The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-06

from two to three pounds If drill or seed
or is used. If there is a desire TO culti-
vate it, drill in rows from IS to 80 inches
apart. IL Is sometimes sown on stubblA
ground. without blowing, and narrowed
in with small tooth harrow.
AS a supplemented crop, however, il in
more extensively sown in corn. This is
done at the last cultivation by sowing the
seed ahead of the corn pillow. The corn
, blades protect the plant during its early
growth, and within six or eight weeks
the lambs may be turned in for weaving.
Rape in corn field is regular paradise
Tor lambs. and small pigs not weaned. RI
val the rape itself in immensely of growth
1t was at first thought that rape was
essentially sheep food, but 1t had since
been learned that it is valuable for cattle
and swine, especially calves.
1t has practically revolutionized -.
sheep Industry in this country 1t tides
the sheep farmer over the last dry sea-
son. when the fields are covered only with
harsh weeds and dead grass, furnishing
an abundance of green and nouriship,
food
1t IS the feed par excellence for ewes
and lambs during the nursing period ana
Tor weaving lambs is Incompatible. carry
ing them from mother milk to self sus-
tanning lambhood without stunning or
shrinkage. Rape is not a feed of a week
or month, but one that carries the 1ocL-
in perfect style" from SUNNY June -
bleak December Allow fifteen sheen 70
an acre. 1t is, however. like clover. liable
TO cause bloat, and in pasturing care noust
be exercised until the stock become ar
customed to eating 1t. DI Duncan
me Kingdom of Alfalfa Is Cominp.
New and great thoughts seem now tn IA
agitating alike the farmer and the states.
man, says the Farm and Ranch. Eox
while the politician would expand and on
large his territory-would extend the
sphere of his action, and would place tbe
Flllpinos and all the nations of the earth
under the paternal care of his great roind
ana Dig heart The farmer, on the other
hand, is also reaching out; he would diver
shy the products of the earth: he. too /.
ciafnorlng for more, something better thar
ne now has; some beautiful spot he,ond
the borders that he may call the oasis os
ms pilgrimage some outgrowth of the soil
tnae may countervail the great command
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat
bread" some product of the veeetahs
world that he may crown king
Inc heecy staple, cotton, way down
south IN Dixie, long has been standing lin
toed on his snow-white throne. CRYING
himself hoarse, vainly proclaiming him.
sell King. At the same time the golde,
sheaVes or Kansas. clasping hands with
the great granaries of the North their
very walls bursting and falling beraath
their own weight, with deafeninp roar
are claiming the kingdom of the Vegetable
universe. And yet, methnks the course
OF the empire is still westward in its
night. Out of the arid, parched regions OF
.ne west watered by no vernal showers
KING OF vegetation, under the prosaic mama
Lucerne, and under the Arabic and mora
poetic nom de plume alfalfa, and wear
ing crown of tinted green and
'oyal purple, eXhaling fragrant
perfumes and balmy cdors, alluring tho
prancinS steed the cattle upon a thous-
ana Mills, and herds of swine. CRYING
Come unto me all We that labor and ara
leaVy laden and l will give you rest"
he proclaims rest for the piowshare. tina
noe the self-bnder and the spinning and
the threshng machines. He is rescuinr
from slavery the little boy and girl who
IN the production of alfalfa. can nerforr
no other labor than eat and grow into
vigorous man and womanhood, upon the
uei,cious money Cnectar fit for the tabled
sods)' which the bees gather from its
purple flowers, or drink the brinming
pans OF milk from the cows feeding upon
us meadows. And he bids these little
Dogs and girls exposed to the chilling
olasts or winter, or swelterinR beneath
the burning suns of September. come ont
OF these cotton fields TO find rest in the
s s OF the school room, and battle
thelr sun-scorched brow and ouench their
snlrst at the fountain of learning.
Ihls majestic Western crowned king ~
pldHes mas issued his proclamation of
freedom of all implements, except the
Aeeh slckfe blade. ever clipping the green
sward from April 20 November for as
soon as the mower has clipped to ons
emu OF the held, the other will be ready.
A1alfa is one of natures choicest Gifts
~ man. IL is peculiarly adapted to a re-
puolcan government, for it smiles alike
on the rich and the poor. 1t never dies
from Old age In the place of the long
morn steer 1t places upon the market the
symmetrical shorthorn at two wears I'm
on 1t the Poland-China NAV be marketed
at SIX months, and upon alfalfa pastures
ne dlsdains all other food, and he will
eltner answer the summons for grain with
a" duudcious srunt, or go bounding over
me purple flowers of the alfalfa with his
tan curled in ring.ets and beautiful fes-
toons over his back
When some Sheban Queen shall coma
from me granaries of the North. or The
COTTON nelds of the South to nrove this
Mug OF pants, she will exclaim, II have
heard or thy wonders and greatness Of
thy roots silently subsoiing and enrich
ing 'he soil, and boring and perforating
~ EARN lor water 10 depth of thirty
WIN an unbroken perennial growth
Vi hundred years, but behold. the half
mas never yet been tod of tbv nrosperitv
SO fuil and so free"
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