The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, January 15, 1920, Page 2, Image 2
THE BEST FARMER WINS
REGARDLESS OF LAND.
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responsible for many of the good
fields of cotton was sure land?that
is, land that either by nature or because
of treatment given it by the
farmer is uniformly reliable.
There are some lands which,
if the crop is properly handdied,
are capable of coming
through and making a good crop any
kind of year, whether it be wet or
dry. If there is too much rain the
drainage takes care of it and if it is
too dry, with proper handling the
moisture is retained and, although
the crop suffers some, it still makes a
geod yield. Not only do you find inJ
1 ~ r.11 rtVl Alio Kilt in
aiviauai lttruis wim suwu ouuo,
some counties there are large acres
of such land.
Marlboro County's Varied Lands.
Take Marlboro county, South Carolina,
for example. That part of the
county which is famous for its high
yields of cotton and its high priced
land is generally rolling, but not so
rolling as to require terracing. The
land has natural drainage and the
water runs off easily, but not fast
enough to gully the land. In most
wet years, therefore, the crops are
not badly injured by too much rain.
On the other hand the topsoil, which
is a sandy loam, is underlaid with a
porus clay subsoil, so that it retains
moisture, and it tne season is ur>
N and the farmer cultivates his land
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properly he grows a good crop just
the same. In fact, some of the biggest
crops made in this county are
made in years when the seasonal rainfall
is precipitation below the aver-1
. age. : |
In contrast with this are other!
1 lands, some of which can be found I
even in Marlboro county, which are
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level and low, lacking in the gentlv
rolling topography that is needed to
provide natural drainage. In wet
years these lands, to use a Southern
expression becomes sobbed. The water
stands on the land until it is waterlogged
and then no crop can make a
high, yield thefe unless it be the grass
crop that farmers don't want. In dry
years these lands make .good yields,
but in such years as 1919 the crop usually
fails to pay expenses.
There are still other lands with a
sandy subsoil that drain well, but do
not hold the moisture. In dry years
other lands unless carefully managed,
* make poor yields. They lack the clay
- subsoil that holds the moisture close
to the surface, and when the water
goes down it goes down so far that it
never comes back for the use of the
* plants. Unless the seasons hit these
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lands just right and they are handled
r-, .v . by capable farmers, they are uncertain
and make good crops only in ex^
^ f. traordinary years.
Thus the first thing that is found in
observing the good crops in a bad
year like this is that the reliability
of the land is a large factor. Farmers
who have sure lands have good
v" crops even though the conditions are
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not favorable. If a man has such
lands he is in luck, but if he doesn't
have them he is out.of luck, that's
?unless he is an outstanding
farmer. So whenever I saw a cotton
crop that would make a bale to the
acre wh.le in surrounding fields there
was little cotton but plenty of grass
and signs of sobby land, I climbed
over the fence and started a conversation
with the farmer.
"What makes my crop so good? ' a
southern South Carolina man said in
answer to my query. "Well, I've
gelt my land tile drained. I used to
ha|ve just such crops as some of these
other fellows round here and, believe
me, such years as this hit me hard!
Sometimes I didn't make enough to
v
pay the fertilizer bill and I tell you
when a fellow gets in that kind of a
fix it starts the gray hairs coming! I
got to reading^ however, about the
drainage, such as is common out in
the Middle West, and I tried some of
it. I didn't know much about it at
first, but I soon got on to it and now
I have most of the wet places on my
farm tiled out."
"Well, why didn't you tile drain
your land sooner?" I said. "Out in
my native State we've been tiling
land for over 50 years and it's an old
story. A man who doesn't tile drain |
his land out there when it is needed
isn't considered much of a farmer."
\ "I really don't know," he replied.
"I find there are some old tile drains
in the lower part of this State that
have been in for a long time and are
etill working nicely. But one thing
we have lacked here has been a cheap
supply of tile and another, somebody
to push the movement, I guess we
needed that most."
It seems strange that tile drainage,
although badly needed, has not made
the progress here it has made in the
corn belt, but I believe it is coming.
Once started, a good thing is sure to
spread.
The surest land is not fool proof, I
saw fields of cotton on the best of
lands that would not make half a
crop, while others on like land showed
yields of a bale or more to the
acre. The difference wasn't in the
land. It was in the man on the job.
Some lands are fertile and dependi
able while others are poor and risky,
and so it is with farmers and all
other kinds of men. SomO have fertile
brains and remarkable energy
while others are dull and "do-less."
The crop is often but an outward expression
of the farmer behind it.
Early Crop Wins.
I found many farmers who had
fertilized well, but who still had poor
crops. The application of fertilizers
on some farms had cost $25 or more
an acre, yet the yields were poor.
Some farmers had turned under cowpeas
and velvet beans and applied
barnyard manure in addition to the
fertilizer and still had poor yields.
So I could not attribute all the success
either to sure land or to soil
treatment and fertilizer applications.
-"'I came to the crux of the whole
situation however, when I struck the
farm of a large cotton planter with
fairly sure land, who farms with
share croppers. In this case the croppers
furnished their own work stock
and equipment, while the operator
furnished only the fertilizer, each
taking half of the crop as his share
at the end of the season. The planter
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