The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-08-16

The advancement in the methods Of
farming in the South in the last few
years is one of the notable events of
american life. Perhaps the revolu-
ton, SO to speak, in corn growing in
those States which formerly kept their
corn cribs as we'll as their smoke
houses in the West, Is the most re-
markable feature Of 1t all,
It will no doubt interest the public
TO see what is aid on the subject by
thoughtful observers of the movement.
Following are some of the articles
which we have culled from different
sources, and which will doubtless as
4Onish the most Of Our readers as
much as they did ourselves
In a recent issue Of the COlumb ia
Is. c. State, we find this:
Corn Growing in 1855.
twenty-five years Age there were
men in South Carolina who thought
on the corn problem; who dscerned
that the agricultural independence of
the State lay in it's development as a
food producing region. Elsewhere, we
reproduce from the BarnWell People a
letter first printed in that paper in
1855 II written by the late General
Johnson Hagoed. It inelude s, we be-
lieve, some of the principal e I'M
deriving the methods Of corn cultiva-
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lately been taught and which are
working nothing shor of an indus
trial revolution.
suppose hat the Farmers move
ment," suggested by General Hagood
had aroused the same interest among
the farmers in hat day that another
movement started at BennettSVllle the
sa me year arOused?
Here is the article from the Barn
well People, of 1885, referred to by
The State:
Corn Growing in Neutrality-suspicious. OF
the Late Governor johnson Ha-
coed.
The following, written by the late
Gen. Johnson Hagood in 1885. and
printed in the Rarnwell People, is re-
printed in the latter paper in it's ur-
rent issue:
March 10, 1885.
Dear Holmes: The late David
Dickson, of Georgia. whose DISPOSE
ton Of his property is now the sub
ject Of current comment in your and
other papers, was an eminentiy sue
cessful agriculturist, and if his method
of making corn On the thin pine lands
of the South could be impressed upon
the people, he would have left each
township in the region of the long
Ieafed pine a richie legacy than he
left to Amanda Eubanks. His plan
summarized was deep preparation.
not less than 81 square feet to the hill
and rapid shallow cultivation, with
early laying by. Impressed, with
views expressed in The Southern Gull
tiTatOr. I adopted them many years
corn since. AS it is corn planting time
] send you memorandum of n crop
made last year on thin land within
cannon shot OF our Office. Tho WELD
was about what the United States ag-
riCUltUral reports show to be the aver
age yield Of the United States, but re-
fleeing that corn is chiefly made upon
stiff lands, where 20 acres to the p1ow
is all that can be accomplished. while
on our light lands 40 acres is not too
much for such cultivation, YOU will
see that the Rarnwell crop is not SO
bad.
"CThe average yield per acre in
South Carolina by United States agri-
cultural eDOrt is 9 Il bushels.)
(Signod) johnson Hagood."
Land flushed with turning plOws
showing yellow dirt pretty freely; laid
off in seven foot rows, with wide
planting, furrow going down to sub
soil goth March: dropped two grains
every three feet and covered with hoe,
two inches Of top soil on grain. One
month afterWard thinred to one stalk
with paddle and nearly filed furroW =
Dickson recommends less dirt to corn
at this tine-by drawing into it ad-
)acent top soil with hoe; two acres &
DAY a fair task. One week later sidet
with scooter and plowed out with
turning Dlow. not quite SO deep as
flushed. In siding burrows put zoe
pounds Of cottonseed meal per acre
Ten days afterward ran round corr
with sweep, then dropped peas fT
water furrow left by last blowing
three feet apart and Is or 20 peas
IN a place and covered by two fur
rows sweep around corn, then two
burrows OF same around a Corr
mere and there showing a tassel. Nc