Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-08-30
"THE SONS DO MOVE. ("
Correspondent, Writes of Sue,
cess of Farmers in Clay.
+. ''The Advertiser. and
Corn Synonymous"

DleSSeQ us, HOG 81 HiuSH "As 80
crease of our focks, nor our popu-
lation, but with an abundance of
crops. Some say if yon count up the
sch ,ol children Mr.. Roosevelt won't
be alarmed, but the little young
sters don't show up at the protract-
ed meetings as they formerly did.
The crops are fine all around us,
and were made with very little rain,
which is prima facie evidence that
farmers are using their brains and
doing better work than they used
to do. There are more two and three
horse plows used now than ever be-
fore and much more skill in cultlva-
ton. Even the negro renters are
doing better farming, and are be. e
ginning to have their test patches" "
l saw one of them few days
ago that will make 60 or Is bushels
of corn. There are more acres IN
this section that will yield from 25
to 75 bushels of corn than ever be-
fore. We wouldn't know where to
begin to tells you who has good
corn. Mr.. w. S. Stevens has some
magnificent corn on both the Meet
ing Street farm and on his fathers
cid place. Mr.. J. NJ. Shaffer, Har-
ling, Williams, Timmermans and
all of those people around McKen-
dree have as fine corn as can be
grown out of the ground. Mr..
Shaffer has some that is very fine.
1t is taller than our bell post, and a
man riding horse back between. the
rows would have to reach arms
length to touch the ears which COM
pare favorably with the stalks. If
we take the other end of the Long
Cane road there is Mr.. Allen, Cog
burn, Padgett, Sawyer, Bledsoe,
Bell, DeY.ore, Thrailkill, Galloway
and others who have corn that will
make from so to IS bushels. The
Advertiser and corn are synony-
nous. And, Mr.. Editor, you have
hooked up with the right thing.
Bread is the staff of life. Cast thy
bread upon, the waters, said the.
Master, and it shall return to you
after many days." Bread binds the
body with the soul.
The Agricultural Department, the
Agricultural Journals all over the
country and The Advertiser at
home have given great force and
encouragement in the unrivaled in
terest now manifested i'll, growing
corn. A few years back the masses
of the farmers. looked upon pro-
ducing 100 bushels of corn on an
acre as being unattainable. Now ex-
pert farmers do not regard it as any
thing wonderful, and in ten years
likely some one will have reached
800 bushels, and then too the big
crops are going to be made much
cheaper than now.
There isn't any question that
much guano is being wasted with
the test patches" Jerry Moore
would have gotten the same yield
with 1000 pounds of fertilizer as
he did with 3, 900. In business farm
ing the cost of production is fac
tor that must always be kept In
view.
''The sun do move' is a phrase,
in negro song we used to hear
years ago. The son do move is what
occurred to our minds not long
since while sweltering and sweating
in the middle of Marion Parkman's
test patch" just above and a mile
to the right of the double bridges.
Old uncle Jeff Parkman, Mr.. Marion
Parkman's father, always had the
fattest horse in the neighborhood,
though we doubt it if he ever made
more than 100 bushels of corn in his
entire crop, but the son do move,
the son has moved. He has ploughed
up an acre of land ls inches deep.
Why, those good old people would
have been stricken with horror, and
cried "desecration" until they were
hoarse had they seen such doings.
Mr.. Parkman ploughed his land
twice going down ls inches the last
time. This is high upland. He plant
ed prolific variety of corn in rows
81 feet wide and sufficient quan-
tity to give him l1,o4o STALKS per
acre. He broadcasted l6 loads of lot
manure on the plot and used 1000
pounds of commercial fertilizer. He
cultivated the corn as often as was
necessary, and while he had suffi-
cient rain for an ordinary crop, there
wasn't enough for the amount
of corn on the ground. We estimat-
ed the crop at 100 bushels and if he
had plenty. of rain since we saw it
he may do even better. Mr.. S. L.
Williams and Mr.. Goody Thinner
man and others around also have
fine patches.
IN passing down the road by Elm
wood we observed splendid crop
there, though Mr.. QUITS test
patch" was planted too early for the