Tfcvrsdr.y, February 7, 1929.
[ BALANCED RATIONS OF PLANT
FOOD BEST FOR FARM CROPS
A balanced ration is best for both
human beings and livestock. This fact
has been proved by science. Food au
thorities tell us to use a mixed diet
balancing the different kinds of food
substances, making sure to obtain suf
ficient mineral material and vitamins.
Producers of livestock have found
that proper feeds must be used in or
der that their stock may make the
most economical gains. The progres
sive dairymen recognize the necessity
of a balanced ration for their cows as
a means of obtaining more profitable
milk production.
Balanced Rations for Crops
Balanced rations for crops are just
as necessary for best growth. It is
not difficult to observe when plants in
a field are starving to death, and each
summer many fields are seen where
the plants are dying for lack of plant
food. In other fields it is apparent I
that the crop is receiving plenty of
some plant foods but lacks others —an
unbalanced ration. A balanced ration
would be a fertilizer containing the
right proportions of nitrogen, phos
phoric acid and potash, according to
the Soil Improvement Committee, The i
National Fertilizer Association.
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ing for cows of large capacity, cows i
that can eat large amounts of feed,
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PROFITS FROM
COTTON DEPEND
ON LOW COST
HIGH YIELD PER ACRE MEANS
LO\T COST PER
POUND 4
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Profit from cotton for the grower
depends on the difference between
the cost of producing and marketing
the crop and the price that can be
obtained for it. The grower with a
low cost of production per pound of
lint will make most profit per bale,
providing the quality of his product
is good.
Studies of cost of producing cotton
have been made on thousands of
southern farms by the United States
Department of Agriculture. These
studies have indicated that under aver
age conditions, where yields of one
third of a bale per acre were obtained,
it cost approximately 16 cents to pro
. duce and market a pound of lint. On
j farms where yields of a bale per acre
were secured, the cost of lint was
only 9 cents per pound.
These results clearly show that low
yield per acre means high cost per
pound. High yield per acre offers op
portunity for greater profit by in
creasing the spread between the cost
of production and the selling price, ac
cording to the Soil Improvement Com
mittee, The National Fertilizer Asso
ciation.
While there are many factors af
fecting yield per acre, such as good
land, good seed, good cultivation, one
of the most important agencies for
increasing yield of cotton is the use
of sufficient plant food.
Experiments conducted by the agri
cultural experiment stations through
out the South as well as the experience
of farmers have shown that proper
fertilisers increase yield per acre and
result in more profit from the crop.
The North Carolina Experiment Sta
tion found as an average of a num
ber of tests that a pound of seed cot
ton was produced for every pound of
complete fertilizer (one containing
nitrogen, phosphoric acid, and pot
ash) used up to 1,000 pounds per
acre. The value of the seed cotton
produced by the fertilizer was $54
per acre more than the cost of the
fertilizer, assuming seed cotton to be
worth 7 cents per pound.
« Somewlyit similar results have been
obtained by experiment stations in
other states. Commenting on the re
sults of experiments at the Missis
sippi station to determine the proper
rate of fertilization for cotton, those
:in charge of this work state that the
results “indicate high qualities are
practicable and justify the conclusion
that the danger lies more in using too
little rather than too much fertiliser."
The use of 600 to 800 pounds of a
high-analysis complete fertilizer per
acre on cotton is conservative.
tory and takes the cheap raw feeds,
such as hay, silage, and grain, and
changes them into a more valuable
product —milk. As a rule, the more
feed a good dairy cow consumes the
more milk she will produce, and the
more profit she will make for the
owner.
The grower of field crops, the cot
ton grower for example, should look
on his cotton crop in much the same
way. The cotton plant takes cheap
raw materials, which are called plant
food, and converts them into much
more valuable cotton lint and seed.
As a rule, if it is a good variety tA.
cotton, grown under favorable condi
tions, the more plant food the cotton
plants use the more cotton will be pro
duced and the more profit will be
made. ©
Experiments conducted by agricul
tural authorities in many states have
definitely shown that cotton, and oth
er crops as well, make most vigor
ous growth and are less likaly to be
seriously affected by disease when
fed liberally with well balanced plant
food. Complete commercial fertiliz
ers of various analyses are manufac
tured to supply balanced rations for
crops on different soils. The use of
the proper fertilizer will result in d
hettev crop and a more profitable pro
duction. .'I
FARMERS NEED
. CHEAPER HOME
GROWN FEEDS 1
» Helps Lower Cost of Growing Other
Crops and Increase Growers’
Profit.
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Cheap home-grown feed helps to
lower the cost of growing cotton and
to increase the cotton grower’s profit.
Corn is the best feed crop in the cot
ton belt, but many farmers neither
have plenty of corn nor do they pro
duce it cheaply.
Although the Southern farmer is ■
planting a large acreage to corn, he
must buy feed, because his average
crop of corn is only 17 bushels per
acre. Because of this low yield the
cost of corn per bushel is high.
This low yield can be increased at i
a profit. The cost studies made by j
the United States Department of Ag- j
riculture show that on farms where i
higher yields were obtained, corn was !
produced at a lower cost per bushel, !
for although it cost more per acre to !
produce the larger yields, there were I
more bushels to share the cost.
