Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1902-05-14

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Bromus grass: Waist high and
"first class" A native Western
grass, fine for horses and mules. Has
cut five to six tons an acre. Is fed
dry.
Bromus grass, a fine foreign
variety: Yield, six to seven tons to
acre; fit to cut first week in April
for hay, and can be cut two or three
times a year. A great hay forage for
all stock.
Bromus grass, Russian: Very fine.
Soft meadow grass. Thick stand.
For grazing only.
Elizabeth Bunch grass -Four feet
high; one of the finest grasses on
the grounds. "When the land is
strong one of the best meadow
grasses. Yields five to six tons to
acre. Can be grazed the year
through, after the first cutting.
Renews itself from the roots"
Eight plants of Blue Gle vn) grass
are shown. A good grass for low
lands. Gall will stand the sun-if
good seed are planted, and they are
planted deep enough"
Horse Bean Planted March 26.
Terminated in ten days. Now ten
inches high and in full bloom. "The
greatest crop we have for horse feed.
Yields thirty to forty bushels to the
acre. The beans are crushed or
cracked and fed with oats, and are
better than carrots or any other
food"
Rape, from Essexshire, England {:
GA great feed for cattle. Takes the
place of carrots, and makes twice as
much food as carrots" Sown in the
seed. The growth on the plat is six
feet high somewhat resembles cool
lards" gone to seed, and the leaves
are good for table use.
Golden Barley: The largest growth
of the plant Mr.. Bean he's ever seen
in the South. Heads we'll filed.
Beardless Barley: Planted No
vember 20. every fine," and now
ready to cut. Makes bread and
whiskey.
Rye, woods Richmond): Stands
five and one-half feet high, with
heads six to eight inches long.
"Good for man and beast"
Bunch Beans: For stock. I'm
ported from Turkey. A rank, up
right growth, nearly five feet high,
and so thick that man cannot walk
through it, or see a foot into it.
Yields forty to forty-five bushels of
shelled beans to the acre. Not quite
mature.
Horse Beans, from France: "Great
food for horses. Planted in Febru-
airy. Now mature"
Blue-stem Bean, from Egypt ::
Good for horses. Now mature.
Broad Bean, from China: Horse
food. Now mature. Will yield 35
bushels shelled beans to acre. This
plat deserves special notice, as it was
planted November 20, and passed
unharmed through all the cold of the
winter.
Crimson clover, with Hairy and
English Vetch: A fine crop. Will
cut about ten tons to acre; can be
cut at once. Must be replanted.
The wheat exhibit is very strik
ing one, and calls for especial atten-
tion. Every farmer in the low-coun-
try should see it, as it proves that
the low-country is one of the best
wheat-growing regions in the country.
There are twenty-five different va
rieties in the exhibit, and nearly
every one is doing all that farmer
could wish for the crop. Of six of
them, Mr.. Bean estimates the yields,
as the crop stands in the several
plats, at forty bushels to the acre.
"Though we have had mighty poor
season, and have used no fertilizers"
he said, cit is nearly as good wheat
as ever saw in England" 1t was
planted in drills eight inches apart,
and planted deep. "The great trou-
ble with farmers here," he added, ssis
that they do not cover the wheat
deep enough"
Of one variety, the "Valley"
wheat, Mr. Bean remarked that 1t is
livery strong stemmed, and there.
fore will resist wind, which is an i'm
portant quality for this region" OF
another, the "Bearded" wheat, he
remarked that it was "the best wheat,
in appearance, on the grounds
compliment which it well deserves,
as it stands six feet Highland ita
yield is also greater than that of the
beardless yarieties;" 1t also has the