The Little River news., 1920-08-11
TIVE GOVERNOR AGAIN
 IS WiTH ERKANSANS
South Carolina Executive Spends His Third Day With the Farm
 Tourists.

Bennettsville, s. C., Aug. 7.-Gov H. M. Cooper of South Carolina spent fitabIe farming tourists today and he presided over the last meeting of the day which was held here. The party will move over into North Carolina to- morrow and has received message saying that Gov. T. w. Bicket of that state plans to join the party tomorrow at Wilson, N c. This will be the last stop of the Arkansas party before starting homeward. There has not been single case of illness in the par ty and all the members are agreed that the trip has been worth the time and expense many times over.
 Visit Greatest Cotton County. The Arkansas pdrty today travelled 110 miles between the cotton and corn fields of Marlboro conty, the greatest cotton county in the United States. Last year on 00,000 acres this county averaged 465 pounds of lint cotton to the acre. Last year the farmers of this county used on all crops grown in the conty 65,00O tons of commer- cial fertilizer, while only 5000 tons ! were used in the entire state of Ar kansas.
 All the varieties of land in Marlboro
 county were seen on today tour There were few farms where the cotton is poor, but the party drove mile after mile past fields that would yield from one to one and One-half bales to the acre. The soils of the county consist almost entirely of thin sandy pine lands like those which in Arkansas produce from one-fifth to one-siXth of a bale of cotton to the acre. The Arkansans learned that the enormous yields prodced in this coun- 1 ty are the results of farming methods that keep the soil filled with vege- l table matter, deep blowing, intensive ! narrowing before planting, planting seed that has been bred for 30 years with the object of developing a strain 1 that will prodce high yields on the i particular farm where it is planted, l thorough, frequent and continued cul- tivation and heavy use of cor4fhAfsial i fertilizer. @aa
 The growers told the ArkansarIs that i if they omitted any one of these fea
 lures the yield would decrease greatly. Among the places visited today was
 the sandy form of J. A Moore, who
 last year raised 2,00O bales on 200O acres. Another farm visited was that of J. T. Breeden, who last year, aver aged one and one-half bales of cotton and 100 bushels of Irish potatoes to the acre. He planted his cotton iIt six foot rows with row of Irish potatoes ! alternating between the cotton rows. On one of his farms, which consists of 5000 acres, the cotton rows are one mile long.
 hC pS'i y aioO 'lSIlCu IHo LII dh6 farm and saw the acre which last year prodced 254 bushels of corn, re- cord for the United States.
 Urges Use of Velvet Beans.
 The Young brothers, who last year raised three bales of cotton to the acre on large field told the Arkansas party at Hartsville last night that ii Arkansas farmers want to raise large yields of cotton cheaply. they must use velvet beans to the fullest extent.
 "Cld Man Velvet Bean is the best friend that the Arkansas cotton grow CTS can make" said one of the broth CTS in talk at the informal meeting at Hartsville. Velvet beans will re- duce the expense of fertilizer and will keep cotton thriving in dry weather. Use of velvet beans is as important as seed breeding and preparing and cul- tiNating land properly"