The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-11-12
AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT,
Corn that Produces Flour Like w,oo,

Corn that Produces Flour Liko Wheat.
Mr.. w. j. Arrants has brought TO
INC Columbia correspondent of the
Nc'CS ana courier samples of four
grades or white flour, the finest being
Identical III appearance and feeling
with the best wheat -four, and the
coarscst being finer than the ordinary
corn meal. This flour he saw ground
rom corn in j. l.. Dominick's mill at
Peaks Station, Lexington county.
The mlll is supplied with the ordinary
burr-stoncs. The corn from which i
was made Was raised by a farmer
living few miles from Peaks. Year
before last he bought u pint Of it i'm
the West ana this wear raised twenty
five bushels. Mr.. Arrants saws that he
ate biscuits and bread made from the
-four and that it rcscmblcd that made
irom the -four and that it rcscmblcd
that made from wheat four, cXceDt
that it was trinc Swcctrr. lie showed
.,nc flour TO dealers in Columbia, who
took it for the best patent roller process
wheat flour The corn is said 10 re-
scmbic popcorn somewhat, is entirely
free from flint and bears frem four to
Cancc of the thing seems to be in the
apparent fact that flour equal or equiv
alcnt 10 wheat flour can be made from
Il grain much more productive in our
State than wheat can be. The cores
pondcnt does not know the name of
the corn or the grower, but sends the
NcWS anil Couricy small SAMPLES at
the Columbia Office for the dclcctation
al n .l,,, l,,
sec them.
Supplying Clean Cotton Land With Humus
in Advance of Heavy Manuring.
| have several acres of ordinary land
wish to prepare tOr heavy application
OF manure. The land is now in cot
ton IN one Of the Hawkins varieties.
In making heavy applications of man
"re we must have humas; please ad-
wise me how best to get it on land ihat
has been in cotton. | wish to plant
the land in cotton again. What do
YOU think of this plan: Say, as soon
us am through picking cotton, COM
ncncc hauling pine straw and op
earth of the pine field, scattering
broadcast a good supply, plowing this
III, and letting remain until spring and
l'i'N up anu IcDCQ.
The heavy Application of straw
would keep the drcnching rains from
washing land SO much With skill
and Judgment I don't sec why four
bales of cotton can't grow on one acre
OF land, though il is doubted bv many.
OFTEN do we find stalks of cotton
through our fields containing from 100
to 100. maturcd bolls. Good culture.
high manuring and the study of auri,
culture will unvcii many things now
unknown to farmers. - Subscriber.
p"thdm Co., ca.
ANsWEE.-Ilauling leaves, ETC., on
inc land IS most effective method of
supplying humuS. The only objection
TO it is its cost. Where everything is
convenient, it might pay very we'll.
but it is doubtful if its good effects
would be realized to any great extent
the first year, unless the leaves were
partially rottcd: especially is this true
OF stiff soils. Fresh fallen leaves.
whether Of pine or oak, but especially
oak, rot quite slowly. A better plan
| to secure full effect at once, would be
to compost the leaves with lime or
ashes, in pens convenient to the land
IN time to get them rottcd, and then
apply. broadcast. TO keep land from
washing and teaching through the
winter, sow down in rye, early in
September, and plow the green rye in
with the leaves in the spring, say about
the middle of March, or some three or
four weeks before it will be necessary
TO bed the land. There is no doubt
that four bales OF cotton can be raised
TO the acre; it has been done, but as
an average crop, embracing bad as
we'll as good seasons, it is probably
more than could be realized. Two
bales per acre is not an unreasonable
possibility as an average crop.-,S0uih-
cTn CUUir0tOr.