The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-01-11

tional cases. and that he could greatly
multiply C examples without ex-
hausting their number It Is a remark
able showing, certainly, aid II should
be a o instructive n to all the
progressive farmers in the state"
The fine reports-very extraordinary
fndeed-are mad more astonishing
when we ear that he large crops were
made 'on common uplands that pro-
duced but a few hundred pounds of
seed cotton per acre only a few years
ago" Let North Carolina cotton grow
ers take heed and learn how il. was
done Send a committee to Marlboro
to study the situation and learn how
to grow cotton with profit. The Char
leston contemporary says well that
there is more in the man than in the
land" The Marlboro men do not buy
what they consume but live at hons
making their own supplies. Put a pin
right there. There Is an immense
amount of good hoss-sense" in il.
The following summary in the editorial
of our contemporary is instructive. 1t
says that, one of the farmers sit is
noted, made 400 bushels of corr at a
cost of little mere han Z cents a bushel,
and another made 300 bushels at a cost
Of 5k cents a bushel, exclusive of hire
Of mules. Another planted 800 acres in
oats and his corn and pea crops were
on the same scale. And the disposition
is general in the county to reduce the
cotton aoraa Oa and ipcraa ca tha proyj-
sion crops, although so much attention
has been paid to provision crops al
ready" That is certainly a fine OBJ
jective lesson. We must draw some
what upon the communication that APP
pears in the News and Courier. We be
lieve hat we cannot better fill space
than by reproducing such instructive
facts as to farming. We think every
farmer and merchant and railroad man
will be interested in the examination Of
the results:
Colonel c.. S. Mccall planted the
present year 1,24S acres in cotton, and
made an average of 1,O72 pounds of
seed cotton per acre. He also planted
300 acres in oats, and after feeding
about fifty mules, two and a half
months, threshed 1925 bushels. His
corn and pea crop are in proportion to
above.
DR.. J. L. Napier planted 80 acres,
and made "a bales.
Charles Grassland planted 80 acres,
and made So bales.
On 12O acres E. w Breeder made 100
bales.
On $50 acres T. J. Breeder made $50
bales.
On p acres C. E. Breeder made Il
bales. .
J. F. Breeder made an average of
1870 pounds of seed cotton on lis acres,
and an average of % hr~oeIs Of corn
per acre, while his sor, T. "a. Hreeden.
made ABOUT the sam Quar : Of cotton
and 30 bushels of corr PEI acre.
-. F. Moore planted So acres and
| made 81 bales of cot on, ard as a side
industry sold in the neighDorhOod of
| so registered Essex pigs.
C.. A. Moore made 40 bales of cotton
| from $50 acres, ard had gathered az last
| reports II bales from 8 acres, with a
small quantity yet to gather.
J.. D. Moore made 40 bales from 135
acres.
Sheriff j. B. Green made $50 bales on
| $40 acres.
J.. A. w. Moore made 100 bales on 100
acres.
c.. NJ. WeatherIy made 165 bales from
| 155 acres.
H. T. McQuay made about 400 bushels
of corn on j.. F. Everett's plantation, at
a cost of $30.5 0 counting his own work
at 80 cents per day.
L.. c.. Rivers, on same plantation,
mad 300 bushels at a cost of SO 20, in
Guiding all cost except hire of mules"
Mark you, these are not selected ex-
amples," but Others are to be found all
round the country. 1t is a splendid
showing for South Carolina, and every
way most creditable to the intelligence
and thrift of the farmers. 1t is an eX-
ample most stimulating and most re-
buking.