The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, June 06, 1906, Page 2, Image 2
Agricultural
The Way to Farm and the
'Right Way to Prepare
Land.
The Southern Cultivator.
I am just a young man, bul
have been farming all my lift
and every time 1 could I woulc
try to make some improvement
in farming. But as my ineani
have been limited up to this time
I have never reached my limit.
My father commenced farming
when 1 was thirteen years old or
a little farm of about forty-fivi
tu-res and with only one mule
'We have been farming fourteer
9\ r\ rt' wo run filtnoi
y rnis mm uv n ?? v. ??.?. ... ?VVi
plows and own live hundred acrei
ot land and made every dollai
farming. As my father had nevei
farmed any before, 1 learned t<
farm about as fast as he did, an<
when I was seventeen years olc
1 superintended our farm, t(
>nU!/.k n-a liud Ullrloil uHollt. HMI
>r ii iv ii n o unu i?v?v* vVx... v v.,
hundred and fifty acres of lane
and worked live horses. It wai
then I began to think of some
improved way of farming am
purchased two thirteen Olivei
chilled steel beam plows, but i
was very disheartening at first
l^one of our neighbors using t
t wo horse plow, and all of then
telling us we were ruining 5111
laud. But 1 was determined t<
give it a fair triald|se I,1 woulc
break all the land I could even
tail when the ground was dn
and then 1 would be sure to marl
rhe place where I had plowed tc
with my two horse plows, ami 1
was so well pleased with it the
next year I tried to break (the
whole place, but finding it iniposoiKlo
kooQiiaa m n b a / I f AA miiA^
niUit? unc rw p li ??? IWU lU u VI.
for only two plows. But we con
r.inued to plow deep with two
horse plows until we have grad
ually come to where we are now
with tifteen horses working aboui
two hundred acres in cotton ant]
corn.
1 have a brother two year.'
younger than 1 and when we botfi
were grown we decided we could
control our labor better if we
made some changes, so I went on
a farm of one hundred and fiftythree
acres and left the other to
toy brother and father, so here is
where 1 am now at this writing
K.tur years ago I catne to this
place with two mules of my own
and made twenty-one bales of
cotton on about sixty acres; the
next year 1 added another mule
and planted eighty acres in cot
t'?n and made twenty-seven bale?
ol cab ton and 250 bushels of corn
1 hadn't commenced plowing
very deep those two tears on this
farm, so I decided I would buy
a lot ior mule and 1 made 47 bales
and 500 bushels of corn with four
mules and three hands besides
myself. I.ast year I bought another
horse and worked 5 head
on the same land 1 worked with
four the year before and made 02
bales and 500 bushels corn and
about 45 tons peavine hay, sown
after an oat crop of 300 bushels.
And this year 1 am working six
head on seventy acres in cotton.
I won't have much corn, as I
have 35 acres outs sown Inst October
a ml they are looking tine
J arn a great believer in sub
hoi line for the last two years and
a? you see from the increase of
my crop it is due to deep plowing
and subaoiling.
Perhaps my letter is getting
too long, you can publish just so
much of it as you like, but I want
fo tell you how 1 am preparing
Department.
j my land this year. 1 put a big
two horse middle buster right between
he rows (which are laid
otr on a level, of course] and then
run a 14 inch subsoil down in it.
Then I run around the cotton
stalks with a No. 3 Oliver chilled
f plow with two big mules; then I
* rip up the cotton stalks with the
' same big two horse middle bus
[ tor which leaves all the land bed
' ded in very high beds. My neigh g
< bors call them terraces, which (j
they really are. Each one of the a
1 beds holds its own water and it s|
1 is very seldom that my land ever p
i washes. 1 feed a great many cat c
* tie and have about 400 loads t<
1 manure which 1 have composted* i'
1 putting a sufficient amount of n
* acid and muriate of potash to go f<
r over the 70 acres in cotton at the w
1 rate of 500 pounds to the acre, tl
1 which takes about 0 loads man o
1 urn In tho ncrp I mi f thio in llip P
' drill and then run a two home c
subsoil in it as deep as two bin l<
mules can pull it, then 1 bed on
that with ray big two-horse turn A
plows, and run the middle out si
with a two-horse subsoil; then 1 o
take a board 12 feet long with a p
tongue fastened to it and hitch "
two mules to it and drag those b
beds down perfectly level, and
then plant with a No. 7 Cole tl
planter with fertilizer attach r<
ment to it. I am going to put 200 t!
"V j n i J r .4*1?. *i i f.
' pounas o -i * ierunzer witn my l<
1 cotton seed when I plant toraor- $
' row, making a total of 700 pounds r<
per acre fertilizer not including b
' the muriate.
