The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1920-09-23

Bureau of the Little Rock Board of
Commerce, the members of the party
say that the remarkable yields of cot
ton they saw were due to seven fac
tors which they enumerate as fol.
lows:
l. Good drainage.
2. An abundance of decayed vege-
table matter in the soil.
8. Deep breaking of the soil, from
to II inches
4. Well prepared seed bed.
5. Seed that has been bred to pro-
duce high yields.
s. Heavy applications of high
grade fertilizers.
Z Frequent shallow cultivation and
late cultivation.
1t Is said that where one of these
seven is lacking the yield is low.
The report follows:
Territory Covered.
We rode in autos about seven hun
dred miles through the farming Sec
tons around Americas and Athens,
Georgia; Greenville, Greer, Spartan
burg, Florence, Darlington, Hartsville
and Bennettsville, South Carolina. and
Wilson, North Carolina. We covered
. large part Of the country in which
each town Is located. seeing all the
kinds Of soil and the good and poor
farming In each locality.
Yields.
We saw few fields where from
two to three bales of cotton an acre
were raised We saw many large
fields producing from one and halt
to two bales an acre. We saw hun
bale an acre We saw thousands of
acres that average a bale an acre.
We saw many fields of corn that
produce from rs 70 100 bushels of corn
an acre and a large number that yield
fifty or more bushels. These high
yields Of cotton and corn are raised
on soil where twenty years ago much
of the land was abandoned as worn
out and most on that in cultivation
produced 80 to loo pounds Of lint cot
Soil and Climate.
Most of the land We saw that is
producing a bale or more an acre is
like the cut-over, sandy, ptney woods
land in South Arkansas from which
our farmers are getting one bale from
four to six acre.. Some of the soil
that we saw on which high yields are
raised is eravelly and a little Of it
clay.
Thin, sandy land in Georgia and
the Carolinas with plant not one.
half the height OF that grown on Ar
kansas bottom lands is producing two
to three and sometimes four times the
amount of cotton that Is being raised
on our bottom soils.
The mate, annual rainfall and
length Of growing season in the sec
tions visited are about the same as
in Arkansas. but the summer rainfall
Is greater and 1t is more evenly dis
tributed than in our state.
How These High Yields Are Secured.
In every locality visited in the three
states the growers who raise a bale
or two an acre told us that to do this
they had to have:
IL Good drainage.
(2) An abundance of decayed vege-
table matter in the soil.
go The soil we'll broke, to IL
inches.
Cd Well prepared seed bed.
90 Seed bred TO produce high
yields.
90 Heavy applications OF high
grade commercial fertilizer.
% Frequent shallow cultivation
and late cultivation.
Where one OF these Is lacking the
yield is low.
The men who raise high yields of
cotton are using from 500 to 1000
pounds Of high grade commercial fer
tilizer an acre. Most of them use 500
10 1000 pounds. Each has learned
through long experience the kind and
quantity to use and how and when
to apply It.
The net returns per acre where
large Quantit as OF commercial fertli-
izer are used are much higher than
the net returns of Arkansas cotton
growers. including those on our bot
tom lands Many producers OF high
yields told us that il they quit using
large quantities of fertilizer their
yields and net profits would quickly
drop one-half.
Seeds.
The Georgia and Carolina farmers
are as careful about the breeding OF
the seed they plant "a are the best
raisers of pure bred horses, cattle and
hogs of the animals in their herds We
are convinced that a large part of our
failure to secure satisfactory yields 10
due to the planting inferior seed.
Seed is bred to produce large yields
on the kind of soil in which 1t is to
al, hot