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Southern Agriculturist.
AUGUST, .................1872.
Crop and Guano Reports.
Dalton Ga., July 23. 1872.
Kditors Agriculturist —We have
had a great deal of rain in this sec¬
tion since 5th of July, which has
injured,.the wheat crop to some extent;
however, considerable had been
threshed before the wet spell com¬
menced, which is all generally mer¬
chantable. The yield was not heavy,
but the grain is good and we rnay
say a fair crop has been made in this
and adjacent counties. The prospect for
corn was never better. Cotton looks
fine, and if nothing further happens
to cut off crops, we think this county
will reap a heavier harvest of Agri¬
cultural products generally, than for
years past. Respectfully,
W. II. Kenner.
My crop is very good—the seasons
have been favorable, and crops gen¬
erally are better than last year. I
have used the Eureka fertilizers and
Wilcox, Gibbs & Go’s. Manipulated
Guano, and I have found the Wilcox
& Gibbs' far the best. I used 2oO
lbs. Eureka per acre, and 150 lbs. of
Wilcox & Gibbs’, and I have found
that 150 lbs. of your Guano is profit¬
ing me far the most. I used these
Guanos on common old sandy land
and my cotton has kept, grew all the
Summer, and is still growing rapidly.
I think the Wilcox, Gibbs’ & Co’s.
Manipulated Guano is the best that
can be used in this county.
II. G. Bryant.
Bartow , Ga ., July 27, 1872.
The crops in this neighborhood are
much better this year than last. I
have used six kinds of fertilizers this
year, viz: Ruths Fertilizer, Dickson’s
Compound, Soluble Pacific, Eureka,
Wilcox, Gibbs & Co’s. Manipulated
and Phoenix Guanos, and the Phoenix
is the best so far, and it will last
longer. I used Phoenix four years
ago and the cotton is looking
well, and it is no trouble to tell where
it was put up to the last row. If
there is any difference between the
Manipulated and Phoenix this year,
the Phoenix has the advantage. From
present appearance, the unguanoed
cotton on some lards*look like mak¬
ing nothing, and the guanoed is fine
and will make a fine crop if no diaster
befalls it—the seasons had been good
and my crop well worked
R. W. Manti.or.
Few nan Ga , duly 21), 1872.
1 am using Etiwan Fertilizer, 150
lbs per acre, and Wilcox Gibbs &
Co’s. Manipulated 100 per acre in
cotton, bedding on it, also rolling the
seed in the fertilizers before planting
—the laud is good red land. From
the prospects now, I think the Wilcox,
Gibbs & Co’s. Manipulated will double
the other. Your Guano which 1 used
last year, is now paying me well in
this crop. -Since using the different
guanos, lam satisfied that the Wilcox,
Gibbs & Co’s. Manipulated is equal
if not superior to any other.
J. F. Everett.
Fort Valley Ga.,July, 1872.
1 am using your Manipulated
Guano entirely, 150 lbs. per acre,
under cotton—my land is black poor
j iuey wood land, my crop suffered
considerably for the want of rain
early in the Spring, but for the last
three weeks showers have been
copious. My crop has not suffered
for work and I have a more promising
crop up to this time, than 1 have ever
had since 1 have been using Guano,
and if no disaster takes my cotton,
Wilcox, Gibbs & Co’s. Guano will
pay me 250 or 300 per cent.—there
are no Guanos used in this neighbor¬
hood that will excel Wilcox, Gibbs &
Go’s. Guano up to this time. Cotton
this time excels last year and the
year before. Ilad 40 acres of cotton
in a body and on the 3d. of July I
had one stock which had 108 bulls
and forms on it, and on the 7th, it had
156 and on the 17th, it had 204 halls
and forms—though this stalk is a lit¬
tle over average, it is of my youngest
cotton planted several weeks after the
major part of my crop was up.
G. F. Or it.
Washington Co., Ga., July 20,1872.
Crops have bceu doing well until
the Tain stopt, but are Buffering very
badly for rain now, if we dont get
rain soon, there wont be ahalf crop
made through my section. I never
saw fertilizers do more good as at first,
and believe they are greatly improved
this year. 1 would like to give you
a monthly report of crops, but I am a
corn field man and fit for nothing else
but intend to get you all the sub¬
scribers I cau for your valuable paper.
. Ycurs respectfully,
John C. G a clone.
Malboro Co , S. C.
So far fertilizers promise to pay
much belter this year than last. 1
have used only two kinds this year,
Chappells Phosphate and Wilcox.
Gibbs & Co’s. Manipulated, and I
can say that my cotton is as good
where l used only 150 lbs. of your
Manipulated as it is where I used 300
lbs. Chapel Is, both same kind of soil,
prepared and planted same time, and
m same way. I have got splendid
corn growing this year where 1 used
your Manipulated last year, no fer¬
tilizers being used on it this year, and
just here 1 will say that it is the best
fertilizer for the 2nd. crop I have
ever seen noticed.
E B. Smith.
Davislxno Ga., July 23, 1872.
The* cotton where tin* Phoenix
Guano is applied, appears to be one
hundred per cent. Getter now than
where I used no Guano.
II 8. Dover.
Calhoun Co., July, 1872.
I have a field which is in corn this
year iipon a portion of which
Phoenix Guano was applied in 1866
under turnips, and the corn is a great
deal better where the Guano was used
than where there was none, aud there
lias been no opplieath n of fertilizer
since. I look upon the Phoenix as a
very durable manure, but not so
active as some the first year. It is
my opinion that some farmers who
use Phoenix one year, get another
brand the next year and use it on the
same laud give credit to whom credit
is due, as the Pboexix if any thing is
better the 2nd crop than the first I
think if fanners could rotate their
lands, turn under in Fall, after wheat,
aud sow peas, the next year, that by
the use of PLocuix Guano, the land
would become permanently rich.
