Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg Court House [S.C.]) 1877-1881, 1878-05-11
Coast Lands.
REpoRT OF TIE COMMITTEE OF THE
AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY oFSouTH
Ca ',oI INA ON CoAsT LANDS.
LfUBLIsHED BY REQuEsT.]
Continued from last ,rcek.1

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These experiments with rice lands
are on an ample scale, aud will be
conducted to the end with care and
exnctnass. Ii no accident iutrrvenes
to thwart the development of their
legitimate results they must be of
great practical value to our planters.
1t is said that our rice planters
make now, under the most favorable
circustances, only new for m o Id
dollar, and if storm, or freshct, or
Il salt river comes, or n break in the
bnnk occurs, they do no. even this.
Now, Mr.. Daniel 11eywuri, of Savan.
nah River, practical, ob,ervant and
a successful planter, has told us that
the production OF rice land may ba
raised from forty to seventy bushels
by fertilizing it with he cow pea
under ordinary cultivation. Can, any
nn" conf ccturc wi at it may attain to
'!n land after peas with the 'Sh Gle
mcnt? There will probably Dr some
light OH this material point from
Laurel Spring next autumn.
DIR. j. Il. Earton, of Rowcsville.
Orangehurg County, writes under
date of the 2O:h Of February: 81
cannot as yet give you any definite
result from any experiment 1 am
now making with the ash element.
In June last sowed broadcast on
ciglt acres five hundred pounds ash
element per acre, aud peas sufficient
to give thick stand. The peas grew
iuNuria ntly, and made heavy crop
of vines. When matured I sowc,l
two bushels Of rhc red oat, and turned
peas and oats u"dcr with Il two horse
plough. 1t gave good stand, and
the "ats are now look ing extremely
well. From present appearance they
will double my former crops.
Il have not rs yet made any ex-
pertinent with the vetch, bu. have *
few plants, and intend getting seed
and sowing the coming autumn.
II shall try ash element and peas
in June. let the peas mature and die
on The land. and plant cotton on same
land i'll the spring of 1879. shall
be pleased to give you the result of
any exp, rimrnt | may make with the
ash element, peas, &c. &c"
Mr.. d. Lynch Prlng!e writes from
kei'Iiield. Georgetown on the 9Ih
February "ln June last prepared
two acres, as follows: On one simply
snwed two bushels Of COW peas; on tn C
other l applied four hundred pounds
Of the ash element and then sowcd
the peas. The difference was very
marked between the two acres. The
one on which l applied the ash ele-
mcnt producing the most luxurian,
crop of peas | have ever seen. The
other produced only poor crop.
allowed the vines to remain untunc h .
ed upon the land uni the middle of
November, when | turned hem under
and sowed oats. The difference in
the growth Of the oats is As mark ed
as ii WAS in the peas; and, in fact, one
| consider beautiful crop; the other
poor. sowed perhaps little more
oats on the one acre than nn the other /,
but not enough to ma the differ
encc MS markeI as it now is"
| MIR. Pringlc also kindly offers To
aid your committee by giving them
any infornati IN within his r .arh M d
by experimenting.
| Mr. Pam $, tclder, agent of The
State Grange Of Sonth Carolina"
has obligingly furnished the following
notes Of experiments begun on his
plantation in Oran Ccburg:
! "Abort ten acres of land dry and
rather sandy, with agraduaI slope
OF about one foot to the hundred feet.
planted one year in cotton, the next
in corn, and in the fall Of 1875 in
oats, made about fifteen bushels to the
acre. Oats were cut in June, calves
and hogs pnstured on land unit. lat.
ter part Of July; then n mixture, two
parts calcincd mari and one part each
ground phosphate and German
kuinit. was sowed, with COW. peas,