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A DEFINITE Pi
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Numbers of bankers, merchants,
and farmers of the
State are aroused to the danger
of the advancing boll weeTil,
but many of them have no
definite and easily followed
program which will prove effective
in making the situation
livable when the weevil arrives.
Any 'crop rotation proposed
must tsJce into account renters
and share croppers who are a
majority of our farmers, and it
must at the same time appeal
to the large landholder whose
active co-operation will be obsolutely
necessary. Every authority
on the subject agrees,
first that the cotton crop should
be reduced, Meond, that food
crop* should be incr?iu?d|
t^ird, that the soil, should bo
V enriched, boforo tho weevil arrives.
Tho incroased food crops
should, of course, . ho readily
markotablo, and should afford
tho maximum improvement to
( tho soiL 1 btliev* we have on*
cfop tho 90 or 100 day velvet
beau?which U admirably
suited to this purpose, and 1
purpose, tho following recipe
for tho one-horse tenant farmor
which may be readily adapted
to use by farmers of any
. size.
The average one-horse farmer
now plants say twenty
acres of cotton and four acres
of grain (corn and oats.) Let
his merchant and landlord insist
on his planting this year
nt mini and
eighteen acres or less of cot*
ton. In the six acres of corn
insist that he plants early velvet
beans.
Next year (1918) hare him
plant nine acres of corn with
velvet beans and fifteen acres
of cotton. Six acres of these
fifteen will be behind the previous
year's velvet bean crop
and will require no fertilizing
except Acid Phosphate or
Ground Phosphate Rock, costing
$2.00 to $3.00 per acre.
In 1919 the corn and velvet
i bean crop should be increased
to twelve acres and the cotton
reduced to twelve, nine of
which will be behind the previous
year's velvet beans and require
but a small outlay for
fertilizer.
In 1920 the cotton acreage
may remain at twelve acres
and the other twelve should
fain bo pat into corn and
b?m and each year thereafter
the cotton will follow the bean
crop and the beans follow the
cotton crop. A cover crop of
Abrazxi rye (or in some cases
?. Crimson clorer) should each
^ year be put in the cotton.
While the boll weevil may be
expected to arrive here within
two years, it is probable that
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his maximum damagt will not
come before 1920. If tins
scheme is followed, our cotton
acreage will by then all be upon
land which has the previous
year produced the finest of humus
and nitrogen crops?velvet
beans?the fertilizer requirement
being less than 50 per
cmjkt. of that now considered
necessary. Upon such land and
wiith such fertilizing we may,
by following the government
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cotton under boll weevil conditions,
expect to malpe at least
as much cotton per acre as is
now being made. With moderate
fertilizing the corn may be
expected to make not less than
tea bushels per acre and the
beans not l*u than fifteen bushel*.
Tbree hundred bushels of
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the Tain* of the product of the
average twenty-four acres rented
or share cropped, and is
quite equal In value to the average
cotton crop upon ' the
same acreage.
It will in most cases be necessary
to plant for horse feed
about two acres in oats followed
by peas or beans to each
twenty-four acre crop. This will
come out of the corn and velvet
bean acreage and will not interfere
with the efficiency of
the scheme. If tobsicco is plant
ed, it should come out of the
cotton acreage.
The worst infested boll weeTil
areas in South Georgia, Alabama,
and Mississippi are now
using this velvet bean profitably.
The farmers claim that
they can raise from twenty to
thirty bushels per acre of beans
besides an average corn crop.
Wherever they are being raised
in any quantity oil mills and
merchants have prepared themselves
to grind them for feed
and the farmers, I understand,
are receiving about $20.00 per
ton for them in the hull. We,
ourselves, this year planted fifty-nine
acres of these beans in
corn, on poor, sandy soil. We
made from ten to iSvta?n hush.
Is of corn and from fifteen to
twenty-seven bushels of been*
per acre, the average yield of
beans being twenty and onehalf
bushels per acre (figuring
ninety pound* per bushel.)
We had seven acres of ^hese
beans on better land which produced
thirty-three and onethird
bushels per acre. They
are a magnificent feed, suitable
for feeding to mules and cattle
without grinding. Hogs will
also do well on beans, though
it is better to -feed them
ground.
In order to grow velvet beans
successfully !t is necessary to
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JOLL WEEVIL
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mend the planting of corn in
sevan-foot rows and the planting
of velret beans in an open
hovel furrow in the middles
from April 20th to May 1st. On
poor land plant one bean every
eighteen to twenty-four inches,
on rich lend one or two beans
every three or four feet. If
preferred, the beans may be
planted between the hills of
corn. It is absolutely necessary,
however, to get them in very
eerly if a full crop is to be
made.
It will be impossible to get
the co-ope ration of tha tenant
class in carrying oat this program
naloss they are assured a
reasonable tenure of the land.
The land owner' should assure
his tenant that he will not be
required to move as long as he
carries out this rotation and
properly cultivates his crop.
One of the most attractive
feaures of the program outlined
above is that it is safe
and practicable even if the boll
weevil should delay or entirely
CMie his progress (a theory
for which there is no warrant.)
If adopted, it will result in the
enrichment of the soils, the increase
of live stock, big reduction
in farm expense, and an
all round sane farming system.
Another most compelling reason
for greatly increasing the
production of grains and live
stock is the world war in which
it seems this nation will be
forced to become a participant.
A food famine threatens half
the world and even this great
food producing nation has no
adequate surplus with which to
relieve the necessity of other
people, and is itself feeling
most acutely the high cost of
the necessaries of life. Both
self-interest and patriotism
should at this juncture induce
every farmer in this country to
produce all the foods'tuff possible.
*
I hope very much that every
landowner, banker and mer- I
chant in the State will realize |
the absolute necessity of using |
his most earnest efforts to so- j
cure the adoption of this or
some closely similar program J
this very year by all our farmers,
both largo and small, white
and black. It U not mainly a
question of philanthrophy; it
is ono of actual broad and buttor,
in which the banker, merchant
and profoMional man U
just as much intorostod as is
tho farmer. Lot us than nil
wako up before it is too late
and do the obviously necessary
thing for our own and the
State's safety and prosperity.
DAVID R. COKER.
Hartsville, S. C., Feb. 5, 1917
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