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

er in rich land and heads out very much
like oats, from which it takes its name.
or 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 "saiyation of.
the South" others can't speak of it with
out losing their tempers (; so as wo
have none of it down on Tiger, 1 am will
| ing TO remain q safe distance from Soylls
and Charybdis, and watch 1t work ont its
destiny from afar.
AS to our own old "crab" need have
little 10 say /; it is familiar enemy and
friend. For three months everything Is
"unuer whip and spur 10 keep it down,
and then when you have an idea your
fodder is going TO be "shert" you are
hunting around in your stubble and rich
spots to see you can't save little hay.
But this grass was SO ably and thoroughly
discussed at the last meeting of this Socf.
ETY. that feel that anything ! might say
would simply be superAuous.
/ come now, in conclusion, to what I
think is indeed, the clover Of the South,
aud that is the field pea. I believe, ali
things considered, it is better for the
South than clover, both as 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,
ITO 60 back" on clover, but as you know
the field pes! can be grown successfully
| in every section and on almost all soils
throughout the South. Peas are easier
sown, are sure to germinate. grow faster
/ and afIord moro protection to the land
| at the right time than clover. Two crops
| can be grown yearly on the same land in
| every Southern State. It is unsurpassed
for fattening hogs, unsurpassed as q green
| manure, and to crown all it will grow on
| all sorts of soil and won't be long about
it anywhere. il mas been and is o won
| derment to me. Why? Our farmers
will not use it more, and / have thought
1T was because it was so easily used and at
30 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 Rufiin said about
the pea in an address he made before the
South Carolina Institute, in Charleston,
in 1858, on tie subject of Southern Ag-
ricultural Exhaustion and Its &amedy:"
'The native, or Southern pea, (as
it ought to be calied,) of such gener.,;
and extensive culture in this aud other
; Southern States, is the most valuable for
manuring crops, and also offers peculiar
and great advantages as rotation crop.
The crop may be SO we'll made in your
climate as secondary growth under corn,
that it is never allowed to be q primary
crop or TO have entire possession of the
land. II viii grow we'll broadcast, and
| either in thai way, and still better if
| titled, is an admirable and cleansing
growth. It is even better than clover as
q preparing and manuring crop for
wheat. l have made this crop most
important member of my rotation, and
its culture as O 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 rs it lis by
our colder climate, I estimate it rs ad-
ding at least one thousand bushels OF
wheat annually to my CROP"
The experiments made by DR.. Rose
other Charleston gentlemen with the pea
and the ash-clement have been so COM
plete, and / might say to the uninitiated
wonderful, and have, indeed, now 80
become facts of history, that any COM
mehts Oh my part would be presumptu-
| GUS,
III closing this subject viii aliude to
one line OF experiments have been fol-
lowing for some years. I 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 1 sowed seventy. five 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 better
crop than many who knew paid rs cents
for seed and sowed in the spring. I now
always make two crops of oats on all the
oats sow. The wheat stubble was put
in corn, ard cas only say up to this
date there is marked difference in the
crop from other atubble not treated with
the pea. If yon will only treat your
land in this way you never can wear it out.
just keep one:third always on this "bill
of fare" can now show you beauti-
ful stanc of peas and oats on all my fresh
oats stubble.
In conclusion--for I know I must
be tiresome, but / do. wish TO saw
something on this subject of grasses in
another light, al that Is as an ornament.
The books, you know, speak OF ornamen-
tai grasses. How cheerless and uninyiting
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 80 little iE the end, and vet
ada % much TO "iooks,n cud gives home,
no matter how humble, such CHEEKY
look. I have never yet found place
with these things but have always
found wide-awake people who "liyed at
home."
ask, in the name Of the love we bear
to this dear old Sunny South--I ask.
cant our homes be made attractive
! enough Keep uur young men on the
farm, instead of seeking their fortunes
in our over-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-
1 yond the days needs. The doctor can
only cure diseases as they manifest
i themselves. The best lawyer cannot
anticipate next years legal business.
The carpenter and mason cannot build
houses eA Acept as they are wanted. Not
so with our farmer he can always be ad-
yancing ha msy arai.. s..Asc:ii fsSTtii ffssSti.-
ize; he may plant trees, beautify his
home, increase his bank stock, for his
farm is his bank, until its production
Is doubled or tFehbielai IN tho future. If n