The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, March 20, 1909, Image 4
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uATUKuAY, MARCH 20. 190?.
!?> Rumtsr Watchman was found
a !?>* and the True Southron In
k the Watchman and Southron
has Ike combined circulation and
snaca of both of the old papers.
IS manifestly the host ad vert lain g
IMS ftm am inter.
ho Dsssjooratio Congressman who
?Sod thser party and mads it pos
I tar oed Joe Cannon to remain In
trot *f the House should he read
of ti e party.
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aa Cannon brand of Democrats is
aodlg mors objectionable than the
I sort,, And Oeorgia seems to have
m a ooHsctlos of both sorts, not
avoatsm the Jos Brown sect and
Watson Populists.
from ths newspaper re
*y Southern msn or woman
i oesatntt* a crime or becomes lo?
ad as a scandal belongs to one of
"boat old families" and is prom I
t socially If this sort of thing
as ap ths outride world will be
med n regarding ths best old
Rias ulth suspicion.
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ar Nicholas Is restly an Olden
I. althosgh he is accepted as a
saooff. If his name were to be
sal through ths paternal Uns It
Id ho found thst the founder of
family was sn Oldenburg. But in
rd with ths generally accepted
It Is traced through the feminine
A I >| saps ihr tie 1?
largo tosring automobile con
sag a man and hit wtfs met a
of hay In a vary narrow road.
wosaaa declared thi.t the fsrmer
I each oat. hut her husband con?
sul that she was unreasonable,
hat yoa can t back ths auto mo -
an fat." ska said, and I doa't
ad to move for anybody. Be
s, as ?hoald have seen us."
ha aaesaai pointed out that this
laaposslbie. owing to an abrupt
t sa Um? road.
I doa't care," she Insisted. T
ft saovo if I have to stay hsrs all
a*
far hasimml was starting to argue
matter, when the farmer, who
Utting quietly oa the hay.
mlad. sir!" hs exclaimed.
"I'll try to back out. I re
fust Ilka her at lioms."
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Farmers' Union News
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Practical Thoughts for Practical Farmers
(Conducted by E. W. Dabbs, President Farmer?' Union of Snmter
County.)
The Watchman and Southron having decided to double its service by
semi-weekly publication, would Improve thst service by special features.
The first to be inaugurated is this Department for the Farmers' Union and
Practical Farmen which I have been requested to conduct. It will be my
aim to give the Union news and offletal calls of ths Union. To that end
officers, snd msmbers of ths Union are requested to use these columns.
Also to publish such clippings from the agricultural papers and Govern?
ment Bulletins as I think will be of practical benefit to our readers. Ori?
ginal articles by any of our readers telling of their successes or failures
will be appreciated and published.
Trusting this Department will be of mutual benefit to all concerned,
THE EDITOR.
All communications for this Department should be sent to E. W. Dabbs.
Mayosvllle. 8. C.
Koine Random Thoughts.
I trust those of my readers who
do not seo the originals, will carefully
road the articles on corn growing and
how lands grow poor, that I think
worthy of these columns this week.
Our unions are invited to make use
of these columns, to communicate
with each other. Have they not each
a scribe who will give us the news?
Corn planting has begun In this
section and before many days the
birds Hon. James Henry Rice la
fuming over will be having a picnic
eating the sprouted grains.
The remedy in use plenty of seed,
ft la always cheaper to thin corn than
to replant.
By all means protect the birds and
feed them too, for the great good
they do, and ths pleasure their sweet
songs and dainty ways give to those
who can appreciate the beauties of
nature.
And also that we may have a rest
from some of ths hysterics of some
of their self-appointed4 protectors.
How Farming Lands Grow Poor.
A msn when he applies 200 pounds
8?S?2 fertiliser to a cotton crop
(there Is In that sixteen pounds of
phosphoric acid, four pounds of nl
trogen, and four pounds of potash),
and soils the seed containing more of
these plant foods than he applied in
the fertilizer, is it not evident that
the plants have drawn on the soil for
more than was furnished in the fer?
tilizer?
Then he finds that the same amount
of fertilizer will not give him as
much crop on the same land, and he
concludes that fertilizers are only
stimulants. And, as he uses them,
they do amount to that very thing,
enabling the plant to get a start that
enables It to draw more heavily on
the soil, and the soli gets poorer.
I Then he lets the land He with only '
i the dead cotton stalks on it all win
I ter, and the rains wash out more sol?
uble plant food, when a crop of crim?
son clover would have saved the
waste and would have added not only
some extra nitrogen, but a lot of or?
ganic matter to form humus and help
i restore the waste.
A good rotation of crops Is not, as
some suppose, to rest the land, but
to make It produce heavier crops.
We are thus enabled to get constant?
ly Increasing crops while maintain?
ing and Increasing the productive ca?
pacity of the soli through the res?
toration of the wasted humus. In
the annual cultivation In cotton we
use up the humus (the home of the
bacteria that promote nitrification
I In the soil), and the constant expo?
sure to t the sun, the greatest of all
sterilizers, completes the killing of
the bacteria, so that we have left on
ty the old dead skeleton of sand and
clay, robbed of its life, the humus.
