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Swme Experiences With Hairy Vetch. "Some experiences with hairy ?etch" was the subject of a paper read by P. N. Lott, d?monstration agent for Edgefield county, at the recent meeting of the agents at Clemson college. His paper follows: There are many things in life that astonish the thinking man. The greatest of all "in the industrial world, is that agriculture, the moth er of all the sciences, should be treated in 6uch a slipshod way, be ginning as it did, and continuing through the ages. The great Cre ator commanded Adam to till the soil. Cain was a farmer, and w<s suspect a sorry one; for, what he brought to the Lord must have been very inferior stuff, else the Lord, in love and justice to man would not nave rebuked him. This one state ment in holy writ leads to conclude that butchery and starvation of the soil are a sin, for again we read in Lev., 25th chapter, that God, from Sinai, commanded Moses to estab lish a law that land should have a rest every seven years and that nothing must be taken from it dur ing that year. One of the first of the many things to be considered is soil build ing. Our record eau not be main tained, and advancement attained unless we have a foundation. All, therefore, depends upon the proper ?are of the soil. Time has struck for abandonment of soil robbery. I believe God knew what he was do ing when he made the many hun dred leguminous plants, and that they were for a special purpose, namely, to increase the fertility of tlie earth. The thinking man alwayB does things that are the most practicable and remunerative, hence our plant ing the legumes are of the greatest ?tility. Peas and beans' for sum mer, and vetches and dovers for winter. We all know the value of eow peas and the bean family. But as my subject is winter cover crops and hairy vetch, I shall proceed to .give my experience along that line. I consider hairy vetch the greatest annual leguminous plant that we ?an BOW, either by itself or with grain. I have tested vetch stubble with stable manure both on cotton and corn. The cotton yield in seed cotton was about 300 pounds per acre more, aud corn about 6even bushels more. TY>H was a one year tes^r My opinion, vfefax - ix ?wx tio-;-in.; ?-. f^?satjCL.' y^oiajWJSafe ju stating !pounds of^ vetch, feed sown to fhe acre on welfl?ocu?ated soil -^-?S^iT?TTi 'more than ten two-horse loads of well trodden suhle manure. I am not prepared to state the re ?ults of turning while green, 25 pounds of vetch ?eed and a bushel -*>f rye or wheat per acre, but I am confident thac it ?6 greater than ?tubble, because of the fact that we get a great quantity of green hu jung which is a very important fac tor in soil fertility. I prefer vetch and wheat cut for forage. Two to ?bree and one-half tons of dry hay to the acre can be made and gotten ?ut of the land in time for either ?orn or cotton. If sown the middle .f September it can be cut April 20 ?*9T May 1. For years my best crops of cotton and corn have been made on vetch stubble-plots that pro duce $00 worth of hay per acre and from 1,800 to 2,400 pounds seed ?otton and 50 to 60 bushels of corn. It is often inconvenient to sow vetch in all your growing cotton and wherever it cannot be done I would suggest sowing a bushel of rye for green humus. This growing win ter crop does not only hold the soil, but catches the escaping nitrogen *eu8 gases, and when plowed under returns about $10 per acre lo the fertility of the soil. Wherever the winter cover crops are left off the land deteriorates not less than $3 and possibly $5 per acre. As to how 1 arrived at the above conclu- j ?ion, the winter covered plot with the same amount of fertilizers pro duced between $10 and $12 more. Where it was not put on I had to ?se $3 to $5 more guano to get the ?ame crop that I did the year before. How, in conclusion, I would state that if the farmer lived closer to ?atare, knew more of nature, adopt ed nature's plan for building and maintaining soil fertility and de-j pended less on commercial fertiliz iTrs, we would not only have more J money but be happier. If every farmer in South Carolina would <dre?8 his farm in a robe of green for winter comfort and food for | simmer crops, we would not only bave the most progressive, but the most beautiful State in the Union. -The State. Full line of household paints ia .all colors in cans from halp-pints io gallons. j Timmons & Morgan. Excursion Fare? Southern Rail way. Pr. m er C irrier of the South from Edgefield, S. C: Asheville, N. C. and return $6. 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