Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-04-28

The political lines were drawn tight
ly in some of, the club congratulations
last Saturday; but generally there
was a disposition to divide. An exam
ination of the list of the delegates
elected to the county convention sug-
gests the conclusion that that body
will be considerably mixed.
Mr.. M. S. Carroll, Of the Beersheoa
neighborhood is poultry fancier, and
is usually quite successful with his
chickens. The Barred Plymouth Rock
Is his favorite strain; and he raises
Plymouth Rocks in large numbers. He
claims that they are amongst the best
layers to be had, and to prove his
claim has related the record Of one
hen that commenced laying on Octo-
ber 20, and kept it up until March %,
laying an average of an egg every two
days until she had S5 eggs to her
credit. Then she went to setting.
Mr.. J. c. Burge of Yorkville No 3. Is
an enthusiastic believer in crimson
clover as a soil builder, and his ex-
perience this year Is making him
more determined than ever to stick
to crimson clover. Altogether Mr..
Burge has some twenty acres wholly
in clover or in clover with vetch and
oats. He has already turned under
several acres Of his clover and during
the next week or two, will turn more
of his clover land and prepare for
planting cotton and corn. Mr.. Burge
has one field Of about four and half
acres in clover, vetch and oats that he
expects to cut for hay. He conserva-
lively estimates that the yield of this
field will be from two to three tons
to the acre. When this is cut he will
plant the field in corn. Another field
of about five acres Of crimson clover
has already been turned, thoroughly
disc and drag narrowed and this he
will plant in cotton, which will be his
only field of cotton on his farm. Just
back of his house there Is a four
acre patch of clover that is Of par
ticular interest. About one acre of
this ground was sowed with northern
grown government inoculated clover
seed, and the stand here Is only fair.
The balance Of the field, separated by
shallow terrace, was sowed with
seed grown on his own farm last
year. The stand here Is at least three
| times as good as on the one acre above
referred to, and the growth Is easily
| fifty per cent better. This field Is to
be turned and planted in corn. Sever
al years ago on one acre Of this he got
yield of fifty-five bushels Of corn.
Another field of about four acres,
where he grew crimson clover last
year, followed by corn, this year ne
has sowed in oats and crimson clover.
The oats range from knee to waist
high, and the clover here Is showing
up we'll, most too well for the oats.
Mr.. Burge intends to let these oats
ripen, cut them high and then turn
the stubble and seed the land to peas.
He Is not making any claims as to the
quantity of oats he will likely get
| from this four acres, but good judges
are likely to place the estimate at not
less than rs bushels to the acre,
| Judging by conditions as they now ap-
pear. Mr.. Burge is firm in the be-
lief that every farmer ought to har-
vest his own crimson clover seed
and says that it Is easy to save the
seed. His method Is like this: His
moving machine blade is set as high
as possible, so as to just skim the
| top of the clover. A cotton sheet is
tied under the blade and as one man
drives the machine. another walks
behind and rakes the seed heads off
the blade on to the sheet, and then
when thoroughly dry the seed heads
are beaten out and the husks taken
away. leaving comparatively clean
seed for sowing