The Dillon herald. (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, March 25, 1920, Image 4
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Dillon. S. l\. Match '25, 1930.
The meat packers are stiH blaming
the c nsumers for the high cost of
living.
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The worst thing about woman suffrage
appears to be that it is nearly
a fact.
Despite prevailing prices, it is
1? i f/>,. L-iftc th<in fires i
easier iu uu.? awvcs, 1Ui ...?
for automobiles.
There were evidences in Dillon
Saturday that the Volstead act
doesn't prohibit.
It would appear that when a modern
kid isn't riding around in an automobile
is roller skating.
One cf the outstanding features of
the Newberry trial was the sphinx
like silence .of Henry Ford.
By divulging secrets t Id him in
confidence Admiral Sims shows the
type of man he is. He ought to be
helped out o? the navy.
The more income tax people pay
the more firmly they are convinced
that the wh le business is unconstitutional.
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It is evident that Admiral Sims is
mad because they did not turn the
whole U. S. Navy over to him and
throw in Josephus Daniels to boot.
We are glad that Solicitor Warren
will advocate the repeal of the Vol
stetfd act. It has been si long since
the question of prohibition has been
before the people of the state that a
test vote will do both parties good.
x The announcement of the bureau
.of statistics that the price of cabbage
has increased 15 per cent is not discouraging.
The person who can digest
cabbage ought t^ be able to pay the
price.
The New Jersey gamblers who were
held up by robbers during a crap
game and robbed of $15,000 have no
right to kick. The only difference between
robbers and gamblers is
the method used in taking it.
The wets said it was bad enough
when a man couldn't take a drink
outside of his home without violating
the law, but. now the Florence
prohibition sleuths have arrested* a
man named Bud Weiser.
"Speed up, speed up!"-says the
government, "we must have greater
production." But still the fast trains
carrying the idle rich to winter resorts
have the right-of-way over
trains carrying freight, mail ayd ex
press.
And now they are afav siting a
"four-hour work da>*-" W.e have n0
objection to the four-hour day. I?
fact, we prefer the no-work day and
will become one of its most ardent
advocates, provided the theorists
will at the same time work out a
plan that#will provide the bread and
meat. ? ,
FARMERS PAYING CASH.
F r the first time in the history
of the county the farmers are doing
business on a cash basis. This does
not mean that every farmer in the
county will pay cash as he goes, but
the great majority of them have
enough m ney in the bank to make
and harvest this year's crops. There
are some few exceptions, of course,
but they are very few. The borrowing
habit has become so deeply ro ted
that it will take some farmers
many years to get out of it. Tltey must
borrow a little money, even though
they have a healthy balance in the
bank. But the number'is getting
smaller and smaller every year, and
if Driees h Id ud for another vear
or two the great majority of farmers
will become lenders instead of
borrowers.
Rev. J. A. Wilson Passes.
Rev. J. A. Wilson, for many years
pastor of the Dillon Presbyterian
church, died at a Columbia hospital
Tuesday after an illness of several
weeks. The announcement of Mr. Wilson's
death will be received in Dillon
with profound sorrow. For the past
eight years Mr. Wilson's health had
been failing, but his condition did
not become alarming until a fewWeeks
ago. Mr. Wilson was a native
of York county. He w-as educated at
Davidson college and prepared for
the ministry at the Columbia Theological
Seminarj-. He was Dillon's first
Presbyterian pastor and it was largely
through his efforts that the present
Presbyterian church and manse were
built. Mr. Wilson is survived by his
wife who was Miss Margaret Carriran
nf Snniptv Will and nnp son. Car
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rigan Wilson.
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TURNER-JACKSON.
Mr. and Mrs Sidney W. Jackson
have issued invitations to the marriage
of their daughter, Winnie
Davis, to Mr. Samuel Henry Turner.
The marriage will be solemnized at
the First Baptist church on April 7th
at 7 o'clock. The bride-elect was
born and reared in Dillon and has
many friends who are looking forward
to the happy event with much
, interest. For the past several years
she has held the position of stenographer
at Bethea & Moore's insurance
agency. The groom is a successful
young business man cf North
Carolina. I
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WHY MARLB
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Alfred G Smith, a representative
of the Country Gentleman, of Philadelphia,
the oldest agricultural
journal in the w rid, says the Pee
Dee Advocate, recently visited Marlboro
county, and the following article
from his pen appears in the Country
Gentleman of March 12:
F?fty years ago the soil < f Marlboro
county, South Carolina, was
petering out. In spots it had plumb
petered already. There were places
so sterile that they seemed hopeless.
