C. B. LOFTIS ?
A "BALANCED FARMER
Greenville County Man Typical of Success
Resulting from
Diversification
VX7" ITH several cash
crops ranging from
cotton through peaches
and potatoes as sources of
money income with a well
balanced plan of produc
ing food and feed to sup
ply family and farm needs,
G B. Loftis in his farm
ing atTaylors. Greenville
County, South Carolina, illustrates the
diversified and permanent fanning which
agricultural extension leaders seek con
stantly to promote.
Loftis follows intelligently and faith
fully the leadership of County Farm
Agent W. R. Gray. That he is really
"successful may be judged by the fact
that his farm land, buildings, and equip
ment even after severe depression years
show themselves to be well kept and the
further fact that he is at present enlarg
ing and improving the farm home.
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A running review of the Loftis farm
Live at Home
Practices
ing ideas and practices
made in a brief visit and
discussion with Mr. Lot
til reveals the basis of his
success. He evidently
reads for information and
admittedly seeks advice
from farm leaders. He
doesn't hesitate to try out
new ideas and practices
which promise better - results than old
ones.
Many other Greenville County farm
ers, it is fully realized, are finding suc
cess in following balanced farming ideas.
This brief account of Loftis' farming is
told as illustrating successful progressive
farm practices.
Although Mr. Loftis' interesting and
profitable specialty is a 35-acre peach
orchard, he is first of all a general farm
er, cotton, corn, sweet potatoes, and feed
crops finding important places on his
rounded program. Under present acre
age control conditions he plants only five
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acres of cotton but he averages a bale
per acre of a good quality cotton ? Cod
er's Farm Relief ? which brings a pre
mium price. His rule is to plant early,
fertilize well, and get a crop made ahead
of the boll weevil. The usual fertiliza
tion is 400 pounds per acre of a 10-4-4
mixture and a top dressing of I OO
pounds of sulphate of ammonia.
PmcHm, Grapaa Pay
A corn crop of four to five acres
yields 150 bushels, which with small
grains and other feeds provides for the
farm work stock, the family dairy cows
and poultry.
Mr. Loftis' special interest is in 35
acres of peaches and 500 grape vines.
The peach orchard is owned jointly by
him and his father-in-law, W. H. Mc
Cauley. Starting eight years ago with
a small orchard, he acquired interest in
the larger orchard six years ago. The
yield has run to eight to ten cars of
peaches per season besides as much as
3,000 bushels of orchard run and culls
sold to trucks.
The good yields result from a sys
tem of intelligent pruning, spraying,
fertilization, and cultivation. Austrian
peas are used for a winter crop fertilized
with basic slag. A complete fertilizer
is applied for a spring plant food for the
trees with additional fall feeding for
weak trees. Here as elsewhere in his
farming, Mr. Loftis follows the best
research and extension ideas. A big
packing shed makes easy the proper
grading and packing of peaches
Plant Growing Sidalin*
The grape plantation of 500 vines oc
cupies only iyi acres, but that is prov
ing to be profitable ground. This year,
cash sales from grapes totaled $102. The
principal varieties are Niagara, Concord
and Delaware, with some Wyoming
Reds and others. Believing strongly in
spraying, Mr. Loftis has'a 2oo-gallon
power sprayer for fighting grape and
peach diseases and insects. Grapes are
marketed easily by truck directly to
Greenville and nearby markets. Mr.
Loftis' experience with grapes convinces
him that other Piedmont farmers might
profitably grow an acre or so each of
grapes, an opinion voiced also by County
Agent Gray.
Important as a sideline in Mr. Loftis'
farming is the production of potato, to
mato and pepper plants, especially potato
plants, including 500,000 to 600,000 of
the latter each season. Using the fire
heated hotbed idea of the Clemson horti
culturists, Loftis gets his plants started
early and gets the better prices for early
plants. For the past two seasons he
The seed potatoes properly treated
against disease insure healthy plants and
better yields of potatoes.
An interesting by-product of the peach
orchard enterprise on the Loftis farm is
honey. With 15 stands of bees, import
ant as carriers of pollen in orchard and
vineyard, Mr. Loftis yearly has several
hundred pounds of honey for sale at a
good price and no real cost.
Mrs. Loftis is important in the pic
ture of the farm and home. She has
a flock of 50 Rhode Island Red hens
and grows 300 to 400 fryers cach sea
son which sell easily at the farm. She
also handles the canning of 1,000 or
more cans of vegetables each year and
loots after the products of the family
dairy cows.
Not the least interesting and attrac
tive spot on the Loftis farm is a two
acre fish pond fed by strong springs.
Built at the height of the depression sev
eral years ago by the Loftis and Mc
Cauley families to provide work for the
farm tenants, the little lake is not only
a source of fish but is a real beauty spot
with hundred; of water lilies to add to
its attractiveness. A hydraulic ram at
the base of the dam furnishes ample free
water for the orchard spraying needs.
Seed strains are like human races in
their inability to acquire hardiness or
other new characteristics, believe scient
ists of the Ferry-Morse Seed Breeding
Institute. Children of artificially mu
tilated savages are born with unblemish
ed skins. Natives, the soles of whose
feet are thick as shoe leather because of
their tree-climbing habits, bear children
whose feet are as tender as the feet of
babies of parents who never climbed a
tree.
Truly hardy or kcclimated seed, they
say, is seed from plants which are the
survivors after many generations of se
lection in a climate in which only the
inherently hardy plants can survive and
yield a normal supply- of seed for further
propagation. , -
Under these scientists' method of
growing acclimated seed in Michigan,
crops are planted and carefully watched.
Hardy individuals which show an ability
to bear fruit at the end of a short sea
son in which there has been both cool
and hot weather, are selected. Seed from
them is planted and the next seed crop
selected on the same basis. This is re
peated again and again. Ultimately there
is established a strain of vegetable or
flower resistant to the climatic conditions
it will be called upon to experience in
widely different climates.
But, it is explained, seed breeders do
says he has been un- (
able to meet the de
mands for plants.
Three to four
acres of sweet pota
toes grown for the
local markets add
considerable cash to
the farm income;
not thus give to the
seed any qualities
which it did not pos
sess inherently. They
took advantage of
variations in nature
and capitalized upon
the quality of hardi
ness.
Grapes, well displayed euch as theee, always sail wall