The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-04
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1907.
A nuMPER cRoP.

The following. from The Richmond News Leader will be of interest to all our farmer readers. at least:
 Tn a contest for a premium offered by the American Agriculturist. Mir. !. A. TindaL of Clarendon County. s. C.. has produced 1S2 bushels of corn on an acre os S record This srdp D Bsre saa to hSf the ts record was held a long time by Marlboro county farmer in the same Ftate who made 12O bushels In this exceeded by half a dozen men. When we recollect that the average farmer regards forty. to fifty bushels to the acre as very full crop we can realize Ing and scientific farming in the matter of product We have not the figures to show what the acre cost MT. Tindal, but it is hard to believe that he failed to make a substantial profit. He is a young man and a graduate of the az rtcultural department of Clemson Col lege. The result is especially valuable as showing what scientific education and training in his own business will enable farmer do with his land.
 We regret that there are not full de- tails O. all the expenses connected with this phenomenal yield, but we agree with our contemporary that 1t is hard ly probable that there was not profit in the experiment. Whether there was more profit in raising 1s2 bushels on one acre than there would have been if the same quantity had occupied six, eight or ten acres, however, is not so important as is the fact that land can of corn. As ali know, there is much discussion going on as to the capacity of the earth to much longer produce bread for the increasing population. It is pointed out that not only is the population increasing but that the land suitable for cultivation is fast being taken up, and that soon there will be no more land available for the farm CTS. Added to this is the further state ment that much of the cultivated land is losing its productiveness.
 Knowing approximately the present population of the earth and the aver age increase, and also computing as we'll as may be the quantity of land get uncultivated, one good at calculations can form an estimate of the time when all the cultivatable land on the globe will be taken up and how long it will DC before there will not be food enough to feed the human family.
 } All this is a matter of calculation and computation, but such examples as that given by The News Leader will knock calculations in the head. We have not at hand the average crop per acre in the United States, but each farmer knows what his own annual average is and from that he can compute for him. self how much he would gain If he could come somewhere near the ex. perience of this South Carolina farm. CT.
 It is to be regretted that we are not fully advised as to the cost of produc. ing this phenomenal yield of corn ant hope some of the South Carolina brethren will be able to supply the In. formation. In the absence of that however, we can use the example as ar evidence that there need be no appre hension of a lack of cornbread for long time to come What man ha, done, man can do again" or something like that, is an old saying and 1t vii apply to raising corn as well as to othei things. We may add in closing that il the average crop of the United State, could be brought up to even onefourtI that grown by' Mir. Tindal, the product would be almost a drug on the mar ket.