Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-07-26
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GROWING WHEAT FOR HAY.
Some Southern farmers are expe

Some Southern farmers are expert
menting with the cultivation of wheat
for hay, and one of them writes thus
to The Southern Cultivator:
have grown an cut wheat for hay
for the last five years, and have never
found or saved crop that gave more
satisfactory returns. I am farmer
with twenty years. experience. Wheat
is the most easily raised and also the
most economical crop southern farm
er can produce. 1t grows at time
when nothing else is growing. From
May 5 to 20 it can be moved and saved
for hay, cut in milk to dough stages.
It is the least trouble of any crop to
cut, cure, and save and has more
food value than other hay, and stock
relish and eat it clean. 1t will not
collie or scour stock or cattle. We
use it quite extensively about La
Grange since it's value has been dis
covered. Another advantage is that it
enables US to grow two crops each year
on the same land. The land where
grown can be fitted by June 1 for the
succeeding crop. When grown for
market it has proven very profitable,
as it comes at a time when hay is
scarce, a month head of oats. Many
men will say that oats are preferable,
but when they try the two crops side
by side they will decide in favor OF
wheat, because it is sure crop, bene-
fits the land, comes month earlier,
and is no trouble to cure. If oats get
wet they will mold; wheat will not.
Stock eat the wheat up clean not so
with oats. Try it for yourself "see-
ing is believing"
l follow my wheat with peas and
corn broadcast, ono peck each per acre.
Crab grass comes along with the corn
and peas, which adds to the value OF
the hay. We produce here from one
to TWO tons of wheat hay per acre, and
about the same of corn and peavine
hay, and when baled it sells readily at
SIS to 500 per ton. There is never a
day but 1 sell to some one hay of my
own raising from my livery barn in
La Grange-quite often to farmers
Land that will thrash ten bushels OF
wheat will make one to one and half
tons of wheat hay per acre. Our
farmers near town are fast turning
their attention to hay and grain, so
that there has not been car of hay
shipped to LAGRANGE in over two
years. Prior to that time vast guam
titles of northern hay were shipped
here annually. We have an excellent
hay and grass producing section, as
almost any grass does we'll. We have
great advantage over the sections north
of US, as they have to save about all
thier forage crops in July. Last year |
started my moving machine May 5,
cutting wheat and the different grasses
grown here, viz. wheat, oats, Bermu'
da, crowfoot, German millet, the vetch,
es, crab grass, orchard grass, peas and
corn, and sorghum-every week until
frost, and found a home market for all.
Our lands are advancing in value and
our stock shows an improved condi-
ton over former years. If all south,
ern farmers will make and save suf.
ficiency of home supplies and just a
little to sell, and not devote their time
and energies all to one crop, our sunny
south will come TO the front, our young
men will not leave the farms, and our
agricultural problem will be solved.