The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-02-03
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for the 1887 program.


by committees of farmers including
six community committees and a
county committee. Twenty-Five
farmers make up the committees.
The county is divided into nine
teen townships. A committeeman
was elected for each township.
Three townships composed COM
munity, except one community,
which is made up of four town.
ships. This grouping makes the
communities.
In addition to these community
committees, county committee of
three men was elected.
In order to put this program
through, eleven different circular
letters, totaling seven thousand five
hundred and sixty T,560) copies,
have been written. In addition to
the circular letters, eleven news ar
ticles have been written and num-
erous meetings have been held.
It is anticipated that payments to
the cooperative farmers this year
will exceed the approximate sum of
$22,000.00 paid last year.
Compliance is at this date (De-
cember Z, 1880 approximately
three-fourths completed.
A carload (2695 tons) of triple
superphosphate was secured by
farmers cooperating in the Agricul-
tural Conservation Program. The
phosphate was delivered to 80 farm
ers who were participating in the
1887 program.
The farmers secured this phos-
plate with the understanding that
it's value was to be deducted from
their soil building allowance, this
being in accord with the provisions
of the 1887 Agricultural Conserva-
ton Program.
These farmers agreed to apply
this triple superphosphate only on
conserving crops or green manure
crops. The applications show that
the phosphate was to be applied on
500 acres of such crops.
Since this phosphate showed an
analysis of 1870 of available plant
food (P-2 O-5) the total plant food
in this carload was 23,177 pounds:
Wits 1870 per cent phosphate con-
tanning only 80 pounds of plant
food per bag and costing $1.6O per
bag, its plant food would be sell
ing at Sc per pound. At this rate
Csc per pound) this carload Of phos-
plate would have had value of
$1158.35. But the total deductions
made from the soil building allow
ance of all thirty-nine of the farm
ers was only $838.5O. The only cash
these farmers had to pay was for
transportation and storage. This
was $40 per ton for freight and
storage. Each farmer took care Of
the haul from West Jefferson to his
farm. This probably averaged
around $500 per ton. This being
the actual average cash to the farm
ers was approximately nine-tenths
of one cent per pound of the plant
food.
Potato Referendum
A potato referendum was held
during the week ending September
IS, 1887.
This referendum was held for the
purpose of determining whether or
not farmers in Ashe County are in
favor of establishing potato acre
age goal for each commercial po-
tato farm in connection with the
1888 Agricultural Conservation Pro-
gram.
Approximately $40 of the pro-
ducers who voted, expressed them
selves, as being in favor of estab-
fishing a potato acreage goal for
1888.
Agricultural Engineering
Terracing
Mr.. Walter Pennington of Ma
than's Creek, North Carolina, con-
structed two terraces on his farm
this year. One is 500 feet in length
and the other is 800 feet in length.
They were the first ever constructed
on his farm. There terraces were
used on an oval topped pasture hill.