Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-05-25

suits, but the farmers prefer acid
phosphate; wheat should always be
treated for smut; farmers should
raise their own -four when possible;
essential things to give success with
wheat are lime clay soils, prepare
well, plant early, fertilize' well,
treat for smut, good seed"
Other work conducted by the
County Agent brought about turn
ing of rye for cover crop; putting
in of several acres of alfalfa in this
county, which one farmef says is
worth $4,000 per acre as. grazing
crop and for hay, getting in an in
creased acreage of vetch, clovers,
pasture grasses, etc. Mr.. Carwile
says that the soy and velvet beans
are becoming recognized as great
soil builders and stock feed. Several
farmers estimate that the velvet
bean has been worth $1,000 per
acre as soil builder, and there
were about 1000 acres planted in
the county last year. The County
Agent has ordered 800 bushels of
beans for seeding purposes at a saw
ing to the farmers of $144.00 on
the lot. Peanuts have place in the
farming program, but have not
proven to be very profitable as a
substitute money crop for cotton.
The orchard work consisted in car
ing for 5,46O fruit trees, seeing
that they were pruned, sprayed and
wormed, that brought an estimate
value of $1,22O to the county. In
the livestock line assistance was CIV
en- to the dairy farmers of the coun-
ty, the swine growers, and steer
feeders. With the Home Demonstra-
ton Agent, the County Agent assist
ed in getting $50 pure bred chick
ems into the county. Other things,
such as livestock diseases, home
mixing of fertilizers, manure DEM
onstrations, building silos, lining,
farm and farmstead improvements,
were attended and promoted by the
County Agent.
In concluding the report the Coun-
ty Agent gave the following three
paragraphs as being the three best
pieces of work accomplished during
the year:
I''I consider the promoting of Cot
ton Grading work as being the
greatest piece of work that | have
been able to put across since my
coming into this county. This has
grown out of the organization of the
cotton growers. I have known far
mers to make as much as $1,000
per bale by selling their cotton on
grade. Farmers and business men
saw that this work has been worth
thousands of dollars to our commune
ty. Other work that has been done
through the cotton association has
been the building of several ware
houses and educating the farmers to
put their cotton under cover.
"I consider the beef cattle feed
ing that was done through the as
sistance of Mr.. W. j. Shealy, of
Clemson College, as second in i'm
portance of the projects conducted
this year. This work has been very
valuable to the Johnston farmers.
One farmer says that he never buys
nitrogen to use under his cotton
where he uses the manure from his
steers, but uses 400 pounds per
acre of S-O-4- goods, where he had
been using 900 pounds of S-S-3- per
acre before he fed steers, and he
finds an increase in yield where the
manure is being used. By keeping
actual data on this work, counting
the cost of feed saved by using dem
onstration methods, the gains in
steerI flesh, value of manure, value
of fertilizers saved, etc, this work
was calculated to have been worth
$685. ,366.4s to the Johnston far
mers.
GAS cover crops, clovers vetches,
rye, etc., have never been grown in
this county as they should be, l put
on a campaign, assisted by County
Agent Shealy of Lexington county,
to increase the acreage of clover
and vetch. As the result of our work
1875 pounds of hairy vetch and
1,O7O pounds of Crimson clover