Clover is indispensable on the Farm
After field is once seeded it is easy to keep
it forever seeded. A clover sod NAV be
turned in the Spring and cultivated in corn
and followed by wheat in the Fall, and a
good stand of clover will come without re-
seeding.
Orchard grass is one of the best of the
grasses. 1t is very tenacious of life, grows
up early in the Spring, and continues to
DO SO as often as you cut it, throughout the
Summer. 1t affords considerable amount
OF Winter pasturage, if the Winter is not
too severe or it has little protection. 1t
succeeds. we'll when the land is not too wet
Timothy docs wci SsiHp on S'poS posrUns n,ya a.
enough for corn. In point of quality it
takes the lead-at least in the estimation of
the public. This grass will not succeed on
dry land in this State, 1 think.
Herds grass, or red top, will succeed on
wctter land than T:notby, and for low bot
toms not well drained, it is among our best
grasses. This grass and Timothy make very
little aftermath. a good meadow well
stocked in Herd and native grasses, will
make first crop of almost pure Herds
grass, and second crop of native grass,
sometimes larger than the first, and Of choice
h.5.
In speaking of narrowing wheat I said
nothing about the kind of harrow used
This question is often asked. The fashion
is to speak of tho Thomas Smoothing har.
row, for this purpose, as if no other would
do. A straight tooth harrow will not tear
na- t5e,ss-,ssat. You need not be afraid
Drive boldlypver the crop-it may look
like running it, especially il the ground is
loose, but if you will examine you will find
very little wheat torn up, and in few days,
the dirt will be knocked off and the young
plants will look none the worse. The
"Thomas Harrow" is without doubt good
implement, but any harrow may be used
IT you have any young clover or grass
which you wish to cut for hay or which you
wish for pasturage, do not turn your stock
on it now. Better feed them and take care
of your grass
FARMING WITHOUT Observation-Disclosures
this heading, we find the following from the
Union, paper published at Junction City,
Kansas, Cocated at the point where the
Kansas, Pacific and Missouri, Kansas &
Texas Railroads interscct) which, as it rela-
tes to a subject that is now receiving much
aaeptiop, from this section will be of interest
to ma6y Of our readers:
1--WE have law in Kansas, which has
been. sustained by the Supreme Court, which
enables County Commissioners. upon a cer-
tain petition or vote Of the people to issue
an order restraining stock from running at
large, in their respective counties. 1t is
called the herd law, and is designed to en-
able farmers to raise their crops without the
expenses of fencing. 1t is the most remark
ably successful reform of this decade. -
There is, under this law, no trespass by stock
because stock is better cared for by it's own.
ers There is less litigation about trespass
than i'll Il fence country, because fences are
not always reliable. The idea ofthe herd law
is the embodiment of justice and common
sense. 1t protects the growing crops, which
disturb no one, from the roaming, malicious
steer, which is a constant disturbance to
everybody. In other words, it requires
every man to take care Of his own property,
ana to<sestrain it from disturbing Others
ONE LIFE, ONE AIM.-A wife said to her
husband, who was scolding her. "TIowcver
cross you may be, there is net couple who
live in greater unanimity than you and l
for we always desire the same thing-you
want to be master, and so do l."
AFTER Forty YEARS OF LIrlGATIox.- Or
leans, April l1.-District Judge Billings has
rendered \ favorable decision in the case of N.Y.
ra Clark Gaines, involving millions Of dollars in
property in New Orleans This ends forty
years Of litigation in favor of the claimant