The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, September 15, 1906, Image 2
Agricultural !
Marketing Cotton. 1
( Mark Ramsay, Wellington, Ala.,
in Atlanta Constitution.)
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1 am certainly dumbfounded ^
Ht the cottou market the last t
thirty days. In the face of the t
fact that the acreage is only a i
little above what it was last year, t
thus producing a 10,500,000-bale j
crop, and now we see the tprice y
drop, drop, drop ! There is some- *
thing rotten about this somewhere,
as we are not going to
have a 15,000.000-bale crop or
anything ol the kind. I take '
ton or twelve papers, all of which (
pay much attention to cotton, ?
and i have see.n five to six bad 1
reports where 1 have seen one i
good one. The^e reports cover 1
the entire cotton belt, so where j
is all these bumper crop reports |
coming from to send the price to (
i h o on f for KofrkVd f Ko oat ton io
gathered? I am persuadedjto be
iieve the big weed cotton cames
t his year has misled the reporting
world, This, ot course,i is
caused bv the over supply of rain,
which has fallen ^gincessantly
since July 1st. For thi9 reason
there has been no plowing done
of account since June. Every
cotton farmer knows it is impossible
to hold the Augustjljand
'September fruit on fcotton^wrth
out July plowing. To mv certain
knowledge these have been fhe
conditions over a large territory
and from Georgia, NorthQfCarolina.
South Carolina and Mississippi
comes the report Jof rai.
just as it has here. . Grass and
weeds have, as a natural consequence,
taken possession of a
vast areft in cotton. It was in
1903 this bit* weed fooled ^the
people and had them thinking a
mighty crop was being made,
and the following winter cotton
went to 17c. Onlyadayor so
ago I reati a market report,' from
New York stating that as an enormous
crop was a certainty,
cotton was seeing the 9c level
which would leave at that price a
handsome profit to the grower,
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oi-u. iiienc uuuiiei suup experts
who write such letters have raised j
no cotton and don't have nmc1
idea what it does cost. At 10
we do, of course, get a reasonable
profit, but we don't get what we
should have at any lower price.
J t now comes the tune for the
farmer to step right up and dofei.d
his own interests and put
a Rtop to cotton going on the
market at less than 10c. for judging
by the way it has tumbhd
the past four weeks, we won't
get Gc a pound for it.
Surely the fanners and bankers
of the sou'h can carry one-half
the cotton crop, and if they will ,
only do m;, we will get a living j
price iOi i*, and if they don't we
will get Gc or even iess. I know
I h?ve observed closely, and I
can't to save me see any justification
f.: cotton dropping as itjt
o?>a. v'here is our Southernjf
Cotton Association ? liod knows )
if tney over expect to be of bone- 1
*it to tho over-abuaed cotton t
planter, now is the time to lend a p
helping hand. (Jet every state ;i
and county thoroughly organized I
and Mimplv keep enough cotton 1
off the market to save'the peo- n
pl8 from another destructi vo pe- n
?riod of low cotton. 1<
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l)o vou take The News? r<
Department j
roo Much Vine and No Potatoes.
liill Moore, Newman, Ga.?1
lave a patch of potatoes that wan
et in a rich garden spot which
ias been kept cultivated and
hey grew nicely ; have covered I
he ground with vines 16 inches
n depth. I have examined in
he hill and there is no forma lor
jotatoes. Please tell rae what
-ou think is the trouble with
hem.
Answer?It is probable that
he soil on which you have your
potatoes has had too much stable
>r lot manure or too much cotton
iesd or cotton meal. In other
vords too much nitrogen. There
s nothing that can be done now
hat will avail anything. Possibly
t was simply too much rain and
hat the roots will yet form potatoes.?
Atlanta Constitution.
Fall Rertilisnntr nf Strawber.
ries.
(By TO. F. Massev.)
A correspondent in southern
Alabama writes that last October
he applied to his strawberry tield
800 pounds of acid phosphate,
400 pounds of cotton seed meal
and 300 pounds of sulphate of
potash per acre. The past spring
he applied a ready mixed fertilizer
claimed to have 3 per cent
of nitrogen, 19 per cent phosphoric
acid from bones and 7 5 per
ceut ot potash. lla wishes to
know if it will pay him to use
more nitrogen and potash on the
field this fall.
