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VKTCH t.HOWIXt. )TN FORMATION.
4 HSnith, Agriculturists aj| United
state* Detutrtmeiu of Agriculture,
l*rr|??rfii an Inatructlvo llulletlu for
? i?I'mrr*-?Results in South Caro?
lina.
Vetch growing In the South At?
lantic States," is the subject of an
Instructive bulletin by A. G. Smith,
ugricuituralist of the United States
department of agriculture, recently is?
sued. Mr. Smith Is a resident of
lumbia and has been at work fe ;B
the national government m South
Carolins for ae/cral years.
The Progressive Farmer, reviewing
the bulletin Is) Mr Smith, says:
A bulletin on "Vetch Growing in
the South Atlantic States," has lately
l?een issued Kf the United States de?
partment of agricultural
It la written by A. G. Smith, agri?
culturalist nl the office of farm man?
agement, and la Ju.it what the South?
ern farmers nead. Th? bulletin rep
resents four years' work with teats
on over 800 fields In an endeavor to
tind sultahla winter legumes for the
South and to determine the beat
methods of growing these crops. The
(-?inclusion la that vetch, particularly
hairy vetch, la uniformly more suc?
cessful on all types of soil than crlm
??'?n. bur or red clover, although un?
der favorable conditions the clovers
do well. Under only exceptional con?
ditions Is the plsnting of Oregon or
Knglish vetch advised, although the
eeed are cheaper. Oregon vetch re?
quires a moiat loamy soil, and has not
succeeded well on moat uplands, but
on bottom landa aa around Augusta,
(la , it Is a standard crop. The so
railed native or narrow leaved vetch
which is seen growing wild by the
roadside ie grown in meadows and
pastures, but as the seed 891 difficult
to save because it does not yield
aa well as other varieties, it is rarely
planted. In this bulletin the farmer
la advlaed to use the hairy vetch, es?
pecially on land where it is planted
for the first time. ,
Vetch being a legume, benefits the
land aa doea cowpeaa. By means of
nitrogen-gathering bacteria, it adds
nitrogen to the soil and makes the
use of ammoniated fertilizers Ichs im?
portant. On the whole, vetch will
Improve land more rapidly than cow
peas.
There la a long seeding period for
vetch, but one year with another,
beat results are obtained by Septem
>*?r M*nv failures have been made
mowing a* Me last of October. |
Vet.':h ab l sufficient growth i
to ant si m.tnd the winter, and j
to stand dry weather, in oase it
should occur. When planted in cot 1
' ton, just after the first pickin? is an
excellent time for seeding.
Twenty-five pounds of narrow leav?
ed vetch, 4 3 pounds of Oregon vetch
and 30 pounds of hairy vetch are ad?
vised per acre. From one to two
bushels of oats per acre should be
j sown with the vetch, thereby secur?
ing a gerater growth of forage, and
! making the hay more easy to handle, j
The chief cause of failure with
Votes' is the lack of inoculation. The
, nitrogen-gathering bacteria must be
pre sent in the soil before a satisfac- i
tory growth can be secured. Inocu?
lation es\n be ma le by tiansferrlng |
aoil from a Hold where vetch has been
successfully grown to the new field
or by using artillcial cultures. As a
rule, the former has proved the most
successful, although excellent results
have been obtained with the cultures
When the conditions were favoruble.
Acid phosphate applied at planting |
time will kill the bacteria, and there-I
fore it should not be used unless ap?
plied long enough before planting to
become Incorporated into the soil.
- Vetch is used for hay more than
any other purpose. Oats and vetch
yield from one to three ton* of cured
hay per acre and where it is known,
It sells on a par with cowpea hay.
Vetch hay is cured and bundled in
the same way as cowpeas. By build
ling tall narrow shocks, it will cure
out to good advantage. Shocks are
sometimes built on . racks that keep
the inside hollow and allow the hay
to cure more rapidly.
Vetch makes good silage and is1
ready at a time of the year when corn j
silago is likely to be exhausted. Hay
and silage making may be worked
together. When the weather Is fa?
vorable, the vetch may be cured for
hay, and in rainy weather it may bo
cut for silage so that little time need
be lost in harvesting.