A good mule should have 75 bushels j
of corn during the year. If the yield |
is 13 bushels per acre, about 6 acres j
of corn, at a cost of SIOO, would be :
required to feed a mule. If 41 bushels |
per acre are grown, two acres would j
supply the corn at a cost of $49.00.
As considerable idle land is avail
able for crops, it might seem that the
farmer should increase his acreage
in corn in order to grow sufficient
feed.
A better way is to fertilize more lib
erally the acres now under cultivation
and thereby get not only more corn
Dut cheaper corn, because it costs
much more to cultivate the additional
acres in corn than to buy fertilizer
sufficient to produce the necessary
feed on the acres now in corn.
Under usual conditions the appli
cation of p. complete fertilizer at plant
ing time gives the best results with
corn. This may be followed when
the corn is knee to waist high, by
an application of nitrogen in readily
available form. On thin land two ap
plications of available nitrogen are
sometimes made, the first being ap
plied when the corn is knee high,
and the second when the corn is
bunching to tassel.
From 200 to 400 pounds per acre of
a complete fertilizer, such as 10-4-4,
applied at planting time, followed by
a side dressing of 150 pounds of ni
trate of soda or nitrate of lime, or
of three—fourths this amount of sul
phate of ammonia, will produce more
corn at a lower cost per bushel. Un
der average conditions, the applica
tion of 100 pounds of nitrate of soda
or its equivalent in nitrate of lime
or sulphate of ammonia should give
an Increase of 6 to 8 bushels of corn,
according to the Soil Improvement
Committee, The National Fertiliser
Association.
! MRS. FEARINGTON ENTERTAINS
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Mr. and Mrs. Bunn Fearington
i entertained at their home in Bald
! win’s township the last week-end in
! January in horor of lVi'rsfl Fearing
• ton’s mother, Mrs. <J. E. Owens, of
I Raleigh, the occasion being- the lat
i tor’s birthday. Only members of
! the families and brothers of Mrs.
| Owen were present. -
j They had as their week-end guests
j Judge and Mrs. J. E. Owens of Ka
i leigh, Misses Henrietta, Jessie, and
Geraldine Owen, Florence Fitzger
ald. Mr. and Msrs. Vernon Biggs,
Mr. and Mrs. Norman L. Balance,
Owen and N. L. Balance, Jr., of Ra
j ieigh, Dr. J and Mrs. Paul Fitzgerald
I and Paul Fitzgerald, Jr., of Ureen
| ville, Mr. Charles Fitzgerald and H.
tA. Fitzgerald, and Mr. 'and Mrs.
i Charles Warren Giaham ;of Roan
oke, Va.
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j A SAD DEATH
j Mrs. Warden W. Mann, of Bald
j win township, died Monday after
' noon >after an illness of two weeks
j with flu and pneumonia. All the
family had been sick with influenza
except her husband’s brother, who
lives with them, and upon >iim had
fallen the care of a house full of
sick folk. Consequently, Mrs. Mann !
during her attack of influenza would
i get up and help, especially to at
| tend to the 18-months old baby.
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Pneumonia followed influenza. Her
heart seemed to be bad, and she j
had several sinking spells. In one
of these Monday she passed quiet
ly away, in less than an hour after
lhe physician had left and she had
asked the nurse what he had said
of her condition.
The death is very sad. She leav
es her husband and five children, the
oldest of whom is only 14 years
old,
Mrs. Mann before marriage was
a Miss Thompson, a sister of Mr. S.
S. Thompson, and a cousin of* Supt.
Reid S. Thompson and Thos. A.
Thompson. She was a most esti
mable lady, a faithful and unselfish
wife and mother.
P. T. A. MEETING
On account of the prevalence of
influenza the regular meeting of the
Parent-Teacher association was held
Jan. 18, 1929 instead of the first
Friday evening.
At this meeting it was reported
that Mr. Vander Johnson and the
committee appointed at the Decem
ber meeting had arranged for the
basement rooms in the school build- i
ing to be heated comfortably. The j
work was done under Mr. Johnson’s
direction at a cost of SIOO.OO, the
g: eater part of which has been paid
by the P. T. A.
The association expressed its ap
preciation to Mr. Johnson and the
committee for. the prompt and ef
ficient service rendered to the com- |
munity.
The treasurer reported $270.36 |
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paid in and $216.17 paid out since
j last meeting, leaving a balance on
jhand of $54.19.
The president complimented the
school basket ball team and the as
siciation gave the boys a hearty ap
pluse. They have lost but one game
during the season.
It being near General Lee’s birth
day, Miss Virginia Bean and Miss
Ann Bynum gave very interesting
life sketches of the South’s great
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Threw r new members w T ere gladly
received into zhe association: Mrs.
L. D. Johnson, Mr. Henry Clegg and
Miss Lozelle Campbell.
Mr. and Mrs. Siler ave their names
for membership at the previous
meeting.
MR.E. W. P. HORTON, Sec.
DEATH OF ELIZABETH
DI3MUKES
The departure *of our dear
friend Elizabeth Dismukes was a
shock to the community of Carbon
ton. She passed out of this world
to a land where there is no suffer
! ing, on Friday, January 25, 1929.
She vas taken neably seven
weeks ago with an incurable dis
ease, which she endured with pa
tience until the end.
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She is survived by a mother, two
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