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: *. **;s ^% iVtES.S: t.-* ■■•> •;•>• \ ,is —lin.igM rill Thursday, February 4, 1937 212 BALES ON 212 ACRES J. E. BRIM, of Dawson, Ga., has had 35 years of experience in farming. This has taught hifn that good fertilizer and good seed are essential to successful cotton pro duction. He produced 251 bales on 225 acres in 1934, 178 bales on 198 acres in 1935, and 212 bales on 212 acres in 1936. He blames his low yield in 1935 on a long drought. He use# 400 pounds of 3-9-5 NPK fer tilizer (ter acre at planting and top- dresses With 200 pounds of 14-0-12 after his cotton is chopped out. Mr. Brim says: “Potash in my top-dresser prevents Rust and give* me better maturity, better lint turn-out and better matured seed. I sell over 3,000 bushels of Wilt-resistant Seed annually. The cost of potash is low and I find high-potash fertilizers profitable for all farm crops.” r m CONTROLS WILT E. F. CALHOUN, of Eufaula, Ala., says: “Cotton, well-fed with NV Potash, weighs 10 to 15 pounds more per basketful than cotton grown with just my regular fertilizer. The plants look healthier and fruit closer. Where I had NV Potash I had no Wilt but lots of stalks died where I had only my regular fertilizer.” FEWER BOLLS MAKE A POUND “Look at that topcrop,”saysH. J. JOHNSON, of Wagener, S. C. “That s where extra potash gets in its best work with large, fully matured bolls right up to the top of the stalk. It takes fewer of these bolls to make a pound. Plenty of potash makes the cotton pick better and im proves the staple. Since 1934 I have been giving my cotton three times as much potash as I did before and have been making considerably more cotton. Rust has been stopped in most of my fields but some spots need still more potash. I use a good complete fertilizer at planting and extra potash as a top-dressing along with my nitrogen. The use of 3-8-8 NPK fertilizer at planting is growing in our section.” Mr. Johnson, standing in his pet patch which pro duced 3,657 pounds of lint on three acres. He doubled his potash application in this field. 1,000 pounds of seed cotton per acre had been picked before this picture was taken. m- m . vx _ ss * . « V,*-? iO- isw. BIG f PRETTY BOLLS W. A. ROBINETT, of Enterprise, Ala., says: “In 1936 I had 30 acres in cotton and used 400 pounds of 3-8-5 NPK guano per acre. I top-dressed two acres with 100 pounds of Soda per acre and on one of these I put an additional 100 pounds of NV Muriate of Potash. On the entire 30 acres I made nine bales of cotton. The acre top-dressed only with Soda made 570 pounds of seed cotton. The acre top-dressed with Soda and NV Potash made 919 pounds—a gain of 349 pounds of seed cotton. Allowing for the cost of potash this is a profit of $16.54 per acre. You could tell the potash cotton by walking through it. It stayed vigorous and healthy and kept making the biggest, prettiest bolls I ever saw.” lpr?5;? ■ '• Hip ;• ¥■' -is- 4 M fe * DOUBLED HIS YIELD ' H. F. STRENGTH, of Daleville, Ala.,says:“Inl936 I top-dressed 7 H acres with 100 pounds of NV Muriate of Potash per acre and made seven 500-pound bales and 138 pounds of lint. That figures a bale to the acre as compared with 1,000 pounds of seed cotton 'per acre in 1935, when only part of my cotton was top- dressed with NV Potash and half a bale to the acre in 1934, when I didn’t use any extra potash. “In 1934 my cotton rusted badly, like most cotton in this section. I decided to try potash top-dressing and I have been well pleased with the results. This year my cotton stayed healthy and kept growing, while my neighbor’s, adjoining me, rusted badly and died. I am going to top-dress every acre of cotton I plant this year with NV Potash.” R OST M mztm 16 BALES ON 9 ACRES M. L. O’CAIN, of Orangeburg, S. C., says: “On my average cotton crop last year I used 4% potash in the fertilizer at planting and 200 pounds per acre of top-dressing consisting of NV Muriate of Potash and Nitrate of Soda in equal x parts. I had no Rust, except on a three-acre block where I didn’t use the extra potash. The photographs tell the story. “On one block of 91/20 acres which I fertilized rather heavily, using 160 pounds of NV Muriate as a top-dresser, I made 16 bales and a remnant. On one field where cowpeas followed oats, which had received only nitrogen, I lost my hay crop. But on another field where the oats got 60 pounds of NV Muriate per acre with the nitrogen, I^madc a ton of pea-vine hay per acre.” WHEN you