The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, May 23, 1929, Image 3
A GOOD COTTON CROP CAN
BE MADE, SAYS BOYLSTON
With about 75 per cent of the cot
ton crop planted over and the balance
replanted, many farmers are not very
much encouraged about making a
crop this year. There is still an op
portunity to make a good crop, says
H. G. Boylston, county agent. Last
year Newman Connor who lives near
Barnwell entered the cotton contest.
His rows were 34 inches apart. The
seed were planted too deep. The
second planting did not come to a
good stand and replanting was mec-
essary. It was about the middle of
May before he had a stand 1 . In spite
of the lateness of his crop and the
unusually bad ra"ny season with
heavy boll weevil infestation, Mr.!
Connor gathered a little over one bale
per acre.
If the following important meas
ures are carried out the farmers have
an even chance to make a crop with
medium good seasons:
_ 1st. Chop cotton one hoe width
apart, leaving 2 to 4 stalks to each
hill.
2nd. Apply Nitrate of Soda, Sul
phate of Ammonia or other quickly
available ammonia immediately fol
lowing chopping and plow cotton.
3rd. Continue to cultivate as fast
as possible.
4th. When first squares are the
size of a pea start applying 1-1-1
mixture calcMixn areetoaA.a, molasses
and water, making three applications
five days agart.
(Note.) Poisoning to start when
squares are seen. Do not wait
cctint the weevils per a c re.—Prepared
by H. G. Boylston, County Agent.
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Terrell County used to be one of
the big cotton-growing counties of
Southwest Georgia. Plenty of cotton
is still grown but Terrell County
farmers grow something else along
with it. Between- January 1st and
March 15th of this year, they shipped
fifty-one caaloads of fat hogs, worth
$68,303.58. On a single recent sales
day seven carloads of hogs were sold,
bringing the farmers $9,848.05. Two
carloads of poultry were sold the
same day.
A. R. Carter, of Florence County,
South Carolina, says he has never
bought but one piece of meat in his
life and has never bought a pound of
corn, hay or fodder. It isn’t a case of
doing without, either. His eight-horse
farm is operated on a self-sustaining
basis. Not only does he fatten
enough meat on home-grown feed for
hi s family, but he also furnishes his
five tenant families.
Five'years ago Doyle Helms, a 4-H
Clyb. member, of Clark County, Ar
kansas, started in the hog business
with one Duroc gilt for which he
paid $15. Keeping a careful record
of all income from the sale of pigs
and meat and deducting the value of
all feed consumed, his figures show
a net profit of $1,068.90 for the five
years. And he had eight head of hogs
to begin this year’s work.
W. J. Thibodaux, of Lafourche par
ish, Louisiana, raises all the pork
needed on his faim and sells around
$700 worth every year. The hogs are
raised chiefly on scraps and waste
about the place. They also have a>
ctas to paiAure land that would other
wise be unproductive as it'i's-not fit for
cultivation of crops stlch as are grown
in that action.
For the past three years the
farmers of Dale County, Alabsma,
have been relling over $100,000 worth
of hogs a year. This year it is ex
pected that total aales will amount to
something like IfbO.OOO. One hun
dred ninety farmers recently re
ceived $16467.82 for 1,060 head of
hogs. An income of $840 from two
Pole..d China brood sows in 12 months
is the experience about which H. A.
Miles, of McDuffie County, Georgia,
will tell you if you aik him whether
thete is any money in raising hogs.
J. M. Edens of Sumter County,
South Carolina, says that hogging
down corn and soy beans was the
most profitable project on his farm
last year. This fall 10 of the beU
acres of land on his farm will be hog
ged down. F. P. Bradford, of the
same county, says that hogging down
hit 18 mores of corn last summer was
tho most satisfactory and profitable
thing he has ever done on his farm.
The hogs- fteid him $1^82 net per
bushel for the com.
Fate Griffith, of Sequatchie County,
Tennessee, has also found that hogs
pay handsomely for the privilege of
saving him the trouble of gathering,
storing and marketing com and aoy
beans. He turned 45 pigs, weighing
80 pounds each and costing him 12
cents per pound, into a field of 24
acres of com and beans. Whtn fat,
the hogs sold for $1,039.22. His
total cost, including $40 worth of dry
com, was $472, leaving him $567.22
cash for the crop of com and beans.
