The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, March 25, 1908, Page 2, Image 2
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Agricultui
> De
absolutel:
crops to j
partment and whil?
i i i j a rotatioi
THE LAN
y necessary wiih most Cp3
prevent soil exhaustion, Jgj
? it is belter to pursue
i of otlier crops with
OASThK NkWS, MARCH
[ 25.1*08
R8 Mi
More Cottor
F.J. Merriatn in S<
Every cotton
should he, iniere
increase ins viel<
acre.
A bale to two
col ton, at
i Per Acre. quite poe
juthern Euralist. gHnie
farmer i% or an(j at th
sled in how lo ftU(j impr
1 ot cotton per ,Q j0 this
the tirat ]
acres i* aboet ?tt
t the same time it is Hfl
sible to grow cotton on 01
Inn I \ear ai'er year
10 e?me time increase ^||
ove the land. In order* w
?, however, we much, in Q1
place, reurn to the land
...J 4 _ 1 <T l ^ 1 ?-rl
^ I jS
s 1
5INC
JT
I Hi
1 i
all that can bo e
^ood land witl
methods of cultr
and the u^jal
standard fertili
With the present
and fertilizer hi
nit tun 3r
xpected 011 even #ll(, (h
1 tile oidilliiry ?le 8talk|
nation and seed, ar0i jns|
200 pounds of turMd t
zer per ?cre. ? i
1 figures si
t cost of labor 0
_ Suppoi
iid other item* .
oro.iiir.eti
? u ?'ii K>y iue crup, \i]
ie second place, aee that jjJ
* are not burned, but j>j
ead, chopped up and j~<
inder. The to!lowing tj
iow why: Ji
se that an acre of land gl
300 pounds of linf r?nf. ^5
J
*
which go to iticr
production, one
to grow ricii
though cotton is
cents per pound.
The thing for
how to grow m
ea^o tlie coat of ton. Th
cannot expect in this 3C
very last, even amounts
selling at twelve ,r|?er har
tained in
us to s'udy i- which cat
ore C ?t t n on H ) to $3.43.
e plant food or fertility f'\
j>?
10 pounds ot lint only |
to 22 cents. On the
id, the plant food conti
e 054 pounds of seed >i\
no from thid lmtamouiib vl
which, if you sell, vou sd]
11 U I c<
ri I S D
>me Qui
nd take advantag
>ress Goods. Notir
Lck
e of our sweeping
ins. T^mhrrnr1pr\; I
sale. J j!J
nrpQ I ^ 'it
jiiven amoum ot
the same, it not
this end I wi-h !
attention a fev
te.'in to me of v
id011 u this line.
The Land?T1
I 1 r*
L'lnd, ,,v* ^ remove ff
lets, labor. To entlyo
bring to >ou' >Jo\v, t
r points which an(? r0ots
it ri importance j0unilsoi
plant toot
ie condition ?'f a??rP c
11 '-H
om your land perra?ny\
lie stalks, leaves bolb Mj
upon which this 300
[ lint srew contain tut re
(1 iban many people are ~v\
ii. Itogetber tliis ^||
I I
ilks, etc. This st
about $5,000, anc
gardless of cost 11
r nnr immpnco nfn
:ock has been rec
1 must now be sol
i order to make
1 r rvf
luced i ^
tl out I |f|
room I ^ |>i
unr lana is oi ui
As you all I n m
of cotton laud la
e1 about lour
inches deep, wl
start with, tnat \
advanta.ee o!
IliiJ isff \ U if
rtc unpo'tauc >. ..mounts
r, the m >j'?ritv food is tli
tid is only plow- ic acid ri:
or possibly six sjs shows
lich shows, to the same
,ve ??*e not tak oommerci
the opp r'uni- . d t*l the
'
to $5.35 This plant Hft
ib Ammoni'i, phosphorid
potash which analy- "y\
they c on tain. It is
thills you huy in a r*!
