Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1883-08-02

OIL sYooit tor s2oollG %oV per ceut. IEe
third year doubled the manure,
usiB' so pounds per acre, costing
og ! ores, in the aggregate,
S. y -.:arvuS crop nearly doubled,
rising to % bales and giving al in.
crease of Is bales, worth $675, with
profit from the use of the manure of
s4s5, or nearly 200 per cent. on the
money invested in manure. The
fourth year doubled the application
again, with an aggregate cost of $4So,
and this time the crop was little over
doubled, being for. this year At bales;
the increase over 'he first year being
80 bales, worth $7,755, leaving q
profit of $1,275, or nearly 800 per
cent. on the investment. The fifth
or last year I again doubled the ma
nure, using 1000 pounds to the acre,
costing altogether 1850, and the crop
harvested was 10 bales cotton and
500 bushels oats; five acres of the
land having been planted first in oats
and afterwards in cotton, with yield
Of 500 bushels oats and y bales of
cotton. Putting the oats at 60 cents
per buehel. the money value Of this
crop was $3,45O, leaving profit on
investment in manure of $2.49O, or
percentage of profit CT nearly 26O
per cent.
You will observe that the percen-
tage Of profit was not quite SO great
this year as last, but the return in
money was greater as there was twice
as much invested, but the profit in
the use Of the manure in increased
production represents only one branch
OF the profit. While I was increas-
ing my crols and receiving heavy
dividends, 7 was building up my
land. When I began, two hundred
dollars would have been large price
for tie sixty acres, tc day I could
sell it for fifty dollars an acre; SO
that twenty. eight hundred dollars
has been made by the increase il
value of the land, but the manure
used during the time only cost in the
aggregate $500, so the enhanced
value in the land pays for the ma
nure and leaves a thousand dollars
as profit. Again, to make 70 bales
Of cotton and 500 bushels of oats
with the average production of Geor-
gia or Alabama lands. will require
at least $50 acres Of land, and it will
take at leaat eight mules and la'or
in proportion to cultivate it. l cul-
tivated my crop with two mules, thus
saving the inv stment of nine hun
dred dollars in that most undesir .bie,
Of all property, a mule, when run bgs
Cufee as freeman, saving the labors
CT six. mule farm and the feed @
six mules really, under the intens'
sive system, cultivate my sixty
acres of land with less labor than a;
crop of sixty acres required under
the old system. I plant late, and all
good farmers know that means less
work, and my crop grows so rapidly
that it, as it were, works itself and l
soon have to lay it by, whereas under
the bnmble-bee cotton system it is
hard fight all the year between the
cotton ana the grass. and tie farmer
is kept constantly digging to save bis
crop.
Again, 1 am able to employ and
secure the best and most effective Ia
bor. There are two ways Of coptroll.
ing men, one by the hope Of reward,
and the other by the fear of punish.
ment. l have found that by holding
out inducement to my laborels Of ex-
ira wages in the event that certain
fixed product is obtained, that the
quality and efficiency of their work
is greatly improved. Again, they
take pride in the crop. aud are as
careful and constant in their efforts
to secure a maximum result as my.
GOLF = = = =
To us nature has prcfered her
choicest blessings in boundless pro
fusion. Our neglect as people in
the past of the advantages that ma
ture has iavished upon US has been
almost criminal-let US be careful to
make for ourselves such a record in
the future as shall serve as an expia-.
tion for that past. With the hole
world paying tribute to South Caro-
lima as eager purchasers of her phos-
phate rock, We have sat quietly by
anl allowed European manufacturers
to come under our very noses, trans
port the rock across the ocean, manu-.
facture it and ship it back to us as
their most available and profitable
market. All but you say we could
not help it; We did not have the ma
terial here from which to make the
sulphuric acid necessary to render
the rock soluble and available: My
friends, nature never does anything
by halves and never makes mis-
take. The scientists will tell you