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VOL. IV.
Southern Agriculturist
18 PUBLISHED MONTHLY AT
Savannali and Augusta, Ga.
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houses'
Farm Work for the Month.
There is no month in the entire
Autumn which can bo so entirely de¬
voted to cotton picking as September.
The time for gathering the corn crop
has not arrived. It is too soon to sow
wheat. The job work about the place
is, or ought to be, all done, and except
sowing rye, barley, oats and turnips
for the stock, all hands can give their
undivided time and energies to which the
great work of saving tho crop
has cost so much to make, and for the
sake of which so many sacrifices are
made.
If planters would begin flicking
early in September, and try to keep
up with the crop as it opens, the work
would l>e much better done, and the
staple would be much cleaner and
more valuable than where the work
is delayed until the open cotton gots
SEPTEMBER,
ahead of the laboring force, and is
then done in a hurry, involving trashy
cotton full of hulls, leaves and dirt,
which necessarily depreciates the value
of the staple. Especially is this tho
case in years of heavy crops when
buyers, always ready to make the
standard as low as possible, arc more
than ordinarily fastidious and discrimi¬
nating.
We are no prophet, but we shall bo
much surprised if, unless some unfor
seeu calamity occurs, tho cotton mar¬
ket opens as brisk and as high as
many sanguine producers seem to
think. Let us, therefore, do all that
is in our power to maintain the valuo
of our cotton by clean picking and
neat handling. The first pickings,
while the seed aro green, if put away
in bulk, aro very liable to heat, unless
they are well sunned and occasionally
stirred, so that the air can get through
them. A slight, heating, such as will
extraot a small portion of the oil from
tho seed, and give the lint a creamy
tint, is desirable, but great care must
bo taken that this heating is not over¬
done. Cotton put away wet from rain
or dew should not bo allowed to re¬
main so long, but within a short
time it should bo stirred thoroughly,
sunned aud aired. If cotton is gather¬
ed in good condition, we think that
allowing ic to lie in the gin-house for
somo weeks before it is ginned, im¬
proves tho appearance and quality of
the staple.
CORN.
Toward the end of this month, corn
should be gathered ou all laud in¬
tended to bo sown in wheat next month
or in November, so that plenty of
time may be given to prepare the
ground thoroughly.
BARLEY, RYR, OATS.
This is the month to sow barley
and rye for pasture. It will take
but little time to sow a large barley or
rye patch, and nothing ou the tarrn
pays better in money or oomfort.
These grains, sown this month, afford
the best pasture during the winter
and as lato as March, and after that a
good crop of grain besides. While
there is yet time, let provision be
made for an abundance of food for th«
stock in Winter, so that wo may not
bo reduced to tho alternative of half
feeding them, or buying the bales of
Northern rubbish commonly called
hay, which not only costs a great deal
in actual cash outlay, hut almost in¬
variably involves factors’ advances,
liens, mortgages, and ultimate ruin.
Tho best and heaviest crops of oats
wo have ever raised, and we have ever
seen, were sown about tho middle or
end of this month, on ground which
had been previously well prepared
and well manured. Wo reoommend
thick sowing on rich land. Before
severe frosts come, tho oats will have
attained growth and strength to resist,
but even if they arc winter killed
here and there, enough will be left to
yield a fiue crop next year, which
will ripen early enough to escape rust.
• We strongly adviso our friends to
plant as largely as circumstances will
permit of this most valuable of all
crops for stock food. We aro satisfied
from repeated experiment that food oats
are a better and healthier for
horses and mules than corn, and it
needs no argument to oonvinco any
one that they aro a much cheaper crop
than corn.
T EAS
Should bo picked as fast as they
ripen. Turning tho hogs looso among
the peas is a wasteful and expensive
operation. It is much botfor to gather
the peas, cure the vines for hay, and
let the hogs only do tho work of
gleaners.
TURNIPS.
It is time still to sow turnips and
make a good crop. If the seed sown
in July and August has failed to pro
duce a good stand, sow over again, and
if on looking ovor the place you find
a nice rich spot that you overlooked in
July, put it in turnips by all means.
The more turnips, rye, barley and oats
pasture you have, the fuller will to
your corn crib when planting time
conies again.
We have recently seen it recom¬
mended to sow turnips in July or Au¬
gust in a seed bed, just as you bow
cabbage for transplanting, and when
the plants arc largo onoRgh to trans¬
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plant them as you would sweet potato
slips. The advantages of this mode
aro said to be a great saving of seed,
a certain protection against drought,
because tho bed can bn constantly
‘watered, and un effective preventive
against the fly, became within the
limited bounds of a seed bed this pest
can be easily destroyed. Besides this
a stand can bo always secured, the
expense of thinning avoided, and a
large yield of good sii d roots of oven
size obtained It is too' late to try
this mode of planting this year, but
it may be worth a trial next year, and
in the meantime its advantages and
disadvantages may bo discussed.
CLOVER IKED.
Order and obtain a Huflioicnt sup¬
ply of clover seed from an honest
seedsman fur sowing next month. Let
every reader of Ibis paper have a
clover patch at least, and before long
tho patch will grow into a field.
WOODLAND r ASTW IlK.H,
On days when cotton cannot be
piekctL the time may bo well and
profitably employed by preparing a
piece ol woodland for a pasture. This
preparation consists in cutting out
trees not lit for lumber, grubbing up
the undergrow th, and breaking up tho
ground with a bull-tonguo. Later,
when the time oonies to sow the seed,
the ground should be harrowed before
sowing, and then the seed should bo
covered by running a brush harrow
over it. Orchard grass and red clover
mixed are the best seed to sow.— So.
Farm and Home.
- - • • • —
An old woman observing a sailor
going by her door, and supposing it
to be her son Billy, cried out to him :
“Billy, where is my cow gone ?” The
sailor replied in a contemptuous man¬
ner, “Gone to the d—1 for what I
know.” “Well, as you are going
that way," said the old woman, “I
wisli you would just let down the
bars.”
“Pattick, has your sifter got a sou
or a daughter ?" “I know not,” ."aid
he, “whether I am an uncle or an
aunt.” •