buy your fertilizer and top-dresser, tell your fertilizer man you want more NV POTASH. Plan now to top-dress with 100 pounds of NV MURIATE or 200 pounds of NV KAINIT per acre, or use a nitrogen- potash, mixed-goods top-dresser containing 10 to 25% NV POTASH. If you prefer to use your extra potash at planting, select a fertilizer containing 8 to 10% NV POTASH. Where Rust has been very severe you may need both high-potash fertilizer at planting and potash top-dressing to STOP RUST and START PROFITS. * Thousands of farmers have found that it pays to give cotton a lot more potash than the average fertilizer contains. NV POTASH keeps cotton strong and healthy, maturing fruit until a full crop is made (including a good top crop). It PREVENTS RUST, helps control Wilt and produces strong, vig orous plants with less shedding, larger bolls that are easier to pick and better yields of uniform, high-quality lint. NV POTASH PAYS! N. V. POTASH EXPORT MY. f Inc., Hurt Bldg., ATLANTA Royster Bldg., NORFOLK A-55 TOP DRESS with NV MURIATE OR NV KAINIT . IKAD£ MARK RLG.t'STERED , *' Af*. 474 Checks For „ 1936 Farm Program Received Here At the present time the County Agent’s office has received 474 checks for farmers in the New Program of 1936. All of the farm ers having checks in this group have been notified and have re ceived their payments. The total amount of money received is $22,- 995.76. R. D. Suber, County Agent. Farm Tenancy Grows The percentage of farm land op erated under lease in the United States has increased from 31 per cent in 1900, 33 per cent in 1910, and 37 per cent in 1920, to 44 per ce^t in 1930 and 45 per cent in 1935, according to a summary of farm tenure recently made avail able by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics in Washington. In South Carolina 38 per cent of the farm land was under lease at the turn of the century. The per centage increased to 38 in 1910, 44 in 1920, 48 in 1930, and 51 per cent in 1935. For the entire country “owner- operated farms outnumber tenant farms, and owner-operated farm acreage exceeds tenant-operated farm acreage. But the general trend has been toward tenancy, with a lessening ratio of equity in farm real estate held by farm op erators. In brief, farmers are grad ually losing ownership of the land.” The proportion of the nation’s larms operated by tenants or crop pers has increased from 35 per cent in 1900, 37 per cent in 1910, and 38 per cent ir 1920. to 42 per cent in 1930 and in 1935. In South Carolina, 61 per cent of the farms in 1900 v/as operated by tenants or croppers, 63 per cent in 1910, 64 per cent in 1920, 65 per cent in 1930, and 62 per cent in 1935. In 1880, there were only 183 counties in which as many as half the farms were tenant-operated, and practically all these were in the South; but in 1935 such coun ties totaled 890, and they effective ly blanketed the Cotton Belt and much of the more fertile parts of the Corn Belt. In all, there were 1,107 counties in 1935 in v/hich half w more of the land in farms was mder lease teethe operator. “Farm tenancy tends to in- ’ ease”, says the Bureau, “with the ccmmercializatiori of agriculture. . ir ’-easing proportions of the farmers are becoming tenants in the regions where commercial ag riculture is dominant, and increas ing proportions of the tenants are becoming croppers or wage hands in the South.” Different Varieties Of Cotton Grown In County Still Coughing? No matter how many medicines you have tried for your cough, chest cold or bronchial irritation, you can get re lief now with Creomulsion. Serious trouble may be brewing and you can not afford to take a chance with any thing less than Creomulsion, which goes right to the seat of the trouble to aid nature to soothe and heal the inflamed membranes as the germ-laden phlegm is loosened and expelled. Even if other remedies have failed, don’t be discouraged, your druggist is authorized to guarantee Creomulsion and to refund your money if you are not satisfied with results from the very first bottle. Get Creomulsion right now. (Adv.) According to the records in the County Agent’s office the follow ing varieties cf cotton were planted ir McCorm'ck County last year: Varieties Acr^ Farm Relic? 