The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-04-30
SEVEN ACRES PER BALE-How
THE YIELD WAS QuADRrPLED.
From Southern Farm Gazette)

From Southern Farm Gazette-)
Aexgrs. Editors: Complying with
your reques. for further Information
10 regard TO my experience With peas
and hay after thTeshing. as well as
, replying TO several personal letters,
ALL say that as a money crop peas
are one OF our leaders. for many rea-
Sons. will first speak of the peas
and corn raised together. When the
land is strong enough. always plant
corn. as II will pay the entire e1-
pense and leave the peas and the
hay a clear profit: and at the same
time, improve the land each year.
Money In Corn and Peas.
have thin hill land. clay soil. and
will tell what 1 have done. After
gathering Is bushels OF corn per
acre, I have threshed 4 bushels Of
peas and baled $500 pounds Of hay.
At present prices. you can see that
4 will prove a profitable crop-peas
$500, hay $3.50. corn s13.50. total
$4,000. Any practical farmer can
| dgure the expense of breaking the
land and blowing the corn, say. four
Zines. We would differ. no doubt.
IN our estimate; but to be safe, place
the cost of cultivating at $500, seed
IS1.25, cutting and threshing $2.75,
total $500. leaving q net profit OF
lS3100 So much for corn and peas.
Profitable Pea Harvesters Run With
| out Horses.
| But some will say they haven't a
machine, so | will give my experience
without harvesting the peas for the
this place, | had one tenant working
20 acres of land that ginned Z bales
by using some commercial fertilizer
In 1904, On the same land without
fertilizing, he made bales; 30
took the land from him, and he lef
the place because of 1t. In 1905,
put a disc seeder of the John Deere
make in the field, disced it ovel
twice, planting one bushel of pea!
per acre. In the fall l placed hog
7 on the field, without keeping any &C
I count of their gain, which must have
Z been, at least $500 to $4,000.
Deep Flowing Followed by a Goot
Crop.
, In December of the same year,
; broke with 24-inch disc breakers a.
: deep as four good mules could pull
I it; followed in the same furrow witt
a a No. Famous steel beam pillow a
t deep as two good mules could pull
| it, breaking my land total of abou
( | Ia inches deep. In the spring o
1906, l rebroke with a 24-inch disc
e following with 60-tooth iron dra
! harrow, planting corn in rows 3 l.
e feet apart and 20 inches in the drill
q A hoe was never put in the field. w
e plowed four times with cultivators
s and when the corn was about wais
e high, planted pecks Of clay pea
2 per acre. The vines were very heav
y lin fact, we had to put mules t
a Mccormick mower to cut them al
ter gathering the corn. I gathere
340 bushels of corn, threshed TO-
4 OuohOlo Va ROdo, chA0 boAOO 90 tSAA
of hay. l kept it all, SO cannot sa
> what it brought in dollars.
D Money in Cotton if You Farm Wisely
! In 1907, put the land in cottol
= on shares, ginned Is bales of cotton
and am going to plant the same Ian,
in cotton this year. There is mic
= money in raising cotton at presen
prices, on good land; but the hill
farmer cannot afford to run his lam
down by continued cultivation in cot
!. ton. Besides, labor with us is get
ting to be one of the items we hav
e to reckon with; and, I think, GU
only safe plan Is more stock-espe
e cially hogs and sheep-raising GU
own mules, with some to sell, an
: more peas. This means better lam
q and good fences, which are essentia
to successful farming, and more in
!, dependence for the Southern farmer
:, w. S. COOPER.