A. Leigh.
Coweta Co., Ga , July. 1872.
I used Phoenix Guano this year on
poor land, 200 lbs., per acre, ordi¬
narily cultivated, and it is doing tine
up to this time. I also used tin;
Manipulated, bat I cannot make a
proper statement of what it is doing
as I mixed it with stable manure,
though I must give it credit for part
of the increase of the crop as I am
satisfied it is doing au active part. I
also used the Manipulated under corn
and if the same continue, I think
1 will make 100 per cent.
A. C. UrsiiAW.
Granti'iUc Ga., July 10 , 1872.
From my experience with Guanos
I think the Pluenix Guano is the
best. I have been using Phoenix for
several years l think it superior to
any other, 1 have used other fer¬
tilizers—this year I put one ton of
Phieaix on 12 acres of thin upland—
had the same piece of land in cotton
last year, aud it made about 1,400 lbs.
lint cotton though the bull worm
in jured it some—this year, up to this
time, it is doing well and if nothing
happens to it, more than common, 1
tbiuk it will make 2000 or 2500 lbs.
My reason for prefering the Phoenix
is that it don’t fire or burn up the cot¬
ton, when we have a drought, as other
Guano do, and where ns much as 200
or 250 lbs. per acre is applied, you
can be pretty sure of a fair yield the
second year without adding any more.
John J Farmer.
Shariurg Ga., July 20 , 1872 .
I used no Guano this year from the
fact that we made such a complete
failure last year, owing to a severe
drought of 7 weeks iu July and
August. 1 used a ton of Wilcox,
Gibbs Go’s. Manipulated Guano
last year and received no benefit from
it on account of the drought. I ap¬
plied it very liberally on sandy loam,
say 250 lbs. per acre on land that had
been in cultivation some 50 or 60
years perhaps, and up to the time of*
drought, it was remarkably tine cot¬
ton and attracted the attention of
every body that passed the road on
which the field was situated. 1 have
the same field in cotton this year,
planted iu the old bed, and l have no
hesitation in saying that it is 100 per
cent, better than it would have.bcen
without the application of the Guauo
last year, and 1 am now perfectly
satisfied it is more of a permanent
fertilizer, than any 1 have used, and
I think 1 shall use it again. I regret
exceedingly that my whole crop was
not manured with it as we have been
very seasonable up to date—in fact
for the past 15 days, have had an
excess of rain. Props are looking
well in this neighborhood, though very
fu[l of sap and a drought now, would
tell most fearfully. We have more
grass than 1 ever kDew at this season
of the year. There is about the same
quantity of cotton planted as last year.
In some sections of our couuty, the
crops were injured in the Spring by
severe bail storms, other sections by
drought. Averaging the county, the
crops are pretty laiv—corn a little
extra. John Wm. Robinson.
Far (field Co., S. C., July 16, IS* 2.
I see on some plantations honey
dew and lice on cotton which are the
forerunners of rust, and I must say
that rust is the most ruinous disease
to the cotton plant 1 ever saw, from
the fact that it stops the growth, pre¬
vents the maturity of the fruit end
causes the plant to shed its squares,
&c.
I made application of one ton of
Pi.umix Guano on five acres of clay
land with flowery soil; first 1 laid oil
the rows 4 feet, and applied 20 bushels
cotton seed in the bottom of the fur¬
row, and applied 400 lbs. of Placnix
Guano on the seed and covered
with two furrows with a No. 10
plow on the 17ill of April, planted
with the Dickson and Doorman Relief
Gotten 8oed mixed, and to day, 13th
July, it is the best fruited cotton I
ever saw, aud 1 dont think that it can
be beat in the cotton belt. My reason
for making the compost or mixture of
the cotton seed in the bottom of the
cotton bed was to retain all the am¬
monia, and if any should escape, let
it go through the cotton bed. I bad
a ball dozen cotton stocks counted by
lour men to day, and they report from
143 to 200 bulls, blooms and squares
to the stock.
K J Moody.
Marion , S. CJuly 13, 1872.
I am using five kinds of fertilizers
on a test patch, on very poor laud
which last year with a good season
yielded but 300 lbs. seed cotton per
acre without manure. I have it laid
out in half aero lows, 150 feet long
with 3 aud a half pounds of each kind
of Guano to the row, and each applied
to two rows, side by side, so that there
could he no mistake—the kinds used
are Atlantic Phosphate, Cotton Food,
Soluble Pacific Guano, Wilcox,
Gibbs <fe Go’s, Manipulated Guano
and Pliumix Guano; besides these, 1
am using Fovvi House manure mixed
with dirt, 2 bushels to the row or 4
bushels to the two rows, .and stable
manure mixed with long leaf pine
struw and dirt four bushels to the row
or eight bushels to the two rows, also
two rows manured w ith four quarts of
salt to the row, and then I have for
comparison two rows without any*
fertilizer. \V hen the cotton came up
the Salt looked the best for about
12 days, and then it began to fail—
the drought came and it being of a
very thnsty nature, the cotton diet!
nearly all out, but as soon as rain
came it began to show again and
now looks well. The Solunle Pacific
looked the best for about 25 days aud
then it commenced to drop behind
aud is still doing so—there was no
difference between the Atlantic and
Cotton food from the time they came
up until the present time—they are
running together. The Manipulated
at first, was the sorriest looking of all
the Guanos, but stood the drought