8.687 S^oneville SIT Carolina Foster 5’ Woods Ingcld 'V tucker 235 Webber’s 19 Dixie Triumph 194 Dixie Wonder Wilt 90 Coker Cleveland 232 Wannamaker Cleveland 13 Neeleys’ 33 Dixie Rose .6 Mars Rose 9 King 11 Coker’s Wiles No. 7 34 Vandivers 7 Russell 8 Delta Pineland 28 Toole’s No. 2 11 R. D. Suber, County Agent. Flashes From Afield Encouraging News Bits of Better Farming Over the State. About 5,000 acres were terraced in 1936 at an average cost to farm ers of $1.41 per acre. It is probable that a fourth outfit will have to be purchased in January 1937.—H. A Woodle, Aiken. During 1936 ten purebred Here- fc.d bulls were placed and eight purebred hogs. One steer feeding demonstration was completed, and solves were fed by club boys.— W. H. Pressly, Allendale. Ir December we bought two T, r ng Hereford bulls, and we will place at least four additional bull' os soon as they can be located.— U. P. Joecy, Anderson. The two livestock auction mar kets serving farmere in both t’-c ov-^v pnd irmer sections of the county arc influencing the upward trend in hog producticr. — W. H. Craven, Bamberg. Ten purebred beef bulls and three dairy bulls were placed in 1936. Ten purebred heifers and 10 grade cows, and 89 brood sows and .iov,' b-ars were also placed.—T. H. Seabrook, Beaufort. At the better sires auction sale held in Gaffney Dec. 10 Cherokee '—nty farmers bought two Jersey bulls, three Guernsey bulls, eight biars, and five cockerels. — S. C. Stribling, Cherokee. *0”~ well bred young bulls have been brought into the county re- (' ntly which will no doubt add r-uch to the good breeding program ' ready being carried out.—W. G. 1 ynn, assistant agent, Chester. I am stressing the advisability of all grain being treated before sow ing. and the farmers are very rvateful for this information to help increase their yields. — W. J. Tiller, Chesterfield. We placed 22 purebred Poland China pigs among farmers during December, making a trip to the western part of the state to select these pigs.—F. M. Rast, Clarendon. The soybean crop was good and growers are receiving $3.00 to $3.20 ; per bushel for Otootan beans.—J. F. Jones, Edgefield. Four farmers are feeding 200 head of native cattle. Farmers gen erally are beginning to appreciate the value of manure in economical crop production and soil building. —R. H. Lemmon, Fairfield. Poultry shipments for the year made through the county agent’s office totaled 13 shipments, 118,- 737 pounds, netting the growers $20.149.68.—J. W. McLendon, Flor ence. -TV f — Farm News Briefs \ ’'-i—y of Good Farming Stories Told in Few Words by Farm Agents B. D. Clcaninger, assistant agent. Florence. — Eighty-one com i ’lub t^rmbers made an average yield of 36.6 bushels per acre, while thr average for Florence county is 14.3 bushels. R. D. Steer, Greenwood.—In De cember a county livestock associa tion was formed and at once start ed action to secure a jack for the county and to offer assistance to 4-H club boys with livestock proj ects. J. C. Anthony, Hampton.—The first two sales at the Estill live stock auction on Dec. 1 and 8 handled about three carloads of hogs and a few cows and goats, total sales being approximately $4,000. J. C. McComb, assistant agent, Horry.—Two cars of hogs shipped in December had not a soft hog in the 152 head, indicating tha& our growers are learning the mar ket requirements as to finished hogs. J. P. Graham, Jasper.—About 60 farmers have been assisted in mak ing financial arrangements for truck production in 1937, over 1000 acres of tomatoes, potatoes, beans, and peas being involved. R. D. Subqr, McCormick.—Three tests on cottonseed treatment with mercuric dust in 1936 showed an average increase cf 190 pounds of seed cotton per acre worth $10.00 at a cost of only 12 cents. W. R. Wells, Jr., Marion.—Our hog marketing during 1936 amounted to $41,648.32, the largest vear in hog marketing we have ever had. W. D. Wood, Marlboro.—Three farmers who conducted tobacco demonstrations this j^ear secured an average gross return of $343.26 per acre as compared with a coun ty average of $140.00 per acre. T. A. Bowen, Pickens.—We have four boys in the 4-H cotton club who produced over 1000 pounds of lint per acre, and two boys in the corn cltib who produced 100 busftelk of corn per acre:. J". M: Eleazer, Sumter.—Our 13 cotton contestants averaged 4',(HZ pounds of lint on the five-acre pk>ts. The lowest yield was 4 1 /fe tales and the highest 13 bales on fve acres. R. A. Jackson, Williarisburg.— ! k*s. W. A. Ivey with a backyard' f 'ck of 43 White Rocks proved- the worth of a few hens well fed and managed. She received $2.21^ per hen for her labor di the year. V , bSA > fcs 7,'t f£' .ssjg'i-.-’ - ~ A' % v; ■ V ' : ' Ail. ir. A- ’ rMM i ’ ■% fcffre r-M Ifk-l •‘.■•Jr \