The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, January 20, 1906, Page 2, Image 2
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The Science of Farming is
Only in Its Infancy.
Southern Uultivator.
"The (science of farming is in
its infancy," so declares Capt. T
J. James, of Emanuel county,
one of our legislators and
most successful farmers. Capt.
' James says: "1 have built and
operated railroad", merchandized
and am now devoting myself to
farming. While I have made a
success in all three callings, it
takes more brains to farm than
io pursue any other calling; to
Jo it in the most successful man
nor. New things and new meth
^,1.. 4. II.. 1 ..
vue vn'iutj up l Uimiiu.uiy tut nuiu1'
lion, and there are many prob
leniB to be solved yet unthoughi
oi. As an example of how things
change, the first fertilizer I ever
used I bought from John Merryman
& Co., of Maryland, then
they commenced to manufacture
it at Savannah aud 1 bought it
there. Now I manufacture it
upon my own farm."
Capt. James makes 800 bales of
cotton a year and says: "I have
put it into Ilarvie Jordan's hands
for 15 cents." He also raises
Vklortf tr nf nnrn q ml f nr Kia
|"vai mj tvn 11 aim iccu i wi inn
plantation. We delight in meeting
with farmers of Capt. James'
uahbre, aud we also like to see
them making a success of farm
ing upon a large scale ; then we
Jike equally as well to meet and
hear the experience of some far
mer who, though upon small
cale, is making a success and is
stampiug his individuality in
Vfolibly upon IrrS farm and is
making an impression for good
upon his community, The other
dav we cot Arniinint.ed with such
n man in the person of Mr. P. E
Duffey, of Clayton county, Ga.
Mr. DufTey's conversation ran
about as follows: "When I came
of uge, I dnl like so many of our
vonug uieti in the country, 1 came
to Atlanta to hunt me a job, but
they treated me with so much
.indifference and insolence that 1
Vent home and swore an oath
that I would never ask another
nan for work. I took a mule
and wagon and hauled some
wood for my first money ; the
next year 1 farmed on halves.
In two years I saved $400, and
took this money and went to
school to get a better education,
ben I went back to farming. 1
'250 acres of land all paid
id 1 am making a good liv1
rent out a seven horse
tend about 20 acres for
op. I have my terraces I
trees and from them 1
>1)0, worth of fruit a
to. wonder how it
people up northwest
orii at 25 cents a
ake money, while
use it at 75 cents
\ went up there it
j way thoy plowed
.ted it. By using
3 and cultivators one
? enabled to do more i
an three down with us
,ot me better tools. As an
sample, 1 had a boy helping me
last year who cost me 30 cents a ;
-day and board. In one day w?<pnc
live acres in wheat, and in
another day we sowed the pame
five acres in peas and sorghum!
after the wheat;so at an expense
ot CO cents for labor 1 made two
:ood crops on five acres of land." <
'his sounds very much like bus *
ess to us, (
Now, hucIi as this should give i
n
Department.
our farmers food for thought.
Though 6,000 years old, our farm
uig is in its infancy when it comes
to the use of better methods and
real scientific and most success
ful operations. And whether we
fake it upon a large Rcale as ii
the case of Oapt. James, or get
down close to Mother Earth, do
ing with our own hands as with
Mr. DufToy, the faet still con
fronts us, that there is much to
learn, more to do and still ma nothings
untried and yet undiscovered.
So let us start in this year
for more light and better efforts.
How to Plow and When to
Put in Manure.
Editor Southern Cultivator:
Enclosed I ask your advice in
regard to some plowing 1 am
doing.
I am laying ofF corn and cotton
with a good two horse plow,
(Syracuse) going two times to
the row, plowing up the corn and
cotton stalks. I am also going to
subsoil these furrows with bulltongue
or scooter plow with two
horses, which will get it down 8
or 10 inches; when this is done
1 am goiug to apply all the rough
manure 1 can get during the
n i ii in oo aouu 111 tncno iuwb. ii
is an experiment with me. Will
it be best to list on these furrows
and then subsoil the same?
Please give me any and all in
formation on this line, as 1 am
anxious to know. Would the
mouth of December be too soon
to put in with this rough manure,
green cottonseed?
Awaiting your valuable advice,
1 am yours truly,
J. H. R.
Charlotte, N. C.
Comment By The Editor:
You are doing a good work,
miu juur pittn ih un rignt. v> e
would list and then subsoil these
list furrows also, if we had the
time. You can never tell how
much, and when you can, do the
plowing in the winter time; but
would do it as fast and as early
as the weather conditions would
allow. Cottonseed and manure
are not going to injure if put in
the soil early in the winter if
your land is so it will not wash.
W o Inan trnr if 1 i f f 1 *-? *v> <> ?-* n f
ii vj woo ini j nvwo maiiuic uuui
leaching; but we do lose h fear
ful amount by allowing it to be
washed away. The South loses
thousands of dollars annually
from the lack of poperly kept
terraces, deep plowing and vegetable
matter or a grain crop
growing upon our tie Ids.?South
em Cultivator.
Preparing Corn Land.
Country Gentleman.
The following is a plan which
we have found to put most land
in excellent condition: We use
only two tools?a disk harrow
and a plank drag. The dink is
Bet to cut about its full depth,
nn<l the furrows are lapped, so
that the land will be left level.
We disk twice, trying as tar as it
is practicable on our hilly lands,
to run the second time at right
angles to the course followed the
first time. We then finish up
with the drag, which leaves the
land smooth and in fine shape
for drilling. By this plan most
of the stalks will be thrown out
of the earth by the disk, and the
Irag will break down any that
are left. The most serious obJ
jection to the disk is that it leaves
a sort of gutter around each
corn stalk, which the drag wilt
not always <ill up. To obviate
this and th> turning around the
shocks, some farmers bring th?
corn from sixteen rows on each
side to make a row of shocks
The shocks are thus necessarily
made very close together in the
row, and the row is left until the
nnm ia nff ailiuti 1 unno
through with the drill will need
the strip. The extra labor in
the eorn-cuti.ng, however, seems
to me to more than make up for
that saved in preparing and seeding
the land. A spring tooth
harrow might bp made to answer
instead of a disk on corn land ;
but we have found drag harrows
very unsatisfactory, as they will
be continually dragging up the
cornfta'ks and other trash. The
plank drag is, I think, for preferable
to the roller for use on sucl
land, as it smoothes down and
fills up any ridgeH and depres
sions much better than any roller
could.
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