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Swt%nt Agriculturist.
APRIL...............1872.
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Address v Georgia Cultitator.
• Griffin. Ga
' Use Guano.
We are sorry to see that not as
much Guano will be used this yea." as
formerly. This should not be the
case, as Guano properly applied to
the laud fvill pay a better per cent, on
the same arwunl invested t than in
anything else.
The test It. It. Stocks do not make
more ' than ten per cent, whereas
Guano in any land with, any season,
will iuakp from ‘25 to 200 per cent,
on the investment. The great
trouble is, that those- who buy
Guanos, &c., generally by the expect to of get
rich the first year use the
extraordinary aiticle. They do not
make more perhaps than 50 percent
on their crops and become dissatisfied.
There is no business now that is half
as inviting as a farm, well prepared,
well manured and correctly tilled.
The proper manner to test Guano, is
in the same field, .in alternate tows,
witbthe saute cultivation, seasons, &c.
We have seen it tried time and again,
and we arc bold to assert that the
Guano in every instance, doubles the
yield. If then, we c u make, say on
three aeies, one bale by the ordinary
manner, and two bales on the same, by
the very same cultivation—no more,
the only expense for the second bale is
the Guano
It pays, and it pays well, and wc
would never pula seed in the ground
without having it accompanied with
that which makes a farm look thrifty,
and keeps up the spirits of the la¬
borer.
What is Science in Farming?
The American Agiiculturirt, in
giving home truths, on this subject
says: “No error, no improved theory,
none of the fancies of those who
write from imagination rather than
from experience, is to be called either
science or hook-farming, and it is un¬
fortunate that so much of our agiicul
tural writing has been done by men
who lack experience on the farm. It
has given rise to doubt, and dis¬
couraged many of our best and most
intelligent working-men from seeking
knowledge, where it is best to fcc
found, in the recorded experience of
those who have gone before them.”
This is, no doubt, true, and too true ;
within the last decade of years more
true than ever. Some of our best
writers as to elegance, and a’ that,
never did manage a farm—corn,
cotton, oat-', rye, grass, garden and
stock-yard—we mem simply a farm,
in all its details, one year and yet—
well, why not? If they do read, or
learn how to doit, and write it better
than some of we unlettered, yet it
docs harm. They will succeed, have
popular maimers, can drum well,
aud give laiut praise. The people
will soon judge, and the true metal
will at last win. We are pleased to
see how the Agriculturist uses
“theory,” with “improved,” showing
it regards theory as wc do, a deduc¬
tion from facts, and of course cannot
be relied on until proven. “Science”
deters many ; and why ? Let us see.
Plants, field crops and garden truck
grow from seed put in or on the
earth by the grower. One ignorant
might “step-drop” turnips or radish, with
or sow broadcast and cover a
turning plow ; might “broadcast” cot¬
ton for a crop; might might buy direct an ax to
“mow” Bermuda; to
mix “blue grass,” aud mammoth
pampas grass. But the seicntiGc
man—one who knows from expe
riencc—will drill shallow and cover
shallow his radish seed. lie will
plant corn and cotton, all Spring
crops, -after danger of frost His
science directs him not to pasture his
corn or cotton, yet he may tor a
season pasture small grain or grass. his
He will not attempt to improve
mules by feeding on frost-bitten aud
decaying sweet potatoes, or his hogs
upon a field of peas,_ Irosicd aud do
caying because bis experience teaches
? aud death. I bis
ihepe is danger :s
showing. • that science is simply
“knowledge,” “truth ascertained,
“an expert” so to say, as a ‘ Hr. is ,1
called, who, is required, and compe¬
tent, to give evidence as to disease
and treatment. If a man would desire
to “weld” two pieces oi iron, he wou.d
go to a skilled blacksmith. None
would ask an (xperienced shipmaster
how to plow. There .is a great
nuisance in vogue—the successful
man, at accumulating a fortuue,
taking credit to be the best planter.
Making money and accumulating is
not the same thing. A good crop
master may die poor, being a bad
financier, not a judge ot values, and
the smart get his money, having men
get rich though they never make a
large crop.— Ex.
The Profits ol Fowl Keeping
Anyone who carefully collects the
statistics of cgus and chickens and
the cost of feed at all the neigh¬
boring farms where accounts have
been kept, who reads the statements
printed from time to time, especially
those accompanied hy figures, who
ransacks the reports of the local agri¬
cultural societies (made in the good
oid days when premiums were given
for “Creoles’ and “Natives,” and the
sensible regulation was enforced re¬
quiring the exhibitor togive a written
statement of the number, manage¬
ment and produce of his whole flock,
with the cost of feed, for a }car); and
last but not least, lie who himself ex¬
periments carefully and repeatedly,
under various circumstances, as re¬
gards breeds and feeding, must reach
the certain conclusion that hens do
now in this country, and have for the
past twenty years, paid a high profit.
