Editor Public Ledger:
If central and northern Granville County farmers who have doubted the successful growing of cotton in this section of the state will take a look at the 100 acres grown by Mr. A.R. Stephens who lives about two miles from Oxford, N.C., on highway leading to Durham, they will be convinced that cotton is another money crop to be grown here.
This soil on Currin Bros. farm is not what Mr. Stephens terms “typical cotton dirt,” but knowledge of cotton raising makes it possible to make the fleecy staple on most every type of land in this section of the state.
Mr. Stephens was born and reared on a cotton farm in Georgia and Granville County feels proud of the fact that County Agent, J.H. Blackwell secured him to demonstrate that by proper preparation, fertilization, and cultivation, cotton can be grown and matured.
He brought with him the necessary intelligence, labor, cotton plows and mules; and after teaching here he soon had a good seed bed prepared, and from past experience he knew to fertilize early with a quick fertilizer so his cotton would have something to feed on early in the excellent seed-bed; therefore, he prepared a fertilizer analyzing 10 per cent phosphoric acid, 4 per cent ammonia, and 3 per cent potash from Phosphoric acid, nitrate of soda and kanit, and applied 700 and 800 pounds per acre just before planting. About the time squares begun forming he applied at least 100 pounds of nitrate of soda in addition to that applied in his home mixture.
Mr. T.G. Currin, one of the owners of this farm, said that the land on which this cotton has been grown so successfully is naturally very poor and that he had never seen a worthwhile crop of anything grow on it or any part of it.
T.C. Harris, (Real Estate dealer) said that the success of the cotton crop in this section of the county should be attributed to the untiring efforts of County Agent J.H. Blackwell in securing several excellent cotton farmers for us—thus establishing a second money crop.
I have traveled from the Virginia Beach to the Mississippi since July 15 and no where have I noticed better cotton than is grown by Mr. Stephens.
--A.C. Whittle
From page 3 of the Oxford Public Ledger, Sept. 21, 1912. A.C. or C.A. Whittle??
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