The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-09-06
rHF. FARMER AND MECHANIC
as the use of these violated the laws
OF the State and of health.
Machinery on the Farm.

&c the nse of these violated the laws
of the State and of health.
| Machinery on h Farm
Mr.. John w. Robertson, OF Cataw-
ba county, spoke concerning farm
machinery and OF the best kinds TO De
used in this day of progress. he
traced the development OF farm ma
hinery from the forked stick OF the
| primitive Indian to the modern equip
| ment, saying that farm machinery is
cheaper than farm abor. In the use
Of these he said the larger the fields
the better the results in saving time
and money.
Then Mr.. Robinson in detail spoke
Of the different xmas OF
machinery used on the farm. the disc
pillow, the split log drag, the low
wheeled broad tired wagon, the
weeder, the gasoline engine, the proper
lind of fencing, the modern parh'
the silo, the spray pump in Wh1teWasn-
ing, separators. churns and the klttha
en- sink. In closing he spoke OF the
value Of the telephone at a farm, that
at SO a mile these could be put IN
use.
Following his address Rev. $. J:
| Belts spoke concerning the matter OF
shredding fodder and the matter was
discussed pro and con. In the talk
about this there was a sensation ere
ated by the language Of DR.. A. ;.
Wheeler, manager OF the Blltmore
farm, who said that the or
fodder was NO good in Buncompe
even for bedding" His language
| caused the CONVENTION to sit up at
once.
The Afternoon Session.
In the afternoon the first address
was by Director c. 3. Williams, OF
being why, When, Where, How to
| Use Lime He advised the farmers
to use lime Of any kind that could
be had. remembering that So POUNDS
Of freshly burnt lime is equal to 100
pounds of carbonate Of lime or agrl-
cultural lime, or Sc pounds of rock
lime is equal to 72 pounds OF lime
containing 10 per cent. or more OF
magnesia, that basic Stag contains 80
per cent. to 40 per cent. of lime. HIS
address was practical throughout ana
showed the value Of the use of lime.
Does 1t Pay to Fertiiizc?
DR.. B. w. Kilgore, the State Chemist,
had for his subject Does 1t Pay to
Fertilizer It was an important sub
ject and in it DR.. Kilgore broke new
ground. He stated that in North
Carolina last year there was used
512,725 tons of fertilizers at $40 a
ton, a total cost of $10.25O,000 and
that this year there will probably be
from twelve to thirteen millions Of
dollars spent in North Carolina for
fertilizers. In his discussion he dealt
with the cotton crop as the money
crop of the State and said that be
would not give guess work but the
result of actual experiments at the
Iredell and Edgecombe county test
farms.
The fertilizer used analyzed u
1-2-2 IL. Bv using no fer
pounds of cotton to the acre. BY
using 200 pounds of fertilizer there
was produced 656 pounds Of seed cot
ton; 400 pounds ave 912 pounds cot
ton; 600 pounds gave 1908 pounds;
500 pounds gave 1853 pounds; 1000
pounds gave 1880 pounds, his being
the result on the Iredell farm.
Or the Edgecombe test farm with
the same analysis the result was: with
no fertilizer 738 pounds per acre;
with 200 pounds fertilizer S42 pounds
seed cotton; 400 pounds gave Lac
pounds; 500 pounds gave 1,249
pounds; 500 pounds gave lap
pounds seed cotton per acre.
These results show that it pays a
larger profit from the standpoint of
fertilizer to ~fertilze poor lands. On
the poor lands Of Irede county the
average profit from 100 pounds of
fertilizer used vas $3.50. AT the
Edsecombe test farm on the poor land
the average profit for 100 pounds of
fertilizer used was $4.93 and on bet
ter lands S1.44 for each 100 pounds of
fertilizer used, the latter being less
than one-third Of the profit on the
poorer land. When the quantity of
fertilizer used reached 1000 pounds
the yield on the two fields was prac-
tically the same.
Cotton is the least exhaustive of
all our crops. The lint Of a 500
pound bale OF cotton contains NOT over
90 cents worth Of fertilizing material.
Also a cotton crop turns back to the
sou IN its leaves, stalks, bolls, etc, a
large quantity of vegetable matter.
equalllng about one and a half tons to
the acre producing a 500 pound bale
OF cotton which contains about 81
pounds nitrogen, 66.5 pounds phos-
] phOrlc acid. SOB pounds nOtaSh 59.3