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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.”
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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.
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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.”
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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.”
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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
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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.
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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.
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