It is also true that tlie difference be¬
tween the money paid out for feeding
fowls, and the same-gained from their
produce, tends constantly to increase
in New England and the Middle
States, as is evident lrom a compari¬
son of the market rates through a
scries of years.
At the time of the earliest settle¬
ments in the Atlantio States, before
the woods wore cleared, graiu was too
scarce to bo fed to fowls, and but
few were kept. Bat at a later stage
of events; when suulight hail been ad¬
mitted to broad clearings, and the
mold of primitive forests produced
good crops, poultry became so
abundaut that more eggs were pro¬
duced in farming communities in
Spring than could be possibly used iu
home consumption, At that time, the
greatcity mai kets that now mnko an in¬
satiable demand for eggs and chickens
had not grown up. CoUMXjuently
in those “old times,” as people now
living have hoard in their childhood,
eggs actually accumulated iu April
and May till boysiu frolic pelted each
other with them, and their elders
would interfere less to save the eggs
than the cleanliness of the tow panta¬
loons and checked aprens ot the
urchins But every year the propor
ti<<u which..city bears to country has
beeu increasing in all the Atlantic
States, until at the present time fresh
eggs are in groat demand. As
Western competition continually
presses with increasing force on
rJastern farmers, in the matter of beef
and grain raising, we begin to hear j
the shrewdest them declare *
among
that their poultry forms the most ■
profitable department of their farms, 1
iu proportion to the labor involved, i
The ever awake Westerners are on
band in this matter also, and find that
poultry means money, notwithstanding
ihey have been despising accustomed it as too
petty a concern for people sending
to “big things,” and arc now
to the East enormous dressed quantities fowls.— of
eggs, and live and
Es.
Cure for II arts —We find the
following remedy for these disagree*
able pc.-ts in the New York Observer.
It is so simple that any one cau
easily test its ifficaey; “It in iota
matter entirely within the limits
which you prescribe, and yet me led of
public interest ; and benec L am to
say those alllictcd with waits (for it is
sometimes a source of great annoy¬
ance, and often of pain, to have them
on the hands or exposed parts of the
body) that I have been entirely re¬
lieved by the mse of kerosene. After
trying all the rccogniz d cures in the
medical works within reach—chronic,
nitric, sulphuric acid, nitrate of
silver, caustic, potash, etc.—I was
advised hy a 'corn doctor’ to try
kerosene oil. When I began its use,
three mouths dneo, I had thirty-seven
on my bands, some very large covered and
painful. Where they were
with hard cuticle, I carefully pared it
off and saturated them daily, using a
camel’s hair pencil and common cool
oil. They began to disappear, by ab
sorpticu, in about two weeks, and arc
now entirely removed, leaving no
scar or mark, as w as the result in tho
three places in which I succeeded in
eating them out by caust’c. I do not
suggest it as a specific, but as a
Cleans of a cure to me, that others
may try it. The remedy is always ut
hand, and, if persistently used, may
do oti.crs the good service 1 have had
from it.” Mr. Sol. Watson, of Hick¬
ory Wythe, vouches for the following:
“Common soda will cure any old sore
or wart, on cither man or beast. To
sores, apply it dry once every two
days, or until it is'unnecessary, w’hieh
is not in mo-»t c isos very long.
Warts must he made to bleed, and
then washed in a strong solution of
the soda on two or three occasions.
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Cotton Seed for Hogs .—How f ir
persons valuo cotton seed as they
should, as feed for hogs. Ttie rea
nm is the fear that they will kill hogs.
After an experience i f four years in
giving bog# cotton f*el iu the Sum
rncr, l would urge upon my farmer
frieuds my plan, as it has proven safe
to mo. I haul the seed out in tho
Winter or earl/ SpriDg. ucar my clo¬
ver lot, and then pile them so as they
lot or heat through by first of May;
thru l throw cotton Feed and clover to
the l ogs every day. If they cough
much 1 quit the cotton seed lor a few
days. If they cau have access to
gn en food, while fid on cotton feed,
there is but little danger. Brood sows
will not be hurt by c iting s*ed at any
time of the year. Wc think it best
not to give p>g s or r botes (under
mouths old) seed, though th e
ray pigs ran in a clover lot where
was a pile of cotton b* ed, and
not hurt in the^ lei>t by them —
Ji ," in Southern 6 ulliiator.