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PAGE TEEN C. B. LOFTIS A ‘BALANCED FARMER Greenville County Man Typical of Success Resulting from Diversification V XT 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, C. B. Loftis in his farm ing at Taylors, Greenville County, South Carolina, illustrates the diversified and permanent farming 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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WE BUY RAW FURS ENMAN’S - ASHEVILLE, N. C- How To Raise Turkeys You must keep turkeys from dying it you want to make money. Thousands of tur 9/ key raisers have used Ray-seni to help fL reduce looses Hold under money back guar- ITfea antee. A o*l. Is enough for 100 turkeys tor a season Trial size SI: H Oal S 3 75; Wk Oal S7. C O D If you wish, send for Free Book. “How To Raise Turkeys." itA RAY-ZEM LABORATORIES 684 Rice St. **• r « , ‘> MEN WANTED We pay year railread fare te Nashville. Let us train you to be an expert aatoraehile mechanic and help yea get a gaod Job. The coet U yea le email. Na negroes taken. Fsr free booklet write Nashville Ante College, Dept. 77, Nashville. Term. jjjppfc 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. l*his 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 Please Mention State Farmer I "ser*” I COSTS LESS THAN I SAVE MONEY. Get S WOOD SHINGLES I your Roofing direct ™ from the Factory, ■ and keep in year own pocket the profit ■ others would get. All kinds and styles 2 to pick from. Galvanized Roofing and as shingles. Asphalt Roofing and Shingles g and Wire Fencing. All sold direct to ■ you at money saving prices. Freight • paid. Best quality. Easy to nail on. g WHITE FOB I WRITE TO-DAY for S FREE SAMPLES I Big Free samples and 2 money saving prices. 2 You will be pleased and.delighted with.# the fine quality and low prices. Write Ik' to-day —while prices are low. Address, f 1 Raleigh Fence & Roofing Co. Dept. NC-M. Raleigh, N. C. Send me FREE SAMPLES. Direct From Factory Freight Paid Prices and FREE ROOFING AND BUILDING BOOK. Post Office .... R. F. D State THE STATE FARMER SECTION Live at Home Practices ing ideas and practices made in a brief visit and discussion with Mr. Lot tis 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 mp r M Cover crops are used to help keep peach trees thrifty and productive. acres of cotton but he averages a bale per acre of a good quality cotton —Cok- 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 100 pounds of sulphate of ammonia. Peaches, Grapes 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 Sideline The grape plantation of 500 vines oc cupies only 1 l /z acres, but that is prov ing to be profitable ground. This year, cash sales from grapes totaled $lO2. The principal varieties Niagara, Concord and Delaware, with some Wyoming Reds and others. Believing strongly in spraying, Mr. Loftis has a 200-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 fanners 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 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. WKKk Hhßb JBf Grapes, well displayed such as these, always soil well a The seed potatoes properly treated against disease insure healthy plants and better yields of potatoes. An interesting by-product of the peach v 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 4(X> fryers each sea son which sell easily at the farm. She also handles the canning of 1,000 or more cans of vegetables each year and looks after the products of the family dairy cows. * Not the least interesting and attrac tive spot on the Loftis farm is a two- 1 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 hundreds 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- 1 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 acclimated seed, they say, is seed from plants which are the survivors after many generations of se lection in a climate in w’hich 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- k 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 d° not thus give to the seed any qualities which it did not pos- , sess inherently. They i took advantage of variations in nature and capitalized upon * the quality of hardi ness.
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