The Bossier banner., 1920-09-16
Crops Here and Elsewhere.

The HGssiet RGaatr. Brstpa. ia.
Dear Editor: We frequently see arti-
cles in the local press and agricultural
journals giving accounts Of cotton
planters in other states growing such
enormous Yields. We all ..us cOIeluds
we are droneS in the stations we oc-
cupy. We also read In the books of the
boys corn club members growing rs
follows: Rows 3L1a feet apart. two feet
in the drill. seven good ears to the
stalk-a beautiful round-shaped shucls
| receptacle on top Of the stalk with i
quart of sllelled corn in it. Which no
doubt is true. and is Il fine example of
| what can he done when all the wits Of
man are used to aid the plant world
| to do it's best.
| With all these Turing stories | have
Just studied the South Carolina. North
Carolina and Georgia conditions by
visit to them.
This is the second time in life to
laok over this situation-the first in
carly life, for was reared hack there.
4 and geed old Beck for many years as
an apprentice. which assures NE have
drawn accurate conclusions.
| covered almost all of Spartanburg
and Cherokee counties. South Carolina
also. rutherford. Cleveland, Gastoa
1 and Lincoln counties. North Carolina,
and the large yields-two bales and up
are the exception, and by far not
general.
L. f1t.,it
the condensed humanity. There is il
good farmer on almost avery 40 acres
Of land. They have no hoil weevil: They
have the analysis Of their land; they
| have made IL lifelong study Of soils
and chemical needs: and in addition,
the hanks. merchants and social vel
fare workers keep as many farm live
stock and poultry expert demonstra-
tors employed as can he useful.
Large families of children supply
ample labor. with the result that all
the land is i'll cultivation Large faEii-
lies of good, honest people. with civic
pride. will naturally continue III hom,
building until the most comno,lious
homes dot the farms eyerywhere-thus
placing an excessive value on il. the
land frequently selling ut $1,000 per
acre.
It's there u be seen. When you 90
into II. -ra settienentS-where they
!. conduct the manlyeinent-gen it
!, looks more like home than anything
. You ever s;lw-just il sale to every
now and then.
We could not expect to see Ogr vast
!, tracts of land so densely populated in
this generation. consequently we have
! not so much wealth, hut otherwise we
have every advantage of them. Broken
land as in the Rocky Mount section or
along the lake at old Bellevue would
easily bring from $50 to $500 per acre.
and without the most scientific appli-
cation of chemicals it would produce
practically nothing
We can produce the cotton weed iii
RosSier Parish for two-hales-to-the-
acre crop. Vow. II our agricultural
,, chemists can tell us what to apply to
prevent shedding we can continue to
grow cotton. There was a Eale to the
, acre on the 1920 crop that shed l'efore
the holl weevil appeared.
The simplicity Of corn growing seems
to lie almost unknown in the BOssiel
Parish hills, yet the Messrs. McDade
ut Princeton, are growing 10 bnshel.
to the acre this Year on land that il;ls
, been cultivated seventy years. and +. r
Nickers, of bellevue. has corn and
lean crop combined that is probably
. far more valuable.
,, This is in Ward Six, hut no doubt
there are other hill farmers i'll Rossiel
!, who could report large production oi
corn. But to make a halt or all PLACES
in the United States the productive sol
and the cheap land makes the idea
7 spot of the South III Bossier Parish.
: Il. +. WALKER.
, Haughton. La.. Sept. Il. 1920.