Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1899-08-24

S''NA ~ 1As TASSoESA NffS AOpO. gJ5sgspE
with all the modern improvements
! at our command, from the combined
wheat acreage of two or three coun-
ties. "A:
i sELF-sUsTAINING METHODS.
The young farmers of your State
must look back into the early history
Of their fathers and shape their fov
ture course in agriculture by the
eelf-sustaining methods in use on
every farm al that lime, utilizing all
the latest and most approved farm
ing implements that will-reduce the
cost Of labor, increase the pleasure
of tho business ard hasten that day
of prosperity so iluoh to be desired.
The older farmers should resurrect
the principles of farming in vogue
during their earlier days and make
of thoir farms commendable object
lessons of what they know to be
possible of the great resources of
their State. .... " ...t .
! PLANTING TIE WHEAT CROP.
Plant your wheat not later than
the last week in October, preparing
your lands by deep ploughing, har-
rowing and rolling. No matter
how extensive or how restricted
your acreage in wheat may be the
coming fall do not neglect to treat
the seed rs safeguard againss smut.
| have read hundreds of letters this
spring from farmers stating that they
could not raise wheat because of the
ravages of smut. The Romans were
afflicted with the same trouble over
two thousand years ago. Scientific
Investigations within recent years
have discovered the life history of
the smut germ, and by continued
experiments have found remedies
which, if properly applied, will i,
every instance free the grain of fu-
ture disaster from that source.
Smut is nothing more than a parasi-
tic plant adhering to the grain, ger
minating with the grain and grow
ing along with the stalk. It's pres
ence is only discovered by micro
scopic examination. AS the infect
ed head of wheat develops the nu.
triment intended for the grain is alb
sorbea by the smut germ and mass
of loose brown spores is formed.
These spores, blown about the field
by winds, adhere to thousands of
good grains and the foundation
is laid for increasing disaster the
following year. Smut does not,
therefore, develop after the crop ia
planted and growing it must be in
life and attached to the seed wheat
before it is put in the ground. Or
dinarily solution of bluestone, at
the rate of one pound to enough
water for immersing five bushels of
wheat and allowing to stand for
twelve or fourteen hours, will eradi-
cate the trouble. Do not allow smut
to enter into your argument against
wheat raising. A more universal
growing of wheat will develop flour
mills convenient to every section of
the country. Produce the raw ma
terial and machinery will be at once
erected for the preparation of grain
into needed uses.
INCREASING INTEREST IN AGRIclI-
The wide spread interest which
the people of our cities are taking
in the betterment of our agricultural
conditions is indeed gratifying. There
has never beon time in the history
of our country when so universal
an interest in agriculture was mani
tested by the people in all avocations
OF life as present. The world is
awakening to the necessity of the
farmer and the Importance of aiding
him to 80 shape his course in future
that his business may be one of de-
serving prosperity and high useful
ness. Upon the success Of the farmer
most unquestiohably depend the con-
tinued prosperity of all avocations
existing in a truly agricultural coun-
try.
All of these highly desirable ends
and moro may be accomplished
through the adoption of such FARM
ing methods as will enable us to be-
come more prosperous as the years
roll by. Make your farms self-sus-
tanning. When you have provided
an acreage of diversified crop sufi-
cient to meet the demands of home
supply it would then be proper to
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