Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1913-01-08
would have paid him $3.50 an acre
moro than the fertilizer cost.
Farm Tests In Mississippi.

olotS hofiuB type Oh SOll QlU9r3nC
from any of the others. Bulletin No.
157 gives results of last years farm
crop experiments at the Delta sta
ton in the rich bottom lands living
between the Yazoo and Mississippi
rivers.
The season was an unfavorable
one, characterized by excessive spring
rains that delayed planting, and this
wet spell was Immediately followed
by drouth lasting eight weeks.
Then another wet spell in August
favored the cotton leaf worm SO that
this insect and the boil weevil both
became very destructive. Still, the
As acres in cotton yielded 4S "a bales
Of 500 pounds. The variety tests
showed Express well in the lead, a
variety so new that no seed is yet
on the market, but the station will
grow and distribute the seed as rap
idly as possible. Mebane Triumph
stood second.
The essentials Of cotton culture
under boil weevil conditions are
very deep winter breaking, early
planting and frequent cultivation,
continued late in the season.
In the spacing tests 3 " foot rows
gave best results; 3-foot rows stand
ing second, 4-foot rows third, 5-foot
rows fourth and 6-foot rows last.
The plants stood Is to 18 inches
apart in all rows. Rich lands usu-
ally make the best showing on to
5-foot rows, and the long drouth
probably so stunted the growth in
this case as to favor the narrow rows.
SiXty-seven acres were planted in
corn in 4-foot rows, and at the last
cultivation cow peas were sown
broadcast at the rate of two bushels
per acre. The pea vines covered the
ground so densely that much OF the
corn could not be found; still an av-
erage Of 46 bushels per acre
were gathered, and the hogs that
grazed of the peas got the hidden
corn left by the harvesters Ali Of
this land was In cotton the year be-
fore except Is acres, which had
been in corn and peas for two years
before, and the average yield Of corn
on these Is acres was II bushels
per acre. On three acres that were
fertilized with leached barn-yard
manure, 1900 pounds OF cotton seed
90
soda the yield was 1929 bushels
per acre; showing that even rich
land may be benefited by fertlliza-
ton. But the cow peas were the
most profitable means of fertilising;
for besides the increased yield of
corn they produced, the pea crop
alone was worth $35 an acre,
Eleven acres were sown to oats
the previous fall which yielded 90
bushels per acre in May, and the
stubble was then turned and planted
to soy beans on June 29th. The
beans were gathered from one acre,
many OF them shattering off, but
u bushels were saved, worth
$1.5O to 81 bushel, and hogs CLEAN
ed those left on the ground. The
other 10 acres were mown and yield
ed a fraction oyer 21a tons of hay
per acre, fully equal to alfalfa hay.
The roots and stubble also greatly
enriched the land. All in all, this
combination Of two crops, oats and
soy beans, grown and harvested on
the same land between October Of
one year and October Of the next,
proved to be the most profitable one
yet tried. Soy bean meal is the only
known feed that is richer in protein
than cotton seed meal, and it gets it's
protein from the air, while the cot
ton seed takes its protein from the
soil, impoverishing the same to that
extent.
Twelve acres were sown to wheat
and winter vetch in the fall, pecks
wheat and one of vetch to the acre,
and this crop was cut for hay when
the wheat was in the dough, and soy
beans were sown upon the freshly
broken stubble. The wheat and
yetch yielded 21a tons good hay per
acre; but the soy beans were not
gotten in the ground till July goth
and they blighted badly, yielding
only l II tons hay per acre.
Variety tests Of wheat prove the
Delta to be pretty good wheat