111 tertdizer and figur
t, ^
pame price If yon y^
N si
i 1 ap\ '
1 vrui lllllliV^llOV^ OIVJ
ices
A n#l
v-rv vi
I
I
' *V) ? "il '1 UU i u 7
If s ands to reav
proved t?y experi
broken ten or
deep is capable o
very muoh larger
broken only four
deei) Did ir oxrt
i/ui w>vu 'urn ines
>n, and lias b9??n :urn it to
^nce, that land '''e stall;
, . i up in sni
t\vc 1 v9 inches , 1
lost amm
,f supporting a ,jy ,,)e
crop ?hun land ,, , ,
r 'ho lmi, i
or six inches ??,
tain-',22 c
>r r.fflir In vim
e s'aiKS unuer you ie- \i
the soil. It you burn ^
Is all the ammonia >>oes
oke The urn mania ?" y
mt- to $3.40.
old method vou fell
nd the fertility it con j^l
;ents ; also the seed and u?
v\
jttl
Mc
%
ill's
Wear.
that by deepenin
were really incre
sge? Yoq can ac
right under the *
working, and wb
good clay subsoil
is oiten very run
" I the lerti i
?z your soil yoU ,nd you t
a-dotc your acre- t}1<?atrirno
id another ucre f\liosjetht'
-><e you are no'-v worth o' i
ere you have ? produc'>t>M
, the second acre j cottou ? m
ch richer than'
ty it contains, $3 43, r~'
nirn the htalks and lose J
nia they contain, $3 40
r you remove $7.05 tM
f-rtihlv Irotn each acre
Si
: o00 pounds of lint
jli year And what do
jj I II I xvi
lich we wexpect t<
e future. No use <
11 say that this is
a handle exclusive
quoting prices hen
a nice stock of g
the lirst. Mor>
cultivute both :ioi
time, and v.hilo
double the numb
can, with proper
tilizing, double tf
By iuc'easimr
you put D
over, you ci? Abou' -0
pes at the earn-' t tin111 i
, \ o? may not fv.rtiUty <
lt of y>u it, 'lSi
tiilap*, and ter- VOUr land
mi \ujlcl. poorer i*v(
the ileo'h *'f ?* ' ,<k
acK to take its place? Nf
pounds of fertilizer
i about $2 worth of vtj
>r plant food. From '<!(
very o tuy to see that
becoming $5 an acre no
ary year, and it is or.'y ?jj
. ~t *,i Mi".
! T *
mparatively new,
st, and we guaran
i in it cheaper thar
retail or make yoi
1 rY*1
selling at and k
tee to sell you any
1 you can buy elsev
i a present of it.
>elo\v I
inhere R JlS
5<(vX] bWe
your soil you a id
to the root rau^e
tor cotton r ;ois
trate to any great
liardpan at the
furrow. You c i
that i>y increasi.i;
? .j.,.
j'ist that much xv111 bee -t
of your crop, pay to cul
will ii"t pene-i On the
; extent into the I sell ?he 3
'bottom of ' ^e j r,?:Tj'.ve l?
ti?er for se?' . plan1, fooc
I1 ois p is' Ufaue, | K not
i \j i 'ii i iiiny wiiuii 11 ' |!
ne no poor it will not
It: Vat*.
T~1
other hand, if wo only /*jj
>) ) pounds of lint we xjj
nt 22 co.it>' worth of
l, and nearly all of this y,
il?f? r.t' ft p. I'ticuncul nl.j
TXEPiJIESiBS
ean business. 1 \v
Yours
It n PS an
e goods will be so!
i truly,
ik ?^4 t# 1 a*. S?fe n
'.... ii
as it were, you I
much more plar
reach of your cro
t'lis de?penin i c?j
it just that much
r staining tnoisf ur
acre broken ten ii
I I>rin:j
ju-?t that me'itf? ot j
it food within ; vf>pl>inn i
p. Kutherm ?r?-,! tV.rtil Zer i
the soil muiv : ^horic aci
more capable of j tion ?o t
e. In f ?ct, one iti;> stalks
aches deep will | laud will
? .. ^ < If ' (>
?1 .nt food. TSu-n by
t reasonable am umt of ^
i) the shape of phosI
a id j>or ish in add:- yj;
lie 8e<*d returned, and ?n
> turned under, your |a,
crow richer everv voar ....