Such a soil is really a dead soil, and
while a little application of fertilizers
may temporarily galvanize it into a
sort of life, it soon goes back to its
dead condition, deader, if we may
so speak, than before.
This condition has been the result
of small applications of low grade
fertilizers solely for the purpose of
getting more crops from the dead soil
and the farmer is continually apply?
ing to us for a formula that will cure
it, when no fertilizer formula that
was ever compounded will restore the
life of the soil.
The only way to do this Is to use
the fertilizers for the purpose of re?
storing the humus, the newground
conditions In the soil. Used for the
increased production of the legume
crops, we need not buy the costly ni?
trogen, for by a good rotation of
crops with the legumes to feed, and
the manure properly saved and used,
we can Increase the nitrogen content
In our soils without buying a cent's
worth of nitrogen In a fertilizer.
The Minnesota Station found that
after ten years of rotative cropping
without any purchased nitrogen,
there was 300 pounds per acre more
nitrogen in the soil than when the
rotation began.
And yet, all over the South men
are selling many times the nitrogen
in their cotton seed that they apply
afterwards in fertilizers, when they
could have had an abundance of ni?
trogen without buying an ounce. Our
cotton lands are kept poor, and grow?
ing poorer, because we will not let
them get rich by giving them the
proper chance through good farming.
The only way to reanimate our dead
soils is by restoring to them the life
giving humus, and this can only be
I done through a good short rotation
In which legume crops come in fre?
quently on the land and are fed to
cattle to make manure.?Progressive
Farmer.
Find What Your Corn Cost?.
To those of our friends who are en?
amoured of the Williamson stunting
mode of growing corn, I have a pro?
posal to make:
Measure your field exactly, so thai
there will be no guess work. Then
measure off one exact acre of the
same quality of land in part of the
field. Give this acre the same pre
! paratlon as the remainder of the field
I'and cultivate it regularly, clean an<i
shallow without any stunting. Ther
practice the Williamson method if
you choose on the remainder of the
field. Charge the acre, and all the \
other acres, with the rental value of
the land, and the actual cost of the
work put on it, and charge the part
treated with the Williamson methods
with the fertilizers used at their ac?
tual cost to you on the land, hauling
and application included. Put no
fertilizer at all on the one meas?
ured acre. This will give you the
I means for finding what the land will
I do with good cultivation, and will
I give you a basis for calculating with
I out guess-work, what the increased
crop on the Williamson part has
cost you. It would be still more in?
structive if you measure off another
acre and treat it exactly as in the
Williamson method, with the excep?
tion of the stunting. Then you can
find what the stunting has done for
you.
We have entirely too much guess?
work in our farming, and we cannot
get at the actual cost of results with?
out some means for accurate compa?
rison. Now, do this thoroughly, and
see just what your corn actually
coats.
?
The value of the time of every
horse or mule and man should be ac?
curately kept day after day, and the
crop weighed, both corn and fodder,
from a sample acre of each. The
mere getting of large crops is not
always evidence of good farming. A
crop of 100 bushels per acre may pos?
sibly show less actual profit than one
of 50 bushels per acre. We should
have the matter of profit in view in
all of our farming rather than a
special effort to get big crops regard?
less of expense. The same rule will
apply to all our crops, for all farm
I Ing should have the economical pro?
duction of the crops constantly in
I view. It is easy for a rich man to
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spend more on the making of a big
crop than the crop is worth. But that
is not farming, and it is never good
farming unless the PN rk shows a
good profit, and the ?oil It growing
in productiveness at the same time.
This is Ju3t the difference between
real farming and the dependence on
big applications of fertilizers to
produce sale crops without any ref?
erence to the future of the soil.
Now. I hope that farmers all over
the South will make the testa indica?
ted In the most careful manner, and
let us have the results.?Prof. Massey
I In Progressive Farmer.
Lee County Court House.
The handsome new court house of
Lee County, which has recently been
completed at a cost of about 180,000,
will be dedicated with appropriate
ceremonies when court convenes at
10 o'clock Monday morning, March
23rd. The Lee County court nouse
while a trifle smaller than the Sum
ter court house, is very similar in de?
sign and appearance, and Is said to
be In some respects a hand
better finished building,
mission that had charge of
tion of the building was co
the following well known i
Lee County: R. W. McL?
A. James. J. R. Segars, A. M
J. A. Thomas.
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The Columbia dope wrltt
that there Is to be a State L
that Sumter is dead sure to
mix-up. Perhaps so, but th
much baseball talk in this to
Booth, Ansley Harby, Clau?
George Ricker, Hugh Ha.
Jim Blanding, and the rest of the of?
ficial fans are keeping mighty quiet
on the subject of they have any base
on the subject of they have any base
Cash Prizes For Farmers.
For the stimulation of intensive effort and diversifica?
tion among the Farmers of Sumter County and its
farmer customers in other counties
The Bank of Sumter
Offers the following cash prizes:
$50, in gold, to the farmer showing highest yield
of corn on one acre.
$25, in gold, for the second highest yield.
This contest will be c^-.ducted the auspices of the State of
South Carolina.
FULL PARTICULARS CAN BE OBTAINEO AT THIS BANK OR WILL BE MAILED
UPON REQUEST TO EXPECTANT CONTESTANTS.
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