The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1910-02-24
CHEROKEE FARMER TELLS bow.
Methods by Which $50 Pounds OF Lint
Cotton We're Obtained from One Acre.

has demonstrated the facs that in the
cotton raising industry she Is en-
titled to take rank III the very
front. In the contest inaugurated
by the National Bank of Gaffney,
some enormous yield were obtain
ed, among them being that of NJ J
W Smith with 921 pounds on one
acre; Mr. E K Cash, with 750; Mr.
# H Lockhart, with yield Of
nearly 100 on three-fourths OF an
acre, and MIR H B Lipscomb, with
a yield of more than 600 pounds
on one acre. All these gentlemen
say that the Yields which they got
last season will look small later oa,
as they intend to increase them
this season very materially. This
country has within the past few
years made wonderful progress farm
ing and stock raising, and the other
counties in the State must look to
their laurels, else Cherokee will
pluck them, and take the lead in
these respects, as she has in many
others.
Mr. Z R Cash las kindly given
The News end Courier correspon.
dent his method of cultivation,
which was as efollows: "K,nd Of
land used, very poor, gray soil with
yellow clay, which had been plant
ed in cotton for several years,
yielding from four to five hundred
pounds seed cotton per acre. |
used as fertilizers on the acre one
ton of high grade fertilizer, and
nine loads of barn yard manure.
About the last of January l turn
ed the land with a Lynchburg 2.
horse plough, ten inches deep; first
week in March l ploughed the
land sgain with one-horse turn
plough, distributing guano IN every
turrow, and followed the distribu.
tor with one-horse subsoil plough.
At this time l used one thousand
pounds of guano. On April 4 l
LAID off the rows 1-2 feet apart
and bedded with a large shovel
plough on April 13. Planted seed
with a Cole Hill planter 16 inches
apart in the drill, and on April 26
ran weeder over cotton across the
rows. On Maya ran around cotton
with side harrow; on May Z chopped
out cotton to one and two
stalks in hill. On May 10 ran
around cotton again With side
harrow, using larger ploughs, and
on May IA and Is thlnned- cotton
to one stalk in the hill. On May
Is ran around cotton with 13.inch
bow and small tongue plough, and
on May 81 ploughed out middle
with cultiyator, and hoed the
plants. On May % ran around
cotton with cultivator, which
ploughed out the middle entire. On
May 81 hoed cotton again, and
on June 4 distributed 300 pounds
Of guano alongside of cotton about
five inches from the plants in
every alternate row, following with
16-inch bow small shovel plough.
On June II treated the other rows
IN The same manner, and again
distributed 800 pounds of guano.
On June Is and 10 distributed four
loads of manure raked from the COW
lot, and on June 2l ploughed cot
ton with 21-inch bow and small
plough, and on June IS distributed
POO pounds guano IN middles and
ploughed cotton with small plough
and 2-inch bow. On July s or 9.
applied 200 pounds nitrate of soda,
distributing same on each side of
cotton about 6 or : inches from the
plants, and ploughed in with a
small plough and 24-inch bow. This
finished the cultivation. Before
breaking the land the first time in