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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, South Carolina. Page Number Two Richard Sturkie Makes $621.67 On Five Acres Cotton CalHoun County bad Shows That Profit Can Be Made On High Yeilding Land ST. MATTHEWS, April 11.—That money can be made out of cotton i was demonstratd by Richard Sturkie, of Calhoun County, a student in vo-| cational agrriculture in the St. Mat thews High school, on his project last year when he made a itkt profit of $621.67 on five acres. The project was under the direction of his agr - cultural teacher A. P. Cotton. On his five-acre pldt young Sturkie produced a yield of 3,991 pounds of lint cotton or an aveiage yield of 798 2 pounds of lint cotton per acre. The total yield of seed cotton on the plot was 11.265 pounds. The t.t- a l sales of lint from the flvc-acre plot at 20 cents per pound was $798 20. The total sales of seed at $2.00 per hundred was $145.44. The gross sales on the five acres was ■- -A 'j* ~ 4 + -in the Sky -at the Speedway -on the Road ThefiimoMsBuldcValve-in-HeadlBn- is given conclusive proof of lip in ell elements of perform- iperiodoftwenty-fouryean. Maitland, Chamberlin, Byrd—the £ M famous fliers of the day— employing the Valve-in- Head principle in their record- Practically every racing car entered in all the major speed classics of the past twelve years, has been Valve-in- Hud equipped. J Choose Buick—powered by the famous Valve-in-Head Engine — su preme in the sky, at the speedway, on the roadl B+Jy by Either BUICK SEDANS$1199 to $1995 * ' COUPES $1193 to Si SPORT MODELS $1195 to $1525 JBprlettf.*. fc. Fliat, Mick., government t*x to be oJJed. The G. M. 4. « fin*™ pUm, the moat desirable, it rr a liable. HARRISON MOTOR COMPANY, Dealers Greenwood, S. C. \emember its'SODA” V not luch^f T HE whole South now knows the story of the 1927 Cotton Champions... every one of them big users of Chilean j Nitrate of Soda. It’s Soda, not luck, that makes these record crop* year after year. —J was mhlo to got ouch a high yiold ot cotton on my Ero acres under very heavy boll weevil conditions because I oide- drttotod l illegally — ff fi If Urate of Soda, had close tow a and thick •pacing in the rowa and poiaon to control the weevil, I am a thorough believer of aide-dreating cotton with Nitrate of Soda and always use from 100 to 300 pounds per acre on my entire crop. On my priae S acres this year I made 4 appli cations and 1 am aura that each aide-dressing of Nitrate of Soda paid. "l have already bought 35 tons of Nitrate of Soda for my 1938 crop and will aide-dresa every acre of cotton I plant with about 300 lbs. par acre. J find it my beat insurance to make a cotton crop.” P. M. ARANT, South Carolina Champion 1927 Pageland, S. C. Mr. Arant produced 12 bales of cotton on 5 acres. The length of the staple was 114 inch. Take a tip from your state champion. Side-dress your cotton liberally with Soda. The more Soda, the more fcofit per acre ... and why not have more real money to show for this year’s work. iVetc Fertilizer Pamphlet... FREE Qar new pamphlet “ Side - Dressing Cotton and Com." ~ ‘ rm howto make more real money. Telia how to use Soda planting. Jt ia free. Aak for Pamphlet No. 10 or tbia ad and mail it with your name and addroaa. fjor nen Shows hi after pU mar eat 1 ‘r . EDUCATIONALB1 Carolina Life Bldg., Columbia, S, C» fm milting, please mention Ad No. 69-G IT’S "SODA”—NOT LUCK thus $943.68. The total cost for the five acre plot was $322.01, leaving the net profit of $621.67. The following charges were made in arriving at the icest of production: Total cc^t of labor (man) __ S17 40 Total cost of labor (horse) __ $23.40 Cost of preparing land, planting and cultivating $40.80 Cost of seed $5.00 Cost of fertilizer ’ $64.00 Rent of land at $8.00 per acre $40.00 Depreciation $7.00 Cost of picking at 75 cents per Hundred $84.47 Cost, of hauling to g'n $8.00 Cost of ginning $23l94 Cost of bagging and ties $8.00 Total $322.01 The soil on which this cotton was planted was a good grade of Orange burg sandy loam with clay subsoil. The cotton was fertilized befo!e planting with home-mixed fertiTzers, analyzing about 11.2 per cent phos phoric acid and 1.26 per cent (tf nitro gen and 2.5 per cent potash. About 850 pounds per acre of the above mixture was applied before planting. Immediately after chopping the cot ton was given a side dressing of 50 pounds of n’trate of soda per acre and two weeks later was given a sec ond side dressing of 100 pounds of nitrate of soda per acre. The last side dressing of nitrate of soda was applied about the time the squares began to set. Young Sturkie is the son of Dr. D. R. Sturkie, prominent farmer and physician of the Noith Community ir Orangebur'g County, and is a student of the St Matthews High school XXt B. R. Smith Believes In Improving Land JOHNSTON, April 17.—That di- versif 5 cation and intensive cultiva tion are profitable in farming has been * demonstrated beyond the shadow df doubt by B. R. Smith, of Johnston, who twenty-seven years ago bought for a song a tun down, worn-out and hitherto unprofitable farm and has converted it into one of the very best farms in South Caro lina. He paid $20.00 per acre for it in 1901 and he has turned down in recent years offers of $300.00 per acre for it and he has* made money each year wh’le building up his soil. It was on a five-acre plot of this farm that Mr. Smith last year won the state-wide five-dcre 100 bushel Corn club championship and it was on a five-acre plot of this farm that he won second prize in the state wide five-acre cotton centest in 1926. Incidentally, it might be stated that Mr. Smith has entered the cotton contest again this year and has serv ed notice on the world that the con testant who beats him will win first prize. Mr. Smith believes thoroughly in diversification and in intensified cul tivation. He plants about sixty acres in cotton, 50 acres in small grain and about thirty acres in com each year. His corn is planted in alternate rows with soy beans. The soy bean seed are harvested with a soy bean har vester and when the com is harvest ed the stalks and bean vines are dis ced and turned under for soil build ing. After his small grain is har vested soy beans are also planted on this land. Mr. Smith also believes thoroughly in intensive cultivation. “In 1926,” he said “with an application of 200 pounds of nitrate of soda, 400 pounds ac d phosphate and 40 pounds mur iate of potash, I produced 73 bales of totton on 62 acres. On the five- acre plot in the state-wide cotton contest in 1926, I applied double this fertilizer and produced 151247 pounds of seed cottdn and 5,807 pounds of lint cotton on five acres.” On the same five acres in 1927, Mr. Smith applied 1,000 pounds ac'd prosphate, 100 pounds muriate of potash and 400 pounds of nitrate of soda per acre and produced 503 1-2 bushels of corn on five acres, being the first farmer in South Carolina to win official recognition from Clem- son College for producing 101 bush els of corn per acre on a 1 e-acre plot. Mr. Snrth applied 200 ’rounds Of nitrate of soda as a side'' ossing whe n the corn was six week - c'j and a week later applied a second side dressing of 200 pounds of r.itrate of soda per acre to his five-aero corn contest plot. Mr. Smith figures that he makes money out of h’s corn and grain each year. He stated that he had already sold $1,000 worth cf small grain from h's 1927 crop as well as 600 bushels of corn. “My icorn and small grain,” he said “do not require as much labor as my cotton crop and fits in nicely with my system of farming and I find both my corn and small grain profitable crops. Another important feature about these crops is that it gives me an opportunity to grow soy beans to build up my land.” April 1 Crop Report As Given By Bureau Of Agri cultural Economics Colum bia, S. C., April 12, 1928 SERVICE The latter part of March and early \p il was favorable for farm work and cr-rn and cotton planting made good progress in the lower and mid dle sect ; ons of the State. I Due to late sowings and w'nter killing the condition of small grains in the State on April 1, was consid erably below the average for the pa"t few years. WHEAT is reported at 68 per cent, compared with 84 per cent last year and a ten-year average of 84 per cent. For the Un'ted States the cond tion of winter wheat stands at the low figure of 68.8 per cent of normal. Only twice, in 1917 and 1925, has the April \ figure been as low since 1879. In the Plains States the condition is about average, but in the Ohio Valley States reports con firm earlier indications c*f extremely low cond tion and heavy abandon ment. The South Atlantic and South Central States eart of the Missis sippi River report the crop one of the poorest on record. However, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas combined is about 1 per cent better than the ten-year average ar.d winter wheat in the Rocky Mounta : n and Pacific States is reported as gen erally good to excellent. South Carolina RYE was 72 per cent on April 1, compared to 84 per cent last year and a ten-year aver age of 85 per cent. For the^ United