The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-09-18
1873 BALES OF COTTON ON
$50 ACRES POOR LAND.
Mr. Hudson Gives His Experience Of
Using the Williamson Corn
Method" for Cotton Planting.

Using the "Williamson Corn
Method" for Cotton Planting.
It has been the ambition of every
farmer in the South to make at least
one bale of cotton to the acre. Very
few of them have ever tried to make
more than one bale to the acre. 1t
can he done. And from recent ex-
periments it looks as though the
time is not far distant when the new
Williamson Plan" will be used by
every farmer in the South. In writ
ing of his experiments, Mr.. B. NJ.
Hudson OF Camden says:
"As the Williamson corn method
has been such a blessing to South
Carolina and as l have been accused
of Withholding what information I
have had on the subject for selfish
motives, l want to say to the far
mers of South Carolina that the
Williamson method is just as neces-
sary for cotton as for corn. :
"On the average lands OF South :
Carolina it is impossible to make a
full crop of cotton if you have an
early s1-ing crop, and this l say al
ter years of experience. have no.
ticed this year my own crop and sew J
eral others and find that the best
cotton today was the poorest the
first of July, and the best cotton we
had in this country in June is the
poorest now compared to what 1t
should be.
while this may be doubted by
some. can prove my assertions by
some of the leading men of the coun-
ty. The method is simple and, ur1-
like the Williamson method of corn,
will apply to large amount to fer
tilizer, small amount or none at
all.
plant the first week in April.
plant and cultivate fiat; your crop
will grow slowly in the spring, but
will grow in July and August, when
YOUR neighbor has failed. Yours Will
fruit close and make at least third
more than cotton planted on bed
and worked to get quick growth ID
June.
The best crop in this section today
was considered a failure the frst OF
July. This is the method by which
I made 1853 bales Of cotton on lo0
acres and will do as well or better
this year.
az write not for notoriety, but that
T NAV be OF some benefit to my fellow
farmers.
If was not convinced beyond
: reasonable doubt would never give
nv experience to the public
: At u cents a. pound 163 bales
averaging $50 pounds would be sS,-
: $4,000 for the ginned cotton. Think
what a big thing that would mean
for the south! If this improved
method" of planting cotton is success
? fully tried and promoted by the ma
iority of farmers in South Carolina
next wear there will be such an in
/ crease in yield, and consequently in
: money value, that it is almost beyond
figures.
And the heecy cotton is not all to
he considered. Think of the increas-
ed yield of cotton seed. With the
! growing demand for cotton seed u
4 will not be many years now before
many cotton planters will be trying
t to increase the yield o2 their cotton
:, seed. Along this line prominent
z cotton seed expert, who was address
ing crowd at the Jamestown Expo
| sition recently, said:
2 Last summer l had the pleasure
} Of introducing my friend, Professor
, Dolbear, who is, perhaps, our great
l est living scientist, to one OF my
friends, cottonseed oil official, VINO
is predestined to become our leading
! man of oil. In semi-serious way
] Professor Dolbear referred to seed
! less fruits and suggested the creation
of seedless cotton Professor. the
oil man calculated, you had better
make cottonlessseed, for that's
where the money is "
So many new experiments nave
been made with the use OF Cotton
Seed Meal, Oil cake, ETC., that 1t IS
almost impossible to keep up with
them all. Following is of interest to
those who raise fine hogs:
Dallas, Texas, Oct. 27.-A bulletin
: Of the Texas Agricultural Experiment
Station, says:
To those wishing to use cotton
seed meal for hogs now, we recon-
mend:
l. For animals on heavy feed, that
not more than one-forth the weight
of the grain ration OF cotton-seed
meal.
2. That this feeding continue ~
more than fifty days, or that the pro
portion OF meal be reduced il feeding
is to be continued longer.
8. That the meal be mixed with the
other feed and all sou1ed together.
4. That as much green food as pos
sible be furnished the hogs.
5. That close watch be kept, and
meal be taken from any animals not
eating or gaining well.
Feeders who have had experience
with the meal will probably be able
to exceed these recommendations,
which, however, allow the use OF
/ enough meal to greatly improve corn
diet. One pound OF cotton-seed meal
to five of corn furnishes the nutrients
in the most desirable proportions for
fattening, while one or two OF corn
are more nearly correct for young
growing stock. OF course other feeds
are desirable for their influences not
attributable to their composition, but
it is not often that the adopted stan
dards can be ignored in feeding any