The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, December 06, 1905, Page 2, Image 2
Agricultural
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Worn-out Lands
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Experiment that Every
Farmer Should Make.
The Progressive Earmer:
VVe have few soils that are
simply worn-out. We simply
call them so. We have treated
them badly ; so badly they huve |
become unresponsive to our calls.
Some of these were good, others
were less so; but bad treatment,
cruel neglect, and thoughtlessness
of their comfort have contributed
to making them what
thev are today.
What shall we do with them?
We can do three things :
1. Turn them over to weeds
and gullies;
2. Make forests out of them ;
or
3. Biing them ba_'k to productive
areas.
1 am sure we have no desire to
turu them over to weeds and gullies.
We have already enough
of each. Weeds come as nature's
blessings to those abandoned
fields, but the gully comes, leaving
ouly ruin and desolation to
morb its franb
Perhaps there are many areas
where hills and rock abound, that
might be used to better advantage
if turned over to forest
erowth. Timber lands are becoming
valuable, and with the
coming years will be still more
so. Hence, lands difficult of tillage
and cultivation might be employed
better in bringing on new
crops of timber for the future
generations that will need them.
Still the greater part of these
so called worn-out lands can be
reclaimed aud brought back to
the tructuous state they were in
before the soil robber came.
This is the first Btep: Clean
them up and give them the ad
vantage of good appearance. If
cioiueH niaae me man, good iookk
make the field. If fields could
tlnnk, I surmise they would act
like animals and men. To show
their value they should wish to
look well. But to be covered
with brush and thickets and gul-i
lies, and the like, is enough to
make them shameful and little
doers.
Give these lands a fair show
and they will brighten up and
respond gloriously. For every
cent you spend on them in the
way of better appearance aud
clean faqes, they will return
many. Every gullied wrinkle
you remove will briug hope and
earning power to them and to
you ; the care and attention expended
in grooming with axe and
plow will produce marvelous
changes in appearance, productive
ability, and commercial
value.
You may have many acres of
this kind of land. If so, reclaim
them as you can. Five acres,
ten acres, or fifty aores: work
along this line jnst as you are
able. Winter is the time, and
there is none better. You are
not busy with details of other
work; your men, your tenants
have many, many idle days ; your
teams are inactive because winter
is on and no work to be doue.
Make work; employ men and
loams in these old fields. Oat
the thickets, mow the briers and
brush, plow the soil deeper than
you have ever done before. Let
the one-horse plow alaae. It is
Department.
useless in these old fields. A
larger, heavier one is needed, and
two horses or mules will be rerimfnr
iho mn.lr TF ara
able to do this daring early winter
the clay sub soil turned up
| will do no harm. Freezing and
thawing, air and rain, will get
things ready for the crop, and no
harm will be done.
Have you ever done this work ?
Have you ever tried it on your
old fields? It may (surprise you.
It did me.
Small Grain.
Some of the Advantages of
Sowing Small Grain and
Peas?The Onion Crop.
Chaa Petty, of Spartanburg, in the
Progressive Farmer.
Last Monday the Cotton Assneiatiou
of thb county met. The
subject for consideration was
"Small grain." Prof. C. L. New
man, {Assistant Instructor in
Agriculture, was present on invitation,
and gave an Instructive
talk. He stated that analysis
showed that the first foot of com
pact clay in the Piedmont section
contained nearly four tons ot
potash and two tons phosphoric
acid that was locked ud in the
compact clay and could be rendered
vailable only by sowing
email grain and leguminoue cropland
a systematic system of rotation
ai.h deep plowiug.
The soil should be deepened grad
ually by breaking about tw<
inches every year and incorpo
rating that with the top soil. But
deep plowing, the breaking ot
the hard pan and underlying
clay, was worth little unless hu
muB or vegetable matter was ad
ded by sowing small grain and
following with peas. Small grain
will force rotation, the sowing ol
cowpeus, the preservation ot land
from leachinc and wnnhimr th?
addition of humus, fall plowing
and enable the farmer to secure
two crops in a year and improve
the soil at the same time. All
this will lead up to the raising ol
stock and everything else needed
on the farm that the land will
supply. The raising of live stock
lies at the foundation of perma
tient and progressive agriculture.
