Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-02-17

hope you didn't git hurt and If you
beside to leave this coledge hope yor
will come to us as our athletick kir-
ruckulum is very high but / diden'
sign nothing.
l past on basket ball made 81 9-16.
/ am a bit short please send me
twenty dollars.
i your son
William.
PS See If you can git me job or
a steamboat this summer want 1ot
as steve door and go in training rol
the foot ball class next fall. Don't for
git the twenty.
Oh yes they are going to have ex-
animation next week for a baggage di-
rector for the glee club and / wanter
stand for it you no they say musicR
helps to get feller in good society and
want all that's comm to me in this
college. remember the twenty VIM.
Pleased With Peanuts.
1t pays to plant peanuts even though
you never expect to market them, Is
the experience Of Mr.. C. NJ. Inman, who
lives on the western outskirts Of York
vile.
Mr.. Inman has the distinction OF be-
| ing, the most extensive planter of pea
nuts in York county. In 1917 he plant
ed q acres, and he Is satisfied that
they were profitable.
The conditions that brought about
the experiment are still within the
vivid recollection Of most farmers. The
United States had just gone into the
world war. Farmers could raise cotton
with as much certainty as ever; but 1t
was a question as to whether cotton
was the thing. 1t could not be export
ed then except at almost prohibitive
cost and there was a plenty in Ameri-
ca for home consumption. The outlook
was that foodstuffs might soon become
a serious consideration in this country.
Everybody was giving attention to the
question Of food supplies, and so 1t oc-
Cured to Mr.. Inman that 1t might be
worth while to plant peanuts. While
not an expert with peanuts, still he had
been Planting patches for years ana
knew something about them. So he put
in twenty seven acres.
Views and Interviews took occasion
to ask him something about his expert
ence few days ago. and the informa-
ton he gave was worth while.
"As a matter of fact" said Mr.. In
man, II had three crops on the same
land. First I planted corn in rows six
feet apart. Then after the corn was
we'll up planted velvet beans between
the stalks, and running furrow half
way between the rows put in peanuts
Ut was good land and all the crops did
we'll. OF course cultivated the corn as
usual and also cultivated the pea
nuts; but would not say that gave the
peanuts all the cultivation they should
have had. But all the crops did fine.
e'T gathered the corn as soon as it
was ready to gather; but left the fod-
der, velvet beans and peanuts, and
turned in the stock, consisting OF fif-
teen mules and horses, fifteen head Of
cattle and forty head Of hogs, most Of
them shoats The stock stayed in the
field most Of the time up to Christmas,
and everything got good fat.
"It was interesting to watch the hogs.
especially several old sows. They would
go down the peanut rows systematical-
ly, roofing out the peanuts as they
went and so far as could see not eat
ing. They would just root and root,
throwing the peanuts out Of the ground
just as they would have been thrown
out by the plows. l don't know what
these sows ate or why they did it that
way. But the other pigs did not fool
you about eating the peanuts thus root
ed up by the sows. They and the
mules and cattle cleaned up every
thing. Also the other pigs did lot Of
promiscuous roofing for themselves,
tearing up the land in every direction.
I decided that if l should ever do the
same thing again it would be well to
ring the noses of most of the hogs and
leave only a few to do the roofing. The
idea of this would be to keep them
from damaging the land too much in
wet weather. 1t occurred to me that
when necessary could take the root
ers out of the field. But let me tell you
those hogs did pulverize the soil. The
field looked as if it had been plowed
with gang plows.'
What fertilizer did you use on your
peanuts?"
"I fertilized the corn as usual, and Of
course the peanuts got some benefit
from that"
Didn't you put any lime on them?"
II was just going to tell you about
that. The year before had tried to
get q part of this field set to alfalfa,
and l had used quite a quantity of ag-
ricultural lime. For some reason the
alfalfa stand was not satisfactory; but
the peanuts were much better on that
part Of the field that had been lined.
Everybody who looked over the field
remarked that fact"
And how about peanuts this year?'
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