The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, March 21, 1906, Page 2, Image 2
Agricultural
100 Bushels Corn Per Acre.
Progressive Faimer.
I pee in A.J. Moye's seven
farming questions the seventh,
"How to make 50 bushels corn
?n ordinary eastern land." 1
will answer it for the benefit of
co>n planters. I saw last fall the
sorii housed from one-fourth
acre of land, situated on Tar
! : ,1 1 1 M ? I> D
.stiver, uuu uwiicu uy mr.iv.iv
Gotten, and known as the Cottondale
Farm. Instead of fifty
bushels, he made one hundred
bushels; and this is how he did
it:
First, lay off rows seven feet
apart with turn plow, two fur
tows to the row, goo 1 and deep.
Fill this furrow with pood rich
aompost.
Put on top of this four hun
dred pounds pood guano of high
grade, run eotiou plow through
this mixture and throw dirt back
with turn plow, and you have a
row on each side of manure two
feet apart to plant corn in.
Then you have your rows two
and five feet apart.
Plant corn two feet in drill,
one grain in hill.
And so you have the plan to
make fifty bushels of corn per
acre Plant corn known as the
seven-year kind.
W. C. Moore
Pitt Co., N. C.
Thoughts for the Farmers?
The Cotton Situation.
Chas Petty, of Spartanburg,
in the Progressive Farmer :
Tlia fitrlit lialmaon tlio
A ..-V/ ?/v' " VV/?I V??U VWIVV/"!
Growers' Association and dealer*
in futures is getting interesting.
Some of the faint-hearted farmers
believe that the contest is unequal
and that the farmers will
have to go under and be subjert
t<> the manipulations of speculators.
The majority believe that
thay will he sure winners, if they
stick together. With a census
report indicating a crop of very
little? more than ten million hales,
the price does not advance. The
bears are holding out the ilea
that there has been enough cotton
sold already to carry the
spinners till the next crop is put
on the market. They have even
reported that President Archer
of the County Association has
been making an effort to put a
lot of cotton on ilie market at 12
cent'. This he denies most emphatically
and says that in June
lie will see if any one wants his
cotton at Ins price. He advises
farmers having cotton on hand
to li"ld tor 15 cents.
Suppose the spinners are all
stroked, as they say they are,
what is the duty of the farmers?
With a crop of only 10,000,000
bales they claim that there is a
surplus of two millions. It tliey
are correct the coutry will need
only nine million bales another
year. Plant tor that amount and
keep the price up. By raising an
abundance ol corn, oats, and
p avine hay, a small cotton crop
Will bring in as much money as
a large one, and it will cost
less
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MONKY IN PKAVINK HAY. ,
Special attention of farmers is 1
called to the money and feeding ?
value of peavine hay. Look at it t
in tl?is way : Take an acre of J
land that with the aid of $3 <
worth of fertilizer will make 1,000 }
pounds of seed cotton. At ten i
cen's a pound the lint and seed !
will be worth $37 80. To raise i
and market that cotton will cost )
cents a pound, or $18.30 lor <
'he acre leaving net $19.50. Use 1
the same guano and plant the ?
acre in oats as soon as the ground
is dry enough. Follow with pe is |
sown broadcast. The yield i
should be 20 bushel of oats and
_ a. 11 If r
a n>u ana nan 01 p^avine nay.
The eats at 60 cents, and hay at '
$ 18 a ton. nnd straw at $2, would i
bring $41 00. The expense ol
both crops, including baling the
hay, would not be exceed?ng$10,
which would leave net $31.
Land would be improved to the
value of $3 an acre besides, well
cured peavine hav is the best
J ~ I
inilk producer we know. Ton
for ton it is worth more than
genuine wheat bran, aud twice |
as much as some of the mixtures
8(?ld under the name of bran.
Let farmers make their own sup
plies, live at home, stick to the
Cotton Growers' Association,and
they will prosper and be happy.
Work For the Month.
(Southern Cultivator,)
1. March is the first spring
month of wind, the month 01
movement. It is the great prepa
ratory month?the whole machinary
(or the year's crop is to
he gotten in order and started
off. So many things demand our
attention, that many are prone
to get into a hurry and bustle
and forget the most, importan'
;4 i_ i _ \
ut-iii?wmcn is, prepare your
land well.
