The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1886-10-01
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We ore told that thsro ia never any .dihs,.
Guilty an this direction y Without the vdfi-
GUS losses we have had in alifferent plarsi
that have been tried, wo will give very
primitive plan that We use now, and which
has never failed Ia our heaviest ireessss ss
Tho potatoes ase dug immediately safter
the first frost. A lot of pine poles are
cut TO make bed eight or ten feet sqdhss.
Put these just on the ground green 1ihs
tags Cor needless are put upon the p6les
70 tho depth of two or three inches on
these are piaced'a layertof dry cord stlsNs
kqf ~ Inches on this sfp 1otatoes 3 u
put, say thirty or forty bushels il a core
shape then layer of corn stalks, three
inches; then layer of green pine tags,
three or four inches then six inches Of
sand, if you are going to cover with q
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 havs 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
some sections of the State the corn crop
will DO 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 the same injurious effects that follows
the use 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 failure. We are
going to SOW five acre lot in few 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 a
few days with same plough as deep as a
strong mule can do it, Will manure
with forty bushels of green cotton seed per
acre, cotton seed having been ground in
cotton seed mill Will sow one and half
bushels OF clean barley per acre; plough,
aud harrow with smoothing harrow. /
/ should have stated that about n dozen
head Of cattle have been penned on the
lot at night for the ~. month or moro.
Rye will make n Gnc ra. Winter n,s-
turago, if sown at once, on most auy Of
our average farming land. We have sown
a good deal Of our thin cotton land,
as we laid by the cotton, in rye
which we will use as a pasturage 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 "a poor red clay) as reoupera-
ting experiment. Our plan is: always
SOW portion of your oat crop in Sep
tember; in fact from September to March
has been our rule for years, and we have
never made complete failure. Our iudg
ment is that the Red Rust Proof is the
oats for our climate, from one and half
to two bushels per acre. Plough thor
oughly; manure with something-stable
manure and cotton seed-and if you have
neither of the above, n mixture of cotton
seed meal, acidulated rock and kainit
Nothing responds more quickly to little
manure than an oat crop, and you might
just as we'll give up that old idea that oats
can be made where nothing clse will grow,
for the red oat will never do it, and none
Of the other varieties will give you 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 are 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 yellowish red oat on the market
that will deceive a careless observer, and
can be easily passed for red oats but we
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.
utit.-D. p. DUNCAN, n Monthly Report,
agricultural Department.
Prohibition is beginning to prohibit in
Atlanta, and the sorrowful wet men arc
becoming convinced of that fact. The
absurdity of the idea that the enforcement
OF law endorsed by the majority of tn,
people is impracticable, is patent to all in