Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1909-05-25
DEMONSTRATION W0nk;
Something About What the Rowan County
Farmers are Doing,

being conducted IN numerous Sec
tions of the state, was in the city
last week. Mr.. Hall called at
The WATcHMAN office and gave us
the following as the result of a
number Of experiments which have
been tried by those cooperating
with him:
"After summing up the results
of the Farmers Cooperative DEM
onstration work on fortY-elght
farms in this county, [ find an
average yield of corn of forty
seven bushels per acre at al av-
erage cost of fifteen cents per
oushel, when hot counting any
5hing for relt of the land, II we
allow SIS per acre for land rent,
which is over SIX per cent interest
on q valuation of $50 per acre, we
get the average cost as a little less
5han twenty-five cents per bushel.
"The largest yield vas made by
s. A. Dean, on Ed. r, Overman's
land. Mr.. Dean made one hun
dred bushels ger acre, without the
Use of commercial fertilizer. He
had built up the soil, used good
seed and worked the land we'll.
Tom Foster, of Cleveland, made
rinety-three bushels per acre with
out any fertilizer; P. J. Cress, OF
route No. 2, Salisbury, made
seventy-six bushels on one acre OF
land; F. r. L. Shaetfer, of Barber,
made slxty-one bushels per acre;
r. A, Trexler, of Rockwell, made
1872 bushels on three acres of land,
or sixty-four bushels per acre:
j., Q, Foreman, of Salisbury,
gathered f~fty-eight bushels per
acre W, L. Harris, route 2, Sal
isbury, made a yield offorty-seyen
bushels per acre; E, B. Walton,
Of Barber, made sixty-three bush
els per acre; H, NJ. Agner, Of
Route 3, Salisbury, made fifty
bushels per acre, and J. L. Glover,
CT Barber, made $50 bushels OF
ten acres OF f~fty-eight bushels per
acre. We have very few men who
made less than forty bushels per
acre on the demonstration farms.
We expect to get even better re
I suits this year, since We started
earlier III the season and had more
time TO get blowing done in the
fill.
Our demonstrators and cooper
aors, of which we have quite L
number more in the county, think
III Of DR., Knapp's methods. Of
the eight counties IN the western
part # North Carolina, engaged
III demonstration work, Rowan
81 ads first in average yield of
c m per acre. We expect to lead
again this year. While demon
ST alton work does not cover all
thu land cultivated in cor.I ia the
county, yet it shows what can be
done on u soil by intelligent
farming. The yields the past
y ar were made with very little
fertilizers, We do not advise the
us Of heavy applications of fer
tl'izer, but prefer to practice 8
system of soil-building which will
bIIpg the land up SO that it will
NIKE from fifty to seventy-fve
bH.slels of corn per acre, without
80 use of too much fertilizer.
Oar aim IS to grow abundantly 0!
such crops as COW peas and clover
t. add humus and fertility, and to
deepen the soil by the proper kind
q deep breaking of the land, We
nope to see the day when we will
make al average Of forty bushels
poc acre, instead OF eighteen, as
Nv
= Prof. o. B. Martin, has recent
ly Teen put in charge of "Boys
cor club work" under DR., Knapp.
\ .xt season we hope to have him
"g45lza the boys of our county,
an}H-s it is done by the State De-
pa.5 1ent Of Agriculture or some
f h.. organization. We must by
good farming show the boys that
agriculture is a pleasant and profit
Idle employment"
"No-Drip" is the most clever lit
tie silver Coffee Strainer ever in