The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-03-29
CLOVER HILL CLUB
IN THE L|MEL|GHT
Chesterfield County Farmers Arc
Learning Things, and How
They DO 1t.
HOPKINS TELLS OF RESULTS
Fertilizers Of Various Kinds, aud
How Best Put Them
TO Use.

Tho clover IInl Farmers Club con-
tinues it's meetings, in spite OF bad
weather. After routine business had
been disponcd OF at the last meeting,
and ARRANGEMENTS made for IL cooper
:ttivc supply OF fertilizer. The mem
bcrs showed anxiety to listen to tho
methods adopted by that scientific
farmer. Cyril q. hopkins, who wrote
as follows:
I'm Novcmbcr. 1903. I purchased a
farm at cost of less than $50 an acre,
comprising 300 acres, Ok poor. gray
land and u fe" acres of timber land.
it was already .hristcncd Poor Land
Farm, ana I did not change IL.
'In 1913 forty-acre held OF this
farm produced $50 bushels of wheat.
This forty acrcs cost SIS AN acre, IL
had been agriculturally abandoned for
five years, ana was covered with 4
scant growth OF red sorrci. poverty
grass ana weeds. During the Hubsc-
uucnt ten years this field has been
cropped with q si%ycar rotation. in
Guiding ono year each cf corn, oata
Cor cowpeas), and wheat, and three
years OF meadow ana pasture with
clover a'i timothy y fairly good
stand OF volunteer clover appeared
with oats in loli ana this was al
lowed 10 produce "a crop Of clover hay
'e' ," ~
IT,,
Tho Wnv 81 g.
During the ton years about four
tons pei acre ri ground limestone and
~, ,ac,, ,.hoa,
MOI ~ ',.i,,'., ~,
re- ,,,ni,c..,to,'. i
each material. The phosphate was
plowcd under Tor the corn crops OF
onn,icd H. ~ "a, ,,
11oi ,oo- '' N'',el VI
,,,o,.od ca to., ~
."rbn e,,,irn for,,..- al, 80
covorod y,i,h o,c rnyra,- ,,i.,,i,,,
,S .;, l,,,,,s ~ - ,.-.',,'.
:, df,v -hu.bI srrc.,f., 49,, ,ot
siv-rod etrf,, ~,,,,if
,hn ci,rIfy-Tod n.Id -.ro,,..d -
nppiicution az n1t'tit. ma I,c s,,nc
rotation nf .ron ~. r,,,,,i,,i,',,
tlir;y-soycu ,crcs Ir, M i,n.,,i,,,
,y.,. ,,,,,it,l ia M go, 5 w., itt
stone VA. nr,liod ~ n ,n,tii ,,.sf.u
OF 1910 when IN. r..,ti,, ..r,,lic.,in,
tabout two tons ucr ncre, yra,s nnd.
trc-nalf (thr,. rods AZ tp .;vrnJ
strip. onlv ,hfr,r-,lno ucT4s nf MS
field We're seeded to wheat i'm the ran
OF lal2 n lane haSiue, been fcrc.d of,
on one aiGc, and the 1920 bushels Of
wheat were produced on tho thirty
Line acres.
some Of The Results.
THE actual yields were. ono and
cue-u4lf acres with farm MANURE.
alone produced eleven and onc-half
bushels rar acre. one and one-half
acres with farm manure and one aD-
piieat.on OF ground limestone pro
ducei uftcer bushels per acr. Thirty
SIX acres with TWO applications OF
ground limestone ana two OF fine
frou"d ph0spuate produced thirty-nye
ana one half bushels per acre The
cost OF TWO tons OF limestone deliver
ca ~ station is SIS. and raw rock
phosphate has averaged about S675
per ten, making 80 per acre. the cost
TOT each SIX years TO this must be
ADDED ihc cost o: hauling two miles
"h4 :prcaciH1 on the land, csiilnatcd
~ 90 cents a ton. This makes the
hNeiiEc annual cost sl..5 per acre for
inc limestone Ind phosphate spread on
me ield, and this average annual in
Ncslnrnt resulted in the Increase OF
t"on'N-iour, bushels OF wheat per
:tcfc IN 1918. Thus We may say that
'he previous applications o. these two
mo ,r,a,,.,,, - -o,n -,