The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1870-11-03
AGRICULTURAL.
Report of a Committee to the Han.
cock County Agricultural
Club. No. l,
Gentlemen Of the Club

Your committee appointed at
our meeting on the 10th of July
last, to visit certain plantations in
the neighborhood Of the village of
White Plains" in the counties of
Greene and Hancock, and to care
fully inspect the effects upon crops
of cotton and corn ola new fertili-
ger used there, and generally
known as the Bryant Fertilizer"
and to make a report upon the
same, beg leave, respectfully, to
submit the following:
Your committee in company
with our worthy President, j. S.
Newman, Esq, started early on the
2sth July, and proceeded to the
plantation of Mr.. Seaborn Jernigan,
some two miles from the village Of
white Plains" in this county
Here we carefully inspected an
experimental cotton plat, where
were compared the virtues Of the
following named fertilizers, viz. {:
"Etiwan No. g." "Pendleton, ""Bry-
ants homemade" and "Hoyt's Su'
per-phosphate." Your committee,
without any fore-knowledge Of
what particular manures were
used in the different rows unani-
mously agreed that the cotton
exhibited to US where the Bryant
Compound" was used, quite equal
led the cotton in the rows fertilized
by the other above mentioned
guanos, in the following particulars,
viz. :: in luxuriant growth of weed,
in healthy color and appearance
of foliage, and in amount of bolls
and forms per stalk-the Bryant"
corn excelling the others in color.
Upon this experimental plat, Mr..
Jernigan had used 800 lbs. of the
Bryant Compound to 200 lbs. of
each Of the other named fertilizers
the comparative cost of the
Bryant" used being just about
one-ffth the cost of the other fer
tilizers used on the plat. We at
the same time visited other fields
Of cotton belonging to Mr.. Jerni-
gan, fertilized with this Bryant
Compound, and were very much
pleased with the results in every
respect. Mr.. Jernigan stated to
Us that he had manipulated on his
place the Bryant Compound used
by him at him at total expense
of SIS per ton-this. allowing 81
per ton as the cost of the stable
manure, and manipulating the
same with the chemicals used
The long and we'll established rep
utation ofthis gentleman asa care
full and successful planter, gives
much additional weight to his
assertion that he was altogether
satisfied with his experiments with
this homemade article, continued
through two years of opposite sea.
sons, and that he would continue
its use.
On the same afternoon we in
spected a comparative plat of cot
ton, prepared under very favorable
circumstances of location. &C.. by
Mr.. Tappan, Of the village of
white Plains" where the Bryant
Compound was brought into COM
petition with the following COM
mercial fertilizers and at a cost.
respectively, as stated, viz:
Bryant Compound, $50 lbs, cost. ....s 90
Pure Peruvian. 449 lbs. cost. --.22 so
PendletOn, $50 lbs., cost, l9 20
Sea Fowl, 65S lbs, cost. O3
Hoyts SuperphOsphate 600 lbs, cost,...2l on
Here we decided without any
fore-knowledge of what manure
were used, respectively, in the
different plats) that there was a
tie between the Bryant" and the
"Pendleton"- effects of these
two being superior to that of all the
others.
We next visited a six acre field
of corn. cultivated by DR.. Parker,
of thu same village, upon land
universally pronounced by the
neighbors to have been, previous
to the application to it the last
season Of this Bryant fertilizer alb
solutely sterile and unproductive.
Upon this lot had been placed the
present season about S. worth of
this home made manure per acre,
and the result exhibited to US was
the most remarkable yield of up
land corn falling under the expert
ence of either of US. We have
been promised the actual yield,
when gathered of this lot.J
Other plantations on our route,
visited by US the next day, evi-
denced the same valuable and
satisfactory results, wherever this
homemade manure was used, or
came into competition with other
we'll known and expensive guanos.
Want of time alone prevented your
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