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p r ' ' ' iF FARMERS' UNION BUREAU. Condjcted by S. C. Farmers' Union. Address all communications intended fur the olutau to I. C. Ptribling, Pendletoa .8. C. Ron And Hominy. It takes one kind of food to grow a hog with profit, and an other kind . to fatten or finish him of on. Did <yo u ever study this thiug very care fully ? Because we all know and say thai *e can't raise hogs profitably on ?5c. corn, the cotton koons and cotton-tots put up this excuse for buying meat when we all know that our daddies and grand-daddies haul ed w heat and meat sometimes fifty or one hundred miles to sell it. Rather than grow soghutn, millet, turnips, clover, peas, garden truck and melons for hogs our con: bread aud fried meat kind of cotton growers prefer to climb up a 'simmon tree and hang themselves out on a * * r? .l A lien law nmD alter ineir meat auu take the risk of the cottou bears coming their way before they get down. As we travel over our cotton belt we count about six or seven little * negroes to where we find one pig or calf. To our mind these peopl e thiak that there is more profit in raiting little negroes on 10 cents cotton than there is in raising stock on any plan. Now, if this ignorant, improvident class of cotton growers did net have it in their pcwer to set prioes ou the whole cotton crop to the injury of the financial interest of the whole South we might say that this was their own affair, y gui u 10 Liul tuat way, We are not a hater of a good negro. We have a good place in our business for a good negro. But he is not to boss the situation. He is worth niauy times more than a good mule. But if his power among the people of the South is *oing to be continued along the line of growing cotton with foreign capital to enrich foreign countries by impoverishing the soil and lowering our whole agricultural interest of the white farming population, we mnaf amnKotiAul 1 r ooir fViot- fKo 11 ?n _ uiuo? guij'uaiivanj ocaj tuai tuv uur it along this line has been reached. Our land owners, merchants, supply mqfi and mouey lenders must take a positive and firm stand against the all-cotton growing business and enforce diversified farming or it will eoou be too late. Our great wealthproducing gold mine that is mingl-ed in a few inches of the top soil of the whole of our Dixie laud, is now being dug out by these improvideut people and aided by a business class of our citizens, to enrich foreigners. This thing must stop or we are a ruiued people. When this rich top soil has all been exausted or washed off our farmers will cease to dig up gold from a barren soil, aud as our farming interests go down it will surely carry with it the destruction of our wJiole interest. "As we go up together, so do we go down toL* . j.L . . i? gemer. Liberty S. C., March 14 1907. Mr Editor anil Brother Farmers: In as much as I have been asked togiveniy plan of preparing and \ cultivating a certain plot of land that I planted in corn last year, 1 will give it as clearly as possible. The plot <>f ground contained G 1-2 acres. First thing 1 did was to break the laud with a two-horse Oliver Chilled turning plow the first of May; then I followed with a smoothing harrow. The eleventh and twelfth of May 1 laid ofl with a middle burster, four feet apart, iu this furrow I used two hundred pounds of fertilizer to the acre, and followed with subsoil plow to thoroughly mix the fertiliser with the soil. The fertilizer 1 used was a mixture of my own, :>0C pounds of S-3-3 goods then four oac ks of cotton seed meal, the reCL Draining amount being 10 per cent. ::cid, Theu I planted the corn, cov ered with small ridge. When the com got to where it Lad three or four blades I used a weeder, weeding two rows at a time. 1 used for the first plowing a short H' plow and sweep. This answered ' for second plowing. Wp again, af- ' ter ten or twelve days, ran three : , fnrrowo to the middle with a broad | sweep. This laid the corn by I gathered from this field 1988 bun-j idles of fodder. As 'o the corn, I did not measure, but all fanners ca-n 1 decide for themselves about what I made. I gathered 22 two-horee loads with top bod? and ten inch i plank. I packed each load myself as long as 1 could get thp corn to lie ^ j on. j Now, I leave it to you to calculate jas to the number of bushels I gath. ered from this plot of land. Iu this field I took one terrace thar measured three-fourths of an acre and tried the Williamson plan of "stunting," as it is called. 1 prepared this terrace as the other, and also planted j at the same. But iustead of using (200 pounds of fertilizer when 1 planted, 1 used ouly 100 pounds to the acre. The corn showed a marked differ, ence from the other corn, both in j | color and size. The first working of this terrace was the same as the other. But instead of using short plow and sweep, we used the long, narrow snbsoil with fender attached This being the only difference in the cultivation until laid by I used in the furrow on the upper side of each row 150 pounds of fertilizei. This I covered with broad sweep, the same as 1 run through the rest of the field. The fertilizer utsed on this plot was the same as used on the rest of the field, with addition of 50 pounds of nitrate of soda. I used in the last plowing 150 pounds of fertilizer, which makes 400 pounds lo the acre. I laid by this terrace as I did the rest, but run the middle furrow first and put in this furrow the fertilizer and covered with the other two furrows, thus leaving a ridge in middle that was caused by running the center furrow first. As this corn developed to matnri-! 41? ?.ao ..nntin, I \y lur 1UUUC1 MOO iuu^ auu vvukiu ued green to the bottom of the stalk until ready to gather. The corn wa? not quite as high nor ? stalks as large as the other, but the ( ears were larger and better matured 8 aud nearer the ground. The fodder on this terrace remained green at j least ten days after the rest of the ] field was gathered. I gathered from [ this terrace three loads, the same I size as the others. Now, you can g calculate for yourself what I gather- j c ed from this particular terrace* j t Brother farmers, from my exper-11 ience I think it will pay to plant * corn this way. I am preparing my j * corn land this year with three-horse j reversible diec plow, ten to eleven i t inches deep. I expect to gather f from 20 to 50 bushels to the acre. j Now, brother farmer, try this plan j and let us hear from yon at gather-, j ing time. This will probably help us all and give some one a better knowledge of farming. 1 will close with much success to | j the editor and brother farmers. c Sedgwick M. Johnston. r I Brother Johuston did no hand hoeing. We regret that he did not measure at least one acre 011 the Williamson plan and one of the other: we can never get positive facts until we do this.?Ed. i Destructive Fire In Newberry. Newberry, March 29.?NewI berry had a lire to-day that ! wiped out 10 stores, 12 residences land two churches. An accident I to the pumps at the power' : house, which delayed the water for a short time, was the cause of the disastrous conflagration, the worst in the historv of any I town in this section, although1 tin actual figures the loss will j not appear so heavy. 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