Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1886-11-12

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II price of Fultz wheat in Balti.
more is 81 cts. The 80 bushels will
therefore bring $26lO, leaving clear
profit of $1.l5 per acre.
Hargraves Spalding thought there
might be profit in wheat at 80 bush
els to the acre, but he had never raised
that much.
b. +. Hanway's experience is that
his wheat crop always brings him in
debt. Occasionally he had raised 80
bushels and over. 1t takes about all
he gets for his fertilizers. He does
not plant it for grass but to get the
land in grass. He did not think far
mers should abandon it, but should
sow little every year.
S. NJ. Lee said if farmers, when he
commenced farming, could raise wheat
at 81 bushel, they ought to be able
to raise it now at so cents profitably,
because with the present facilities
they can make two bushels with less
expense than they could make one
then. He thought Mr.. John Moores
estimate of profit based on thirty bush.
els per acre was too high, but he was
satisfied that an average crop of TWEEN.
ty five bushels can be raised. The
purchasing power of 80 Cts. too, is
very large now, except in the matter
of labor, but he did not think the lat.
ter too high except in comparison
with the products of labor. He would
cut down Mr.. Moores' fertilizer bill
By another rotation fully one. half the
fertilizer could be saved aud he would
not put in two wheat crops in success.
sion. He illustrated this point by the
c.se of two brothers in Baltimore
county. One uses commercial fertiIi
zers while the other depends upon
turning down green crops to preserve
the fertility of his soil. This year
their crops Of wheat were about the
same, but one had to take nearly all
his crop to pay for fertilizers and the
other had no fertilizer bills to pay,
He had for years been convinced oil
the advantage of the system Of farm
ing with green crops. He did not ig-
more the value of commercial fertiliz
ers, but thought farmers could do
without them He had seen 40 and
AZ bushels OF wheat raised without
any fertile but little land plaster.
John b. Wysong remarked that
there is small profit in wheat if %
bu>he per acre Can be raised from an
application of 400 or 500 lbs. of com
mereial fertilizer The straw is worth
So per acre. Not more than one-third
or Que half the fertilizer is taken up
by the wheat, the remainder going to
produce two good crops OF hay. Ii
the two crops of hay will pay for the
lertiiiz the only expense OF raising
the wheat would ,e for cultivation.
The latter he thought less than stated
by some members. He uses zone and
phos, hate on wheat, three-f -fourths
bone to one fourth phosphate. Farm
ers can't do without wheat and it is
the best crop to sell, being easily haul
ed. The greater number Of acres put
in the greater profit per acre per bush
Ell.
Bennett H. Barnes did not think
there is any profit in wheat at 80 cents
bushel ii only twenty-five bushels
per acre are raised. This year on a
rented place his expenses for raising
wheat, including fertilizer, were $2t
per acre and he got twenty five bush
els per acre.
VIM. D. Lee wouldn't like to d.
without the wheat crop. There is 1
little profit in it. He uses one-fourtt
phosphate with bone, drilling 400 It's