2 If 8111(11!
8
vmmmmnwiM hiotmct?uimm?
h1 in cotton, but ho turr
.1 ? it. . 1 i J . i
0 His
I 'd | i 11'o the composition
vfi tump
of cotton make m>?re col
il 13} |
ail
ae,fNi,<3?Xgg:xi!<i
'On p?r acre ?h?n
hold more water
l roken live inclie
lose it very much
if '-nly half the a
i; can evap traie.
t ? carry * orr croi
time and will mj
than two acres ilJfl your
a deep, ami will though yo
slower, as there ion .11 th?
re from which ; plant food
This will help 80 .small a
p through a dry is so gre
\ke it possible u-hai malt
j * ? ; iiu
crops larger, even \rA
u grow nothing but cot- 1 .,n
i land. The amount of) pt.
1 removed by the lint is a|.
,nd the value of this lint <>H
at in comparison, is yr
;es cotton so valuable ?u
it-r i m- biiiihs alio piu me s
ck on the land. He used o
out 200 pounds of fertil
r acre, but his crop increa
(1 his cotton stalks grow ta
f'h ye*r, until alter lift
a's of comtant cotton plant
,iuu L ! u 1 I.' u i ro itr t hr.il 1 /I ivr 1^
iee<i ana wnai iT takes troi
nly to demonstrate that v
izer ligent work the South
iS?'d cotton indefinitely on
ller l?n 1, wuh a modern
eeo commercial (ertilizcr.
;iun the seed are r' turned
?111 ..-i I -
in the soil you ever thou^l
vith intel Especially it tl
may tirow combine this ti
the same ing with the 8'
te use of para'ion outli
ll nil of your crops of cr
lo the land er each year, ai
lit possible before.
is true when you
nethod ot fertilirfitem
of soil pre
ned above. As
t'on become laru
<1 as the qnan'i
t ) me more term
fatre. I' feeem
therefore, that
acreage downwa
Rlep to bo taken I
i?i? our yield.
Cotton is a it
jz-?r to aivan- p mon
s self-evi'ient, sp?*ct no r
mci easing our with it.
rda ie tlie first [ have i
toward increas purchased
years a?>o,
lost wonderful worked in
ey crop. In this re?ili?5r
crop can compare ro
rel
11 mind a friend who ja,
a farm about twenty wj
Tlie land bail l>e"n tj)(
cottou for many years, Pfl
om?I no f. i u n oMinnuci u
d produced nearly a bal
tton per acre Good tillage j
usinj? to sell anything off
?d that carried plant food
ut di 1 it. In ca?o you
3 seed you 9hooll put t!
divalent Iiap.1t hv iisini/ i
11/ w 111 IIU I>u II^I*? 8^11
e ol an araraoniated forti
and you will need to bs
the the plant food in the i
vv.ts pounds per ncro ol aci
sell ash fertilizer, analyz
inir | ten per cent phosphorii
inat I f ratn fruit* f a qi v r%r
rv IO u?e ty 01 seed to be
lizer. All es, it will be i
lance the use more phogj
*eed is 400 to b dance the i
<1 and pot- Ot ammonia
iiig about fruiting It wi
3 acid, and nary ?8 your co
. li. ??
returned incre^sneces-ary
also to
[d?a'e an i pota-di
noreased quantity
to insure heavy
ill also bo iieces>
ton prows larger
crop, Hie grerUcat
the >vorli ; for t'r <
1hrtt the lint, ' he r
ve pell, carries lei
1 lie hind when si
other crop Wbi
; money crop in j an ! w n i
9 simple reason | The cntt<
ujiin part wh eh about kne
gs pl^nt food ofl a bale to
old, than any acrea.
!o a ro'a'ion is j lie con
apparently worn out. ti^,
on rftalks were only no
e hiph, ?he yield about ^r(
every three or lour cr<
y o
tinned fo plant this.
tit much more fertilizer,
other f^ay you continue
w cotton profitably nod
sage the fertility and valut
tir land a' the fame time.
1 have sroue thut ex'engiv
W-.- ...... .WW. . w o-A I'd ?
In We will H?y a J0-4 <
to , land, f*n'i a 10-0 on
in- ruber sandy
> of about tea pounds of
soda per a r? with tl
ely cive it h st?rt, and
4
>?n, jjuiupiii. 10 pui your ro
m rod clay and nivu moro
gray or drill.
Then us? It for any ro:
nitrate of larly desire to
l?e feed to >ou should p
you will <?ther torn the
W9 wider apart,
distance in the
*son you partiou
poll your seed,
urchafie in some
fertility thus re