The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-11-22
AnAeraon Intelli9eneer.
WHY GO WEST d!
What Two Progressive Farmers have done
In Grcenville.
t;rccuriHc NcWs.

the city, at the beginning of the planting
season just closed. They are young men
fully imbued with new ideas of farming
and with the modern theory that farming
is profession like any other by which a
man may rise in the world aud which
can be successfully engaged in only by
keeping pace with the progress of the
day.
Messrs Dickey and Austin cut loose
from time honored traditions and pro-
cecded to study the land they had 10
operate on just rs a lawyer studies ncw
case or q doctor diagnoses his patients
disease. Their experiment has been
watched with much interest, many far
mcrs predicting their disastrous failure
and many others waiting to see if there
was anything to be learned from the
students of the new school of farming.
THE LASD THEY WORKED.
Tho Austin plantation is orc Of the
best known in the country, much of it
having been in cultivation for S5 years,
while portions were cleared iJ years ago.
1t had been rented out 70 tenants who
injured the land for the time and Sian
dercd it by taking crops from it which
would hardly pay for the cultivation.
THE PROCESS.
Messrs. Dickey and Austin started out
with the theory that they could make as
much good soil as they needed for their
crops by intelligent management, and
that there ought not to be such Il thing
as "worn out" ln:d in ,hs country and
this time. They went in for deep plow
ing and Hubsoiiing. Their system is first
TO 20 over their cotton land with Casa
dy Sulky Plow, breaking it deep, turning
little Of the clay up to the top when
can an Acme harrow is then run over
it. ru!verizin5 and smoothing it. They
then open with shovel plow and put in
the fertilizer, following the fertilizer dis.
tributor with an old fashioned coulter set
TO eight inches, to mix in the manure.
The next plow used is n small ono horse
turn plOw run on each side Of the row,
covering the fertilizer. They then run
in each side furrow with tile eight inch
coulter and break out the middle with II
long scooter. They run over the tol'0"
when it first comes up with smoothing
harrow, thinning the stand and stirring
the earth about the roots, and run over it
again with harrow when the plant has
three or four leaves, except when the
ground is very dry.
This is their general plan for cotton.
1t was not rigidIy adhered to last season
because operations were necessarily
begun 30 lato that they did not have
time, but the main features Of their Bys.
TEN and its general theory were used.
The year before they took charge was
one of unusual abundance, the season
being splendid, Us all farmers remember.
The present year has been ono of unpre-
toI
farmers we'll know to their cost. Messrs.
new methods and new tools made the
plantation something more than
DOUBLE THE CROrs
acre for acre, of the good year of lSS1-82,
in the bad year Of 1928, and consider
that their systcm of farming is past
being an experiment and is triumph
ant success.
They planted IS acres in cotton, tho
land used having been cultivated for
from 45 to so years, and their crop is 25
bales, every bale being full 500 pounds.
Is acres in upland corn yielded 124
bushels to the acre; so acres of bottom
yielded 80 bushels per acre. Their peas
made ten bushels to the acre; their
wheat they counted failure because of
the late sowing (December,) 20 acres
having made only Ga bushels; their oats
averaged 10 busbcls to the acre.
Last year 81 acres of tho same land
cultivated by the old methods yielded
229 bales Of cotton, few or none of them
being 500 pound bales, with $50 pounds
of fertilizers per acre. The corn crop of
last year was just about half of this one.
But the strongest contrast is on the plan.
tation where in some spots the bull
tongue and the Casaday were used in
different portions Of the same field. 1t
is an actual fact, that mt q distance Of n
quarter of "a mile. as representative Of
the Ne,cs can testify, the very row where
Casady was put in can be identified by
tie difference in the growth Of the cotton,
that on the deep plowed land being bet.
ter, greener and better fruited when seen
month ago. Just rs strong n contrast
is on one piece of land which is literally
n sand bar made by washes. Last season
this was planted by tenant in corn and
yielded absolutely nothing Mt all. This
season ii was plowed foot deep aud
yielded 10 bushels to the acre. The best
yield in the bottom corn was where the
deepest plowing was done, places plowed
a foot deep giving 40 bushels to the acre.
Where the land was subsoiled eight
inches deep, washing, which has hereto.
fore injured it greatly, was entirely
avoided.
Next TO deep blowing, Messrs. Dickey
& Austin swear by
COTTON SEED MEAL,
which is now made right here in Green.
Vile. They found their upland corn
crop better where cotton seed meal was
used than where ammoniated fertilizer
was pat in, and their peas planted on
deeply plowed ground and with 100
pounds Of cotton seed meal TO the acre
yielded much botter than those planted
with other fertilizer, and greatly excelled
those on neighboring farms. One acre
of ths out land. planted as an exper.
linen late as May 11th, was plowed
deep I'D subsoiled and manured with
LOO pounds Of cotton seed meal and 100
pounds OF dissolved bone. It yielded
500 pounds Of seed cotton, or one. third
of q bale. Fairly good land alongside of
it, treated differently. did not yield half
as much. Z acres Of upland corn with
500 pounds Of cotton seed meal on it and
nothing else, yielded 124 bushels to the
acre.
1t should be stated that there was no
''sore shin" In the cotton narrowed after
It was up although it was generally pre-.
dicted.
OF course
THE PRACTICAL, MONEY RESULT
Is what will interest farmers chiefly, and
Messrs. Dickey and Austin kindly fur.
nish the figures on which 1t can be asce.-
tained. They planted 250 acres, and did
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