Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-03-15

use on clay lands for;cottoni character.
izing such purchases as perfectly ri:
diculous."
Declaring that while it was problem
atical whether 1farqiers would get
cents per pound: for seed cotton in the
fall of 1921, he gave. it as his opinion
that if the market was that much Il
would be profitable to use as much as
500 or 600 pounds Of. home mixed fer
tilizer to the acre:
He advised the farmers to watch
closely the grade of.cotton seed mea
that oil mills offered them in exchange
for cotton seed. He said that three
mills had come under his notice which
were putting out a special grade Of
meal for seed exchange. There was a
great deal of linters;in@ it and it could
more easily be handled with a pitch
fork than any other. way. He advised
the farmers to see to it that the oil
mills gave them good quality Of meal
in exchange. &
Urging his. farmer hearers to give
more attention to ting planting Of le-
gumcs and cover crops. the creates,
source of ammonia, he mentioned the
fact that Of the s5s,oOGOOo spent in 1926
for fertilizer, nearly $4,000 900 went fol-
ammonia, which we can get free from
the air by means Of legumes." He di-
rected attention to the value of soy
beams as one Of the best known soil inn
provement crops. which can be planted
for rs cents an; acre.
Warning against the folly Of pulling
fodder he said the hardest work and
the most foolish workih ever did was
in pulling fodder wherEhe did not know
any better. 1.-The only excuse that you
farmers of South Carolina have for not
producing feedstuffs,I'ihe said, "is that
you want the land :forn cotton" You
spent s1OO.OOO,OOO or more last year for
foodstuffs for man and; beast that you
could have grown at home.
.Borax Removed from Potash.
In concluding his talk, in answer tc
a question, Mr.:$Wintels said that
American potash wasa ;;all right this
year, due to the fact that the manufac-
turers had arrived at q m ethod where
by the borax was removed and that II
was as good as the German product
He endorsed the. use ofjnitrate Of soda;
informing his audienca however; that
it disappeared in tweIvet months.
He closed with ansappeal to farmers
to use their fifth leg" meaning the
building up of their Soil through the
planting Of legumes by.means Of which
the. natural fertiiizatipg that the Al
hhiiiightT:fadS created WoIGfH Be had: cheap:
ly and in abundance, declaring that
experiments in Anderson, Mccormick
and other counties had proved conclu-
sively that it could be done.
South Will Reduce Acreage.
"The best information that we car
get from Texas said r C. Hamer
president of the South Carolina divi.
sion of the American Cotton associa-
ton, who followed Mr.. Winters. "is that
the cotton acreage Of thei state will be
reduced 33 1-3 per cent this year. 1r
lower Texas they are going to plant
even the streets in the small towns ir
cotton; but the people in upper Texas
are in as bad shape as we arc. lnfor-
nation from Oklahoma IS that the cot
ton acreage is going to be reduced from
20 to 80 per cent, and Mississippi, Ala.
bama, North Carolina and the other
cotton states are going to reduce.
II believe that there will be a great
reduction in acreage in South Carroll
na," said Mr. Hamcr, "for three reasons
a natural voluntary reduction; lack
OF fertilization and the boil wceyil.
"The boil weevil is going to sweer
the entire state soon." he predicted
"EIc got 25 per cent Of my crop II
Richland county the past year and ht
is sweeping on.
Advocates Use Of Fertilizers.
Reports arc that very little fertilizer
has so far been bought by South Caro-.
lima farmers. Let me urge you. how
ever, not to try to grow cotton this yeal
without using some fertilizer. Your la
Dor and your time will be wasted II
YOU dbn't use some fertilizer. Person.
ally am going to use the same amount
of fertilizer OH my plantation this yeal
per acre that used last year; but
am going to reduce my acreage mate
rally.
"If the SOUTH" continued Mr.. Hamcr
plants a big acreage this year in vieT
of the fact that there is already a big
surplus, you will never in the worit
convince Wall street that we can't pro
duce cotton for less than 10 cents {
pound. We are fighting for q princi
ple and as a representative Of thu
American Cotton association beg yol
farmers to reduce your acreage.
"rhe natural carryovcr of cottor
from year to year is about l,2OO'oO'
bales. Yet right now we have a sur
plus of 9,OUO,O0O bales. Still there arr
some farmers who are going. to pan
as much cotton this year as they dit
last if possible. + know Of 4 farme
who h,d / 600 acres in cotton last year