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Consolidated, 1904, with THe Cotton Plant, Qreenville, SC.
RALEIGH, N. C, APRIL 12, 1906.
Weekly $1 a Year.
BEATS COTTON OR TOBACCO.
Mr. Parker's Personal Experience in Raising Corn and Pork and Im
proving Land.
Messrs. Editors: I was much in
terested in an article from Brother
Lucas in this issue of The Parmer on
corn culture. It displays much
thought and shows what might be
done and will be done in America as
well as in the Orient when we have a
"population demanding it. But as his
experiment may be too much in ad
vance for the average farmer, I will
give one that will perhaps be more
practical.
Now this suggestion is from per
sonal experience and is intended for
the average farmer a man having
four to six horses and colts, twelve
head of cattle, twenty-five hogs and
a few sheep, and is not for the man
who works four months in the year
and spends the balance of his time
sitting around stores cussing the
hard times and bad luck. To these
I have nothing to say, for all the ink
that has been shed on them since the
foundation of the world has been
shed in vain. To the average farm
er, then, we will suppose, like the
writer, as a matter of taking care of
manure and keeping ditch banks in
order, you have composted all the
stable and lot manure you have made
since last May when you finished
planting your 1905 crops up to Feb
ruary. Now if your horses, cattle,
hogs and sheeps have been kept well
strawed up in the stables and sheds,
and you have exchanged your cotton
seed for meal and properly fed it,
you should have by May 10th one
hundred loads of stable and lot ma
nure. Now select a field of sixteen acres
of your best land. Broad-cast the
manure from time to time as you
have it ready. To this one hundred
loads of manure add three tons of
acid phosphate and one 'ton of kainit.
Ploy the land as deeply as two good
mules can pull the plow. Pulverize
with harrow. About 15th of May
plant plat in Southern White Snow
flake corn without bedding. To keep
rows right distance, run your plantei
by stakes. Plant rows five feet
apart. When up, start to cultivate.
Thin to eighteen inches apart in
drill; when three feet high, lay it by,
sowing thickly in cow-peas.
Plant in same field five acres in
stock peas, using one ton of acid
phosphate on the five acres. At last
working, sow cow-peas in the rows.
Plant the sixteenth acre in sweet po
tatoes, . using wood mould, unless
you have an abundant supply of
humus already, and in addition what
ever scrapings you have left, with
400 pounds acid phosphate and fifty
pounds muriate of potash.
On the 15th of October gather corn
and turn twenty shoats in the field.
You will not raise 135 bushels of
corn to that acre, but you will have
500 bushels of corn, 3,000 pounds of
nice pork; if you cut and dry the corn
you will have forty tons of stover
and better peas than if the corn is
allowed to dry standing on the rows.
You. will have also sixteen acres of
improved land.
Now let's see where we are get
ting. We have 500 bushels corn
60c. . . . . r $300.00
We have 3,000 pounds pork
7c 210.00
We have 40 tons stover
$4 16S.00
Improvement to land
$10 160.00
Total
Expense.
Fourty-four bags acid phos
phate (T 90c.
Ten bags kainit
Muriate potash
Labor
$830.00
$39.60
9.00
2.50
150.00
Net profit $628.90
$830.00
This will give a net profit of about
$39.30 per acre. Try it. Cotton is a
fool to this. J.H.PARKER.
Hertford Co., N. C.
In personal note to the Editor,
Mr. Parker says: "The allowance
of $10 per acre may seem extrava
gant to you, but repeated trials on
my land has proved that land treat
ed as suggested will give the succeed
ing year one bale of cotton an acre
with the application of 300 pounds
of acid phosphate and 100 pounds
of kainit, whereas on land cultivated
the previous year in' cotton with the
same would require at least $10
worth of ammonia to produce same
amount of crop.
NEXT TOBACCO CROP.
Will Farmers Make the Mistake of
Increasing the Acreage?
Indications are that there will be
as much tobacco planted in the old
belts as labor . conditions will permit.
At any rate, the average crop will no
doubt be planted. There is danger
of over-production, taking the entire
tobacco-growing sections into consid
eration. There will be a curtailment
of acreage in Eastern North Carolina
as well as in South Carolina. With
favorable seasons the next crop in
North Carolina will run from one
hundred to one hundred and twenty
million pounds. Southern Tobacco
Journal. j
Whilst we repay Him with neglect
or with hate He still loves. Alexan
der Maclaren, D. D.
MAKING WAY FOR MORE PROFITABLE STOCK
RAISING.
The fact that the cattle quaran
tine directed against tick fever went
into effect again the first of this';
month directs attention to the j
changes in the cattle quarantine
-lines in North Carolina in the last
four years. Those interested in the
cattle industry and the removal of
the most serious obstacle to its de
velopment, the fever tick, will note
with satisfaction the increase in the
exterminating the fever ticks in all
"stock law" sections, but the small
cost at which the work has been
done also proves that it is easy, prac
ticable and profitable. Those who
have given such matters considera
tion know that an embargo on a fret
exchange of the products of any in
dustry is the most serious obstacle
to its development, and it is safe to
state that the present undeveloped
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1902.
free or unquarantined area of the
State.
Figure 1 shows the Federal and
State quarantine line as it was in
1902, while Figure 2 shows the line
in force during 1906.
' It will be noted that ten entire
counties Wilkes, Caldwell, Burke,
Alexander, Iredell, Davie, Surry, Ca
towba, Lincoln, Gaston and parts of
two others, Rowan and McDowell -
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condition of the Southern cattle In
dutry is, to a very great extent, the
result of the ravages of the fever
tick and the attendant Federal quar
antine restrictions. To reach the best
markets our cattle must go north of
$he quarantine line, and must be
slaughtered at once or go back home.
The buyers know this and pay from
one-fourth to one-half cent per
pound less for them than for cattle
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1906.
have been exempted from all Fed
eral quarantine restrictions during
the past four years. This is the re
sult of the campaign of tick extermi
nation which has been carried on by
the North Carolina Department of
Agriculture under the efficient direc
tion of Dr. Tait Butler, and is cer
tainly a gratifying success. It not
only demonstrates the feasibility of
of the same quality from north of
the quarantine line.
The ten counties which have been
released from all Federal quarantine
restrictions, because we have exter
minated the fever tick within their
borders, sell about $288,000 worth
of cattle annually. If the. price of
these cattle was reduced to one
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