The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1886-08-04

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pockets and If I found a bare spot
sowed it.
Tho first year after 1 went dairy
ing the party who wanted to know
if I was going to make %sassafras
oil had about fifteen acres of new
land in sapling clover. 1t grew
six or seven feet high and filed
with seed. 1t was SO rough and
stumpy the old gentleman did not
think to cut it. went to him and
told him I would give him two
bushels of clean clover seed for n
chance to cut and thrash that
clover field. 81 don't see what
the you will do with it; it is
so tangled and the ground is so
stumpy you can't see the stumps.
I'll be glad to get that or less," said
he. l took q mower and cut that
clover to the ground and hauled it
all to my farm and trampcd off and
hauled o than two bushels of
seed per acre on an old grounding
machine. l got enough straw and
chatf to bed my COWS all winter
next year you ought to have soen
the clover.grow where | put that
manure. "A man never gets that
kind Of n bargain but once off the
same Finding | was making
a of the dairy, not only by
making butter, but also in the sale
of milk in the local market, l de-
termiped to seek n larger and more
convenient farm. The first man:
who wanted to buy the farm was
the man who wanted to know if I
was going to make sassafras oil.
In the fall Of 1875 I bought a farm
of 3O5 acres for 5000. This farm
was not as bad as the first, but was
in a run down condition., being sold
uuder a deed of trust, the party
being unable to pay either interest
or taxes.
Here I erected, during the sum-
mel of 1877, n large stone barn
56x70 feet, with cight-foot base
ment for manure, cight-foot story
for cows, aud storage room over
head for Scvcnty-five or eighty
tons Of hay. "You will get
stuff enough to fill it," was the oft
repeated remark. at will not hold
one-half Jll raise the third year,.
was the stereotyped reply. The.
third year | stacked more than
double outside / was able to store
inside. Here | had stable capacity
for forty-cight head of COWS. Here
| worked up the yield Of butter to
an average Of 225 pounds per COW,
hay to two and ahalf tons per acre,
wheat to thirty bushels per acre.
,,op,J Tho c. fro IN fn Nod fIn nnu.s. I
strewed clover seed as before. My
old neighbor, j. J. Williamson, said
l just MANFRED the ground with
clover seed.
In 1881 I was induced to sell this
farm for about two and q half times
what it cost me originally. Eighteen
eighty-two found me on a larger
farm, better located, better cared
for than my first pu rchase, but not
so good, naturally, as the second
having n good deal of land that
needs undertaking before it al
be brought to a high state of fer
tility. Here l pitched my tent
again and began to build anew. |
reared a barn 60X06 feet, 2O-foot
posts, 9-foot stone basement under
the whole, formanu re; III addition
in the shape of the stem Of Il II, has
since been added, 26X40 feet, for
the storage Of bedding.
The barn has a capacity for eighty
five cows, storage r0om in m0ws
above for 200 tons Of hay, and over
the driveway and feed cutter, grain,
meal and bran storage for forty
to fifty tons.
The first year l fill ed one side, or
about 100 tons, with hay and oats;
1884, l filed both sides, or about
200 tons; 1885, I filledan additional
barn with 60 or IS IONS of hay.
I literally covered, in the Spring
of 1885, over fifty acres with ma
nure, producing on fl ftccn acres of
very thin land, too poor to grow a
firm sod before it was MANFRED, 300
tons of sorghum which | fed to my
between the goth of August
and the lst of January just passed.
The bagasse from the sorgo factory,
damaged hay, etc, is all used as
bedding for the cows / am now
paying about thirty five cents per
hundred for hay to bed my COWS
on, not being able to get the straw.
l have not been able to get another
clover field. 1t is here in the year
just closed that, measured by the
same standard with which / began
butter and calves, | have raised
the in ONE per COW from $25 to the
magnificent sum of $3.50. Imadc,
in 1885, an average Of -5S pounds
of butter to the cow, with a herd
that averaged seventy COWS. ]
have put in about two miles of tile,
and have about two m lies more on
the ground to go in as soon as
Spring opens. One acre MANFRED
grows as much as three did before.
Manure tells wherever it is spread.
An old Missouri friend visited my
dairy and spent the night with me.
In the morning / showed him
THROUGH my barns. Said he. "You