Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-07-26

more entertaining or -lnsCrucClVs
than the remarks of Mr.. Walker
who won the first and the specia
prize, could be presented:
He said he had trouble to Gu
his wheat. He had raised yea,
before last fifty bushels per acre
on seven acres. A Missouriar
said he never saw such wheat II
his state. He made twenty bush
els Of corn per acre on the same
land. He used the purple straw
wheat, the seed of which hi
family used fiftyiyears. BE didn'
get to SOW his prize wheat till the
18th of December, on account OF
rain. He put about fifteen loads
of stable manure to the acre, anc
800 pounds of acid phosphate
and Is bushels of cotton seed
Broke the land four or five inches
with a common pillow. He ran
a drag over it in planting it
Sowed the fertilizer and acid
ph osphate broadcast, and broad
casted the seed a little over two
bushels. The land would make d
bale of cotton without fertilizer
It was clay subsoil. He cut the
wheat on June 8. He likes to SOW
wheat after the first killing frost
He sprinkles his seed with
bluestone, pulverized The water
is to be hot, poured over the seed
He washes the seed in this way
every year. He uses a quarter OF
a pound of bluestone to a hall
gallon of water. He doesn't le
the seed soak. He just pours the
water over them You can't grow
wheat successfully on ferracec
land, he said. His wheat grow!
waist high. In selecting seeds
get full round grains. He sale
that year he lacked one rain Of
having a good season. He plowed
in his wheat and manure al
together. He likes deep prepara,
ton of the land better than the
shallow, but didn't gel a chance te
do this when planting his prize
wheat.
Messrs. Moore & Worshan
submitted a transcript of tht
account which they kept of theil
wheat crop as follows:
Ten acres of wheat. Or.
18O bushels wheat at 75c, $135.O(
8 tons of straw at $8, 24.N
s159.O(
DR.
10 bushels seed wheat at$1 $1,000
1875 bus. cotton seed at 121c 1855
Preparing land and sowing 10.W
Harvesting, lO.Oo
Threshing, l2U
.$57.6i
Which leaves a net prot of $1O1.'
3S. This land should be be credit.
ed with net profit on hay of $50
which makes a profit Of $l51.3S or
the product of the land.
Quite all the speeches turned OIL
the unpro6tableness of scent cot.
ton and emphasized the necessity
which presses upon our farming
people to resort to a diversi6cation
of crops as the only safety against
the wreck and ruin of all oul
agricultural interests.
Along this line, Mr.. Willis, Of
Walden, gave pointed talk:
He submitted some figures OF
the profit in oats. He figured on
a half bale of cotton per acre at
cost of $3.50 for the acre. The
total price Of the cotton would be
$14 if sold at 5 cents pound
leaving a profit of $4.10. The oats
would yield twenty bushels, say
on the the same land. The profit
would be $3.50, if sold at Is cents.
or half dollar more than cotton,
and it is a crop of Q different
season. He said all oats can find
q ready sale atabout 40c a little
more than he figured, and the yield
would be a great deal more than
he estimated. He thought for
home consumption every body
should plant wheat. He saw that
he couldn't continue to raise cotton
and keep out of debt.
And, OF this subject, the Aa.
gusta Chronicle, of the 14th says:
Mr.. S. H. McGhee, editor of the
Greenwood Index, was in the city
yesterday returning from the
Wheat Growers convention, which
closed in Macon Wednesdy. He
is enthusiastic over what he saw,
and Of the good results obtained.
.,fr. McGhee and Mr.. N. A. Craig.
of the Craig Milling Co., went to