The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-12
PERFECT CORN FROM TEN ACRES; EVERY GRAM ALIKE.
used.
Satura, Variations.

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used.
Natural Variations.
OF course. the above outlined pro-
gram may be varied according to soil
conditions, etc.
Possibly peas might take the place
Of clover on some lands and there
may be various exceptions to the rule
as above outlined. but the whole idea
is to plow just right, fertilize just
right. plant just right, and above all
things to take care of the land. For
instance. the red crimson clover put
on the land for the second year is
primarily for fertilizing purposes. and
the farmer is ahead OF the game II he
follows instructions without cutting a
blade OF clover but all the same in
nine cases out OF ten enough clover
has been saved to make the land pay
from SIS to SIS per acre for the clover
year which is but a bagatelie as COM
pared with the value the clover turned
under has been to the land.
But after ALL the very best way
to explain the Sandy plan. which is
in twenty-nine counties in Virginia. Is
TO give some reports from the STU
dents" of last year.
Pittsylvnnin Case.
j. l. Carter lives UP in Pittsylvania
county and owns some lands that had
been about run down He spent much
time growing tobacco on those lands
and considerable time in running poll
tics He became student" dropped
politics altogether and largely cur
tailed his tobacco acreage. Here Is his
report for the first years demonstra-
ton on eight acres:
Cost.
Flowing with two-horse pillow
and subsoiling eight acres ...s 90 90
Disc narrowing one time ...... 90
Putting in one ton bone meal
with grain drill ..-.......... 90
Putting in two tons Is per cent
phosphate with grain drill .. 90
Cost of bone meal ........... 80 90
Cost of phosphate ............. 80 90
Planting May 4. 1909 .......... so
Cultivatng four times with
one-horse cultivator ......... 10 90
Cutting and shocking .. IL 90
Husking and hauling to corn
crib ..............-..... is 90
Tota, cost .s1se SO
Receipts.
$50 bushels corn at so cents per
bushel ...........-...... Ss4S 90
Is tons corn stover at SIS per
ton .............-.-.. 40 w
Total ................s52s 90
Cos, deducted ............... 132 so
Net profit $3.50 so
Tha, was corn, and the work Of the
| first year.
In the Southwest.
Here is a report of what Joseph A.
| Turner did over in the Southwest on
| his farm near Hollins with a hay
| crop:
Number of acres seeded, Z; date Of
| breaking land, August L; number of
| inches land was broken, s: kind of
! fertilizer used, pure raw bone: amount
| of fertilizer used. 400 pounds per acre:
| varieties of seed used. timothy, herds
grass and sapling clover With an adj
4, dition of four pounds of alfalfa;
| amount OF seed to the acre, % quarts.
Cost Of Crop.
| Cost of breaking land ........S 13 IS
Cost of preparation OF land 49,. Is
| Cost of fertilizer ..........,.. AZ OO
Cost of seed and seeding ..... SO 90
| Cost of harvesting and storing, IA 90
/ Total cost ....s...............sl12 90
/ Receipts.
IS tons of cured hay at SIS
/ per ton ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $40 ot
/
(. Net profit ........... s3o7 81
| In Old Prince Edward.
! Just one more account current
i This time let j. j. Gillian, of Prince
Edward county. talk. Here is his
report on grass crop:
Number of acres seeded, g.; date Of
! breaking land, July IS; numher-o
+. inches land broken, to 0; lime used
4 1000 pounds per acre. fertilizer used
, pure raw bone: fertilizer used to thu
acre, 500 pounds; varieties of seed
timothy, herds grass, saping clover
amount OF seed per acre, % quarts
I two parts timothy, two parts herd:
grass, one part sapling clover.
Cost.
Cost of breaking the land .....s u
Cost of lime used .....,..... q
Hauling lime Observation-Disclosures. Of
Cost of preparing land ........ o.
Twelve loads OF manure 1900. II o.
Cost of fertilizer and drilling
same .,.s....,'...., ..I'.',..''. o. o.
Hauling same ...,......,,..... ! 2
. Cost of seed and seeding ...... O.
], Cost Of harvesting and storing. 1
!. Total cost Observation-Disclosures. 81 2
a Receipts.
! Twelve tons and SIS pounds of
hay, at SIS per ton ...,....$ls6 Q
Cost Of production ..........., "a 2
Net profit ......,.......,......,,s 6
! Profits Come Quickly.
d While it might not be generally ex
az pected that the student who get
} under the tutelage of the "demonstra
], tors are to make a profit from tn