The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, September 27, 1917, Page 8, Image 8
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PAYS FOll HIS FARM.
One Crop of Peanuts Pays For Flor- !
ida Plantation.
Ships have been known to pay for 1
themselves on their first voyage, but
how often dees its first crop pay for
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a farm9
Yet that is precisely what the 35fiacre
farm of C. T. Colton, near Jay.
Florida, and a few miles from the
Alabama line, is doing, and the crop
is peanuts.
Mr. Colton bought the place last
March. He had a lot of clearing to
do, and didn't begin plowing until
April, and the farm today is one of
the most remarKaoie sigius me piue>
woods region furnishes.
Three hundred and twenty acre?
are in one field, and it stretches
away for miles, a solid mat of green,
over the surface of which the wind
plays in pretty ripples.
While the government advises
planting in 30-inch rows and S inches j
apart in the rows, Mr. Colton planted j
20-inch rows and 5-inch distances,
thus virtually doubling the planting, j
nor did he increase the fertilizer.
Yet, after examining the plants taken
from every part of the field, I am
convinced that neither the quality
nor the quantity of the nut to the hill
is diminished. Every plant I pulled
had from one cup to a cup and a half
of nuts that were full to capacity.
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Wfien more reacn mdium; tu? .mciu
will be greater. But estimating only
half a cup to the stem, the crop will
average over 100 bushels to the acre
for it is a 95 per cent, stand and
i there are 32,000 bushes to the acre.
Last year peanuts brought $1.00
a bushel. No price has yet been quoted
this year, because the crop isn't
in; but if anything, it will be higher;
$1.25 is a conservative estimate.
The production costs? 1 compiled
the following table from Mr. Colton's
books, reducing his totals into terms
of acres for convenience and discounting
liberally. Perhaps I should explain
that he can contract plowing
for $1.50 an acre; labor is $1.25 a
day, and the rent of a team is $1.00.
Per acre cost of raising peanuts on
C. T. Colton's farm, actual:
Plowing $ 1.50
Harrowing (2 times) 70
Dragging and smoothing . .35
Planting (man and horse
did 4 acres a day) 75
Three bushels seed at $2 6.00
weeaer cuuivduuu vo
times) 75
Laying by 50
500 lbs. fertilizer (carried
to field and distributed
in planter) .... 5.00
$15.55
Though the crop has not been harvested,
the costs will not run higher
than the following estimate. Digging,
of course, will be with a twohorse
machine; its catalogue capacity
is given at 15 acres a day, but I allow
five. Picking will also be done by
machinery, for which the usual contract
price is ten cents a bushel.
Per acre harvesting cost of peanuts,
estimated: ,
Digging $ 1.00 i
Placing on drying poles 2.50
Hauling to picking machine
2.00
Picking (100 bu. at 10c) 10.00
$15.50
To haul 100 bushels of peanuts
(3,000 pounds) to the shipping station,
Pollard, 4 1-2 miles away, will
cost $1.50; freight to the oil mill will
be $2.40, or $1.60 a ton. Total expenses
per acre are, therefore:
Production $15.55
Harvesting 15.50
Delivering 3.90
$34.95
Which, subtracted from the gross |
receipts for 100 bushels, at $1.00,
leaves a net profit of $65.05 per acre,
or nearly twice what the land sold
for.
But call it $50.00, to be on the
safe side; then lop 50 acres from the
total of 350 to allow for possible
waste, and there is a net yield of
$15,000, which leaves a tidy profit
in Mr. Colton's pocket after paying
for the farm bought six months ago.
Then there is the hay, which more
than covers Mr. Colton's salary for
superintendence, land rent, deterioration
of tools and overhead generally.
Peanut hay is worth on the open mar- <
ket $25.00 a ton, but Mr. Colton has
contracted his entire output at $15.00
a ton on the ground, not even baled,
but just as it comes from the machine.
There can't be less than two
tons an acre in that solid mat oi
green, but call it one to be safe? 1
$15.00 more for Liberty bonds.
Then, too, the ground has been imyiv.
.. w the extent of $5.00 an acre
bv -itrogen deposited therein.
Colton's cultural methods, orig~
d economical, were as follows:
ground was plowed, then har!
twice. The hulled nuts were
:ed by a one-horse planting ma?*nd
a Eureka weeder was sent
? . field three times. Mr. Colton
-ted from the recommendation
he government's bulletin here as
^ case of the planting distances,
v :iis experience proved that the
w eder would not hurt the young
s, while it did kill all hostile vegetation
and kept a fine mulch on the
ground. The crop was laid by with
Copyright Hart Schaffner & Marx
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the cultivator. Fertilizer used was
phosphoric acid, distributed at the
rate of 500 pounds to the acre.
There are thousands of acres of
such land in Florida, Alabama, Georgia,
Mississippi and Louisiana preeminently
adapted to the culture of
this great and growing staple, but
now lying idle because the possibilities
have never been demonstrated to
them. Seven years ago the peanut
crop of the entire United States was
worth only $18,000,000. Last year
Texas alone sold $28,000,000 worth
af peanuts. Whatever this year's record
will be, it will not be equal to the
demand, for the demand for peanuts
for oil, for human food and for stock
feed is seemingly without end.
A pound of peanut butter contains
more food value than the average
three meals a day. Xo one, of course,
expects mankind to give up grits and
oatmeal and vegetables and beefsteak
and bread and pudding to put themselves
on a peanut diet but as we
learn more about food properties, as
it becomes more necessary to get the
greatest amount of nourishment and
pleasure from our marketing allowance,
the demand for peanut butter
will be increased and other products
developed.
Then peanut meal or cake is a
splendid stock feed, especially for
young animals, dairy cattle and hogs.
The cake is better than the whole
nut, because with the oil extracted
the flesh produced is firm and the
lard as high grade as that produced
by corn. Not only is peanut cake
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pound, but one pound of the latter
j will buy two of the former. Thus
| for the simple gathering and hauling
i to market the farmer doubles his
! crop.
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! tractors. Wisconsin man that he is,
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I he will not rest until he sees the dirt
| turning over at the rate of 20 or 30
feet at a time. Possibly, too, he will
take in more land and develop livestock.
His record has been an eyeopener
to West Florida, and from all
indications his example will be widely
followed next year.?Thomas Ewing
Dabney, Pensacola, Fla., in the
Manufacturers Record.
How You Light Your Cigar in Italy.
The Italian Substitute for the neat
and convenient cigar lighter found
in every American cigar store is a
long rope lighted and placed outside
of the tobacco shop. It is made of
clean hemp, of rope waste, and even
of rags twisted tightly into shape and
held together by strings of twine.
The improvised lighter is made by
the storekeeper himself..
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