The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, September 18, 1907, Page 2, Image 2
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Agricultural '
How Mr. A. J. Tindal Won !
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the National Corn Prize. >
Methods of Fertilizing and
Cultivation by Which He
Made 182 Bushels of Corn
on an Acre in larendon
County, S. C., and Won
the Prize for Biggest Yield
in the Nation.
Progressive Parmer.
Once or twice before, The
Progressive Fanner has mentioned
the remarkable yield of
corn produced last year by Mr.
A J. Tindal, of Clarendon County,
S. C., which won for him the
1100 prizo in the National corn
contest, for ihe largest yield in
the United States. We have
been wishing to publish for our
readers an account in detail oi
of the methods by which Mr.
Tindal accomplished this truly
note-worthy result, an-1 are glad
that at last we have an authoritative
report on his achievement.
This report of the National corn
content is by Prof. Thomas Shaw,
the crop and grain expert, and
covers in detail the methods
employed by the prize winner.
Mr Tindal is a graduateot Clem
sou College, S C., aud followed
Ihe methods of scientific farming
which have grown out of his
training at that school of agriculture.
The report as published
by Prof Shaw is as follows:
The acre of corn grown by
Mr. Tindal produced a remarkable
yield. It made him the
winner of a $100 prize (not in
eluding State prizes.) The corn
was grown on land possessed of
a cash value of $30 per acre.
CHARACTER OF TI1K SOIL.
. The soil, lather low and natur
ally wet, was l.umus in its composition,
at least, to a considerable
extent, chocolate in color
and was underlaid at a depth ol
about two leet by mixed gravel
and pipe clav of a non-receptive
character.
The soil was naturally enriched
by washing from the surrounding
soil and had also been highly
fertilized during the three
previous years. It had in it
one open and some branch drains
that were covered. In 1003 600
pounds of guano, with a compo (
frition of 8-S-4, gave a return ot
1,827 pounds of seed cotton. In
1004 600 pounds of 4-8-4 guano
and sixty pounds of nitrate ol
soda gave 132 bushels ol corn
and nine bushels of cowpeas. ink
1905, 600 pounds of guano, lOOj
pounds of nil;ate ol soda and
thirty pounds of nitrate of pot
ash gavd a yield of 3,012 pounds
of seed cotton.
PLANTING AND FERTILIZING.
Ou April 5, 1900, the ground
was plowed to the depth of four
teen inches, and the same day
was cross-plowed and sub-soiled
to the depth of twenty inches,
using a ten inch turning plow,
and the sub soil plow run in every *
furrow was home-made. Immediately
after, the same day, a!
spring tooth harrow was run
over the acre to the depth of
three inches and also a smooth
ing harrow. On April J6th it
was similarly harrowed and the 1
harrow was at once followed by (
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Department.
imoothiiig harrow. On May 7th
it was harrowed in precisely the
jame way as on April 16th,
The fertilizer applied was as
follows : GOO pounds ol complete
special guano containing 4 per
cent ammonia, 8 per cent phosphoric
acid and 4 per cent pothhIi
; 500 pounds of cottonseed
meal with a composition of 7.1?
and 1 ; 500 pounds of Peruvian
guano with a composition ot
8-8 5 and 2; and 400 pounds ot
nitra'e of soda with IS per cent
of ammonia. The first tnroe fertilizers
were applied in a furrow
oo M'?y 7, at the time of the
planting of the corn, and the
fourth was given as a top dress
in* on June 15th. One man,
with mule and plow, opened the
furrows and three men applied
the dressing by hand. The cost
of the fertilizers before application
was $32 45 for the acre.
The variety planted was the
Marlboro Prolific, grown by the
owner, who in 1000 introduced
the variety into the neighborhood.
The seed was planted in
rows that wore made with the
shovel. The kernels were buried
three inches deep in a well-pre
pared soil and one inch apart in
the line of the row. The rows
were thirty three inches distant
and twenty-eight quarts ot seed
were used, the germination of
which wi?s considered perfect.
The weather was dry until June
10th und was then over wet.
Til K CARE OF CORN.
On May 16th a weoder was
run over the corn to the depth of
two iuehes. It was cultivatad,
May 22nd and June 2nd, with
Bix'een-inch sweeps running to
the depth of about one inch. On
May 30th the crop was thinned
by hand to the distance ot four
io six inches between the plants
and weeds were removed. One
day with three men was occupied
in the hand work.
HAKVESTINO THE CROrS.
On August 27th the tops were
cut ofT and the fodder stripped
from the ear down. On Noveni
her 30th the crop was harvested
by plucking the ears. The same
day the stubs of the s'aljcs were
cut bv hand and shredd d. The
yield ot the corn was 182 bushels,
divine an average of 86 per cent
corn to cob.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
Expenditures were :
interest on land at 6 per
cent. $1.80
,o?t ol plowing 5 00
Cost of harrowing 1.00
Other labor in preparingland 1 00
Host ot fertilizers 32.45
Host of applying fertilizer* 1 00
[Jos* of seed .50
Host of cultivating 2.50
[lost of other work 1.50
Host of harvesting 9.80
Total cost. $56.55
ItMfoi nt.a tt oPH
'
IS2 bushels corn at $2 ^$364.00|
Hiree tons stover at $6 IS.00
1 100 pounds fodder it $20
per ton 41.00
i
Total receipts $423 00 j
Net profit $366.45
comments on crop.
The profit of $336.45 seems
arge indeed, from one acre
)f laud, butit will J be noticed
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that in reaching it the entire g
srop is valued at $2 par bushel '
on the assumption that it will all a
make good seed. For that pur ^
pose forty-eight bushels had been
sold when the manual was filled
out in the autumn o! 1906. The
fodder, which, I understand,
means the tops and haves, is ^
valued at$20 per ten. ^
To a Northern man this seems
a very large valuation. Bu' i
suppose the en?i:e crop is valued t
at 50 cents per bushel for feeding c
'I till i L . .. a I pit ... it it .I lit.] dpt. f /t pva! I. 1
on?u aim iuuvici ?
g
er $5 per ton. These would be g
worth the figures named in any s
part of tho United Sta'es; the
net profit from the acre would ?
9'ill be $44.45, or considerably
more than the land is worth. In
my judgment, the State ot South
Carolina should give Mr. Tindal (
a medal for what lie- has done.
His achievement is simply won "
derful and the lessons tr? m it
are many. They include the
following:
1. lie has brought into bo'd
reliet the wisdom of keeping
land in a high state of fertiliza
tion, as in 1903, 1004, and 1905
he got good returns from high
fertilization.
2. He has demonstrated tin
nreat value o! deep and thorough
cultivation in Southern soih <
when preparing them and of
pulverizing finely before plant k
mg. 1
3 II" has shown that a far ^
mer must not be a'raid to put on
a little hard labor when growing ^
crops will be benefited by it. -|
4 He has in ado il f*1??nr ilmt
to obtain maximum yields of *
corn the stand niu^l not be thin
or irregular, liis crop was grown J
more closely than corn is usualh
trown, but, of course, on some
soils it may bo necessary to plan' i
somewhat more distant. .
5 Ho has shown that in the '
South a farmer may apply fertilizer
that costs him more than
lus land is worth, and yet make
a good return for the investment
0 He has demonstrated that
a Southern farmer may ma?>e
enounous profits from growing
seed corn.
7 Finally, lie has shown that
in these United States we are only
in the A B C ot possible
production ot grain".
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