2. This is t ho mo th to put in
your guano. Count the cash outlay
you are spending, and set
you" stakes to have more mate
rial for the same amount ol mon
ey another year, bv saving all
waste upon the firm and by
mating more stable manure to
i mix with it.
ji>. It is time to plant corn, l'ui 1
in a large crop and see that yon
have the hest s^ed, and give your
corn the same attention in preparation
and manure as you give
your cotton.
4. 1*1 it to cut down your cotton
aiea as much as possible. The
"Bears" are lying in wait for us j
nrxi tail and they are going to
g.*t staple c heap il they can.
5. Don't lorget to do good plow
ing ami harrowing?you have
plenty of time to do that which
will repay you so well. U.-member
it is not the amount of
ground you cover, but the net
returns from that ground will
tell the tale next fall.
0. The garden demands much I
attention. If is time to plant j
Irish potatoes, bed sweet potatoes,
set out cabbage plant-,
plant beats, lettuce, radishes
8o v your tomato seed, pepper
and egg plants, in boxes or cold
frames; and get your garden in
good tilth to receive all that you <
expect to put in it. We forgot to <
nent-ion some early roasting
ars; they should never bo onntt-d.
J. Let the good wife look after
lie chickens. There is a slump
n eggs light now; hut they are
is valuable as ev^r to put under
he hen or into the incubator.
i Do not neglect the plan lor
die cows and hogs, they . re just
is valuable as anything you can
raise upon your tartn.
) It is time you were arranging
to raise a colt or two: they
re just as valuable a crop as
:otton; and will grow in the
?out h?although 1 this is a cotton
country
10. If you have any bottom
places jou can dry?take them
hi?raise corn <>r g .as u pon t hem
Nothing will pay you better.
Money put into a ditch ia much
teller spent titan in "cotton fut
ires."
His Wife's Money.
Krom the Atchison Qlobe.
Once upon a time a man
married a woman who had in
herited $500 from a grand father
This was all she ever recieved.
but the man never got credit for
his efforta the rent of his life.
He built a new store. "Did it
with his wife's money," the neigh,
bors said. The home was mad*
over and enlarged. "His wife's
money did it," was the only comment.
The little measly $500 she
inherited wan given the credit
for everything ho did during life,
and when he died and his widow
put up a monumont with his life
insurance, "Her money paid for
that," was said again. But thfft is
what her monev really went for:
During her engagement she
bought herself a $350 piano and
a $150 diamond ring, and in a few
lost the ring. There was
always some regret that she
didn't lose the piano.
Towns Putting up Laundries.
Greenwood Journal: Over in
Georgia the servants became so
tnflling that in one or more towns
ttie citizens formed joint stock
companies and put up laundries.
A gentleman who seems to be fa
miliar with the situation informs
us that in this way the cost was
reduced to minimum, and proved
very satisfactory indeed. The
scheme was not intended t<
make money, but to meet a con
dition, and to get the work done
at a price that could be afforded
by families. It may become
necessary to put up not only
laundries on this side of the
Savannah,but ''cookeries" as well
The Printing Office.
The printing oflice has indeed
proved a better college to many
a boy, has graduated more useful
and conspicuous members of so
ciety, has brought more intellect
uiu huh turned it, mio practical,
useful channels, awakened more
minds, generated more active
and elevated thoughts, than many
of the literary colleger* of the
countrv. A boy who commenceh
in such a school an the printing
oflioe, will have his talents and
ideas brought out; and if he is a
careful observer, experience in
his profcHHion will contribute
more toward ?n education than
can be obtained in almost any
other manner.?Ex.
OW PEAS draw nitrogen from the
air in large amounts, if sufficient ^
Potash and phosphoric acid are supplied
to the plant.
The multitude of purposes served by the
remarkable cow pea, are told in the 65-page
illustrated book, "The Cow Pea," which also
'* r 1 1 1 1 J ?
tells ot tiie spienaia resm is uuuuiicu nuin
fertilizing cow peas with Potash. The book
is free to farmers for the as king.
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