Some Bugs Do Best or Worst
During Extremely Hot
Weather.
Chapin, May 20.—In projects con
ducted by five Chapin farmers under
the direction of W. B. Murphy, voca
tional teacher of the Chapin school,
they found that the application- of
side-dressing to cotton resulted in
increased! yields ranging from 230
pounds of -seed cotton per acre to 853
pounds. .. '''
The five farmers who conducted the
projects are G. A. Bauknight, William
Rister, E. V. Derrick, S. E. Shealy and
G. A. Derrick. AH of them are mem
bers of Mr. Murphy's evening class.
In conducting the project each of
these farmers used no side-dressing
on one plot, while they used at the
rate of 200 pounds of Chilean Nitrate
of Soda on another plot. At the end
of the season they compared the
returns on the plots on which no soda
was used with those on which soda
was used as a side-dressing.
G. A. Bauknight madte 600 pounds
per acre on his plot where no soda
was used as compared with 930 pounds
on the plot on which soda was used.
G. A. Derrick made at the rate of
577 pounds per acre on the plot on
which no soda was used as against
1430 pounds per acre on his side-
dressed plot, an increase of 855 pounds
per acre.
William Rister’s yield per acre on
the plot where no soda was used was
750 pounds compared with 980 pounds
on his ecre on which soda was used.
E. B. Derrick made 1000 pounds on
his acre on which no soda was used
compared with 1300 pounds on his
acre which was side-dressed with 200
pounds of soda.
S. E. Shealy made 860 pounds per
acre on his plot where no soda was
used compared with 1510 pounds on
hia side-dressed a<re.
The total production on the five
acres on which Chilean Nitrate of
Soda was used was 2,363 pounds
grater tha- on the five acres where
none wag used, or an average increase
of 472 pounds per acre. Allowing
$5.20 for the 200 pounds of Nitrate
of Soda and valuing the seed cotton at
7c per pound, the average return per
acre was $27.88 greater on the side-
dreeed plots than on tho plots where
no side-dressing was used. . . _
Making His Farm Go.
Midsummer heat has a decidedly
cooling effect on one thing at least-
enthusiasm on the part of the amateur
gardener. Conversely, as the tem
perature mounts, so does the ardor
of the bugs which are interested iu
flowers.
Worst Garden Insects.
“Some of the worst insect enemies
of the garden are doing their utmost
just at the time when the gardener
wants to take a rest,** says Victor H.
Ries, extension Horticulturist at Ohio
State university. “As the season ad
vances the real gardener must become
more vigilant and active Instead of
less so.” The blister beetle, the tar
nished plant bug and the red spider
are among the most vigorous enemies
of plants during July and August
The blister beetle, a black, hard-
shelled Insect about half an inch long,
eats uj the plants and escapes before
the average poison can get In its work
on him. The tarnished plant bug is
particularlly active on asters. Both
may be controlled by one of the sev
eral newer spray materials which con
tain pyrethrum as the active ingredient
These sprays are not to be confused,
Ries points out, with the old-fashioned
pyrethrum powder. Another antidote
for the two bugs mentioned is dusting
with sodium fluosllicate. Nicotine
oleate is also recommended. Both In
sects mentioned are active and numer
ous, and will require regularly repeat
ed applications of spray.
The red spider, a semi microscopic
mite. Infests many evergreens as well
as the common garden phlox. It may
be Controlled by dusting with pow
dered sulphur or spraying with
miscible oil, which Is greatly diluted
when used as s summer spray.
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Allendale and Barnwell
While CcngTeai it in roaion for the
purpose of helping the fermert we
Me* to think of a few determined
men of that occupatior who am not
particularly conremed about farm aid
bilUk *
A few years ago a young man mar
ried and rented a farm near Greer.
He didn’t have anything but a lot of
determination with plenty of common
sense and a strong body. He couddnt
buy a fifty pourd bag of flour on
credit. But today he owns a good
farm of moderate size, and has a
modem dewlling on it with reasonable
conveniences. The boll weevil ard
the panic folowing the war did not
ruin him; the dry years 1925 and 1926
did not keep him from living at home.
