Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1875-07-08

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you-"Is it possible that YOU have eve.
obtained such results p
"No, Sir, not en- this field have
gathered larger crops per acre on the
field in rear of my dwelling. This is
progressing in fertility as the other did
The yield of the field in front was about
onc-lourth loss last year for hood crops
and onc-cighth less for small grain than
the figures given. l liud that limit is
much more easily reached in the yield
Of the cereals, particularly small grain,
than in cotton. The cloverin front Of us
will be turned under this fall preparato-
ry for corn. Cotton will be planted in
the corn lot and small grain and clover
follow cotton. This system 1 expect 10
adhere to until better suggests itself.
The field in the rear has four lots OF
twenty-five acres each, which are SINH
larly managed. began with this field,
and consequently it is in a higher state
of cultivation, and more productive. On
the cotton lot, last year, the yield was
81 five hundred lbs. bales-9O bushels
corn per acre-92 bushels oats per acre on
% Gacres-aEd Sc bushels wheat per acre
on acres.
The small grain crops this year was a
slight increase OH these figures, viz:
bushels oats and 56l bushels wheat per
acre.
81 expect from the 25 acres in cotton,
this year, one hundred 500 lbs. bales
from the 25 acres in corn l3O bushels per
aero. The ratio of progression during
the past six years, and the general APP
pcarance Of the crops warrant me in the
figures given"
1 looked at this grave, quiet man,
young in years, but with all the
mien of q Nestor, and believed him in
earnest.
"You fertilize, then, with clover
Please tell me how you began, and il
you will excuse the question, if you
were not in independent circumstances
when the war closed, 10 bc able to give
your experiments such thorough test?"
"I will answer your last question first
1 married about one year before the
close of the war. My father and mother
had dieGtwo years before. came home
in April, 1865, and found everything in
a most deplorable condition. 1t is truo
l had I2U0 acres of land, worn out-as
the saying is-about half enough poor
stock to run the usual size farm, and
about sixty badly demoralized negroes
very little provisions-no hogs. My
fathers estate was badly in debt. About
halfsof the negroes, being aware Of the
poverty of tho place, left mo soon after
the emancipation proclamation was en-
forced. With The others, made toll
cradle crop: My creditors acted quite
generously. 1 proposed to settle off the
entire indebtedness in three annual in
stallments, which they agreed to, and by
the blessings of kind Providence was
ready to make every payment before the
time expired. BY the most rigid econo-
my, at the close of my third crop, thanks
to the high pricc of Cotton, we were ena-
bled to add some comforts to our living,
of which my noble minded wife had
agreed for us to debar ourselves before.
soon saw that the abnormal condition
of The cotton market, rendered so by the
war, could not continue, and began as
early as 1867 to try the capacity of my
land by a system of rotation, deep pro-
paration, &c. l began that year with
COW peas on stubbie land. The crop
turned under and the land subsoiled..
My first experiment Was rotEaltogetheT
a asutcess, owing, I think, to my lack of