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Some Experiences With Hairy Vetch. "Some experiences with hairy ?etch" was the subject, of a paper read ?.?y P. N. Lott, demonstration 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 .-"ciences, should be treated in such 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 we suspect a sorry one; for, what he brought to the Lord must have been very inferior stuff, else the Lord, in leve and justice to man would not have rebuked him. This one state ment in holy writ leads to conclude that butchery and starvation of the ?oil 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 i>elieve 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 fe Hty of the earth. The thinking man always does things that are the most practicable aad remunerative, hence our plant ing the legumes are of the greatest utility. Peas and beans' for sum mer, and vetches and clovers for winter. We all know the value of ?ow 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 sow, either by itself or with grain. I have tested vetch stubble with stable manure both on cotton and corn. The cotton yield in seed eotton was about 300 pounds per acre more, aud corn about seven bushels more. was a one year HesS^- My opinj^a.ifohat if .-wout?. ??yin eic fe stating j it-25 pounds of vetch ?ed sown j 'to the acre on well inoculated soil i? TTufiii "more than ten two-horse loads of well trodden suhle manure. I am not prepared to state the re -sults of turning while green, 25 pounds of vetch send and a bushel -*>f rye or wheat per acre, but 1 am eonfident that it is greater than ?tubble, because of the fact that we get a great quantity of green hu jnns which is a very important fac tor in soil fertility. I prefer vetch and wheat cut for forage. Two to three and one-half tons of dry hay to the acre can be made and gotten ?nt of the land in time for either ?oro or cotton. If sown the middle .f September it can be cut April 20 .?r May 1. For years ray best crops of cotton and corn have been made on vetch stubble-plots that pro duce $60 worth of hay per acre and from 1,800 to 2,400 pounds seed eotton and 50 to 60 bushels of corn. It is often inconvenient to sow vetch in all your growing cotton and wherever it caunot be done I would suggest sowing a bushel of rye for j green humus. This growing win-| ter crop does not only hold the soil, but catches the escaping nitrogen ous 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 I arriyed at the above conclu sion, 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 same crop that I did the year before. How, in conclusion, I would state that if the farmer lived closer to I sature, knew more of nature, adopt ed nature's plan for building and maintaining soil fertility and de pended less on commercial fertilis ers, we would not only have more snoney but be happier. If every farmer in South Carolina would dress his farm in a robe of green for winter comfort and food for summer crops, we would not only iave the most progressive, but the most beautiful State in the Union. -The State. Full line of household paints is all colors in cans from halp-piutg lo gallons. Timmons & Morgan. Excursion Fares Southern Rail way. Pr. m er C irrier of the South from Edgefield, S. C: Asheville, N. 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Taylor, Secretary of the Audubon Society, wiil speak on that occasion and Attorney Gen erul Peeples will speak on the legal side of the game laws of the State. There are several other speakers of State wide prominence invited and will probably make an address at the meeting which is to start at 10 o'clock on the morning of the 30th. This will bethe first annual meeting of this kind and Chief Game War den Richardson hopes this meeting will havethe effect of better interpre tation and enforcement of the game laws, and that his 65 Game War dens will after conferring with one another be better fitted for attend ing to their duliea on a higher and better basis. Yours very truly, A. A. Richardson, Chief Game Warden. A Marvelous Escape. My little bey bad a marvelous escape, writes P F Bast?anos of Prince Albert, Cape of Good Hope. "It occurred in the middle of the night. Ile got a very severe attack of croup. 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