The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-10-21

10 loo pounds alr.slaked llme.."." 70
To sowing the same..................." 70
To 100 Tbs. Acid, and sowing same. l SO
To harvesting wheat. IS
S. so
To toll for threshiug......."........."1 80
Total......::..:.... .............."..SS7 80
RETURN. Or.
By 20 bushels clean wheat, 80 cts..S18 90
To cost of every iter.......".....". 30
By net proceeds. ..."...................S1O 10
Can any OF your readers show wheat at
less cost per bushel?
Greenville, S. G..
EDITOR CoTToN PLANT: Yours of the
9Th inst, duly to hand and noted. 1
take pleasure in giving the readers Of
the Cotton Plant the benefit of my small
experiment of one acre of wheat sown
last Fall. :m.,
My preparation of the land was to.
turn it close and deep with small twis.
teri. next broke it close and deeper
with narrow subsoil, following each
plow with guano distributor and put in
600 lbs. of cotton seed oil mill fertilizer.
made in this city--I sowed one and
three.fourth bushels of wheat on the
acre and narrowed twice. This process
thoroughly pulyerized the soil. In; the
Spring I used six two horse wagon loads
of good stable manure as top dressing.
My yield was "a bushels Of good dry
wheat. With a favorable season, 7 ought
to have made over 40 bushels to the acre.
I am sorry to say some of my neigh.
bors beat me this year, but l. propose
giving them an opportunity of doing the
same thing another season on acres. I
don't care to challenge the whole State,
but I do intend Offering my successful
competitor $25 premium who will beat
me on FIVE acres in this County another
season. If 1 am defeated l will take
pleasure in informing you of my success
full rival-if successful, it will afford me
no less pleasure to let you know it.
L will say I was not we'll pleased with
the result of the stable manure as top
dressing, because l did not get it suffi-
ciently. pulverized and think the benefit
would have been much greater with the
manure used in the Fall and turned
under when I sowed the wheat. I sowed
the goth of September.
81. G. G1LREATn.
Greenville, S. c., Sept. 10th, 'S6.
EDITOR CoTToN PLANT: Your favor
of the 9Th inst, is just received, and I
regret that you have applied to an unsuc-
ceesful competitor for descriptive article
on the preparation and fertilizing for
wheat. You may be aware that several
members of our township club last Fall
entered into competition for the largest
production of wheat on one acre, the
conditions of which was that each one
should give to the club an account Of
his method of preparing his land, fertil-
izing, time of sowing, quantity sowed,
character of land, &C., and that each
defeated contestant should pay the sue.
cessful one bushel of wheat.
The severe feezes of Winter killed out
the wheat and the stands were imperfect.
None of the yields therefore were extra
ordinary except that Of Capt. o. P. Mills.
The yields reported range from is to 26
bushels, excepting Capt. Mills, whose
weld was 96 bushels, and he thinks there
were four bushels wasted in handling and
at the thresher, making in all forty
bushels. He sowed his wheat on cotton
land. He first broke it, then spread
upon it twenty five two horse wagon
loads of stable manure, sowed bushel
of wheat, and cross plowed in the wheat
and manure together. My neighbor,
Mr.. Edward Earle, was the next most sue.
cessful grower. He also sowed on cotton
land, but did no breaking further than
blowing up the cotton stalks. He applied
fifty bushels of cotton seed to the acre,
and his whole crop averaged nearly
tweuty-six bushels per acre. think the
yields generally were proportionate to
the quantity and quality of the manure
used.
The advantages of high fertilization
and thorough preparation OF soil does not
stop with the increased production OF
grain, there is also an increased production
of straw which sells in this market at
so cts. per hundred. Most farmers, how
ever, prefer to use it as feed and bedding
for stock during the Winter.
According to Prof. Townsland, direc'
tor of Ohio experiment station at Co.
lumbus the average yield of straw on
sixteen "acre plats" was little over l6O
lbs. to the bushel of wheat.
Again there generally follows q beauti-
full crop of crab grass that yields from
one to two tons Of admirable bay, equal
in every respect to the Western hay that
sells here for $25 per ton.
Beside this, it leaves bountiful sup.
ply of humus in the soil, without which
no permanent fertility can be maintained,
and last, but not least, this excessive veg
etable matter left in the soil renders it
less liable to the damages of washing
rains.
The references deduced are that in the
middle and upper portions of the State
the wheat crop on we'll prepared and
highly manured lands is paying one,
and that the secondary advantages, viz !:
the hay crop, the accumulated vegetable
mould, the absorbing quality of soil
rendering it less liablc'to injurious floods,
taken altogether more than double tho
profit of the wheat crop.
There is a legend that the great Amer.
ican Orator was asked the question "what