The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-28
Sowing mall Grain.
SEEDING TO CLOVER.

IL our southern farmers were pervaded
with the same spirit in regard
to grain growing that they exhlb-
tied just ten years ago this fall
we should have more hopeful feeling for
the outlook next spring than we have just
now under present conditions. There is no
question as to the poor condition of cotton
over a very large territory, and there are
plenty of farmers in Middle Georgia who
claim, and justly, that they will not realizs
more than two-thirds of q fair average crop.
There are many who will not get over 50
per cent. Some have made good crops of
corn while others have not. Some have
stored remarkable quantity Of hay while
many others have not done So Winter will
probably show in many localities consider
able deficiency of forage There is no like
lihood of their being q superabundance Of it
anywhere in the south. Where goo forage
is saved there is no trouble in disposing
of it in the spring, if it should happen that
one saves more of it than he will have need
for himself,
This certainly does not often happen to
be the case with many southern farmers.
Thousands of tons of western or northern
hay is still sold in the south every winter
and spring.
1t is very unfortunate that our farmers
as class. give SO little care to the raising
and sowing of abundant supplies of hay.
We can, il we choo store up as good hay
as is supplied to us by the west, and at one-
third or one-half the price that has to be
paid for it. We rely upon annual plants
almost exclusively. The day is not far dis
tant when we will appreciate more fully
those perennial plants that, when once well
established, Will endure for many years, and
supply us with abundant forage without the
trouble of sowing every year.
In the meantime, no YeVer, we should not
neglect these ANIMALS that have been used SO
long and found so suited to the needs of the
farmers Of the south. Among these oats
stands supremely eminent-or emlnently
supreme.
Then under certain conditions comes rye
and barley as great crops and especially for
the dairyman of whom there are increasing
numbers in the south.
Both oats and rye are valuable crops in
the south, and so is barley when properly
treated by sowing at the proper time aud on
land that is suited to it,
The trouble has been TOO many of our
farmers expect these grains TO prove valua-
Die on ldnQ C0dC Is uOt uLtSu AVi any UbAAk AZ
fact.
For many years now we have not advo~
Gated the sowing of any of these plants for
the purpose of lbreshing the gram, but
simply for the purpose Of forage. Cutting
them before the grain Is dry enough TO
shatter, and feeding it during the summer
in lieu of corn OF other heating foods.
Below the SD parallel OF latitude oats
and rye can be sown any time In OCTOBER,
pastured to a considerably extent by light
stock, especially during the winter months,
then cut during April and May and fed IN
the sheaf from April TO November VI
course economy suggests the proprlety OF
cutting il up before being fed.
Where one appreciates. even partially,
the value of plenty of forage, either as nay
or pasture, they must know that 1t Is TO the
fall sown crops that we must loOk Tor talr
proportion of it if we would use our ell
matte advantages to anything like the ex-
tent that we may.
The saping clover Tor the red can Do
sown along with oats or rye during october,
aud after the grain Is cat of IN AprlI or
NAV the clover will come on and taze iuH
possession Of the land during the summer
which can be used for hay and pasture
both and put the soil in bstter condltlon Tor
hood crops the following year II It is desired
% cultivsts it.
Our advice 20 farmers is 10 SOW as largely
as possible Of oats, and II they have much
stock SOW rye, too. Corn will NOT be cheap
next spring, aud n barn full OF cats WI
certainly DO q valuable properly lou
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