The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-11-13

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should think it was not near SO hardy
as orchard grass. IT is luxuriant grow
er in rich land and heads out very much
like oats, from which it takes its name.
OF Bermuda ] have no acquaintance,
and from what hear from those for whose
opinion ! have much respect, can't say
that my mind is easily made up about
it. Some think it is the Salvation of
the South" others can't speak Of it with
out losing their tcmpers so rs VIC
have none of it down on Tiger, am will
ing to remain safe distance from Scylla
and Charybdis, aud watch it work out its
destiny from aiar.
As to our own old "crab" ! need have
little to say; it is familiar enemy and
friend. For three months everything is
under whip and spur" to keep it down,
and then when you have an idea your
fodder is going to be "short" you are
hunting around in your stubble and rich
spots 10 sec if you can't save little hay.
But this grass was so ably and thoroughly
discussed at the last meeting of this Soci-
ETY. that feel that anything might say
would simply be superHuous.
] come now, in conclusion, TO what J.
think is indeed, the clover of the South,
aud that is the field pea. / believe, all
things considered it is better for the
South than clover, both as Il manurial
agent and as feed for stock in the sum-
mer and fall. In saying this don't
intend, if you will allow the expression,
"to 60 back" on clover, but as you know
the field pea can be grown successfully
in every section and on almost all soils
throughout the South. Peas are easier
sown, are sure 10 germinate, grow faster
and afford more protection 10 the land
at the right time than clover. Two crops
can be grown yearly on the same land in
every Southern State. It unsurpassed
for fattening hogs, unsurpassed as green
manure, and to crown all it will grow on
all sorts of soil and won't be long about
it anywhere. 1t has been and is won
derment to me. Why? Our farmers
will not use it more, and have thought
it was because it was so easily used and at
SO little cost; or it was not patented, or
did not require some agent to come round
and sell the right; and then, again, it
is not something new under the sun ; for
hear what Mr.. Edmund Ruhin said about
the pea in an address he made before the
South Carolina Institute, in Charleston,
in 1853, on the subject of Southern Ag-
ricullural Exhaustion and its Remedy"
"The native, or Southern pea, las
it ought to be called of such general
and extensive culture in this and other
Southern States, is the most valuable for
manuring crops, and also offers peculiar
and great advantages Us rotation crop.
The crop may be so well made in your
climate as secondary growth under corn,
that it is never allowed to be primary
crop or to have entire possession of the
land. 1t will grow we'll broadcast, and
either in that way, and still better if
titled, is an admirable and cleansing
growth. IT is even better than clover as
n preparing and manuring crop for
wheat. | have made this crop most
important member of my rotaticn, and
its culture as manuring crop has now
become general in my neighborhood, and
is rapidly extending to more distant
places. If all the advantages offered by
this crop were fully appreciated and avail
ed Of, the possession of this plant in
your climate would be one of the greatest
agricultural blessings of this and the
more Southern States. For my individ-
ual share of this benefit, stunted as tits by
our colder climate, / estimate it as ad-
ding at least one thousand bushels of
wheat annually to my crop"
The experiments made by DIR. Rose
other Charleston gentlemen with the pea
and the element have been so COM
plete, and / might say to the uninitiated
wonderful, and have, indeed, now so
become facts Of history, that any COM
ments OIL my part would be presumptu-
Gus.
In closing this subject ! will allude 10
one line OF experiments / have been fol-
lowing for some years. ] have been SOW
ing my oats stubble in peas; get stand
of oats, allow the peas and vines to fall
on the ground, and make second crop
of oats without sowing any oats seed.
Last summer | sowed seventy-iive acres
of oats stubble in July in peas, and also
twenty-five acres Of wheat stubble. AL
though the oats were badly killed by the
severe winter, yet they made q better
crop than many who / knew paid IS cents
for seed and sowed in the spring. ] now
always make two crops of oats on all the
oats SOW. The wheat stubDle was put
in corn, and / can only say up TO this
date there is marked difference in the
crop from other stubble not treated with
the pea. If yon will only treat your
land in this way you never can wear it out.
Just keep one-tbird always on this "bill
of fare" | can now show you beauti-
full stand Of peas and oats on all my fresh
oats stubble.
III conclusion-for / know | must
Lc tircsome, but ] do wish to say
something on this subject of grasses in
another light, an that is as an ornament.
The books, you know, speak Of ornamen-
tai grasses. How cherries and uninviting
is the appearance around many Of our
country homes. A blue grass plot or
terrace, border Of these grasses, differ
ent shaped beds of lawn grass, composed
of blue, orchard, italian rye and perenni-
al rye, cost so little in the end, and yet
add so much to "looks," and gives home,
no matter how humble, such Il CHEEKY
look. I have never yet found a place
with these things but have always
found wide awake people who "livcd at
home"
| ask, in the name of the love we bear
to this dear old Sunny SOUTH ask,
can't our homes be made attractive
enough to keep our young men on The
farm, instead Of seeking their fortunes
i'll our ovcr-crowded towns and cities?
A political economist has observed
that labor, unless used at the moment Of
production, is lost forever. In most vo-
cations it is impossible to produce be-
yond the days needs. The doctor can
only cure diseases us they manifest
themselves. The best lawyer cannot
anticipate next years legal business.
The carpenter and mason cannot bnill
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