The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, October 06, 1906, Page 2, Image 2
Agricultural
Small Grain. '
'When and How to Sow
Oats and Wheat ; also,
Clover and Grasses?The |
Practical Experience of One
of Lancaster's Most Sue-!
cessful Farmers.
Mr. Editor: Realizing the
importance of a s 111 a 11 grain crop
to this country, 1 am going to
give you a few points on the
preparation, seeding, fertilizing
etc. I might say in the begin
liiug that some of my neighbors
and myself that sowed our grain
at the proper time with a two
horse grain drill and fertilized
with commercial fertilizer, made
a splendid crop of grain. Nearly
all of us had oats that made 50
bushels to the acre. 1 had wheat
that made 30 bushels, buf mv
main crop made about 15 hushels
to the acre. In the first place,
oats should he sown in the
month of Oct.. if possible.
The first of Nov. will do, but
- there is danger of winter freezing.
The land should he well plowed,
(t two horse plow is preferable)
then harrow smooth and sow
your grain with a drill if possible.
The buckeye gives the best
satisfaction, lie should apply for
worn upland at least 300 lbs.
guano per acre, either soluble
guano or acid and meal. 2 ol
acid to 1 of meal. Sow Irom 2l
to 4 bushels of oats and from 1
to 1A bushels of whea', owing to
strength of land. Never wait
until spring to sow if it can be
avoided, as they are too uncertain.
Wheat can be sown up to
15 of Nov. but is better sown
earlier. Now why should we sow
grain? 1st because our lands are
being exhausted from being run
in cotton so long. We should
follow grain with cow peas, which
I think add $5.00 to the acre in
value lor the next cotton crop.
Did you ever think of the amount
of money that is spent lor oats
alone? I hear it is an enormous
sum. Some one will say,
would sow grain but 1 can't get
it cut/' Do like the rest of us
did : (io to the L. M. C. Co., and
buy a binder to cut it with and
you will never allow this question
to bother you any longer. 1
will say right here that a binder
will save enough that a cradle
will waste to pay lor cutting.
You must prepare the land lor
it to do its work right. II our1
people would sow the grain that
they should do, it would put
cotton acreage to tiie rig'ni place
and we would get more money
for our cotton then than we do
now. We could also do with less
labor, which seems is a problem
now.
There are a lot ot people who
ask me when to sow clover,
grass, etc. Now is the time,with
this season in the ground is
best, but you can sow until
about 20 Oct. Grass and clover
must be sowed with enough
moisture in the ground to bring
it up or you will make a failure.
On pe? stubble is a good place
to sow. Unless land is naturally
rich, it must be well manured.
Department.
Stable manure is best, it you
have it; if not, use a complete
fertilizer. J'o those who wane a
place to graze, sow Wood's grass
mixture, but it should not be
grazed the first year.
J. E. Craig.
Oct. 4. 1006.
Growing Wheat on a Small
Farm.
Progressive Farmer.
Wheat is to follow the com
teud. If corn Jwas shocked on
the land, you may leave shock
rows when preparing field for
wheat. Sow them later in wheat
if you cau. If tops only were
shocked on grouud, g0t them off
as soon as you can so as to get
ready for wheat.
You must try to sow early, as
soon as danger of the fly has
passed. It is best to be ready to
sow as soon as a killing frost has
come, if this is not before the
second week in October, provided
you are in the Piedmont section
of North Carolina; that is,
from the mountains eastward for
about one hundred miles.
PRBI'ARK LAND WKLL.
