The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1886-10-01

Gus losses We have had in different plans
that have been tried, VIC will give very
primitive plan that We use now, and which
has never failed in our heaviest freezes. so
The potatoes arc dug Immediately after
the first frost. a lot of pine poles are
cut to make bed eight or ten feet square.
Put these just on the ground; green pine
tags Ger needless are put upon tho poles
to the depth of two or three inches on
these are placed layer of dry corn stalks
of two inches; on this tho potatoes arq
put, say thirty or forty bushels it core
shape; then layer of corn stalks, three
inches; then a layer of green pine tags,
three or four inches then six inches of
sand, if you are going to cover with \
board shed, if not, twelve inches of sand
or light clay. We have never failed to
keep potatoes successfully by this simple
cheap plan, but hav, failed with all others.
| One Of the most important matters that
requires the farmers attention at this time
is preparation for his Winter grain. In
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will be cut short very much by the failure
of the bottom lands. This failure must be
supplemented by some early barley, rye
and oats. We consider barley the most
valuable early green forage crop it never
has tho same injurious effects that follows
the uso of some other green forage plants.
To make barley you have to SOW only rich
land. If you do otherwise, it will be
simply sending good seed after bad, for
your crop is sure 10 be 4 failure We are
going to SOW five aero lot in lew days,
and will give our plan for what it is worth.
The lot was in oats the past season, and
made forty bushels per acre. 1t has
already been broken deeply with bull
tongue plough we will break again in n
few days with same plough as deep as a
q strong mule can do it. Will manure
with Forty bushels of green cotton seed per
acre, cotton seed having been ground in
- cotton scrd miitf: 1T sow one and a half
bushels of clean barley per acre; plough
= and harrow with smoothing harrow. l
/, should have stated that about n 1ovrn
head Of cattle have been pcuncd on the
I lot at night for the = month or more.
Rye will make 81 fine ca. Winter pas
j. turagc, il sown at once on most any of
our average farming land. We have sown
good deal Of our thin cotton land,
as we laid by the cotton, in rye,
which We will use as Il rasturagc during
the Winter and early Spring What
heads out we will leave to fall on the
ground and be turned under next Summer
again, as we are going to pursue this plan
for several years with this particular piece
Of land Ga poor red clay) as recupcra-
ting experiment. Our plan is always
SOW portion Of your oat crop in Sep
tcmber in fact from September to March
has been our rule for years, and We have
never made complete failure. Our judg-
mont is that the Red Rust Proof is tie
oats for our climate, from one and half
to two bushels per acre. Plough thor
oughly; manure with somcthing-stablc
; manure and cotton scotland if YOU have
neither OF the above. n mixture of cotton
. seed meal, aciduatcd rock and kainit.
> Nothing responds more quickly to little
manure than an oat crop, and you might
just as well give up that old idea that oats
' can be made where nothing else will grow,
for the red oat will never do it, and none
- Of the other varieties will give you a crop
:. one out Of three. Don't be deceived
- about seed. We have seen several lots
, that have been shipped into the State as
: red rust proof oats that arc badly mixed
and of an inferior quality On the other
? hand we have seen some very fine Texas
red oats that are genuine and very good
There is yelowish red oat on the market
that will deceive careless observer, and
can be easily passed for red oats but VIC
saw them tried last year. and they were
!; very inferior. Look always for the beard
!, on the grain; this is characteristic of
the red oats, and none are genuine with
= out IT'D. =. DUNCAN, in .Nonthy Rcport,
agricultural D'paytmcm
Prohibition is beginning to prohibit in
II Atlanta, and the sorrowiul wet men arc
S becoming convinced Of that fact. The
d absurl:ty Of the idea that the enforcement
II Of law endorsed by the majority of the
c people is mpractcabic, is patent TO all 10
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