The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-09-12
GRAIN SOWING.

The United States Government guarantees a minimum price
of So. 90 a bushel for wheat harvested in 1913.
1t ought not to be a very difficult matter to induce a patri-
otic farmer to raise wheat at So. 90 a bushel. South Carolina
farmers are asked to increase their wheat acreage At per cent
this year. This also should be easy to accompish
Two dollar wheat means high flour, for when you pay $500
for wheat and then pay the milers' toll, railroad freight and
the dealers profit, your flour will cost you a pretty stiff price.
1t takes six bushels of wheat to make the kind of flour the most
of YOU buy-mllers and railroads and dealers have their pro-
fit, they won't work for nothing and board themselves. The
result is you can make your flour cheaper than you can buy 1t.
And besides it will pay aman to sow wheat for the stubble.
There has been considerable trouble the last few years to get
an early stand of cotton, but there has been no trouble to get
an early stand Of cotton when it is planted after stubble. An
early stand is going to be exceedingly important when the boil
weevil strikes you and it is going to strike you and when 1t
does the early cotton is all you will have to pick. When the
boil weevil comes, it will be July crop or no crop. And your
Julv crop will not be very heavy on cotton that comes up in
June. 1t will be the early cotton that you will pick and stubble
mighty nearly guarantees a quick stand. You cant sow down
all your land at once and it is a good year to begin when you
are guaranteed So 90 a bushel for your wheat.
Three acres of wheat and three acres of oats to the pillow on
land that is we'll prepared and we'll fertlized will turn the
trick and make enough for your farm needs and II 1t is e. good
year will leave some to sell.
When you sow with a three disc grain drill you can fertilize
when you SOW and you have about as safe a crop as you can
plant. We are not selling three disc grain drills but there are
people here who do. You can get the grain drills-but we are
selling fertilizer, and the best that is made; the very best put
in sacks; the best by test of result. And that is what you
Iwant-the best by test of results. We could not supply the
demand last spring nor the spring Of 1916. Sold out and swept
the floors. 1t must be a pretty good fertilizer for there to be
such a demand for it. 1t isn't our winning ways that sells the
goods, at least we have ben reliably informed that our winning
ways did not add to the sales to speak of. 1t is just the natural
inherent virtue Of the goods that makes the crops and that
creates the demand.
We have it now fine and dry. See us for prices. Cash
December first.
If you can use it in bulk (unsacked) we can save you the
cost of the bags which is higher this year than we have ever
known and the cost Of the labor Of bagging it, which is also
more than it has been heretofore.
See us and get the best. When it is all the same price, get
the best. A great many people will use 16 per cent acid by
itself when sowing and will top dress in the spring if needed.
The Virginia farmers use 16 per cent acid by itself when
sowing and do not top dress in the spring, and Virginia farm
ers make fine grain crops.