In the piquant parlance of the
natives, the soil "was so poor you
had to bury a sack . f guano with a
man to rqake sure he'd come up on
Insurrection Day."
That was half a century ago.
The other day there was a bena
fide sale of farm lands in this sa ne
Marlboro county?bare la ?d. ?rii>,d
y u, without a vestige of a building
?for $725 an acre.
Referring to the 1910 census we
find that Marlbor0 county is credited
with an average of seven eighths
of a bale of cotton to the acre, mats
more than can be boasted by any
other typical cotton growing county
in the South. It's about two and a
half trnies the average for the cotton
belt as a whole.
It makes sales of land at $300 an
acr^n every day affaif in Marlboro
county, and sales as cited above at
$700 odd an acre not unheard of.
In fine, the cotton land in this
same Marlboro county is perhaps the
most expensive in the South. If you
long to move among the elite in
cotton growing circles, just you move
to Marlboro county?if you can stand
the price.
Now this is not a prospectus. It is
merely a sort of text or exordium or
exegesis or whatever you may want
to call it, designed to call attention
to the fact that mote fertilisers are
a tplied^iit growing any other staple
crop in Marlboro county, acre font
re than .'.re applied in gro v.n: an;
other staple -crop anywhere in these
United States. It is designed to demonstrate
beycrnd peradventure that of
on niaooQ in the world Marlboro
county is pre-eminently the place to
go to get the real inside dope on the
question of fertilizers for cotton.
In the beginning the soils of Marlboro
county were by no means rich.
When first cultivated they never grew
the heavy crops of corn and wheat
that were common on the virgin lands
of the Middle West. They are sandy
and sandy loam soils, usually underlaid
with a porous subsoil, although
some have sandy subsoils 1
Unless these soils are carefully
handled they soon wear out. /
Learning by Experience.
But a little over a half century
ago, long before agricultural experiment
stations were established in
this country, the farmers there began
to use fertilizers, and since then
fertilizers have been an outstanding
factor in making the county what
it te. The farmers didn't know
what the soil needed nor what was
good for the different crops nor just
how to applv the fertilizers to make
the best yields. They kept trying
different fertilizers ana auiereiu
methods, however, frequently experimenting
in a crude fashion, until
gradually they learned the ^'a>"
that paid. *
As their knowledge of fertilizers
increased and they found out how
to make a profit, they kept on using
more and nior? fertilizer, until now
?well, in Marlboro cpuntv a farmer
is hardly considered up-to-date
unless he uses 1000 pounds to the
acre. Lots of good farmers use
1500 pounds. Some of the real
sports use a ton or more. Of late
years thirty dollars an acre has not
been an uncommon expenditure for
fertilizing in growing cotton. I have
known of applications that cost forty
dollars an acre. It looks like a
risky business, paying out so much
money, or going in debt for it, then
expecting to make it out of the crop
and pay it back in the fall. But
farmers have been successful at it
or they wouldn't keep on doing it.
The yields of cotton have increased
enormously. Lands that a few
years ago produced only a little better
than a hundred pounds of lint to
the acre are now making round a
bale. I have driven along Marlboro
county roads where for mile after
I mile every field would make a bale
and some as high as two bales to the
acre. Ask any of these farmers
what makes such high yields and
they will tell you at once that it is
just fertilizer.
As a matter of fact, however, it is
not just fertilizer. No haphazard
application of fertilizers, however
heavy, could yield such satisfactory
and uniform results There are oth
er factors. These farmers could
never afford to use fertilizers so lavishbly
if it were not for other things
that supplement and make profitable
that lavishness.
One of these factors is a soil and
climate that give assurance of a
good crop every year. Crop failure
?that is, failure for the whole community?is
unknown. The land is
gently rolling, yet not so rolling as
j to require terVacing. This gives it
.excellent natural drainage, and even
I in years of abnormal rainfall good
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iriboro County, Where
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.crops arG made. The rainfall isI
fairly uniform during the season,!
however, and the yearly variations !
are not wide.
I know of some lands outside of j
this county, near the coast, that lie
quite level. The natural drainage
Is not provided. In extra good
years these lands produce magnificent
crops and heavy use of fertilizers
pays well, but In years when the!
rainfall is much above the average'
crops are poor and money spent for
fertilizers is almost wasted. On such
soils as these, therefore, the crops
are too uncertain to risk heavy applications
of fertilizer and consequently
the average application lar-,
small. Marlboro county and other
sections with sure soils and uniform
climate have a great advantage over
sections like these, since good returns
are obtained from the use of ,
fertilizers even in adverse seasons.
