Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1910-10-12
MIR. HOLLAND TO FARMERS.
Good Advice About Sowing Grain,
Pastures ana Marketing.
o the Farmers of oconee:

w you llllnk OIL making an eHOrt?
| would advise that now is the pro-
per time; yes, right now. Hook up
! old Buck and Ball, Beck and Kit
all the plow animals you can get
and go to plowlng If you have only
one, use 1t, and if you can get four
1t Is only that much better. Go on
with your preparation OF the soil.
We must do it. We can't afford to
not do 1t; but be sure the land is
dry; use the best plow you have at
hand; the disc is best, but the Oil
yer or Chattanooga are good. The
dephth you plow Is the main thing;
1t does not matter SO much as to
what 1t Is done with.
Now Is the time to SOW. Sow rye,
oats and wheat. Prepare your land
and SOW at least one-third Of the en-
tire farm; also your patches for
forage-barley, oats and rye, vetch,
wheat, all are fine. Use all the
homemade manures that can be had.
Scrare up around the woodple and
| AiN' 'i''e'S' SlSuh OuI Illc lOG ana
stalls and put on your lands; get
| some guano; fix the land and it will
fix you. "Give and It shall be given"
DO not fix and seed piece of land
! and say, "well, If It makes anything
1t will deceive me, but If it does not
have the land in good condition"
1t cannot help making a crop If sea-
sons will only permit.
In preparing our soils we should
| be very careful not to do any work
when the land Is wet, or what we
| call heavy. We lock up the little
| microbes and they cannot increase,
we cement them up in beds and
clods and they cannot keep up the
chemical condition Of the soil.
We should fertilize all crops when
sown. If peas have been on the land
| this year YOU can leave off the So
called cotton seed meal-the hum
| bug Of the Southland in the spring
use nitrate of soda. But on ordi-
/ nary clean, cultivated lands, say
corn land, without peas sown at lay
lng-by time, on that land you must
use one-third meal for wheat, using
from 400 to 500 pounds per acre.
Use acid and potash where peas are
sown at the rate Of 800 to 400
pounds per acre. For oats we can
use 100 pounds Of id--say 1G
per cent-for it pays to buy high
grade; cotton seed meal, 600 pounds
per acre; kainit 300 pounds. If YOU
want TO mix for one or two acres you
can discount or decrease all parts
in proportion and use 400 to 700
pounds per acre. If your lands are
good the 700 pounds would be adj
visable, but If thin 400 pounds would
possibly be best in my opinion. Sow
in open burrows; all together Sow
your oats In your cotton fields be-
tween your cotton rows; in corn
lands turn and harrow, then use
your open furrow system 1t will
be profitable to use judgment and
take time and leave our work in as
creditable condition as we reasona-
bly can. 1t pays to think as we go.
Some Of us seem to be following the
wind as 1T whistles by, and others
seem to have been attracted by a
serpent, while still others have been
| convinced that the crawfish Is lead
ing them in the only road they can
| travel
What are YOU doing with your
cotton seed? Selling? Yes, selling.
Oh, yes; they are $3.50 per hun
, arcd. Look out for Yourself. If
you let them go, do this or nothing:
| Exchange for meal. pound for
pound. They can well afford it and
get value received even at that. 1t
Is not so much what we make; it is
what we do not let get away from
us. The best thing to do IS to keen
your seed.
In regard to the demonstration
work: We are young in this work,
as You are .,"are, but hope to learn
as we get more in touch with the
plan and It's connection. One of my
demonstrators has gathered his corn
and 1t was very fine. He hopes to
give us his mode Of preparation, fer
tilization and cultivation, amount of
| corn, and so on.
1t would be time we'll spent to do
some work in your pastures. Clear
the timber out Of the way first; stop
the washes. Write r.. w. Wood G.
Sons, Richmond, Va, for a catalogue