The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, September 08, 1921, Image 7
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ESSENTIAL THAT
CROPS FIT SOIL
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fed Clover and Timothy Should
Not Be Depended On Entirely
for Maximum Crops.
llEDTOP FAVORS MOIST GROUND
: fJo Perennial Hay Plants Will Produce
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Grass Seeds Are Smalt and
Require Good Seedbed.
(Prepared by the United States Department
ot Agriculture.)
While timothy and red clover undoubtedly
are the best hay crops on
' Ipod soils in the northeastern quarter
pf the United States, they should by
fco means be depended on to produce
inaximum yields of soils. Other hay !
Crops are better suited and are more
dependable in some cases and under
particular soil conditions. Alsike closer,
for example, is better adapted to
Sour and moist soils than common red
, Clover, and the two mixed together and
seeded on some uplands often insures
a crop where the latter seeded alone
Vould fail. Redtop is the best wetland
grass and on such land a mixture
01 red-top meadow fescue, and alsike
plover usually gives good returns. !
While no hay grasses can be depended
upon to make a commercial crop on
poor land, redtop, orchard grass, and
tall oats-grass are better than any
Others. These are facts discussed in
detail in Farmers' Bulletin No. 1170,
i ileadows for the Northern States,
Must issued and ready for distribution
by the United States Department of
1 Agriculture.
Has Bulk of Tame Hay Acreage.
In that section of the United States,
north of and including Tennessee, and
east of central Nebrasku, Kansas and
l the Dakotas, is found S3 peT cent of
& the tame hay acreage of the nation.
Eighty-eight i?er cent of this acreage
is seeded to timothy and clover. While
these two plants undoubtedly will conSgf
tlnue to hold the popularity they now
HI 'possess, there are a number of other
W plants which, though not so well
' Jfnown, are more desirable for particular
purposes and for certain conditions
fcf soil and climate. The latter are
fiven special attention in the bulletin.
Field of Bur Clover.
There Is lttle difference of opinion j
as to the plants to he seeded on rich
well-drained land. Timothy Is seeded
alone if the hay Is to be sold on the
market, and timothy and clover, often
mixed with redtop, where part or all
of the hay is utilized on the farm.
Some of the advantages of thesa plants
are that they have good seed habits,
especially timothy and redtop. Red
tlover is a deep-rooted legume, and I
has a beneficial effect on succeeding
crops.
Timothy is considered' by feeders j
the best hay for horses, and clover,
or clover and timothy mixed produce
better yields and are excellent for cattle
and sheep. The comparatively long
period during which these plants may
be left standing without serious de"
terioration before cutting, together
with the fact that the time of their
maturity interferes little with the harI
vesting of the cereals and other farm \
work, have much to do with their pop- I
tdariry.
ITh<? most serious objection to the
ired clover and timothy mixture is due
!to the difference in time of their maturity,
the former usually being ready (
,to cut two weeks before the latter. !
(For this reason mammoth clover, a va- j
riety of the common red, which is
(somewhat later in maturing, is sometimes
substituted for red clover in the
seed mixture.
There are many soils along the
(southern border of the area under discussion
which will give a larger hay I
lyleld if seeded to ofchard grass, tall |
joats-grass. and alsike clover than if I
Ijeeeuea to Uimmiv, reuiup uuu reu viuver.
These soils are usually poor In
organic matter and are Inclined to
be sour. It Is important that this
mixture bo cut when the plants first
head out. for if harvesting is delayed
they will make a tough, less palatable
hay. This is especially true of or'chard
grass. If cut early, however,
[this hay will be relished by all classes
of live stock. For general use in the
localities referred to. the bulletin
/ 'recommends the following mixture:
\ [Orchard grass. 14 pounds; tall oats^
grass, 12 pounds alslke clover, 6
pOunds rv.-r acre.
Gives Best Results.
Raisins 08 v on p :or !a?)d is not sac4
lsfactory, but when it Is necessary
this mixture gives best results. In
some places in the Middle West 6weet
clover has given good results under unpromising
soil conditions. According
to the bulletin, no perennial
hay plants will produce well on poor,
sandy soil. Under such soil conditions,
however, some temporary crop,
6uch as rye or oats and peas, and,
along the Atlantic coast, early sorghum
and cowpeas, are preferable t?
perennial hay crops.
The best temporary hay plants are
the 6mall grains seeded either alone
or In mixture with some legume, such
as peas, vetch or crimson clover. Millets
are sometimes used for this purpose,
as are sudan grass and coarse
forage, such as corn and sorghum. In
the northern states a combination of
<fets and Canada field peas makes a
very good hay crop. Excellent results
have been obtained In eastern Mary- ,
land and Virginia with the following
mixture: Oats, 1 bushel; hairy vetch,
30pounds; white-blooming crimson clover,
10 pounds per acre.
