The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1915-05-05
MAKING MOST
Of THE SOIL
What May Be Done By Thousands.
Manufacturers Record.)

x1seaIing 1855 acres, at points IN
Alabama and Georgia along the lines
of THE Central of Georgia Railway,
ysel6sd an average net profit OF
S1I-O1 an acre. According to a re-
pext to President w. A. Winburn by
+ F. Jackson, agricultural agent, the
tasa al value of the crops, which in
chs6ed cotton, cottonseed, corn, corn
sfpvrr, peanuts, velvet beans, OATS
osa straw, sweet potatoes, sugar
CINE, rape, tobacco, peavine hay,
peas wheat and truck, was $780,
2ss.49. From that sum were de-
drcted s4668.23 for man labor
Ss9a5.28 for horse labor, $5425.64
for fertilizer, ~$3341.13 for harvest
Ing, s276S.33 for seed, marketing,
ginning, bagging and ties' n
ss629.3O for rent, leaving the total
net profit $12,502.5S. Ten farmers
aperaged more than $14 net profit
an acre, the greatest average for
N one having been $25.65. On
the farm yielding that forty-three
acres were cultivated, of which
twelve acres yielded in cotton and
TT seed an average net acre profit
af s32.23, cotton $19.46 and seed
$l2-77; eighteen acres in corn, an
asversge net acre profit of $14.43,
and thirteen acres in oats followed
by peavine hay, yielded an average
nzt acre profit of $500, on oats
$3.50, on oat straw S2.93, and on
peavine hay $3.50. Of individual
cruB the highest net profits on par
ricnlar acres were $90.11 for sugar.
care, S49.82 for sweet potatoes,
1929 for truck, s32.62 for tobacco,
Ssa.51 for corn, $17.26 for wheat,
and SLIP for peanuts. One-half
acre in sugarcane yielded a net pro-
fit Of 1880, and one-half acre in
sweet potatoes yielded a net profit
of s4S.75.
The comment made by Mr.. Jack
zon emphasizes the fact that, al
Though ON fourteen of the twenty
five farms which grew cotton the
lint was grown at loss, the value of
ahe seed added brought all but four
of the farms into the profit column;
tfyat a farmer who made an average
yield of three-fourths of a bale to
the acre last year and sold his seed
ALSO was able to make a profit on his
crop at 7 Is cents a podnd, and
That against an average net acre
profit of $9.0s for cotton, with its
seed, was an average net ere pro-
fit of $25.85 for oass followed by
cowpea hay. He adds:
while oats and hay now command
better prices than they may when
they are produced on every farm,
they will always be profitable. They
are better for the land than cotton,
they fit in nicely with a proper sys-
toem of rotation of crops, and they
are more cheaply made than cotton
and require less man labor.
1T may be added they gave a great
ampetus to the movement for diversi-
6eaton of crops in the South and
form an important part of the = x
hibIt to which President Andrew M.
Soule of the Georgia State College
OF Agriculture refers when he writes
TO Mr.. Jackson:
The fact that 29 Test Farms were
operated in 1914, comprising 1855
acnes of land, with an average profit
of $11.01 per acre, indicates in the
most emphatic manner the latent
possibilities of our soils when oper-
ated under rational systems of man.
agement. These figures, so care
fully and Systematically secured,
should stimulate an interest in agi-
culture and in the conservation of
CDR soils as our most permanent and
profitable resource. They demon
:strate to the homeseeker the golden
opportunity which awaits the wise
2%nvestor in Georgia lands. In this
connection it is important to remem-
her that these results have been OBJ
tanned in a year of financial stress
land when cotton brought the lowest
ayrlce recorded in more than twenty
.Sesrs. Under normal conditions
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