The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-05-22
BILL ARP ON COW PEAS.
Every Farmer Should Sow Cow Peas
Whenever He has Land 10 Spare.

Dill rNE Sis WV INV
Every Farmer Should Sow Cow Peas
Whenever He has Land 10 Spare.
Ii I were an old-fashioned almanac
maker I would fill up the spaces of
three summer months with such ad-
vice as, "Sow peas-sow more peas"
"About this time SOW COW peas Gas
soon as your wheat is harvested. SOW
peas upon the land" Follow your
oats with peas" "Sow peas between
your corn rows when you lay by your
corn" ''Sow lots of peas"
Peas are better than clover, or
grass, or anything, better for the land
and better as a profitable crop. I
have unbounded respect for peas. I
SOW about five acres every year for
forage, and they make the best forage
in the world-the best for horses and
mules, and the best for milch COWS.
All kinds of stock eat it greedily. I
have seen old-fashioned farmers pull
peavines up by the roots and hang
them on the fence to cure. The COM
non idea is that pea-vine hay is hard
to harvest and hard to cure. This
is a great mistake. Sow them with a
drill or broadcast-say two bushels to
the acre; when the pods are nearly
grown, and the peas are in the dough,
walk right into them with scythe
blade and cut all acre day-any
good mower can do it easily, for it is
the sweetest cutting in the world. Let
them lie as they fall for twenty-four
hours; rake into wind-rows, and let
them alone for two days more. If it
rains on them, just let it rain; when
the sun shines again, toss them up and
give them air, and they will cure. I
have had them take several rains, and
lie upon the ground for week, and
cure all right; plenty of air is all they
want. Put them in the barn and
watch them for a day OF so to see if
they are moulding OF getting hot; if
they are, then toss them to the other
side of the barn, and the tossing and
airing will bring them all right. l
have never lost a pea-vine crop. But
be sure and cut before the pods get
ripe, or you will lose the leaves. Gut
green, and not a leaf will drop, and
the vines will cure so much easier.
Now for little philosophy. Pea
vines make quick and dense shade,
and shade is dame natures great re-
storer. Just as soon as the wheat or
oats are removed, nature sends up the
grass or the weeds right away to shade
the exposed ground, to shield it from
the burning sun. Peas are better than
either, both as shade and food. Shade
produces 1itrogssp -the-grresaatt great f Of
plants 4 canebrake would seem to
eS55aust the land from its dense, lux
uriant growth, but it enriches it. The
shade of a cauebrake is impenetrable.
l cleared up an acre of canebrake and
planted it in corn and made 1875 bush
els. Brier patches are dense and
lu1uriant growth, and they make the
land rich. Just so with the growth
that always comes in the corners OF
the old fences. Remove the fences,
and you have rich, fertile soil. Take
down an old house or barn, and the
soil underneath is equal to a cane
brake. Plant a grape vine by the
yerauda, and the roots will run under
the house and feast upon the nitrogen
that the shade has made. Put down
some old planks between your straw
berry rows, and see how soon the
roots will take refuge there a',i."es1s ,
zs1saEe shade that gives nourishment to
plants Of course there is no plant
food in a stone or arock, but see how
vines and trees grow near to stone
walls and piles of rock. The falling
leaves that cover the ground do more
from their shade to preserve it than
from the plant-food that is in dead
Leaf. See how quickly potatoes will
sprout in dark cellar. Night, dark
night, is the universal restorer of all
vegetation-the generator of plant
food.
Some farmers SOW peas and turn
the green crop under. They lose the
hay and do the land no good.
Pea-vine hay is easy to bale, and
where its value is known brings the
highest price. Two men and one
mule can press forty bales in day in
a home made press. Four tons is a
fair crop on average land, and have
sold it at $50 per ton. Then sowpeas;
keep on sowing peas. Sow running
pea that will grow rank and fall down
if it wants to. The scythe-blade will
get them better than a mower. Then
SOW peas early and late; SOW more
peas.
CONSUMPTION SURELISURED.
To THE ED1ToR-Plesssrm your read
ers that l have a~p45si ~ remedy for the
above named<Tisease By it's timely use
thousandsSf hopeless cases have been per
m9ptently cured shall be glad to send
two bottles of my remedy FREE to any Of
your readers who have consumption If they
will send me their express and post Office
address Respectfully,
, T. A. SLOCUM, NJ. c.. ISL Pearl ST., n.
A Priest Accused of Terrible Crime.
RALEIGH, n: c., May 13-Father J. J.
Boyle, the Catholic priest who was arrested
last Saturday for m outrageous assault upon
young lady, who is a member of his
church and also its organist, was to-day ar.
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