Reports from farmers differ as to
the palatablllty of vetch. Some say
that stock will not eat It, others re?
port that they gradually become ac?
customed to it, and still others that
all kinds of stock eat it readily. Com?
pared with other kinds of hay, the
green forage is not so palatable as the
hay. Xo difficulty seems to be experi- j
enced In getting young stock to eat
vetch.
Most of the vetch seed used In the
South Atlantic States is imported
from Europe. Hairy vetch seed can
be produced in the South, and in or?
der to extend the acreage, a sufficient
supply for seeding should be saved
Vetch can be threshed with the or?
dinary grain thresher. For produc
lng (Oed, votoli should be sown by
itself or with only a small quantity
of outs or wheat, so as to make the
percentage of vetch seed in the mix?
ture as high as possible when thresh?
ed. If there is too large a propor?
tion of oats for a proper mixture, the ?
oats can be removed by running
through a fanning mill. Special ma?
chines to separate the grain from the
seed are on the market.
Hairy vetch ripens its seed uneven- !
ly, so that the time of gathering
should he whenever there is a good
crop of seed ready to harvest. This;
Ig usually after the bottom pods have j
become dry and burst open
Hairy vetch usually yields about
half as much seed per acre as Ore- j
gon vetch when planted In the same,
region. From three to live bushels;
of hairy vetch seed is considered an
average yield in South Carolina. This;
is now worth from $7 to $9 per j
bushel.
The hay left after thresiing, and)
the nitrogen and humus added to the
soil, make seed production a profitable!
proposition.
Vetch growers report that while;
the vetch is in bloom bees nake two j
or three times as much honey as any |
time during the year. Fron. 25 to 50
Pounds of vetch honey per stand of
bees is obtained during the season.!
Vetch honey is white and clear and
of excellent quality.
Several rotations are given in the
bulletin whereby vetch car be used
with other crops. Vetch is especially
valuable in overflow bottom lands,
where it is grown in a rotation with
cowpeas and Johnson grass. On other j
lands, for mixed farming, it is grown '
in rotation with corn, cotton, oats \
and cowpeas. It is valuable in dairy
and cotton farming.
The experiences of several farmers
in South Carolina in grow.ng vetch
are given. Some farmers ht.ve failed
because of lack of inoculat on, sow?
ing too late or by using the wrong
kind of vetch seed. Whet ever the
special requirements were provided,
successful yields have uniformly been
obtained.
Summing up the method of grow?
ing vetch, the following points are
brought out:
Vetch can be sown from August to ,
October with September the best'
month for seeding.
Vetch can be planted in cotton at
the lsst working or preferably after,
the first picking.
Hairy vetch is the best variety to
use.
Thirty pounds of hairy vetch .seed
with from one to two bushels of "?ats'
should he sown per acre.
When sowing for the first time, in?
oculation is necessary, but when a
successful growth has once been
made, there is sufficient inoculation
in the soil for succeeding crops.
The bulletin is No. 529 and a pos?
tal card to the secretary of agri:ul
ture, Washington, D. C, will bring a
copy to any one desiring it.
THE BEILISS TRIAL.
An Outgrowth of Russian Ignorance
and Race Prejudice,
The imperial progmist of Russia,
Czar Nicholas, several months after
the discovery, on March 20, 1911, of
the body of a murdered boy at Kiev,
ordered the prosecution and pnuish
ment of Mendel Beiliss, a young Jew,
on the charge of "ritual murder." j
Tho victim, Andrey Yuschinsky, j
was a Christian. The former chief of 1
the Kiev detective department, M. '
Minschuk, was ordered to investigate
the case, after the Black Hundred had
seized upon It as the pretext for a
violent anti-Semitic agitation, and
after the matter had been brought to
the attention of the Czar by one of his
ministers.
Minschuk's report displeased the
government, and he was tried, to?
gether with his assistants, on the
charge of ' attempting to aid the
Jews." Being acquitted, Minschuk
was retried and adjudged guilty of
manufacturing evidence to disprove
the charge against Beiliss. He was
sentenced to one year in prison, and
his assistants also were imprisoned.
