Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-06-14
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SOUTH CAROLINA CORN RECORD.
lndustry Attracting Attention of Coun-

How South Carolina is coming to the
front as a corn growing state, and the
excellent results achieved in Orange
burg and other counties, is we'll and
interestingly told in the current issue
Of the Southern Field, printed here,
the News and Courier.
South Carolina bids fair to make
many records in corn growing The
highest known yield of corn to the acre
was made in that state. In the boys
contest last year, under the United
States Farm Demonstration work, it
was a South Carolina boy who carried
off first honors. Better than these great
yields, prize yields, per acre is the fact
that within four years the total yield
of that state has doubled, rising from
less than 100000 bushels in 1905 to
over 37,000,000 in 1909. At the same
time the average yield per acre in the
state has steadily grown. 1t is not yet
to be compared with that of some Of
the great corn states, where corn cul-
| tivation has been the great interest
among farmers, and where it has been
study for so long. The results al
| ready achieved show, however, that
with a continued growth in the inter-
est the state will soon have an aver
age yield that will compare with that
of any state in the Union. This same
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| eastern states.
South Carolina has a variety of soils.
| running from the rich loans in her
valleys to the clay of her Piedmont
| sections and the sandy lands of the
coast regions. All of the soils will
produce large yields of corn when
proper methods Of soil conservation
and of cultivation are pursued, as has
been shown by past results. In very
| many sections of the state all the 9TH
er grains will do equally as well.
Along with the grains may be produced
the finest crops of grasses. All this
makes the state an excellent field for
the development of a large stock in
|
has frequently been told in these pages
| in the stories of the practical success
of those who have given attention to
the stock interest.
In the section. of the state from CO.
| lumbia to Charleston, a common soil is
the sandy, underlaid with clay. Much
of it is what is called the Norfolk SAN
dy loan. This is one of the most val
| liable soils known i'm the country for
the trucking industry, and ii is SO sus-
ceptible of Improvement that it can he
built up to the very greatest fertility.
1t produces not only the truck crops
most profitably, but has been found to
| be a fine producer of cotton, corn and
grass. At st. Matthew's, n town of
/ 900 to 1000 people, on the Charles
ton Columbia line of the Southern
railway, in Orangeburg county, the
typical soil is this Norfolk sandy loan.
| There the farmers have found it most
valuable in the production Of all kinds
of crops, and diversifcation has be-
come the order of the day among the
progressive men.
1t was farmer of ST. Matthews, Mr..
James NJ. Moss, who won the 1909
prize offered by the South Carolina de-
partment of agriculture for the best
five acres of corn. The production was
500 bushels. The report of this five
acre field shows that it was most
profitable one. The cost of raising the
crop was: