Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-06-16
|, 9s How az you break your lspdYN /
k. I. use a,asrrow, Ion 4, oooterE "a bleaA

rs 0s How do you break your lapd7s j
aHAs Fuse a'nsrrow, long oooter,s 70 freak
land, and / put i 10 very deep while
can got Il 10 the olay, but never turn /.
up. never plow my land when wet
that will kill any land---espeoially oaky-
woods like mine. With prudent plough.
ing, and changing ell tho time from cotton
to oatss Ithiak \ perfectly easy tolmako
$500 pounds Seedi oottoo on lsnd that
now makes 1900, and which originally
would makel only between 300 and. 400
pounds per aSre. ~ StI |
Q, How do you lsy off your cotton ia
rows7 .4.gl" hrs III s.,s' X. III. IN, ~
A. Give plenty Of diotanoe. Cotton 10
o sun plant aud must have room to grow
from the powers Of the sun Where the
land is good cotton rows should bo laid off
from 81 to i feet, aud left from 90 to "a
inches in the drill. The rows should aleo
DO laid of very level, so as to hold ali the
rain thoy can In tho summer. We people
among the hilly regions of EdgeGeld have
been neglectiug this matter till some of our
lands are nearly all gone. If the water
can run in tho rows, it washes out the
middle furrow and every shower that comes
runs off, aud very soon tho land is dry
again; besides, it washes of the soil, and
soon your land is all washed away aud
filled with doep red gullios. One great
advantage in sowing land down, is that it
will soon, stopall the washes, provided the
rows are laid of right when cotton or corn
is planted.
Q. Do you think land needs rest +?
"A. Just as much 80 as sinian does. We
ought to plant our land ono year, SOW it
down one year aud lot it lie idle eyery
third year, turning undsr tho weeds and
stuff in the winter with u turn pow and
manure heavily when We begin working
again. Then our lands would never wear
out; and besides, two bales of cotton, or 80
bushels of corn, of so bushels of oats.
could be gathered from each acre when YOU
did work it..
Q What would be the result of such
farming?
A, All! if ourfarmors would onlY study
this great, glorious busiuess of planting, we
would bayo no cotton to rust; wo would
have plenty of corn aud oats to feed on
without getting at big prices at the dcpots;
we would all get to gpgliog money in our
pockets, and in a few years our country
would be new land.
w. Do you think many OF our people arc
making any money by farming
A. No, sir; do not see how man can
live, raising only 500 or 600 pounds of cot
ton to the acre, from to 10 bushels of
corn, and only abopt 3 to S acres of oat
land sowed to each horse.
q What do you think of oats as food
for stock
A. There is none better. Always SOW
down as much land in oats to feed your
horse on as ho can work IN cotton, and you
will have plenty to feed him GU without
having to raise much corn. Corn is an
expensive food; and besides, oats arc
much more healthy food than corn.
always raiso little corn, and can always
spare some, because reap plenty of oats
and do not need the corn. May We all de-
vote moro earnest, patient and profound
thought to this important matter, aud be-
come prosperous people. Before tho war
we might have paid no attention to farm,
ing, but, sir, VIC cannot live that wuy now.