Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1907-01-03
FORT MILL, S. c., THURSDAY JANUARY 319O7


goods) and the average price of labor.
The cost of labor varies in different
parts of the State and even on adja-
cent farms.
If the COW pea crop grown with the
corn produces one ton of hay, this
crop. if left on and in the ground,
would add to it about $12 worth of
nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash.
If the COW pea crop would produce
two tons of hay, this crop left on and
IN the ground would add $24 worth OF
these fertilizer ingredients. How
ever, the value of the COW pea for
feeding purposes is double its value
for fertilizing purposes. If judicious-
ly fed to animals this hav will have
a feeding value of about S24 per ton.
and if all the excreta is saved and
returned to the soil between so and
90 per cent ($10.20 per to.D of the
fertilizing value of the COW pea hay
will be given back to the land. An
ordinary crop of COW peas may be
made to pay the cost of cultivating
the corn, or probably the cost OF the
fertilizer. A good crop should pay
for both.
Compared With Other Yields.
Considerable effort has been made
to gather as much comparative data
as possible SO as to have Williamson
plan corn yields that might justly be
compared with yields from the ordi-
nary method. 1t is highly desirable
that as far as possible, and without
prejudicing either, the two crops fo-
comparison be grown on the same
character of land and planted at the
same time, and that the treatment
and surroundings of each differ in no
way except as &c the peculiar CT cs-
sential features of difference exist
ing between the two plans or methods
Reports OF some three dozen farmers
who have this year given the Will
mansion plan a test have been
brought TO the notice of the writer
Some of these were not considered
definite enough for consideration, but
twenty-eight reported either n com
parison of yields from crops grown
this year by both plans or gave yields
secured from the ordinary plan in the
past Oh the same land. The two low
est yields reported from the ordinary
methods were seven and ten bushels
per acre. The two highest yields re-
ported from the same method were
forty-fve and fifty bushels per acre
The two lowest yields reported from
the Williamson plan We're twenty
seven and thirty bushels per acre
The two highest yilds reported from
the same plan were one hundred bush
els per acre. The yield from twenty
eight reporting both the ordinary and
the Williamson plan compared gives
an average of 1926 bushels per acre
for the former and 56.42 bushels per
acre for the latter. These twenty
eight show q remarkable average diff,
ference of 1917 more bushels per
acre in favor of the Williamson plan,
an increase of l42 per cent.
1t cannot, however, in Justice to
either method, be said that these COM
PARSONS indicate the actual differ
ence between the Williamson plan
and the ordinary method. Many of
the reports give the number of bush
els per acre in round numbers, indi-
eating that the yields were estimated
rather than actually determined. In
n number of eases the yield in 1906
from the Williamson plan was COM
pared with the yield secured from the
scme land when it was last in corn,