Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-05-22

| am planting 400 acres this year,
which will be used mostly in fatten-
ing steers which are turned-in on the
fields when the beans begin to ma
turc and are grazed off. In about
seventy days the steers are taken
off the fields and look like Western
stall fed cattle. The beans are also
very fine for milk COWS, hogs, horses.
and all kinds of stock, but are not
suitable for human food.
The land should be prepared in
the same manner as for corn in
planting. When danger of frost is
over and the ground warns up,
plant in rows four feet apart, eigh-
teen inches in tho drill, two seed in
the hill, half bushcl of seed to the
acre. They can be planted up to
the middle of June, however, but the
earlier the better. Cultivate once or
twice, according to growth, and lay
by. The vines grow at phenome-
nal rate, and in short time will
cover the ground with mass of
foliage waist deep. The old leaves
drop off and new ones keep coming
out, and l have seen the ground six
inches deep in fallen leaves, while
none could be missed on the vines.
This is what improves the soil SO
much.
The vines keep green until killed
by the frost, but the beans ripen
early. The vines rot very quickly
and can be turned under without
trouble. The beans grow in clusters,
ripening rapidly, and person can
pick twice as fast as they can cow
peas. The beans grow in thick
hull and will hang on the vines three
months after ripening before rotting,
and stock will eat on them all winter.
This alone makes them preferable to
cowpcas. am perfectly satisfied
with the bean and can find no draw
back to it. believe it to be the
most valuable plant introduced in
the United States in recent years,
and it will be very generally tested
over large part Of the South this
year.
1t has proved so very profitable
with me during my four years
experience with it in bringing up a
worn out farm consider it duty
to let my fellow farmers know of it's
many merits, and | have sent out a
large number of small trial packages
at my own expense so it could be
tested and a package Of seed secured
a dozen or more seed are not enough
ior talr test or to secure a start of
the plant, however, and to help the
work along will send a large bag
OF seed for general trial to leading
farmers who will forward 25 cents in
stamps to pay postage. The seed
ccsts Sl.50 to 81 per bushe here,
and | cannot afford to frrnish the
seed and pay the postage, too. TO
those who have written asking about
planting on large scale | will say
they need have no hcsitancy in
planting anywhere the cowpca will
grow. TO those who are failing ON
clover, the bean will be Godsend
and really more valuable than tn,
clover, especially on sandy O,
gravclly land that is badly exhausted.
| am willing to answer inquiries as
far as my time will permit, but Il
stamp should be incloscd.
In conclusion will say that I am
not in the seed business and have
none to sell, and there is no "ax tc
grind" in writing this article, but il
is written in the hope of benciiting
some OF my fellow farmers who arc
struggling with poor run. down farms
Kline O. Warn.
Fairvicw Farm, Fort Meade, Fla
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