The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-10-09
SOME TI1ELY SUGGESTIONS.
How to Produce Profitable Crop of
Wheat.

The Charlotte Oil & Fertilizer Com
pauy and the President of the Compa
ny, Mr.. Fred Oliver, of Charlotte, \.
c., have again demonstrated on their
farms what can be done towards profit
able wheat raising. The $50 acres which
they had in wheat this year gave an av-
erage yield of 30 bushels per acre; one
field Of 80 acres gave an average yield
of "a bushels, another field of 80 acres
gave an average yield of 80 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 por acre,
this year gave an average yield OF 24
bushels to the acre. With such an IL
lustration of what can be done by pro-
gressiTe farming, wig will the ma jorlty
offarmers continue to be satisfied, or,
if not satisfied, continue to curse their
luck when their crop of wheat turns out
only fire to ten bushels per acre? There
is no reason, and in fact it is crime
for any farmer to throw away his time
and land by growing such poor cror,
as the most of them now raise when
they could treble and quadruple the
yield by intelligent and progressive
farming. They must use better mules
and ploughs to prepare the soil, using
the best disc grain drills, having fsrtll-
iZer distributors attached to plant and
fertiize the wheat, using the best seed
wheat even if it does cost few cents
than 400 lbs. high grade complete fer
tilizer per acre instead Of 100 lbs. of'iow
grade acid and acid potash goods. Seed
wheat that is free from broken and de-
fective wheat, aud above all almost ab'
solutely free from cookie seed is worth
twice as much for seeding as the seed
wheat usually used. Still more i'm
portant is the fact that seed wheat from
a crop that gave yield of 80 to 35 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 l, 600 lbs. each and e1-
pect to succeed if he uses for breeding,
stock that weighs from 500 to 800 lbs. !;
no breeder of high grade milch 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 give an
increase of 10 to 25 bu.hels per acre?
It costs no more, or 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
o roapipg machine than it does to run
the machine over an acre ofpoor wheat,
and the reaping machine leaves less
wheat in the field ungathered if the
crop is a good ore than it does if the
crop is a poor one. The farmers of the
south have the best market for their
wheat, corn and hay of any section in
the United States, as they can obtain
the same prices as the western farmer
plus the freight that is charged from
the west to the south. Why not then
farm on o profitable plan and not an
improbable one? 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