The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-11-02
RED RUST.PROOF OATS.
ihe Best Modo of Making the Crop and
OF Selling u whcm a!.;.a.
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CoKESBuRY, :. c., October. II.
10 tire Editor Of the Ncms nnd Courier :.
In your issue of the 2nd of September YOU
gave prominence to notice of mine up
on The subject Of selling oats. That no.
l'ce gave me orders for my crop thrice
over III less than twenty days. Will you
| once more please allow ne Il few words
i'll your columns upon The general subject
OF The oat crop, which | wish to address
to the farmers of middle and lower South
! Carolina
First. Sow the oat crop rs carlv as
practicable, not later than 18th of 0c,o.
ber and preferably in September, if pos
sible. Apparently Inconsistent advice
for have not yet sown half my own
crop. nor can | SOW until rair. for we
have had no rain since 10th of Scptcm.
eer and my land is like a pavement.
Second. Oat land should be as thor.
onghly ploughcd and narrowed as if for
cotton or any other staple crop, and i'm
January or February following, when the
weather is dry and the oats have begun
10 stool or tiller, from one hundred to
one hundred and fifty pounds of ammo.
mated Pllosphates should be broadcasted
over encl, acre, and the land immediately
scarriiied with u two horse harrow. The
process will seem destructive, but expe.
renee has shown that such cultivation
Is exceedingly beneficial to the crop.
!h!:d. Iheir arc three essentials TO n
good seed oat. 1t should be rust proof,
wihter.proof and weight proof. To my
nina 'hcre Is no value to bc attached 10
color; A bushel of the brightest red oats
may lie sown in halves upon two uualties
OF land-rcd clay aud light sandy. At
harvest time the oats s0wn on the red
clay land will be the darkest, some of the
grains may indeed be black. Those sown
OH the sandy land will retain the bright
color. Weigh them; the red clay oats
arc the heaviest For this reason the
farmer who cultivatcs sandy land should
change his seed annually. Tho earlier
sown oats too on the same quality of land
are HEAVIER when harvested than those
sown earlier.
Fourthly, and most vitality. Abbeviile
county has exported this wear perhaps
3O0,0 bushels OF oats. Doubtless 200.
0oo bushels have gone from the Abbeyille
farmer to the low country farmer through
tho merchants of this and the other end
OF the line. At whose cost, ID to whose
profit? If grow 900 bushels of oats
Tor sale, and you farmers Of Sumter or
Orangcburg Counties want to buy ,hnt
many to SOW, why should sell to Il mcr.
chant here tn bc sent to merchant there.
both OF whom mnke profit, before YOU
can SOW your crop? To say that mer.
chant should not deal in oats is nonsense.
lis money is his own, let him buy and
sell what he p'cascs, and if he il shrewd
enough to see profit in such traffic, it is
MS privilege to take advantage Of it and
no one blamcs him. Surely | do not.
But when n farmer needs >" 10 plnnt
and knows that his fellow or rrows
such seed for sale,v ecessity
OF having one, m ,en sten
in between them AMI profit nj
the expense Of both? ln., it thus.
Twenty merchants in Abbe, lie Duy 200.
QUO bushels of oats ut from 33c. to 38c.
per bushel and sell ut from $50. to 4Oc.
per bushcl, realizing an average net profit
OF only three cents per bushel say, tho
aggregate profit is So 900, or 5000 each
IN SIX weeke. The same profit is made
at the delivery end of the liue. These
Sl2,00O are taken from the producers un.
necessa.Ily. Had this amount beer re.
tanned by them it would perhaps have
paid their taxes, and the merchants could
not have felt that they were damaged 10
the amount of a farthing.
but mny be asked how would rem.
edy the evil if my complaint be just? BY
the easiest possible means. If the farmers
were organized as they should he they
would have constant and direct commu.
nication with each other, and all such
necessary commercial transactions as the
buying and selling the perishable pro.
ducts of the farm, or supplying each other
with seed and implements, could be done
without paying heavy commission to a
third party.
Now l have advised to harrow small
grain, and already have been asked,
what harrow would you advise me to
use?' If were to reply through your
columns who would reap the bcnefit7
have gone to considerable expense to sc.
cuft the best harrow, and on!y gecured it
by experience. To the farmers my expc.
rience would be invaluable; but the
agent of the harrow manufacturer would
De, perhaps, the first man to profit by its
publication, and as apt as not he would
be dry goods merchant or druggist
cant see legitimate merchandise in such
traffic myself; others may, and find no
fault with them for their opinion.
eau very we'll see, however. that q
revival of the Grange organization in
South Carolina could and would save TO
the farmers Of the State million of dol
lars year, and injure no other profession
dime. But who can organize the far.
mers to their own protecti0n7 Echo.
Very respectfully,
-. WYATT AIKEN.