The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-10-02
Crop Rotations For
Lower Piedmont

Clemson College, Sept. 30.-To aid
in the work Of the soil building
campaign through the use of cover
crops and systematic rotations, The
Extension Service is publishing Ex-
tension Circular 80, "Crop Rotations
for Piedmont Countless" and Exten-
sion Circular 40, Crop Rotations
Tor Eastern and Southern Countless"
The rotations given in these circulars
are based upon those published in
Extension Bulletin IS, Farming un-
der Boil Weevil Conditions," and are
prepared for the five groups of coun-
ties; namely, upper Piedmont, lower
Piedmont, Sand Hill, Pee Dee, and
southern counties.
Now is the time 20 plan good scii-
building rotations and begin right
by putting in winter cover crops as
called for in the rotations suggested.
Lower Piedmont Counties.
The following rotations and sug-
gestions are made for the lower
Piedmont counties. including Ander-
son, Abbeville, Mccormick, Green
wood, Laurens, Newberry, Fairfield,
Chester Union, Northern Lancaster.
Upper Lexington, Saluda and Edge
field.
No. 1-Three-Year Rotation.
First Year.-Cotton and oas in cot
ton middles.
Cacond vaar Oats' an5 mo, pIo,r
under, or cut for hay.
Third Year.-Cotton and velvet
beans or, cowpeas.
Explanation. - Rye, barley, or
wheat. may be, substituted for oats.
Vetch or, crimson, clover may be
grown with small grains for pasture
or soil improvements.
Sorghum, sweet potatoes. or pea
nuts may be grown following the
oats.
Peanuts or soy beans may be sub
stituted for part, Of the cotton in The
rotation as money, crops.
No. 1.-Two Year Rotation.
First Year.-Corn and velvet beans
or cowpeas.
Second. Year.-Cotton- or peanuts
and cover crops,-burr clover, GRIM
son clover, rye and vetch,, oats and
vetch.
Explanation, = For peanuts one
may substitute such crops as soy
beans, sweet potatoes or sorghum.
A part of: the corn and beans may
be pastured down early and seeded
to small grain.
No. 3-Five Year Rotation.
First Year Cotton and small
grain.
Second Year-Small grain.
Third and Fourth Years-Pasture
or hay.
Fifth Year-Corn and velvet beans.
This is good general farming ro-
tation for a mixed livestock and cash
crop farm.
General Explanation.-Alfalfa is a
good crop for most of. the Piedmont
section; but it. is not suggested. that
it be used in definite rotation with
other crops.
On many farms in the Piedmont
lection, the lowland should be used
s for = rotation without cotton and the
upland in a two-year rotation with
cotton, in order to have enough cot
ton. Under this condition, the two
following rotations are good:
Upland.First Year.-Cotton follow
ed by rye or wheat.
Second Year-Rve or xuheat fol-
lowed by a catch crop of peas or SOY
beans to be turned deep in fail for
cotton next spring.
Lowland.-First Year.-Corn or vel
vet beans or soy beans followed by
oats orvetch.
Second Year.-Oats for grain or
oats and vetch for hay followed by
lespedeza which is seeded In Febru-
ary or March in the oats. Lespedeza
makes summer pasture and reseeds
in the fall. II let go to seed every
other summer following the small
grain, it will not need reseedipg.
With the present high prices of
vstch and clover seeds, we can use
the Oregon spring vetch instead. of
hairy vetch in South Carolina,
Planting vetch in a part Of the rye
or oats: following cottA is suggesei
also to see If it can be told where
they were planted In the comparative
effect on the com, potatoes, or what
ever crop follows. the next spring.
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