States it is reported at 79.3 per cent, compared with a ten-year average on April 1, cf 85.8 per cent and a prev ious low record of 80.2 per cent. Winter OATS in the State show a condition of 54 per cent which com pares with 86 per cent last , year and 81 per cent in 1926. t In ten South ern States, as a group, the April 1, condition is reported as 70.4 pbr cent, compared with an average of 78.2 during the four years 1924 to 1927, a period which includes a con dition of 68.9 in the spring of 1925 when prospects were reduced by the severe drought in Texas. In Okla homa the condition of oats was re ported as 83 per cenf which is some what above the average for the past four years in that State, but in Tex as the crop is in serious need of moisture. PEACH prospects in South Caro lina at 85 per cent of a full crop are much better than the Condition of 40 per cent in 1927 and 60 in 1926. The condition of the peach crop in ten Southern States on April 1, was reported as 83.5 per cent, compared with 56.0 last year, 58.0 in 1926, and 79.3 in 1925. The highest condition reported is in Notrth Carolina, 90 per cent compared with 45 per cent a year ago, and 78 in 1926. Georgia. South Carolina an Arkansas are all 85 per icent, which is about 25 points better than a year ago. While it is still too early to accurately forecast Southern peach production it is ap parent that a better than average crop is to be expected if weather conditichs are favorable from now on. The condition of pasture in the State is reported at 63 per cent, com pared to 82 per cent last year and 64 per kent in 1926. The condit'on is below the usual average in nearly all States east of the Mississippi River but is particularly low in the Ohio Valley and in most of the South and Southwest except Oklahoma. Early IRISH POTATOES in South Carolina were reported at. 85 per cent on Apr! 1, compared to 82 per cent last year and 65 per cent in 1926. O n April 1, 65 per cent of the milch cows on farms reporting were being milked and the average amount per cow for that day was 1.9 gallons, the same as reported a year ago. On the same farms 48 per cent of the hens were laying at the time of the report, 'compared with 50 per cent on the same date last year. Farm WAGES in the State are re ported as slightly less than a year aga By the month with board the average is $20.00; without board $27.75; by the day with board, $1.J0; without board, $1.35 The supply of farm labor is larger than last year, the supply as a per centage of de mand being reported as 98 per cent on April 1, compared with 94 per cent on this date last year. In the country as a whole the sup ply of farm labor is higher than at the same time last year, while de mand is the same, and farm wages are at about the same level as last year. All geographic divisions re port increase in monthly wages over January except in the South Atlantic States. This is probably due to the large iiuaease the supply of iarni labor which has taken plaice in the Southern States. FRANK O. BLACK, Agricultural Statistician. We are prepared to render, on short notice and at very moderate prices, up-to-date undertaking service in or out of town and county. Embalming on short notice and at reasonable price. Free ambulance service in town or county. Call or see G. P. or G. H. McCain or J. B. Smith g. r ram Undertaker, McCormick, S. C. PHONE NO. 77. /? PREPARE THE LAND WITH FORDSDN TRACTDR BE We have several used tractor outfits with plows and harrow, which have been thoroughly overhauled and put in first-class condition, that we are of fering for sale at very low prices. Get one of these outfits and prepare your land thoroughly and quickly, and thereby save time and money in get ting your crops planted. HHATH AUTHORIZED FORD, FORDSON AND LINCOLN DEALERS McCormick, S. C. EDB SPRING [LEANING See us for all kinds of implements to lighten the burdens and put your premises in first class shape. We have a complete line of varnishes, paints, etc., for service and beauty at lowest prices. Come look them over. We carry a complete line of hardware to meet your most urgent requirements. If you want the best, we have it. The great variety of our merchandise will enable you to buy almost everything needed in the annual renovation of your home and premises. WHITE HARDWARE CO. Main Street McCormick, S. C. -O- -O- BENT CAFE SERVICE m -o- -o- For the best ice cream in the town; for the best hot dogs and cold cXnks; cigars and cigarettes, you don’t have to go to my other place than the DIXIE CAFE Main Street McCormick, S. C. —We Also Serve Regular Dinners.