Your wheat crop will depend
much on a proper preparation of
the ground. If corn was well
cultivated and did not get grassy
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Hirer laving ov ine corn, ?ou
may do better not to plow for
wheat. Just tear up surface
with cultivators and harrows
and sow with a wheat drill. It
you could hire someone to disc
harrow land for wheat, it might
pay you to do so. If you have
two good horses you can use the
disc harrow yourself. In disc
harrowing for wheat, the field
should tie cut up angling across
the corn rows and then cross
disced the other way. Then a
discj wheat drill will put wheat
in all right.
don't have soil too loose
But if ground is hard, or not
free from trash, you may need to
plow for wheat. If so, do not
plow deep, and after plowing
harrow and drag or roll the land
well before sowing. I advise
you to have a heavy land roller
if you can. At least use a heavy
drag to mash clods and to make
soil smooth and firm or well
packed. Wheat will not do well
if sown in loose soil.
If you use a grain drill, you
may bo successful any way if
you prepare land well and harrow
or cultivate the wheat into
ground.
what kim) of kkktli.i/kk wheat
dem asus.
If you manured for corn, and
if you had a good growth of peas,
fertilize wheat with a compound
of acid and potash, about 10 per
cent of acid and '2 ri*?r con I nf
potash, using two to four hundred
pounds? to the acre. If you
use much, put on the land before
you sow wheat. If land had no
manure,and isjnot a heavy growth
of peas, and is not very rich, then
use a fertilizer containing acid,
ammonia and potash. Two to
four hundred pounds of goods,
analyzing 8 per cent of acid, 2
per cent of ammonia and 2 per
cent of potash should be used to
the acre. A richer fertilizer,
though costing more, would pay
better in the end.
For seed wheat use grain free
of cockle and any kind of trash.
Look after your seed wheat, as
for every crop, from year to year.
Hreaded Fulcaster and Everett's
High (trade are good varieties of
wheat.
Recluse.
Sylvan Retreat. N. C.
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Dairying and Land Fertility.
It is a well noted fact that (
land constantly improves under
the influence and practice ofj
dairying. What is grown on the I
land is largely returned to it by
cow feeding. This is quite fully (
shown in some European countries.
It is said that in the dairy
countries there, the land grows I
better crops than it did 50 years
ago. Denmark is the best example
of this. Thirty years ago agriculture
there was at a low ebb,?
the people were coming to Amer- I
ica in swarms. Now, after their
dairy industry has been built up,
very few are leaving home, and
the Danish farmers appear to he
the most intelligent and the moet 1
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has been said above in regard ?o
the increase in fertility in soil is
also true of Germany, Switzerland,
the Channel Islands and '
the dairying parts of England.
The same is true in this country
where dairying has become
the leading industry, as shown in
Northern Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin.
How to Cure the Pea Hay.
The best stage for hay is as
some pods are turning brown.
There are several ways of sue- I
cessfully saving the hay. Consid
ering amount of labor and other
things for my own use, I would
as lief risk the following plan as
any 1 know of:
After mowing let lie undisturbed
several days or week, longer
if it is cloudy or rainy. You
need not wait for stems to get
dried up. As soon as they get
so that juice does not ooze from
them when a bunch is twisted
with your hands, you can safely
store it away. Don't haul up
when moist with rain or dew.
Rake into windrows no more at
a time than you expect to take
in or stack before danger of rain.
If put into a stack it should be
kept nearly perpendicular, should
be small in diameter, but tall
and should be topped out with
something that will turn rain
better than peavine hay will.
J prefer for hay that there
I should be a growth of crab grass
1 with the peas. This you are
j likely to have if you sow only a
busheljof peas to the acre. Keed
pea hay sparingly, if at all, until
after it had cured itself thorjoughly
in the barn or on the
I stack and has 110 heat about it.
I You need not mind its getting I
warm after putting up ; just lot j
jit alone; it will do well if not (
! disturbed.
You should not depend entire- 1
ly on pea roughness for stock, j
even if it has crab grass with it. |
Stock may eat more pea hay than I
is best, if given exclusively or |
too freely. If you can have noth- ,
; in* better, use straw for part of j
the bulk feed. If fed judicious
ly there is nothing better for I
stock than good peavine hay. '
You should cut down grain teed
when feeding pea hay freely, es
pecially if there are many peas
with the hay.?"Kecluse" in Progressive
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