The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-04-27
WHEN 1T PAYS TO REPLANT.
Four Methods that Will Save Annoy.
ance Of Replanting.

The principal work on all South
ern farms during the next week will
be the finishing of planting and CIV
ing the first civilizations of the crops.
The harrow is the implement that
should be used for these early culti-
vations. On the heavier lands or
where the lands have not been most
thoroughly prepared, the weeder will
not be so serviceable. On the sandy
lands where the trash" has been
Thoroughly cut up or plowed under
the weeder will be of great searvice
to the one-horse farmer.
The Problem of Replanting.
There is one perplexing problem,
however, that comes up nearly every
wear, which the farmer must solve
without very much definite knowl-
edge or fact on which to base his
decision. We refer to the question
of replanting. Two sorts of condi-
tions bring up this difficult problem
of determining whether replanting is
necessary or advisable. One of these
is when frost comes and damages
the crop after a good stand has come
up. The other is when from bad
seed, bad weather or other condi-
tions, a faulty stand is secured.
Both of these problems are more
likely to arise the earlier the crop
is planted and yet, all things consid-
cred, one year with another, the
crops that are planted as soon as the
soil and air are warm enough to pro-
duce reasonably rapid growth, pro-
duce best. This fact leads to the
planting of some of the crops too
early nearly every year, and in some
years in planting nearly all the crops
earlier than is best for that par
ticular year. For these reasons,
some crops are injured by frost very
frequently and some years to large
extent.
When frost sufficient to seriously
injure the crop occurs, the question
of replanting is serious and difficult
problem. There is, no rule by which
the farmer can be guided. If, how
ever, the date of injury is late, so
that the crop of replanted is apt to
meet unfavorable conditions of
drouth or frost, so as to interfere
with it's proper maturity, one should
be slow to take the chances of re-
planting. The injury must be great
and beyond all doubt to justify re-
planting under such conditions. .
Don't Be Too Easily Frightened.
On the other hand, if the date of
injury be rather early, so that there
is still time for the crop to mature
under favorable conditions for the
best yield, then a comparatively
slight injury to the stand or anything
like a serious injury of the plants
will fully justify replanting.
The absence of good seed may be
another reason for the avoidance OF
replanting, but the cost of the seed
is so much less than the value of the
crop, or than the difference between
a good crop and even partial fail
ure, that this item should not have
much influence in determining wheth-
er replatning is advisable.
There is one other matter that
should be kept in mind in deciding
whether to replant after injury by
frost, and that is, that the plants
look worse hurt Immediately after
the frost than a few days later, and
if the injury does not appear to be
certainly enough to justify replant-
ing Immediately after the frost, it
is quite certain replanting will not
appear necessary a few days later.
"Patchy'' Replatning.
When a poor stand is obtained
from bad seed, or unfavorable wealth
er, or improper preparation of the
seed bed, whether to replant or at
tempt to make crop with the stand
obtained, or to try to patch up the
stand, is also a perplexing problem.
With a slow-growing crop like cot
ton an attempt to patch up the stand
by replanting those places where
there has been failure to secure a
stand is likely to be more successful
than with corn, but as a general rule,
with almost all crops, it is not profit
able to try to improve the stand in
this way. With corn, for instance,
the first planting gets such a start
Of the plants from the later planting
that they send their roots through
the soil and later shade the late
plants so that these later plants are
robbed of their share of food and
sunshine and fail to pay the cost of