It is noticed that in any part of the ,
county where fertilizers are used
most heavily there are few if any
crop failures because of the soil or'
the climate.
Another factor that goes to justi- ;
fy the lavish use of fertilizers is a (
crop that gives a high return an i
acre. Crops that require little la- (
bo/\ like oats, are cheap, but crops \
that require frequent tillage and (
much labor in harvesting like cot- (
ton, tobacco or truck crops, must of ;
necessity have a high valuation t>r
folks will not grow them. Fertilgs- .
ers can be used more profitably on j
these expensive crops than upon the'
cheap ones, for a given percentage',
of increase in the yield is worth!
more. The following examples will I.
illustrate this point: ?
3uppose a certain cotton crop was,
ordinarily worth, without fertiliz-'
ing eighty dollars an acre, and a
corn crop forty dollars an acre. Sup-,
pose that an application of ten dollars'
worth of fertilizer would increase
the yield of each of these
crops by thirty-five per cent. The
value of the increase in the cotton
crop would be twenty-eight dollars
an acre, and the profit eighteen dollars.
With corn the increase would
be worth fourteen dollars, and
there would be a profit of four dollars
an acre. In this case it would
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'pay to fertilize ddid urups, iuvu6u
the greatest profit is made with the
crop that has the highest value an
acre.
Now suppose that with an application
of twenty-five dollars' worth
of fertilizer there would be an increase
of sixty per cent in the yields
of both crops, which would not be
an uncommon result. The value of
the increase of the c otton crop
Mould be forty-eight dollars an
acre and of the corn crop only twenty-four
dollars. With the cotton,
aside from the extra cost of harvesting
and marketing, the profit
from the use'of fertilizer would be
tM-enty-three dollars an acre, but
Mith the corn the increase in
yield M'ould be bought at an actual
loss of one dollar an acre. Such an
application for cotton M'ould be profitable,
but f#r corn it M'duld not
pay unless the residual effect of the
fertilizers was such as to make the
application M-orth while in spite of
the loss on the corn crop.
| The cotton crop, therefore, has
been largely responsible for the
heavy use of fertilizers in Marlboro
Icounty. Without cotton much lessi
fertilizer would e u sed and the,
Imethod of maintaining the soil ferItility
would vary greatly from that
!of the present system. Farming
'areas of the United States that
grow more extensive crops with a
lower value an acre than cotton will
never be able to use so much fertilizer
and use it s'o profitably as those
areas which grow intensive crops.
Furthermore, these farmers do
not depend on just fertilizer to
keep up their soil. A supply of
organic matter in the soil, to conserve
the moisture and help to make
the p lant food more available, is
essential. Without humus the fertilizer
w ould largely be wasted.
Cotton farmers in Marlboro county
use different methods of keeping up1
this organic supply.
Cowpeas are grown in the corn'
and after oats, for hay or soil improvement.
Some velvet beans arej
used, and the manure produced on
the farm is carefully conserved The I
principal way of supplying organic I
matter, however, is to turn under'
the crop residues of cotton and corn,
but more particularly of cotton.
urUAt.ft cutsit. I*nonr violrla r\P notfnn
U I1C1 C OUVfl nvtt? J j Vfc vwvvw
as are common in this county are
made, the stalks cannot be fed like
cornstalks, and they are turned under
and left to rot in the land for
the benefit of the succeeding crops.
Where these heavy growths of
stalks are made, and the application
of fertilizers is heavy, cotton j
can be grown on the same land year]
after year and frequently the yields.
will gradually increase.
There are instances in the county
where land has been planted in
cotton continuously for forty-five
years, yet the yields are better to-'
I day than at any other period of J
| their history. Thus it will be seen'
.that rotation, while often desirable,
lis not an important factor in growing
cotton in Marlboro county. Heaw
vy fertilizing, which supplies plant
food, and the heavy crop residues, t
which supply the organic matter, c
make rotation unnecessary. . t
Model llUage Practices. \
Still another reason why* Marl- 1
boro county gets big yields is that I
the farmers generally follow good I
tillage practices. Fertilizers are 1
directly r esponsible for this. Cot- f
ton fanners are usually looked upon
as being rather slovenly in tending
their crop, but I have never
seen anything in the Corn Belt or
anywhere else that could surpass/
the thoroughness with which cotton i
is tilled in Marlboro county. The <
reason is that when a farmer puts ?
out twenty-five or thirty dollars' j 1
worth of fertilizer an acre he does]!
not want to take any chance on los-j1
inir it. fonseniipntlv thp lahor is i
followed up closely and the tillage
work is done well and done.on time, ^
to make the best use of fertilizers.
