The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-01
PROFITABLE
SUMTER MEN SAY
IRON AND BRABHAM VARIE-
TIES ARE PREFERRED
3 YEAR ROTATION
Good Results Procured With Wilt
Resistant Cotton,-Successful
Applications of Lime.

Another account of excellent farm
work m from Sumter to the office
or the State department OF agriculture.
j.. Frank Williams, farm demonstra-
tor in that county under the direction
OF the United States department of
agriculture. has furnished Commits
sioner Watson. upon request, with the
following information:
There have been several phenom-
enal yields in Sumter county this
year, especially with cotton. S. J..
Whit, in a contest for the Bank OF
Sumter prize. where he had plowed
in a cover crop OF oats and vetch,
made on one acre two bales, one
weighing 512 and the other 440 pounds
with 1877 pounds of scrap seed cot
ton, making d total in all of 2,SS7
pounds Of seed cotton per acre.
THE same man in the same con-
test made 1000 pounds of sheaf oats.
which would be at least 100 bushels of
oats and 10,890 pounds of corn in
the ear, net weight, which allowing
so pounds per bushel would give a
yield of 1876 bushels Of corn. These
yields were made with ordinary fer
tilizing, less than 1000 pounds per
acre.
I'm the same contest w. r. Wells
made 5000 pounds OF seed cotton on
an acre with only 600 pounds of fer
ulizer, after having turned under a
cover crop of oats and vetch. This
yield was made on badly infected wilt
land with wilt resistant cotton. OF
curse the land had not been In cotton
for two years.
after observing and dealing with
wilt on my W land. 1t Is my opinion
that in. three year rotation, where
cowpeas other than iron and Brab-
ham peas are eliminated, no less from
wilt will be seen with a good variety
of wilt resistant cotton.
Iron peas and Brabham peas are
being grown very extensively in' Sum-
ter county. I sold for myself and the
farmers. Of the county last year sew
eral hundred bushels of iron peas
for the sale from q four!horse farm
this year.
IS. d. Cain grew 800 bushels of
Braham peas this year on a. five-horse
farm OF the waste land and in his
corn. Farmers who do not use large
quantities Of nitrate Of soda have no
trouble in making from five to eight
bushels Of peas per acre in Sumter
county.
&c. A. Lennon has gathered a
hundred bales of Cleveland Big boil
cotton on so acres- Or a bale and q
quarter to the acre with less than
coo pounds of fertilizer to the acre.
and that of a row grade. :,
I'D. ". Keelse at Rembrant grew 35
bushels OF wheat on one acre and the
State farm in Sumter county has been
planting wheat for. several years,
averaging 25 bushels each year. AS a
result of these large yields of wheat,
In this comtn unity, there is being
planted in that immediate neighbor-
hood 100 or 800 acres OF wheat. ID. ".
Keels and Il. e.. Rembert are plant
ing q 100 acres. This 10 one of the
communities visited by Commission
or Watson and party on the grain
campaign.
Nv. u, Boyle gathered % toms OF
oats and vetch from eight acres OF
land this spring and planted the same
to corn. / feel sure that the. corn
yielded as much Is go bushels per
acre. ] have o photograph of this
beautiful field.
We have come excellent results In
Sumter county from applying ground
limestone. Frank Andrews of Oswe-
go applied a TIM per acre and n
stranger would discern to the row In
both the corn and the cotton exactly
Ehsct tie line was b~roadcasted.
would estimate that the yield was I'm
creased this year il to 90 per cent"
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