There is no particular secret to hi«
success. With three good cows, two
hundred hens, and eight or ten hogs,
the family table has been full three
timep a day. And from the sjame
three sources of revenue he bought a
car ard maintains it. During a fair
year he makes twenty-five bales of
cotton and fivti hundred bushels of
Com. The farm dc&s better than
that during good crop years.
This farmer does not know what
Serator McNary’s bill provides for,
but he has learned that steady work
and diversification will make a farm
go at a profit. —Greer Citizen.
Alfalfa Seed Injured if
Mixed With Sweet Clover
There Is no way by which alfalfa
seed may be separated from the sweet
clover, os they are similar In size and
shrpe. Only the experienced seeds
man enn detect the prevalence of the
sweet clover in any lot of alfalfa of
fered. Sweet clover Is a wonderful
crop, and It has a distinct place in
the world, but Its place is not among
the alfalfa either In the sack or in
the meadow. If the alfalfa Is never
Intended for anything but hay. a little
eweet clover may not matter, but
when the one having seed for sale. In
cluding alfalfa. Is admittedly some
what adulterated by natural process
with sweet clover, see to It thst the
price is plenty low enough. The
chances are that he bought the supply
at a bargain up where the growers
and seedsmen are wrestling with this
very problem. The sweet clover may
not do any barm in the corn belt mea
dow, but better it would be for a good
stahd of alfalfa if all the seed town
were alfalfa and not partly something
else. _____________
Not Advisable to Bum
Off Sweet Clover Land
It Is not a good plan to bum off
the land any kind of trash which will
make humus in the soil. Even old
sweet clover grass Is worth too much
plow'ed under to be burned off. Of
course. If there is enough fine trash
in the field to afford a good harbor
for chinch bugs there may be some
justification for burning over a field.
But sweet clover growth does not usu
ally afford good enough protection
for the chinch bugs to live over win
ter. Burning over red top, timothy
and blue grass does sometimes make
it look as though it was helped, but
this is likely to be only an appear
ance, because one can see tbs new
grass starting better than when the
old growth is not burned off.
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Greenville.—G. D. Butler, of Trav
elers Rest, in Greenville County, made !
a net profit of $186.31 on five acres of |
com* and soybeans in 1928. Though i
the storm in August tangled up the J
stelks very badly, his average yield
was 42 bushels of ccm per acre. The
cost of seed, labor and fertilizer was
$14.36 per acre.
Mr. Butler’s field illustrated the
well proven fact that corn yields de
pend largely upon the supply of m-
trogen food, says R. Vf. Hamilton,
acting assistant driectojr of the Ex
tension Service in reporting Mr. But
ler’s experience. All of the field was
fertilized with two hundred pounds of
ritr&te of soda per acre, except a
small check plot, which made only 19
bushels per acre.
Mr. Butler believes that the State
average yield of 14.3 bushels per
acre can be doubled by proper ferti
lizing of the growing crop, and the
•even to ten milKon dollars South
Carolina speeds annually for western
cSkn would be kept *t home.
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Farm Notes
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Meadow fescue is a perennial grass
with habits of growth much like
timothy. • • •
Sudan hay Is low in protein, but has
about the same feeding value as
prairie hay.
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There are only two safe bulls—the
one confined iu a “safety first” bull
pen, and the dead bull.
Among the most desirable varieties
of the red currants are the Fay or Fay
Prolific, the Perfection and Pomona.
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A reason why the soy bean Is grow
ing in popularity is because It is easy
to seed, cultivate, harvest and thresh.
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lacope is the name of a new variety
of cabbage which is claimed to be
highly resistant to the disease, cab
bage yellows.
• • •
Farmers who use a large number
of electrically-driven devices ou their
farms report that they save the cost
of many days of hired labor.
Tree planting on idle land and
woodlot thinning of aecond-growtb
timber go band in hand. Both prac
tices aid in the development of the
greatest pooaibU income anl
tioo from that part of the
which they are applied and which
is yielding little er no
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