The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-09-04
WHEN TO CUT.

taught me by my experience with 1t for
the last fivo years may be of interest and
service.
WHEN TO CUT.
Unlike oats and wheat, rico should not
bo reapeu until it is fully ripe. If cut
green it is hard to cure and liable to heat
in the house or stock the grain will be
light and soft, break and waste in
pounding, and make an inferior grain
for the market. AT the same time there
will be greater difficulty in threshing
and considerable percentage left in the
straw N@
Rice Is fully ripe only when tho lowest
grnins In the head have passed through
the milk state, and are rd or har Jon
ing. A want of observance of this iact
will entail great loss.
HOW TO HARVEST.
Rice is cut with the rice hook or sickle,
which may be had from any or tho hard
ware merchants In Charleston and q few
In Augusta. 1t should be cut about
eight inches above the ground and laid
in loose parcels with the heads resting
on the stubble. 1t must be handled very
gently as waste is now to be met at every
step. If we'll ripper ed twelve hours sun
and shocked in the field. The shocks
should stand two or three days, and may
be lett as many weeks.
Our upland rice does not ripen equally,
that is, all at the same time, more espec-
tally whore it is planted in upland. In
cutting the green hills should be passed
over and left to ripen. This Is fact that
mrst be observed, or else your whole
crop will be Gomagad fey the market ec
On the coas. L was told that hand
would cut an acre of one hundred and
seventy rows of drilled rice in day and
was paid dollar for it. Our rice, with
only sixty-five or seventy rows to the
acre, Is, OF course, much easier to cut.
But our hands are less .expert, and /
have found it difficult to average over q
half acre to the hand.
THREsHzNa.
Most ofthe rice in the low country is
Lnresilcd t1ith the mai, InaciIinery being
considered too expensive for any but the
largest planters. There, 1t Is said, n
hand WIN clean twenty to twenty five
bushels per pay. But our hands want
training In this kind of work, and was
glad whom 1 got an average of five BUSH
els to the hand. For the Inst three years
I have only cleaned seed rico in this way,
and for tho bulk of tho crop used the
wheat thresher. The difficulty with that
is, that If run up to full speed IL breaks
and hulIs tho rico to q ruinous extent,
and II not run at q good speed leaves too
.,enel. esr.:: i: :::S ssTTssi:E7Is 11iy
power to give tho machine little moro
than half the number of revolutions or
dinarily used for small grain. Tho yield
was about twenty-five bubhols per hour,
without much breaking, and with little
grain leit in the straw. tits essential that
the rice should be drys and It Is much
better 20 do the work in cold and windy
weather. Alter threshing, the rice may
be cleaned with the ordinary grain fhii,
or by pouring from q scatfold twenty feet
high, which Is nluch tho quIclSeAt and
best plan when there is q pretty sitR
breeze. sGfss,
The cheapest thresher mFt < expressly,
for rice, now In the fnarkel sosfs $3.50,
and requires q ten horse power engine to
drive 1t. The agent In Charleston esti-
mated the entire cost put up on tho plane
tation at 81 ! $50, while the ecapa0ity 10 only
GOO bushels per diem. There Is another
and much cheaper machine about TO 10
Drought out by q Louisville firm.
HOW 10 nrAIKEr.
Ifyoa have an much es fifty bushels
10 n1iiiB, nave It pounded, and
sell the clean rico This -aDnlfa4 In tho