Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-11-14

crops of the farmer, if their demand for
this and that ingredient in his soil is not
supplied, fail to grow, and both merchant
and farmer fail IN balsi,aass.
Your land, in it's present state will yield,
say six bushels of wheat per acre ($l2 per
acre )-and if by spending $40 per acre to
lfertilize it, you can raise sixteen bushels
per acre, you will thereby have gain OF
| $40 per acre, with no additional labor ex-
cept that of applying the fertilizer to the
land. The merchant thinks he is doing a
good business if he realizes twenty per cent.
But here is gain of hundred per cent.
And this is far from being mere theory. In
England it is the constant, annual practice ;
farming there is fast money making busi-
ness.
Wheat is the most important crop to man.
In this country, the usual practice is to SOW
| it broadcast, allow the weeds and bushes to
rob it of half of its nourishment ; 6 i've it no
attention until it is ready to cut, then ex-
claim with lugubrious countenances "my
wheat is failure %
| In England, every farmer considers him
self unacquainted with his business until he
finds out what fertilizers his soil requires,
and when. this knowledge is acquired, his
way is clear. ssEvery shilling spend is
that much gain" and he applies lime, guano,
gypsum or the phosphates with no niggard
hand. When his land is ready, he does not
SOW the precious seed-some thick-some
thin-some too deeply covered and some
not covered at all. A well made drill puts
each grain in its proper depth, and Gov
ers all securely. When the green dark
rows appear, no weeds are allowed to re-
tard their rapid growth, they are hoed OF
least twice, and at harvest, the hale and
rosy English farmers, in spite of having to
pay $40 per month for laborers, and what
would appear to be fabulous rents, smile
and say, "Farming is most profitable bu-
siness, if we'll followed"
And this difference is simply owing to
to English energy, English thrift and Eng
| lish science. ....
We will now consider in detail their meth
cd of culture drilling, wedding
and hoeing. '.
1st. Applying fertilizers: ''The more
money you put into your soil the more you
get out of it" is an Englishman's adage
and golden one. But this money must
be put in with some sense and Judgment.
The merchant who fills his store house with
goods not suited to the market, proves him
self unacquainted with his business, and the
goods are left upon his hands, dead loss.
You would then think him very foolish
person to conclude therefore that merchan-
dizing did not pay, and give up the busi-
ness. You would say rather 'sprofit by your
experience, study the wants of your. custo-
mers, and then see if it will not pay"
So we say to the farmer, ascertain what
your soil requires-if you make mistake,
profit by your experience-study your soil,
study your business. What would be
your thought of a manufacturer who under
stood nothing about his machinery-you
would think bis machinery might play the
wild him. 1t is the business Of the farmer
to understand the character and require
ments of his soil, and as soon as this knowl-
edge is acquired, to act upon it with will.
Baugh's Rawbone Phosphate can be pro-
cured at less than $50 per ton, if taken in
quantities of ten tons and over.
You are probably going to SOW one hun.
dred acres in wheat. AS your land may,
in its present state, yield six bushels per
acre, we will consider your crop worth 81,
200. If by applying quarter of ton Of
Phosphate per acre, you can bring your
field to yield sixteen bushels per acre, you
will for an outlay of $1250, make $4,000.
You consider $3.50 heavy outlay fol
manures. Your merchant friend would not
consider it a heavy outlay for goods how
ever and you may expect, with as much
certainty, at least, as he does, profitable
return. Even if our farmers had to pay
such rents as they do in England, this
would not be a loosing business.
Drilling instead of broadcast sowing. A
drilling machine costs about $50. By using
it, half bushel of seed is saved to the acre
In hundred acres, you therefore safe S1O(
in seed alone. Two horses drill about sew
en- acres day, and here is an important
gain, for the drill does the whole work ot
sowing and covering. But the most import
tant gain is the increased product of the
grain. The farmers of Yates County, N. Y.
says that on an average the drilled wheat
Yields 40 per cent. more than the broadcast
IlCouatry Gentleman, vol. 9, No. 15.) This
great difference however, is not so percp'
tible, in the spring grown grain. The great
advantage Of placing grain at the proper
depth, and distance apart is shown by the
following experiment. "Last season !
planted five oat seeds about four or five
inches apart, and one inch deep, in good
soil. Without further attention, they yield
ed sixty seven stalks, averaging from eighty
to one hundred oats to each head-beme
over ten hundred fold, instead of only from
thirty to forty fold, the ordinary yield. :!
know of no reason why whole field woulo
not produce at the same rate if planted Of
properly"
of farming, we will state that Mr.. John
Hudson, Of Castle Acre, (an estate Of about
twelve hundred acres,) pays out $4,000 an
nually for artificial manures-$l0, ,OOO an
nually for cattle food to make still better
mannres and he paws $4,000 annually