Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1911-01-18

the farmer can do no better, and he !
will find it. profitable to have few
small lots under separate fences. The
whole, or at least half, OF the culti- |
waited land can be put under q ring
fence; then the hogs can be allowed
to roam in that field at large from
October to March. A barley lot on
rich land sow1 In September or early |
October will furnish grazing, nutri-
tious and healthful, from December
on. Rye from Southern grown seed
is also valuable crop for this pur-
pose. Two hours in such a lot daily
will answer. The most expensive and
trying time Of the year in carrying
the stock hogs is from February to
June. 1t is the only time l find 1t
necessary to feed some corn. In Feb
ruary the beets should be planted,
using the three varieties--the COM
mon table beet, which comes on In a
very little while; sugar beets, which
will supply food later, and the man
gel wurzel, or stock beet. On deeply
Of these varieties will furnish an i'm
mense amount of hog feed, and we
can begin to use the garden beets in
May, while the others will be on
hand to use whenever needed In
March the first sorghum should be
planted. l think it best to have it
| In rows and chop it out SO as to have
| a large, succulent stalk, but it. can be
sown broadcast and cut with a scythe
blade. Hogs whose stomachs have
been accustomed to corn while graz.
| ing on barley and rye will eat raven
ously of the sorghum and soon as the
sugar develops in July | find it the
one crop that Is most profitable as
hog producer. 1t can be sown as
late as the 10th of July and will ma
ture before frost, and can be fed to
the hog whole, stalk, top and all;
keeps up thrifty, healthy growth,
gets the system in the best possible
condition for fattening, and makes
1t possible to produce cheap pork. 1t
Is one of the main dependencies from
| July to November. In April speck-
led peas or some other early matur-
ing variety should be planted in rows
and cultivated. These will be ready
for the hogs by the middle or last of
July, and they should be turned on
them (supposing man has them in
an enclosure separate from the bal
OF ,rf l,0
of the peas begin to ripen Being
very rich in nitrogen, they produce
bone and muscle; in other words,
they give growth and size, and, sup
plemented with sorghum, there is as
/ much fattening food in with it as is
desirable. At the first plowing Of
corn, say the Goth Of April or 1st of
May, plant peanuts. The Spanish va
riety will mature the latter part of
August; and, if hogs can be turned
on them, they are very profitable.
They can be plowed up, as the whole
crop comes with the top, and hauled
| to the pasture the same as the sor-
ghum is. But for cheap meat fat
tened at the least expense, the large
running peanut which spreads on the
ground, is my chief reliance. These
can be grown in among the corn
without, in the slightest degree, in
terfering with the crop or its cult
vation. ! plant two rows of corn in
three and half feet rows, then a
row OF peanuts. This gives one-third
OF the land to pindars, and the num-
Der of corn stalks can be regulated
by the distance in the drill. l have
grown corn IN this manner which
produced thirty bushels to the acre
and 80 to SO bushels of groundpeas
and from four to ten bushels of COW
peas, If the seasons suited The land
was broken broadcast and the corn
planted In the usual way When |
began to work the corn, ran a bull
tongue furrow down the middle of
the wide row, dropped the peanuts
and threw four burrows on 1t with a
turn plow. The balance of the space
was worked oui with shovels, and
the narrow middle between the corn
rows was similarly treated AS soon
as the ground peas sprouted, the bed
was dragged off with heavy board,
and all after cultivation was with a
sweep, cow peas being sown broad
cast when the corn was laid by.
Planting of the eroundpeas was thus
a part OF the cultivation Of the corn.
and the corn crop is in no way re-
duced by them. OF course, they