Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1914-09-09
SONIE WAR CROPS.
Sound Advice that Should BE Needed
Just at this Time Of the Year.
( Southern Ruralist.)

Good farming and business meth
DDS, which we have long urged upon
Southern farmers, are now demand
ed by the exigencies Of war. One
| third OF the present cotton crop can
not be sold this year in the absence
OF most of our usual European mar
ket. This part OF the crop must be
carried over and the acreage for next
year must be correspondingly re-
| duced.
The all-important question is:
| What shall replace cotton ? The sin
gle expression food crops" Is the
answer, but the wide range of variety
and adaptation demands careful con-
sideration. Any food crop which fur
nishes home supplies and at the same
| time fills a cash market demand is
doubly valuable. 1t is more partic-
ularly to this class Of crops that we
shall dierct attention.
Cane-Sugar was the first COM
modify the price of which increased
| with the opening Of hostilities in
| Europe. The reason is simple. Some
| thing like half of our sugar comes
from beet sugar produced in France
and Germany. The source of supply
| is closed to us and the greatest sugar
consuming nation of the world must
pay higher prices or be satisfied with
| less sweetening
We Of the South are fortunate in
| being able to fall back upon our own
cane patches for long sweetening"
and homemade brown sugar from
| this years crop. Should the war last
the year out more cane should be
planted next spring. In this latter
event the present emergency may re-
vive our struggling domestic sugar
industry. 1t will certainly prove Of
vast value to the beet sugar industry
Of our Western States
Barley-Here again war has cut
off our important supply o. great
agricultural product. Barley is an
Indispensable material in the brew
ing industry. Whether the product
be beer, "near-beer" or malt MURINE.
more or less barley is indispensable
to its manufacture. The finest bar
| ley comes from Hungary. Enormous
quantities are imported and the sup
ply is now almost wholly cut Off
Barley is easily grown as winter
grain all over the South. 1t is as
| hardy as rye, not susceptible to rust
and makes better feed than either Of
our other winter grains. The yield
| Is good and the grain should be in
great demand next summer at profit
able prices.
Should this demand not develop
| the grower has more and better feed
either grain or forage-than he is
1 accustomed to.
Oats-In the southern part of the
Gulf States we do not believe oats to
| be generally advisable because of
the recent prevalence OF smut and
rust. Farther north, however, we
believe that threshed oats would be
far more profitable than the usual
oat forage.
Wheat-Flour and bread are feel
ing the impulse OF increased Euro
pean demand. The logic Of events is
to produce not only the flour needed
at home, but to supply the great de-
mand Of Southern mills now filled
from the Middle West
Peas and Bcans-We have partic-
ularly in mind COW peas, soy beans.
| velvet beans, and other members of
the family used chiefly as feed or
forage. The fact we wish to particu-
larly emphasize is that for several
years the supply Of seed has been
short and prices cOrrespondingly
| high. Two and a half to three and a
half dollars per bushel have been rul-
| ing prices. We know a farmer who
this present season has sold the peas
from single acre for $12O. Our
suggestion is to plant more particu-
larly with view toward saving seea
rather than as forage or for renovat-
ing purposes.
Hay-More real hay is in demand
at profitable prices. Italian rye
grass, English rye grass, crimson
| clover, bur clover, herds grass, vetch
and alfalfa are the crops with widest
range Of adaptation and Offering
greatest emergency advantages
P0tatoes-The particular sugges-
| tipp we wpnlb offor to