Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-06-08
Farm Work For June.
1. June a Busy Month.

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June is a month filled with harvest
and filled with planting, but over
flowing with cultivation. Oats, wheat,
rye, crimson clover, yetch and other
crops planted last fall and winter
and others, planted early in this
spring are harvested or plowed down
late in May or June. The land oc-
scupied by the crops should as speed
lily as possible be prepared and plant
ed again. Cultivation reaches It's high
est notch in June. Cotton, tobacco,
corn, sorghum, sweet potatoes, are
all calling for the weeder, the har-
row, and the cultivator before the
small grain is shocked, the hay cock
ed, or the stubble disked or plowed.
Take up your work in the order of
its Importance.
2. Not Too Late to Plant Corn
The advantages of planting corn
early are generally appreciated but
the several advantages of June-plant-
ed corn are not appreciated as they
should be. In case of a partial fail
ure the main crop, later planting
will insure the needed supply. 1t is
often the case that some of the best
corn land was occupied by fall
sowed crop and that at least part
of such land may most profitably go
in corn.
The later planting serves to dis
4ribute the labor and give more prof
table employment to both man and
animal labor. July drouth may be
disastrous to the yield of the early
planting and rainy August may in
sure good yield from the part of the
crop planted in June.
DO not plant corn on freshly
plowed sod or stubble and do not
pillow sod or stubble without first disc
ing. Harrow behind the plow and
when rain has fallen and made firm
the seed bed, plant while there is
moisture to insure prompt germina-
ton. Planting in the water furrow is
often distinct advantage to corn
planted after May 1.
3. The Neglected Hay Crop.
Hay is more necessary nthe farm
than the farmers in the Progressive
Farmer territory realize. A deficient
hay supply on Southern farm means
that the farm is neither rotating
crops nor diyersifying, but is holding
To one-crop system. 1t also means
that the animals are not we'll fed,
That raising young animals is not
uroftable, and that one of the funda-
mentals of successful farming is neg
leeted. 1t is hard to account for so
little hay being grown on Southern
farms, since there are more opportu-
mites for hay production in the cot
ton states than elsewhere in our coun-
Try. Hay making stretches from April
TO frost and the variety Of hay crops
that are we'll adapted to Southern
soil and climate will permit the most
fastidious to select what he wishes
and at the same time meet his needs.
fortunately, four of our most de-
sirable summer hay crops may be
:sowed well into July and yet have
time to make very satisfactory crop
before frost. Fortunately again, two
of these are legumes and two are
grasses-cowpeas and soy beans, Su-
dan grass and corghum. Sowed alone,
Sudan grass and soy beans rival tim
othy in feed value, and cow peas and
soy bean hay are successful competi-
tors with alfalfa. The legumes fur
rnish high protein hay and the grass
es high carbohydrate hay. Grown
together in varying proportions in
termediate ratios of protein and car
bohydrates may be had.
a. The Spanish Peanut.
Few farmers have been utilizing
this crop as it deserves to be on the
average farm. Too many of them re-
strict their use to pigs and people. l
know from experience that they are
excellent for both of these and 1
know from experience stretched over
a number of years that the Spanish
peanut-nuts and vines together-is
"a very satisfactory feed for horses,
mules, mares and colts. Planted on
fcrtilized small grain stubble in 21s
foot rows with a plant every to 6
inches in the row, they make very