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% j?U%rit Agriculturist.
JULY................1872.
Only Twenty-Five Cents.
Think of it—by remitting this
small sum to the publishers, you will
receive the Agriculturist for ones
year—every number containing infor
mation for the farmer worth ten times
the subscription price. It is the
cheapest paper published, and should
be taken by every fanner in the South.
Notice to Subscribers.
Any one sending subscriptions or
communications tor the Southern Ag¬
riculturist from Florida, Middle or
South Western Georgia, Alabama, Ten¬
nessee, or the States west, will address
us at Savannah, Ga. From North and
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north of the C. R. R., M. A W. R. It.,
and Atlanta & West Point Rail Road*
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who have not renewed their subscrip¬
tion will please do so, and we hope eacli
one will send one new subscriber, or
more.
Correspondence Wanted.
We desire correspondence from all
parts of the South, upon Agricultuio,
Stock raising, Manufacturing, Emigra¬
tion, Ac. Reports of the condition
of the crops from time to time will
be particularly interesting; short
articles on these subjects will always
be appreciated, by us and our sub¬
scribers.
To Subscribers.
As the Post Office regulations for¬
bid our putting the “Red Cross” on
our paper to admonish you of the ex¬
piration of your subscription, wo take
occasion to state that all in arrears on
the first of June will be suspended.
Call on your Post Master who has
a revised list of our subscribers, and
will receive and forward the amount
of your arrears and subscription up to
January, 1873.
We hope you will pay up at once,
and get a few new subscribers. We
are giviDg you a paper for less than
the cost of paper and printing. Our
object is to give every planter some¬
thing to read for the least possible
cost; putting in our own labor as a
contribution for the public good. ,
We are glad to learn of the in.
creasing prosperity and continued
growth of The South, published in
New York City. We notice in the
last issue that it is now published by
The South Publishing Company, 34
Park Row, the new firm succeeding
that of Tardrew A Co. The South is
doing splendid service for our section,
and we think our readers would be
well paid in accepting the liberal offer
of the publishers to send it for the
remainder of this year for one dollar.
Will not some of our public spirited
citizens show their appreciation of
this earnest advocate ot our interests,
by making up a handsome club uuder
their proposition ?
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The attention of our readers is
called to the advertisement, “ Stand¬
ard (ime Machinerywhich appears
in our advertising columns to-day.
Messrs. B'ymer, Norton A Co. have
been rccoguizod for years as the lead¬
ing manufacturer* of cane machinery
in this country, and the Victor Cane
Mill and Cook Evaporator are the
most widely known and used of any
machines of their class.
For tlie Southern AgriculturiPt.
Crop and G-uano Reports.
[communicated.]
Messrs Editors: As I have deter¬
mined to renew my subscription to
your very valuable little paper, and
as I notice you uesiro correspondence,
will write you a little concerning our
county, (Pickens, S. 0.)
We are over 100 miles north o*
your city, Augusta, yet the water
from our springs is continually pass¬
ing down tho Savannah River
directly by you; though it passes si"
lontly by, communicating no items.
Our locality is just ten miles from
the N. C. line and ten miles from the
great Table Rock. So you see we arc
considerably up the country.
Well, about our crops: As for
cetton, I judge you would ex¬
pect us to he but slightly iu the busi¬
ness, neither our climate or soil being
adapted to its growth. Rut the use
of the fertilizers has proven to us con¬
clusively that we are not entirely out
of the cotton world. Ten years ago
from 50 to 100 lbs. of liut cotton was
considered a good crop for the best
farmers in the country; u cotton
press or screw was a curiosity to most
of our people in those name—anything days ; a cotton
field was a strange
more than a patch was not heard of in
our country. A cotton bloom by the
fourth of July was considered very
early. We now have our fields o(
cotton, which at this time look very
promising. The Spring season has
been very dry and cool, but uotwith-
standing these disadvantages we have
a good stand of cotton, which is look¬
ing well. Wc had a good rain to-day,
June 24th, which was greatly needed.
Corn crops are looking well, though
not as forward as common. Wheat
crop good ; rye, good; oats, not very
good.
We are blessed w ith a fine crop of
fruit of nearly every description this
season. Our gardens and vegetable
patches have suffered from the drouth,
acd in consequence are not fine as
usual.
Enclosed please find the change to
renew my subscription and for three
new subscribers, as I can not >Io with¬
out the Southern Agriculturist. I
consider each number well worth the
quarter paid for the 12 numbers.
Respect fully,
T. M.
Anderson s Mills , S. V.
Floyd Co., Ga., J uno 8th.
