The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1877-09-07
AN IMPERATIVE NECCEsSITY ron SOWING
LARGELY OF SMALL GRAIN THIS FALL.

AN IMPERATIVE NECESSITY ron sCwfNe
LARGELY oYsMALL GRAIN THIS FALL.
EDIToRSoUTnERN CULTIvAToR.L .LFron
careful reading of the Cuhivotor :for sew
eral years, [ am satisfied you thorough,
appreciate the value of small grain to the
:, Southern farmer, and that you have been
unremttinS In your efforts to encourage Q
larger growth On account of its impor
'tance, it should be kept constantly before
our farmers, until every one is converted to
the belief that he commits great error when
The fails to devote fair proportion of his land
to oats, wheat, barley aud rye. The maxi,
mum of success in farming can never be
obtained without the aid of these cereals
tcr to whatever extent farmer may plant
OF corn and cotton, it is always in order to
suPplaUent with fall sowa grain. 1t may
be sown at period when neither of these
can be, and requires comparatively little
care, producing spring harvest. 1t is no
argument against grain growing to say Gas
many do) that at the proper time to sow
th,y are too busy picking cotton and gath
ering corn, and that harvest time comes at
a period when every energy is devoted to
chopping cotton and cleaning corn. a
slight expense in extra labor here pays by
far the largest profit of tn, operations of
the farm, and how foolish to be deferred by
such reasoning.GO
From indications now, it would seem that
the South, is destined yet to become great
wheat and oat producing country. 1t will
be that when we produce enough to meet
our home consumption and thatAwe ought
to do, for the simple reason thabaHe.ean do
it so easily. We may never care to raise
them for export, on account OF the compe-
tition of other sections, but we may ad-
vance another important industry (wool
growing) by any surplus. Whether barley
and rye shall be grown other than for graz.
ing or soiling is yet to be DEMONSTRATED
For these purposes alone, however, they are
invaluable. At present the oat is the most
valuable cereal to US, and next to it wheat.
AS money crop oats are far ahead of
wheat, considering the comparative yield
and price. How long this will continue, OF
course depends on "supply and demand"
We certaiuly ought to grow enough wheat
for home consumption. If every farmer in
the South would, this fall, devote one acre
of good land to wheat and three to oats per
mule, what difference it would make in
our resources next summer
L do not know to what extent crops arc
failure in other sections or Georgia, but
in this know there will be great def
cheney in the provision crops, and cotton is
not promising more than three -fifths.-
There will not be one.third of crop of
sweet potatoes and peas, and not much over
half crop of corn, am afraid 1t is as
bad in Southwestern Georgia, the papers
state. Dry weather has prevailed general.
ly throughout the State, and caused more
this, is it not imperative that we should be
unusually active this fall, in endeavoring to
meet these deficiencies by larger spring
harvest? In all probability, the coming
season will be fair and perhaps fine one
for grain. Let us not procrastinate, and
VIXEN September and October comes be un-
prepared and say, "Well, believe 1 will
wait until spring" Get seed ready at
sow by tie 18th Of OctoJer-bearing in mind
this fact, that if put uniformly 81 to 4
inches deep, the plants will withstand the
saverest freezes of winter, and also suffer
much less from May and June droughts.
If perchance any one farmer should be
induced so sow, where he had intended not
to sow, or to SOW more largely, by anything
I may have said, I would be glad to have
postal from him next June, setting forth his
conclusions in the matter. S. A. G..
New DEvELOPMENT.-It has come to
light recently, that a large quantity of the
5000 Remington Rifles, belonging to the
State were sold to sporting organizations dur
ing the Republican rule, by the officer hav-
ing them in his charge, and that worse than
all, this individual has appropriated the lit
tie fund raised through this side speculation,
to his own private purposes. To what ex-
tent this has bcelI carried un, his not yet
been definitely ascertained, but it has been
pretty heavy. Adjutant General Noise is
on the track Of the whole transaction, and
the guilty party will soon be brought up and
made to answer for his theft. When the
whole thing is sftcd through, which will
soon be done, our people will know what be-
came Of the many thousand missing State
arms.
DR.. Caldwell, of Iowa, states that in 1862
he was present at the cxhumation of body
which had been buried two years before
The coffin had sprung open at the joints,
and the hair protruded through the open
ings. On opening the coffin the hair of
the head was found to measure eighteen
inches, the whiskers eight inches and the
hair on the breast five or six inches The
man had been shaved before being hurieds;