Minschuk declared that the real
murderers were a woman named Vera
Tcheberak and her comrades, a crimi?
nal gang, of which the dead boy's
stepfather and uncle were members.
They believed the boy had betrayed
them and resolved to be rid of him.
It was an afterthought that the
"ritual murder" charge was made by
the leaders of the brutish Black Hun?
dred.
Bellss lived nearest the spot where
the body of Yuschinsky was 3is
cover^d. In August, 1911, he was ar?
rested and has remained in prison
ever since. It is likely that his trial,
which began on October 6, will con?
tinue a'Tortnight longer. He is being
tried before the Supreme Court of
Kiev, and has been denied expert wit?
nesses Upon the flimsiest of reasons.
The trial has stirred the civilized
world, not because of the inhuman ty
of it to the defendant, but because it
reveals a condition In Russia the like
of whtcli has seldom been known
since the Dark Ages, when bigotry
ruled the world, and the time of the
lato Roman Emperors, when charts
of "ritual murder" were made against
the Christians. Christian mission?
aries in China also have been charged
with this imaginary crime.
In the Czar's domain politics out?
weighs justice, and the word progress
causes nightmares in the royal court.
From the fact arises the Beiliss case
?an attempt on the part of the gov?
ernment to divert the thought of the
rough hordes from political rights
and to license their passions to com?
mit murderous reprisals upon unnum?
bered Jews to avenge a crime that
was never committed and that never
existed except as a myth.
The charge of "ritual murder" is
alien both to Jewish doctrine and to
Jewish practice. Popes, emperors, a
khalif of Islam, scientists and schol?
ars have denounced the charge as
baseless. Protests against the Beiliss
case have been signed in America,
England, France, Germany and Rus?
sia. The present Czar's great-grand?
father, Alexander [, issued a ukase1
prohibiting 'ritual murder" cases
against the Jews. That was
100 years ago. The theory of such
a crime is untenable, and no case of.
it ever has been proved.
Yet this blood lie perists in Rus?
sia, and the Emperor (who, by the
way, suggested the establishment of j
universal peace at The Hague) does
not hesitate to seize upon it to fling it
at an excitable people with the pur?
pose of moving them to unholy massa- j
eres. I
Pogroms, or wholesale murders of
the Jews are common in Russia, and
the ritual murder charge is the one
most often resorted to that a warlike
people might be Inspired to put a de?
fenseless minority to the sword.
In each instance the charge ,in sub?
stance, is that in obedience to the
command of his faith the Jew mur?
dered a gentile and used his blood for
"ritual" puiToaes In the Matzoth, un?
leavened br?ad eaten at the Passover..
DWARF ESSEX RAPE FOR SWINE.
Clemson College Extension Work?]
South Coirollna Experiment Station
?Pres? Flulletln No. 128.
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(By R. L. Shields, Professor of Ani?
mal Husbandry.)
We cannot raise hogs profitably on
grain alone. We should give more at
I tention to forage crops as a factor in
pork production and thereby enable
i us to reduce the cost of pork to a min?
imum.
I Dwarf Essex Rape is excellent
1 forage for swine for late fall and win?
ter grazing. Rape for this purpose
should he sown at once.
Prepare a good seed bed, using sta?
ble manure freely. (Rape will not
do well on poor soil.) Sow about 6
pounds of seed to the acre broadcast.
If drilled, three pounds will do.
-An acre of a good stand of rape
sho il? i take care of at least fifteen
shotes for three months. Some grain
shoulr be fed, using the rape to sup?
plement the ration.
The amount of grain required to
produce one hundred pounds gain
may be reduced from 30 per cent to
50 per cent., or even more, by the
use ol such forage as rape. Can you
afford to neglect forage crops lor your
hogs?
BRIDGE TEETH
By this work the den?
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manently between the
teeth left to you artific?
ial ones that are perfect
in appearance and use?
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work his specialty.
Have an inspection.
Get his opinion.
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Parlors,
Dr. C. H. Courtney, Prop
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