Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1921-04-20

]. COUNTY AGENTS NOM. j.
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"You Tell 'Em, Winters"
(Second and concluding IN stall
ment. written especially for this "a
per-
Winters, the Billy Sunday Of
Modern Agriculture" who Wen, luto
action before some Ave audiercos in
Oconee county week before last, had
something else to say hasiaas mat
was printed last week.
He prefaced his remarks a nut
soil building by stating that aone
one hundred and eleven millop, or
some such staggering sum, was spant
by South Carolinians In the aar
1920 in buying hay, grain, meat,
ETC., from the West. The State cot
ton crop will bring about, sevraty-
five million dollars. It's easy 10 see
which side Of the ledger we are on.
More food and feed crops M; be
grown this year than ever naiOre,
according to Winters, FreiHh, is
unusually high and Westernc,a ire
preparing to curtail the PROD ON
of feedstuffs.
AS for cotton-well, it look ,s if
| Texas alone could produce cuaugh
| cotton this year, or almost euau gh,
to fiji the worlds wants withEtl ,al-
ance that is calculated TO oe on
hand. SO cotton acreage M. be
cut sharply in order to put It ,ad
of the tcn-ccnt level. Cut yugr sot-
ton by cutting the acreage. by
decreasing the yield per acrt 'ig
, urc on four cents 4 pound fl eed
cotton in l92l---and from r.H eri-
mcnt station data in both Sou md
North Carolina there Is a p,a in
applying from 800 to SOC. poui, per
acre of fertilizer that IS adaN to
your soil. We are not all ade
| brakes, and we cannot ali us hat
| he did YET-acid phosphat, cot
| ton seed meal and nitrate OF go are
advised in home mixtures, arlH and
meal being used now aud nitra Of
soda later as a side-dressing, rom
comparison with prices complipl by
Mr. Winters a few weeks ago was
found that home mixing Of ,tili-
Zers resulted In an average So ing of
about $40 per ton. Cards giy.ng a
table where one may see at Il Iance
the number Of pounds OF ceryata in
gradients needed to make a " fer
tilizer formula will DO glad fur
nished on request.
To return to the main tn ne Of
discussions: AS a rule, South G. olina
farmers have been "hoDping np one
leg" rs Winters puts 1t, AnalthUt is
the fertilizer leg And 1t haS5rown
awiully bis irons SO mueI,Ss st&f$ise
! Witness the iifJy-threc NJ NON dollar
bill presented last year. change
in methods Is imperative. More
Wade brakes must come TO life. IN
his lectures Mr.. Winters exhibited a
iivc-lcgged animal, or a fve-legged
prosperous farm, which was sup
ported by the legs: Organic matter.
deep plowing and proper cultivation,
soil moisture, lime, and fertilizers.
TO illustrate its use: When you
start blowing under velvet beans and
other legumes you begin to walk on
the organic matter leg; when you
plow under this organic matter you
| should begin plowing deeper and
making better seed-bed, and thus
walk on the proper tillagc leg; after
you have done both of these things
you should begin using lime and
walking on this third leg; you should
have already been walking on the
''sol moisture" leg by proper ter
racing and draining; and the fifth
and last leg supporting the prosper
Gus farm is the intelligent use OF fer
tilizers. We have been hopping on
this zone g-fertilizers--too long
and too much, and it is only by the
use Of the other four legs that we
can take the weight off Of the fer
tilizer leg. In the monument Of soil
| fertility we have made fertilizers the
foundation stone when it should have
been only the cap-stone.
A farmer is rich in proportion to
the fertility Of his soil. Plant vel
vet beans in every acre of corn this
year, says Mr.. Winters, and South
| Carolina will never become the grand
| old State that God Almighty intend
| ed she should become until every
| acre of corn is wrapped up in velvet