The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-09-22
SIS AN ACRE LEAR
REALIZED ON GRAIN
RECORD MADE BY j. 4. CARROLL
on HIS FARM.
Practical Demonstration Shows That
One Acre of Grain is Worth Two
Acres of Cotton.
Gafney Ledger.

Gaffney Ledger.
More money can be made by farm
ers raising oats, corn and hay than
bv raising cotton By this statement
real actual money that may be de-
nosited in a bank or invested in real
estate or government bonds is meant
While the above statement, no
doubt. appears to be entirely plausi-
BILE to paper farmers, or to tAose
WHO sit in their offices or parlors and
do their .arming with paper and pen
Gil to many others who till the soil
in an attempt to secure comfortable
living, probably it appears doubtful.
T1ese doubling Thomases'' are the
farmers who have been carrying out
the plans and ideas handed down
to them by their fathers and grand
fathers, following the same old rut,
and each. year producing nothing but
cotton, the South's money crop,
with the exception OF few bushels
of corn and oats produced merely be-
cause they did not think the land de-
voted to TIE grain was good enough
for cotton.
But as set out in the first sentences
Of this article, there is more real
money in raising oats, corn and hay
This means more money to the acre.
By devoting the same land that ne
has been accustomed to planting IN
cotton to grain crops the farmer will
nave a larger bank balance than ever
before, or will be less in debt than lie
has ever been.
The above statements are not con-
clusions drawn from reports OF rec
ord-breaking yields made in the far
west or some foreign country where
the climate is different from what
it is in the Palmetto State, but the
facts as set forth above have been
proven and demonstrated year after
wear in Cherokee county on a farm
not more than couple of miles out
side of Gaffney. And the proof is
furnished by one OF the largest land
owners and successful farmers in the
county.
Mr.. ]. A.. Carroll superintenda the
cultivation of 25 acres of mis- land
located about one mile and halt from
Gaffney on route 2. Twelve acres OF
this farm is bottom lands, while the
remainder, 13 acres, is upland. Mr.
Carroll personally supervises and di-
rects the cultivation, the work being
performed by hired labor This year
Mr.. Carroll realizedt approximately a
net profit o. $72 per acre on his bot
tom lands and $500 per acre on his
uplands.
The entire farm was sown IN oats
during September OF last year. This
crop matured and was harvested in
May of the present year, yielding an.
average of so bushels to the acre for
the entire p acres. After gathering
the oats tie bottom lands were plant
ed in corn, and the uplands sowed
down in peas and cane for hay crop.
Mr.. Carroll will secure a yield of 80
bushels to the acre from his corn and
an average of two tons OF hay to the
acre.
Considering the situation mathe-
maticaIly, allowing approximate mar
ket prices for the products and the
labor of cultivation, it will be seen
that he made a clear profit of 5000
per acre on his bottom lands and
S62.50 clear on his uplands.
A statement of the receipts and
costs Of one acre follow:
Bottom Lands Receipts.
so bu. oats at 75c. bu.. S27.50
so bu. corn at S10O bu.H..... 5000
Total 30 i.oV
Bottom Land Expenses.
Total expense producing oats..S 500
Total expense producing corn. $50
Total -. -. $3.50
Net profit to the acre. -. $1,000
Cpland Receipts.
so bu. oats at 75c bu. $3.50
Two tons hay at $4,000 ton. -. 1000
Total -. -. -. -. ...$77.50
Upland Expenses.
Total expense producing oats..S 500
Total nXnensn nrndncino tav ZOO