Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-10-17
SOME Tlr1ELY SUGGESTIONS.
How to Produce Profitable Crop of
Wheat.

70.
The Charlotte Oil & Fertilizer Com
pany and the President of the Com.
pany, Mr.. Fred Oliver, of Charlotte, N.
G., have again demonstrated on their
farms what can BIZ dcne towards profit
able wheat raising. The $50 acres which
they had in wheat this year gave an av-
erage yield of 80 bushels per acre; one
field of 80 acres gave an average yield
of 81 bushels, another field of 80 acres
gave an average yield of 33 bushels per
acre. A field of go acres that was in
wheat year ago, sown by the former
owner of the land, and which last year
yielded only eight bushels per acre,
this year gave an average yield of 81
bushels to the acre. With such an IL
lustration of what can be done by pro-
gressive farming, why will the majority
of farmers continue to be satisfied, or,
if not satisfied, continue to cnrse their
luck when their crop of wheat turns out
only five to ten bushels per acres There
is no reason, and in fact, it is d crime
for any farmer to throw away his time
and land by growing such poor crop,
as the most of them now raise when
they could treble aud quadruple the
yield by intelligent and progressive
farming. They must use better mules
aud ploughs to prepare the soil, using
the best disc grain drills, having fertil-
izer distributors attached to plant and
fertilize the wheat, using the best seed
wheat even if it does cost few cents
per bushel more money, using not less
than 400 lbs. high grade complete fer.
.tilizer per acre instead of 100 lbs. Of low
grade acid and acid potash goods. Seed
wheat that is free from broken and de.
fective wheat, and above all almost alb
sotutely free from oockls seed is worth
twice as much for seeding as the seed
wheat usually used. Still more inn
,portant is the fact that seed wheat from
crop that gave yield of 30 to 30 bush.
els per acre is superior to seed wheat
from crop that gave only five to ten
bushels per acre. No farmer will at
tempt to raise mules and horses to
weigh /, 400 to 1000 lbs each and ex-
pect to succeed if he uses for breeding,
stock that weighs from 500 to 500 lbs.;
no breeder Of high grade mich cows
will expect to succeed except by using
high grade stock. Last, but not least,
they must use high grade fertilizer if
the farmers expect to receive proper re-.
turns from land and labor. Why be
satisfied by using 100 lbs. per acre of
cheap, low grade fertilizer when 400
lbs. of high grade fertilizer will givo al
increase of 10: to rs bushels per ncreS
It costs no more, orr very little more, to
prepare the land: for good crop than
for a poor one; it costs no more to drill
in good seed wheat, and 400 lbs. of high
grade fertilizer, per acre, than to drill
in poor seed wheat and 100 lbs. of poor,
cheap fertilizer per acre; it costs no
more to cut an acre of good wheat with
q reaping machine than il does to run
the machine over au acre of poor wheat,
and tho reaping machine leaves less
wlfeat' in tho field ungathered if the
crop is a good one than it does if the
crop is poor one. The farmers of tho
south bave the best market for their
wheat, corn aud hay of any section III
the United States, rs they eau obtain
the same prices us the western farmer
plus the freight that is charged from
the west to the south. Why not then
farm on n profitable plan and not on
Improbable ono? Use good stock and
tools. good seed and fertilizer, good
Judgment and skill in handling labor
and machinery, and above all work
yourself as an example to your hired
help, and you will find farming profitable