Crop prospects arc ordinary; having
a backward, dry Spring, a great deal
cotton did not get up until reeeut
rains. In my immediate neighbor¬
hood, where old I''ho nix has been
used for several years consecutively,
[ never saw better cotton. 1 have
one 20 acre lot which has been in cot¬
ton severAl years, with constant ap¬
plication of Vluvnix Unano alone,
and it is said by all who have seen if
to be the fiuest cotton ever seen in this
section: it will average 15 inches in
height, limbed from the very ground,
and with as many as five squares to
some stalks on the 1st June. 1 intend
to convince this country yet that your
manure— Phtmic Guano— is the one
for this part of Georgia and anywhere
where they have stiff dry subsoil. I
have a hard road to weed, for there
arc a thousand undone guano* on this
market sold at almost any price or on
any time, a great many r»f them not
worth hauling from the depot; others
very volatile and quick in their ac¬
tion, make a great show in weed and
deceive the planter who attributes the
failure in fruit to sonic remote cause.
1 have used almost all the manures
offered in our market and find none as
a fruit maker and permanent im¬
prover equal to yours. I speak from
honest conviction from seven years
experience with tho Plucuix Guano,
and I for one shall use your guano as
long as you continue to sell as good
an article as formerly and deal so
honestly. N. J. Tumlin.
Houston Co., Ga , June 18th.
I have talked to a good many that
used your guano (Wilcox. Gibbs A
Co’s,) last yaar, and they say it is
paying this year, although it has been
very dry here for about eleven
weeks past, but now having small
showers occasionally.
Tuos. B. Goff.
Houston Co, Ga., June 19th.
I am inclined to believe that your
(Wilcox, Gibbs & Co.) guano that
was used last year is doing good this
year ou the gray sandy lands—the
season has been too dry for our stiff
lands. Myself and several others of
my neighborhood were looking growing! a few
days ago at a field of cotton
on very poor laud, and we were all of ■
the opinion was helping *
your guano
the crop of cotton as it was locking
remarkably well; I allude to the
guano that was used last year, asnouc
has been used this year on the crop
alluded to I think’it is helping my
cotton this year, hut if it did any good
last year it was so little that it w as
net perceptible. Crops could are very be other¬ poor
in this section and uot
wise, as we have had no rain ol any
consequence since the 9th ot April
B M. Bateman.
Fort Valley, Ga., Juno 15th.
We have had recently tine rains.
Cattou prospect now gotxl; corn badly
damaged. Several who complained
of your guano last year as not giving
satisfaction, tell me that they can see
a benefit in this year's crop from the
guano applied last year.
C. D. Asderson.
Talbotton, Ga., Juuc 15th.
I am happy to report favorably
from the effects of your Manipulated
Guano used on mine and Mr. Water¬
man’s plantations last year; it is now
showing and doing well where the
benefit was very poor last year. Mr.
John T. Price reports favorably from
the use of last year, and bought HM)0
lbs this year and says it is doing well.
Thomas A Brown.
Rutledge, Crenshaw Co., Ala ,
June Kith.
We have the pleasure of writing
you a few lines to let you know what
your (Wilcox, Gibbs A Co’s) guano
is doing tins year. Wo used one ton
this year ; put it on the poorest land
1 ever saw iu my life, and am sure, it
it holds out, we will be able to got
about 800 or 900 lbs per acre, when
would not have gotten but 200 lbs per
acre without the Guano. Tho most of
tho people of this settlement a~e using
the Pacific Guano, and it is not halt
as good as yours. Yours is as good
as the Peruvian.
Mr. Dukes, a great farmer iu this
settlement, is using the Pacific and
land plaster, and his crop is very
soriy; all those who used the Pacific
have sorry crops.
T. S. Haines.
S. S. S. Harm's. #
Troy, Pike Co., Ala., June 24th.
So tar l have favorable reports
from your guano this season ; espe¬
cially the last year’s application.
W. M. Murphee.
Barnett, Ga., June 11th.
Pp to the present time we arc well
pleased with the guano bought ot you
this year; it is acting well; is at least
two-thirds better than cotton without
the application (J manure. A Battle
Doorflingkr
Nashville, Berrien Co.,
Juue 10th.
You asked me f>r a report of tho
crops. 1 will say we have had very
unfavorable seasons throughout the
year. Tho first of the Spring was
very wet, so much so that a good
many con'd not plant; on the first of
May the rain stopped, and very soon
the land was too dry to bring up the
cott >n ; we have the worse stands of
cotton or corn I ever saw; however,
what wc have is fine though suffering 1
from drought. So far as I have heard,
planters arc well pleased with youi