While one full crop is about
all that we would usually take
i rum ? sirawoerry plantation
and our friend does not say how
old his plantation is, 1 can only
say that if the plants are still in
good shape and the land is not
weedy, he may get another crop
from these plants by good treat
meut. The time at winch the
greater part of the fertilization
of a strawberry plantation should
be made is during the late summer
and fall, so that the young
runners that have started this
season will be enabled to make
strong crowns for the next season's
fruiting. 1 would make the
same application this fall, and
would make it at as early a date
as possible. Then in the spring 1
do not think *hat a heavy application
of a mixed fertilizer is
needed. The best |>I<in will be to
use iu the spring only an appli
cation of nitrate of soda at rate
:>f 100 to 150 pouuds per acre a
lougside the rows just as the
plants begin to start in growth,
Hut take care that it is not applied
on the rows of plants, as it
nay scorch the leaves. This will
lave a stimulating effect on the
jlants that have already made
he matured growth from the
all fertilizing. Then, too, in the
ate fall prepare a new piece of \
and and on it use the same mix
ure of fertilizer at rate of 1,500
lounde per acre, and harrow it
n well, and set a new plantation,
n your climatp, November or '
)ecember will bp found the best
lonths to set the plants. This
ew plantation nil xild not be al (
>wed to fruit the next Rpring, .
ut should have a fresh applies- j
on of the late nprinp, or in Jiiue 1
3 thai thore will be a strong i
growth of young plants and
fruiting crowns for the next ;
season.
Then every fall set a new plantation,
and take but two crops i
from the old one. As soon as the
fruit is off, you can turn the
whole under, and can make a
heavy crop of cotton on the same
land, as is often done in North
Carolina. It is far more profitable
to set a new plantation annually,
and another in its second
crop, and to be plowed under
after fruiting, than it is to try to
get a crop from older beds Using
fertilizers heavily, one should
always take to have the strawberry
plantation of land that is
naturally moist and well mippl led
with humus, so that the fertilizer
applied will be dissolved so
that the plants can use it. On
land of this character you can
use fertilizers more liberally than
on dry land deficient in humus.
Comment?The editor is curious
to learn where the correspondent
in southern Alabama
got a fertilizer carrying *'3 per
cent of nitrogen, 10 per cem
phosphoric acid from hones and
7.5 per cent of potash." It must
have been a mixture of raw bone
meal (or bone flour) along with
nitrate of soda and murate of
potash ?Southern Cultivator.
Farmers Have a Right to
Criticise Clemson Dollege.
| Greenville News; if the farmers
j of South Carolina have not a
| right to criticiseClemson College,
then pray tell us who has? When
we cousider the amount of money
the farmers of the State are pay
ing for the support of that inati
tution it is not unnatural for
them to call attention to fau'twhenever
they see them. The
farmers are the friends of Clem
son College and it is only natural
that they should take deep
interest in it to prompt criticism,
when they see an opportunity to
bring about a change of conditions
for the better by doing so.
Clemson College is yet young,
and taking all things into consideration,
has done wonders for
its age. It is not perfect?no one
is?but it is the common duty < f
all to strive for perfection. To
have our errors pointed out to u?
is oftentimes necessary for our
upbuilding. We are not requir
ing too much of Clemson, but wh
do expect for the management 01
that institution to irivo a re-neet
ful and attentive ear (o legitimate
criticism, such as has been made
this summer by farmers and
others.
Few people ever arrive at a
point where they are above eriti I
cistn We are unite satisfied
that Glemson College is not above
it. The institution belongs to the I
State and by reason of its public
ownership tbe.peopleof the State,
especially the farmers, have a
right to call attention to its faults
whenever and wherever ihev
find them.
Fatal Duel on Car Platform.
Macon, Ga , Sept. 12.?Lee VV.
Hicks, until recently a prominent.
stock man in this city, was
shot and killed tins afternoon
about 2 o'clock at or near Brook .
Ville, Florida.
He was a conductor on a train
that runs between Brooksville
ana Hudson, 1'la.
Later particulars of the tr.ige !
jy at Brooksville, state that Lee!
Hicks and J M. Iliugin^bot ham,
jon'racfor of Brooksville, fought
i (fuel with pistols on the plat*
orm of a car an the train was
eavitifi, the station. Both men <
vere killed.
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