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EXTENSION WORK OF CLEMSOK COLLEGE. HOIV TO INCREASE THE YIELD OF THE SOL'TH'S STAPLE PRODUCT, COTTON. Clemson College. April 25:?Cotton is and will continue to be the most important crop grown in South Caro lina. It brings more money into tne State than all other crops combined. While the Southern farmer has practically a monopoly on this, the most important crop of commerce <n earth, the average farmer is producing it, however, at such a great cost that his profit is small. ^ The world's demand for cotton is ^Lconstantly increasing and to such an ^extent it becomes necessary for the Southern farmer to make improvements in his methods in order to i meet this increased demand without | increasing the area devoted to cotton. It should be the endeavor of j every intelligent farmer to encourage farmers of every class to diversify their crops and raise more livestock, thus curtailing the acreage devoted to cotton. The increased demand for cotton should be met by * producing more pounds on a smaller area than is now devoted to that crop,, thus reducing the cost of production by intensive cultivation. Every acre of well drained land in this State that is now planted in cotton can be made to yield twice its average yearly production. How to do this is the object of this short pa per, which merely summarizes the results o? experiments published in Bulletons Nos 145 and 148 of the S C Experiment Station. This increased Ipeld can be obtained as follows: (1) By early and deep plowing. (21 By conserving the soil moisture, by increasing the Humus contents of the soil and by frequent and shallow cultivation. (3) By turning under winter cover crops, such as bur"~ clover, crimson clover, vetch and rye, which are planted in the cotton field at the last cultivation. (4) By planting cotton only on soils well drained and adapted to its cultivation. (5) By giving plenty of distance in the row and between the rows. (6) By using the weederfrequently during early growth. j (7) By using large amounts of acid phosphate before or at time of planting. W (8) By supplying stable manure ? either broadcast or in the drill before planting. (9) By using only small amounts of potash except on coarse, sandy soils. (10) By applying 1000 lbs of lime per acre every four years to cotton lanHn (11) By growing some of the winter and summer legumes, thus storing more nitrogen in the soil. (12) By the use of large amounts of ammonia applied in the form of blood, cotton seed meal, fish scrap, tankage and sulphate of ammonia before or at the time of planting, and by later applications. (13) By using 25 to 50 lbs of nitrate of soda per acre applied before or at the time of planting. (14) By applying 100 or more lbs of nitrate of soda per acre at the time the first bloom appears. (15) By the liberal use of acid phosphate if the cotton is making a weedy growth and not fruiting properly. (16) By the liberal use of ammonia if the plants are slow of growth and yellow in color. (17) By being careful never .to plow the land when too wet. (18) Bv breaking the crust after each rain, thus saving soil moisture and incidentally killing grass and weeds. (19) By planting only the best ^"varieties of cotton, such as Colum bia, Hartsville, Cleveland Big Boll, Toole's Prolific, Ninety Day, Tri^ umph.Cook, Brook's Improved, Blue Ribbon, Etc. (20) By avoiding anthrasnose, or boll rot, by proper seed selection. (21) By planting only those vaf rieties that are suitable to the type L of soil on which they are grown. <22) By planting wilt resistant varieties. j (23) By planting: only big boll,easy picking, early maturing1 varieties. ' (24) By planting early and reducing promptly to a stand. (2">) By the projx'r rotation of crops, which prevents soils ihov washing, which increases the i*-. .-iiIity of the soil, which, puts the -oil in better physical condition, better ( '. ..n-i,..,! fwiHitinn and better bio logical condition, which prevents over-production,prevents insect depredation-ana plant diseases, such as cotton root rot, black knot, bacterial blight of cotton, cotton root louse. (25) By using kainit on black jack and calcareous soils, on which cotton is subject to rust. J N Harper, Director, S C Experiment Station. Two Paramount Issues. (Written fur lav. \v?.ek".i Is uy ) Editor County Record:? We notice the county chairman 1 as called all the Democratic club3 to meet and re-organize; also the county convention is called to meet at the county seat on May 2. The county campaign is now* open, or soon will be; there are two vital issues in this campaign: the first issue with the candidates for the House of Representatives is, Will they use their every effort to regulate the law in reference to taxation and see that a law is kenacted to have every c tizen bear his equal part of taxa tion? As the law stands now, to make a comparison, if Mr B has $10,000 and Mr A has $10,000, and Mr B invests his capital in land he has a tax to pay on his investment from the day he makes his purchase, while if Mr A lends his capita! at interest and gets from 8 to 10 per a n , he pays no taxes. Is this right? Issue Number 2?Here comes the timbe^ speculator. Mr Farmer has a tract of timber land, the timber, worth $3 to $5 an acre, the land with timber cut off worth $2 an acre. Mr Farmer sells this timber to the buyer for $3 an acre and gives the timber-buyer 10 to 20 years to remove the said timber. As the law now stands, the farmer has to pay the taxes pn this land for 20 years, while the purchase price will not pay the taxes for 20 years. Is this right? No, but it is one of our existing lawrs. J Also the writer would advocate the enactment of a law creating a commission of men in each township to take the tax returns therein and equalize the property as returns are made between those three commissioners and the tax-payer. Let those three commissioners canvass their entire township. This tax subject is a matter of great concern to | oar people, and I don't think it fa I asking too much of the candidates ' in this campaigr to declare themselves on this matter. Subscriber. Andrews, April 18. (toe Conductor Who Was Cured Mr Wilford Adams is his name, and he writes about it.?"Some time ago I was confined to my bed with chronic rheumatism. 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