The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-07-29
GOOD FARMING.
Four Crops a Year on the
Same Land-How it is Done.
EaYetteYille Index

Dame Land-HOW II IS Done.
Fayetteville Index.
Four crops year, aggregating
81 so an acre or more from the
same land that sold twelve years
ago for $3.50 anacrel Who will say
that is not progressive farming?
Where? Right here in North
Carolina. To be more exact,
right here in Cumberland county.
Who? Mr.. ID. X. Taylor, Fay
ettcville, X. +. d., is doing that
kind Of farming out on the Cen
ter plank road in Seventy
First township. a few miles west
of this city,
Mr.. Taylor has 10 acres of land
on which he raised four crops
last year successfully, and on
which he is doing the same thing
this year. here is the way he
does it,
After breaking" the land
deep wi,ha two-horsc plow, he
planted tic 10 acres in .Ameer
and Alaska peas. early table
varieties for the northern mar
krts. Last year he planted only
the Alaska, but this year he
planted part of his land in the
Ameer. About March 18th he
planted roasting" corn midway
between the pea rows, which were
about s." feet apart. After the
peas came off he planted field
corn halfway between the early
corn rows: that is, in the rows
first planted in peas. Now when
the carly corn is gone he will sow
field peas broadcast" between
the field corn rows. Now, as to
the value of the crops:
MIR. Taylor shipped flom the 10
acres 5l7 crates of early peas,
which brought about an average
OF HOrcntS Il crate clear of the
freight and commission house
charges, or a total OF S4l3.6O for
the first of the four crops grown
on the land this year. From this
must BE- deducted 1213 cents a
crate for cost of picking and OF
course the cost of the crates.
He was not through with ship
ping early corn lest week when
he gave us these figures, but he
had shipped 495 crates. 1t is con-
scrvative to say that he will have
shipped 500 crates from the crop.
For this he gets an average of 90
cents crate, or a total of $3.50
for his early corn crop.
OF course the field corn is not
yet matured, but on the same
land and under the same condi-
tionS last veal he got 375 bushels
of corn. AT 81 a bushel this
would be S375.
The field peas he will have
picked and saves for sale or plant
ing or for stock feed, while the
vines he will plow under" to
fertilizc the land, and there is no
better fertilizer. Last year was
bad year for field peas, and Mr..
Taylor would not even make an
estimate of the value of this crop
this year. To be sure it Is safe to
say that if it be an average year
for peas. the vines and leguminous
roots and the peas picked will be
worth S225.0O.
The value of the tour crops in
round figures will be about as
follows, under normal conditions:
Early peas 5 414 90
Early corn $4,000
Field corn $500
Blade fodder 36.OO
Field peas 22S.OO
$500. 90
Now this does not include the
vines OF the early peas, which MIR.
Taylor says is an exceedingly fine
horse and cattle feed.
AS to the expense, Mr.. Taylor
says it requires a less labor cost
to grow and market these four
crops on 10 acres than to grow
and market 20 bales of cotton on
20 acreS-a bale to the acre on
twice the amount of land. He
uses about 1850 pounds of ferti-
liZer to the acre at a cost of S25
ton, OF about S22 an acre. 1t
costs about 81 to cut and shock
the early corn forage.
The land on which this farm
ing is done was II years ago a
wornout old field that had been
abandoned about the time of the
Civil war, having been consider
or rnDr T..