The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-09-01
WILLETT'S THIRTX-ACRE FARM.
Georgia Man Outlines Formula at Re-
quest of Col. HI. ID. Calhoun.


programme for a 30-acre farm, be-
ginning October 1st, 1921, and end
ing about October 1st, 1922. MIR.
Willetts formula was published in
Mondays issue of the Augusta Chron-
icle and is reproduced below for the
information of readers of this paper:
Banker Harry D. Calhoun. of Barn
we'll, SouA Carolina, asked nae to
write a twelve months formula for
thirty acre farm. This is diff
cult job. Many good formulas might
be written. All of them might be
valuable in these times. But |
have set down a middle-of-the-road
one, giving a combination, carrying,
1 hope, financial safety and some
money returns and doing it all with
a minimum amount of guano. | pre-
suppose that the land is fairly good
and that there is already corn and
feed on the place. I pre-suppose too,
that aside from the thirty acres of
farm lands there must be at least one
acre set aside for garden-for this
is necessary. Mr.. Calhoun asks for
seed prices-I, however, do not Who'll
ly give these for planting in the
spring.
One Acre Garden.
Eor the fall garden plant one-half
acre in turnips-half pound of 1el-
low Globe and half a pound of Purple
Top White Globe, total S1.00; and
plant the balance as follows: five
hundred cabbage plants in three foot
rows one foot in the row and thin
OFT and eat during fall and winter,
thus giving the full grown plants two
feet in the row-total cost of plants
$500; one fourth pound of beets,
80 cents; drill thinly one pound of
rape at 20 cents for repeated cut
tings for greens for the table and
also for the chickens; one fourth of
a pound of carrots, 80 gents; and two
quarts of onion sets, 40 cents.
For the spring garden on the same
one acre plant snap beans, making
two paintings, one early and one
about August the first, cne quart
each time, total for the two paintings
$780,. butter beans, Sieva, one quart,
5O.cents; okra four ounces, Is cents;
one-fourth pound of squash at 20
cents; one ounce tomatoes 25 cents;
four ounces New Zealand spinach,
40 cents-this will give greens
throughout the whole summer; 1000
cabbage plants, $500, one plant to
each foot in the row, thin out; half
pound of Southern Prize spring tur-
nips 25 cents. The fall garden
seed will thus cost $4.20 and the
spring garden, $500 for the acre.
October First Field Planting.
BY October the first 1921 have all
cotton and corn stalks out Of the way.
Plat No. 1.-Ten acres. Plant Oc-
tober the first mixture Of twenty
pounds of. Hairy Vetch at 13 cents
and ten pounds of Crimson Glover at
- cents, total $3.50 per acre or S2S.-
90 for the ten acres. In the spring
some of this may be cut for hay If
necessary but it is better to turn
these legumes under and plant, say
by April the tenth, five acres in
Cleveland cotton seed and then cal
cium arsenate it from May until
September with the hopes of making
four bales without guano. Plant the
other five acres to Whaley's corn and
plant in the middles IS inches apart
Hundred Day velvets; pick velvet
pods, soak and feed same and Craze
vines and corn stalks in winter.
Plat No. 2.-Five acres Plant
October the first these five acres to
Winter Beardless Barley No. so (pro-
ductive in grain and fine hay). Plant
one and one-half bushels per acre at
$500 a bushel, total cost of seed
$500 Cut one acre for hay in
April and let four acres go to seed
and thresh and soak and feed the
grains to horses and hens, or if no
hay is cut use the whole five acres
in this way. Some of these threshed
grains likewise could be made mat
ters of sale. When this beardless
barley is off the ground, say late in
May, plant these five acres in Six
Ear Corn and put in the middles cow
peas, let peas mature, gather, thresh
and sell the peas and turn under the
vines.
Plat No. 3.-Fifteen acres. Sow by
October the first fifteen acres to
Fulghum oats, one and one-half
bushels per acre at, say s1.00 per
bushel, making total cost $3.50.
Thresh and use grain or sell seed.
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