Another advantage is that small
grain and peas are the best grass
and weed killers known, All
the grasses or weeds known as
pets can be killed out in two
years by keeping the ground
shaded with small grain and
peas. One year is generally
enough. It requires fewer hands
I to cultivate a farm when one
third of it is sown down. Labor
saving machinery can be used in
planting and harvesting small
grain and peas. The productive
capacity of soil can be greatly
increased. The farmer who now
makes eight bales of cotton on
sixteen acres will soon make
eight bales on eight acres, when
he improves hie land. The cost
of production will be diminished.
These were some of the advantages.
TDK ONION CROP.
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odiudb in this Piedmont country
the crop is increasining in importance.
There hare been some
wonderful yields reported, especially
in Texas, in which State
an acre has been made to produce
$1,000 worth. This is a good climate
for onions. With a little
pains they can be kept well dur
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The famous 70-in. ro]]n
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For a leader, we can fit you u
The old time Split-bottom Chair
our price 70 cents. The regula
in stock. We have the largest,
and are going to surprise you w
go away pleased. Remember tl
and get particulars.
The Underselling
Store.
ing the warm Rummer, The usual
way to raise them is from small
sets. The red and yellow varieties
are generally considered
best. The sets may be put out
October 1st to December 1st, or
in open weather in February.
The way to raise sets with least
trouble is to select a thin piece
of land that will not produce
grass and weeds, i'oor land
makes the best sets. Plant the
seed in rows about a toot apart,
putting a little fertilizer or finely
pulverized manure in the hill.
Cultivate them n?v?r?l iim#a
They will be ready to gather as
soon as the tops die. Solid sets,
a half inch in diameter, are best
8<ze. The intensive system of
cultare should be used for onions.
That is, they should be planted
thick and high! manured. If
the rows are a to t a Dart and the
sets twelve inches apart, 5,435
may be raised on <>ne eight of an
acre, or a plat 60x91 feet. The
potato onion is the heaviest yielder,
aad will make about three
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best plan to net ?et? is to plant
the seed thick under cover, and
then tranaplant them. The onion
demands nearly equal quantities
of nitrogen and phosphoric acid,
and twice as much potash an
nitrogen. Wood ashes worked,
into soil will furnish the potaRh
and lime necessary for onions. It
commercial fertilizers are used
the phosphoric acid and nitrogen
should be about equal and twice
the quantity of potash. For oneeighth
of an acre about 200 to|
250 pounds of a fertilizer that
would show 5 pet cent each of
phosphoric acid and ammonia
and eight per per cent of potash
would be about right.
Attacked.
Haya Mr*. Nanov Htnddard of Foautain
Inn, 8. (J. I was attacked by thai terrible
monster yon call Hheninatiam OUH NKW
DiSOOVKUY waa roooinu ended to me by
onr draggiat, and after Uking two bottlee,
that great monitor of tronble and suffering
waa forced to take it* flight. 1 gladly recommend
it to any anfftjiiug with Rheumatism.
flbld by Crawford Broe.
fRNITURE
furniture..
We have some of the best
bargains ever offered
in odd
BUREAUS
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A solid oak Dresser for
55.00, 6.oo, 7.50 and up to
518.50. Big stock of Side
Boards ?prices in reach of
all, $io and up, no dining
room complete without a
sideboard. <'
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Here is the greatest
bargain ever offered in
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Something everybody
should have and they
are now going like hot M
'tiggJK. cakes. Old ])rice $5.75, J
flWKjegk, now going at $5.00.
All colors. We also '
l^^Jhave the Valour and
HHfip Leather Couch, $10.00
wHgSy and up. Mahogany
parlor suits and in odd
rashstand and bedstead for $9.90.
ittom Diner, regular price $1.00,
?ood line of Willow Rockers now
f Furniture in Lancaster county
giving. We guarantee you to
ture we are giving away. Come
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of Lancaster, S. C.,
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tlrnis and corporations, and offers to
depositors every facility and courtesy
consistent with sound banking.
Interest allowed on time deposit.
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solicited.
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