) I prepared part of my crop f<
this wav last year and on land 11
where 1 hadn't been making 1 3 11
bile cotton 1 made over 1500 L
" pounds seed cotton to the acre ci
1 and expect to get even more this '
year. I find that it certainly pays t<
to prepare well and the deeper P
" you plow just so much more fer
? tilizer you can use, and get won i 8
1 derful results. I try to do the u
' most of my subsoiling in the fall y
and winter but if the weather al
' don't allow me to do it I do it 11
i just the same in the spring, but ti
I 1 am aUvays sure the land is per rtl
, fectly dry.
A Subscriber.
Anderson Co , S. C.
n
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A Habit with Him.
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' i rom t lie Kansas Uitv Times. ) ai
There was a business man in a .
IS
little Western town who never
' i P(
had a yood word for anvbody. I
' I '
Every one held him in more or Uj
; less fear and 111 my dislisked him (>f
I strongly. lie made no effort to n
iicul'ivji'e friendships and at one j e<
| lime or another almost every in- si
habitant of the village had had *
a quarrel with him. One day
'the old iion tried to board ai1"
Lv
ttain whieh di 1 not stop, lie;
' was thrown a ureal distance and i 11
* 1 it
fell in a heap on the track in, ,
, the rear of the departing train. | .j.
The t roop of villagers on the depot
platform thought that their
1 e editary enemy had been ki'l b
ed before their ejes and were! ^
ready to drop all their bitter t|
oreiudiees at the lthvh
One ran up to where the la! r!
len monarch lav, ami, seein" '
!
9*gns ol returning; life, anxiously a,
asked: ''Are you badly hurt,'*4'
captain?''
With the first short breath the j|?
I fallen man was able to dra v he. a*
j gasped : "No, you d old fool!
| That's the way I always get otr
| a train."
Happenings in Georgia.
rops Promising and Every
body Happy?-Howell anc
Smith's Mud-slinging Cam
paign?Lancaster Count]
Politics?Kershaw Dispen
sary Matter FabulOu:
Price of Georgia Peaches.
Mr. Editor: As the savin;
oes, the "hall in still rolling" ii
leorgia and the averse:* mai
ppears to tie in fairly eooi
pirits. The average farmer has
rett.v good stand of cotton am
orn and other crops, has no gras
ii cnt, good crop of peaches com
ng on and nothing to worry hin
juch except candidates. Th
allows in the city are rej >icin|
rith the farmers ami in the fac
liat almost daily they have ai
pportunity of seeing a "great
ame of tiase hall, the small hoy'
hief delight and the older fel
?w's favorite sport.
The Atlanta Journal and th<
itlanta Constitution are eacl
till trying to persuade the voter
r t1 :- ,u?t ? ..i. ?r ...
I vjreur^iti Mint vaun ui uic irn
ective candidates they an
spielling" for is the only possi
le man for governor andjthejoth
r fellow- aint in it at all. Of al
tie mud slinging that was eve
esorted to by candidates, wi
^link the two main candidate
>r governor, Howell and| Hok<
mith, have got all previou
ecords beaten several cit;
locks.
Announcements of candidate
>r county olfi ies are 'appearing
1 The News right rapidly, w<
otice, and from all appearance
ancaster county will have^a ful
rop of them before long. Woub
ke very much to be able to at
Mul some of the county cam
aign meetings this summer
They are always interesting
nd full of enthusiasm. We re
lember on one occasion, a fev
ears before we came to Georgia
t one of these campaign meet
igs a candidate for the Legisla
ire became very eloquent in hii
idress. but was careful not t<
ronnse too much, saving, "1 tl<
ot promise to turn Flat Creek
ito a stream of milk an l honey
r forty acre rock into a cake o'
mger bread, but 1 do promts*
lod service," e'c He waselecte?
nd made a goo i representative
It is too bad that a dispensarx
about to be forced upon the
eople of Kershaw against tin
isjority of voters there It n
srd luck on ttie town in thi>
ise, sure, that a portion of it n
i Kershaw county, since that
unity doesn't obj ?ct to a dispell
i r v. We shall ai'.va^s tee I (until
e a re more t hoi ougli ly con vi ncei
the contrary) that prohibitioi
better than a dispensary,
eery body knows that "prohibi
on will not prohibit", but give
a fair trial, every good in u
nng what tie can t > stippre-.'
le "blind tigers" and then watel
?r result*.
The peach crop in tun stat-'
ds fair to !) an average one
Iready smill shipments a r?
*1 r g made to northern citi.R
ore to be retailed at prices
iat seem in ns as extremely
dieiiloOH A .Macon man stop
in: in New \ ort- the other day
eing some peach* a * for sab
*ked the price nod was tol.i
?n l v live dollar* a ((''/.pa"
hink of ir. five bijr silver dollar?
r a doz-*n peaches H it tliev
tve a treat deal more mon-?v
id conn 'era1 Iv leps peach* s in
ew York than we have in (Jenr
a. po let 'em rip.
Former Lancastrian.
Macon, Ua.
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