I once suggested to a large planter
that the heavy applications of fertilizers
might t be responsible for
much of the general improvement in
tillage.
"That's the case with nie anyway,'*
he agreed. "When I put up
thirty or forty dollars an acre for!
fertilizers I know good and well I1
am going to see that tlTe crop is
tended right "
? His case is like that of many oth
er farmers with whom I have talked.
They know that to get their
money back with a profit added to it
they have to give a crop a chance
tG grow, and they prepare the laQd
and look after the cultivating the very
best way they know how.
A cardinal point these farmers
learned long ago is that it does not
pay to give all kinds of plants the
same kinds of fertilizers. The soils
they deafl with are practically all
deficient in phosphorous, nitrogen
and potassium, and materials containing
one or more of these elements,
such as acid phosphate, cottonseed
meal, fish scrap, tankage,
Kiiiidie ui suuu, puia.su, Kaiuu, uic
applied. But it doesn't usually pay
to give all the plants the same kind
of concoction, nor in the same way.
Corn, for example, needs a fertilizer
that contains mor^ nitrogen than
cotton, for its best development.
Early Irish potatoes, whichtsome of
the farmers grow, need more potash
than corn or cotton, for best results.
Furthermore, you * cannot, put 1
down the fertilizer in just any old
way and always get the same results.
In growing corn, where the i
land is well built up. usually no I
fertilizer is put down at planting <
time, but an application is made
when the plants-are about tw0 feeet |
high. i\itrs?*e of soda is then applied
about the time the corn begins
to> tassel. In this way the
plant grows off slowly, making a
small stalk, apd by applying the fertilizer
late the plant food goes to
make the ear instead of the stalk.
Where the land is poor, some fertilizer
is put down when the com is
planted to give it a good start. The
big idea, however, is to make a comparatively
small stalk and a big
ear, and tl?e fertilizer is applied accordingly.
With cotton, most of the fertilizer
is applied before the crop is
planted. Cotton, early in thc sea
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son is a siuw growing piaui, unu me
fertilizer is needed to start it on.- A
second application is sometimes
made when the cotton is chopped
out, and then nitrate of soda is
eommonly applied about the time
the first blooms appear, so that
there will be a good supply of plant
food for making the fruit
These farmers, therefore, try to
give each crop the specific kind of
plant food needed, and to feed it at
a time when the plants can make
the best use of it. They have become
especially skilled doing this,
and not a little of their success in
farming can be attributed to this
fact.
Most of the Marlboro county far- .
mers buy fertilizer on credit, giving |
notes that come due the fall to i
pay for it. I
This credit system enables a poor [
man 011 poor land to get a start. I
once asked a successful farmer who [
had started from the bottom, how 1
he would start t0 build up the land, I
if he had poor land and no money. I
The reply came almost instantly: '
"I would get some fertilizer man I
to credit me for fertilizer."
To develop this credit system, |
however, it h as been necessary to 1
use fertilizers that are readily avail- I
able. Tho main benefits had to be |
obtained the year in w-mcn me ier-|
tilizer was used or the loans would
not be safe. Farmers ordinarily
expect to make a profit over and
above the cost of the fertilizer the
first year and pay the bill in the
fall. If fertilizers not readily available
were used, and the fertilizer
company had to wait three or four
years for an increase in the growth
of the crops that would pay f r it,
this credit system would be impossible.
Fertilizer companies and
banks do not credit the farmers for
such a fertilizer as rock phosphate,
which is not readily available, unless
the fanner is financially strrng
enough to meet the obligation even
though he were to receive no return
from the use of the phosphate. This
is why rock phosphate nearly always
sells f r cash.
I could name many other things .
that these practical farmers have |
learned in the profitable use of fertilizers,
but these are among the
i^ost important. They pour in fertilizer
and grow cotton while the
siren song of crop rotation and diversification
falfc unheeded. But
mixed with the fertilizers are those
other essentials without which, even
with fertilizer, the land never could
ha\> been brought from a point near
exhaustion to its present high state
of productivity. These essentials
are sure lands, an abundant supply J
cf organic matter, an intensive andi
valuable crop, good tillage, fert'
tion to meet the spe/ific needs or|
the specific crop, ana a substantial;
credit system % 1
The farmers have combined all
hese factors and made Marlbor
:ounty famous. They have made
nore than two bales of cotton grow
vhere nlv one grew before. They
lave made poverty-stricken lands
iroductive; cheap lands high-priced;
)oor farmers rich. And back of it all
ies the skilled and intelligent use of
ertilizers.
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