In order to avoid losing the use of
land for an entire season, and to per- |
mit late-summer and early-fall seeding,
grass crops usually follow small
grains. The seedbed should be prepared
as soon as possible after the
grain is harvested. As a three-inch
mellow seedbed with firm soil beneath
will give better results for summer
seeding than one that is deeper, the
disk harrow is usually used in place
of the plow for preparing land for
grass. Most grass seeds are very ,
small and must have a fine, mellow, i
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well pulverized surface soil In order
that the seedling may become established.
A good seedbed may mean the
difference between the success and
failure of the hny cop.
Use Too Little Seed.
Most farmers use too little grass
seed for best results, according to the
bulletin. Rich land with a well-prepared
seedbed does not require as
much seed as thin land or land poorly
fitted. From 20 to SO pounds of seed
per acre are generally sufficient, and
this rate is usually mjte profitable
than lighter seedlngs of mixtures.
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oiiiuii-sr^uru sutii as tcu-w^
and timothy, do not require so heavy a
seeding as orchard grass or rye grass.
Usually 10 pounds of timothy or 6
pounds of redtop are sufficient when
these are seeded alone.
In order that the seed may get a
good start, It Is frequently advisable
to apply some readily available fertilizer.
Formerly the grain crop received
the fertilizer, but experiments
have demonstrated that when it is applied
to the grass It will not only increase
the yield of this crop but frequently
show beneficial effects on succeeding
crops for two or three years.
Top dressings of suitable manure will
increase the yield of hay, and there
is probably no better crop than grass
on which to apply it. A great deal
of grass and clover seed is wasted
every year from seeding on sour or
acid soils. Applications of lime correct
this condition, and should be made
particularly where legumes are to
be grown.
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and refining indu
that much of the U
torists as to the prop
mobiles must fall uj
of motor fuel and li
The Standard Oil C
had long before glad
this responsibility. i
mobile builders had ]
the sale had been
those who bought er
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their only point of
their equipment.
Refiners of gasoline
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JUST LEAVE IT TO TERRY
Harvard Authorities and Students
Rely on Memory of Colored
Human Encyclopedia.
No one knows how he does It. He
doesn't know himself. Yet Terry never
forgets a face or a name. He never
took a memory course. He never did
any special mental gymnastics to develop
his memory. He has no theories
on the association of Ideas. He has
no little tricks, such as remembering
a man's name is Carpenter because he
is built like a lath. He simply remembers,
that's all.
Terry is a roly-poly little colored
man who for 19 years has been the
human encyclopedia of the recorder's
office at Harvard college. Every Harj
vard man since 1900 knows Terry. The ;
I remarkable thing is that Terry knows j
I every one of them. More than 10,000
1 men have come and gone in Terry's
J time. Terry remembers them all.
IJic? nrtr?OAr?(lin?iMY foPllltv for PO.
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membering names and places caused
bis being installed in the position of
living encyclopedia, not only on all
Harvard men, but on Harvard history
generally. When members of the faculty
wnnt to know the date of the fire
In Weld hall, or when the course Government
7B was started, or the names
; of the most recently elected overseers,
j or the score of the Harvard-Williams
baseball game ten years ago, or any
! miscellaneous bit of Harvardiana they
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Mud Specialist
Several officers from the front speak fi
of a famous bootblack In Paris who Is
known as the "mud specialist." The
Individual can tell every soldier client
what section of the trenches he halls
from merely by examining the mud on
his feet. It is said that he rarely
makes a mistake, and can spot a man's
battle station anywhere between
Tpres and Verdun with marvellous ac- j
. uracy, ppporently each section of the I
ong line having its characteristic |
trand of mud.
Passing of a Pre-War Pet
Nowadays, if you decided to make a
present to your youngest nephew, you
1 couldn't find a Japanese waltzing
mouse in the country. It is true that
their dervish dance is out of date in
this age of shimmy shakers. But that
doesn't account for their extinction, i
The war, which took so many lives,
reached even to the mouse world. U
Breeders no longer raise these eccentric
little creatures, according to Ed
Honey, the bird and fish man. Perhaps
they still live in Japan, where
they are kept through immigration
laws. But as far as this country goes,
these busy pets of children are now
but a memory.?MinneapoPs Journal.
Gum From Sorghum Husks.
French scientists have found that
sorghum husks yield a guin which can 01
be used for dyeing wool, silk, leather I1
and vegetable fibers. The possible S
colore, vriiich are sun-proof t id soap- a:
proof, are various shades of red and
pinli, gray and dark brown. ,
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