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THE EXPRESS.
Cednrtown, April 4th.
Farm and Fireside.
demonetizing of silver affcot you? X , turning shovel. The first plow
CORN CULTURE.
Views of a Prominent Georgia Ag-
riculturaiiet.
Oe it Hr men of Hibb County Associ
ation:— In olj -<Uencf* to ymir request,
us fXprt saeii iu li rt'bol in ion at your
la, ‘ monthly meeting. i have the
plettauiv ol' preatfuiin^ lor your con
sideration the following hastily pre- j ^ p,.
part'd essay:
Indian corn is a native of this con
intent, and since the advent of the
white man in America, him been cul
tivated ns a good croj), not only us
constituting tlr. principle food for
man, hut the unimaid, upon which
muu is dependent, in the cotton
states at least, subsist almost entire
ly upon corn and the fodder produc
ed from it.
What is true in regad toils value
for man, horses, mules and oxen up-
l’lie* tn all the uninlaid and fowls
found upon every farm. 'In looking
over the fields and farm-yards every
living tiling that w* see loves corn.
When the master shows himself to
the faithful horse and palie-ut mule
and oxen, in language peculiar to
them and understood by him, they
’imploringly ask for corn. The pigs
around his feet are constantly send
ing into his ears their plaintive cries
' for corn.
When rlie good wife sends forth
her voice in the poultry yard how
quickly the fowls lly to get their
think
What benefit, is it to haven few
silver dollars given you for cotton
when before you can jingle them
twice, your hand must be placed
deep down in your pocket and the
bottom dollar extracted to pay for
Western corn? Is the picture over
drawn? And am I not justified and
don’t I speak truth fully when I say
with you cotton planters, nearly all !
your ills, financially speaking, are |
caused from the fact that your cribs j
have not been filled with coni ?
Did you ever, my friends, fhiv .
out your whole neqiiuintni. . I.ichor ;
or since the war, Kie v/ a tin uky mi • ;
11a
those
Upon every farm throughout-this
broad land are wives and children,
hired laborers and their families,
’’faithlul dumb brutes, pigs and poul
try, all looking ’to, and having a
riglit to expect of the head of the
'household an abundant supply of
•corn. Wlmt. wonder is that we hear
the complaint of lull'll times, ami
hoc tlie dcop anxiety Hank'd upon the
facts of those wlm lire only able to
furnitfii corn lo them nod that grown
by others in s.iaroi, and. scanty sup
ply. lo tliu uloirity of my heart I
can hot exclaim, God pity them.
But such will he their fate until from
their own production their cribs ure
tilled with corn.
All over the land is heard theory
of hard times, and the deep anxiety
depicted upon tiiu face of almost ev
ery man we meet, clearly indicate
lloit the complaint is not unfounded.
I cannot, nor'do I pretend to solve u
problem ’which is claiming so much
of time and attention from oor ablest
financiers and statesmen. 1 repeat
that I do not claim for myself the
power of looking through tlii'S great
problem, nor to suggest a remedy for
all this finaucial trouble and general
prostration niili which the country
is mooli ulllieted. The causes
too numerous, and it would he trav-
liog too far outside the subject mat
ter Under consideration.
Addressing mysell to you as Son
them farmers, cotton raisers, men
who try to make cotton prolilable,
who depend upon it almost fxolnsi
ly as their moneyed crop, 1 would
say to all Such, that your iliiaocial
troubles arise ttiore from thUohe
than from all others, because your
cribs have not been tilled with t
We have must of the time since
the war realized tine prices for cot
ton, ranging Ironi do cents per pound
flown to the present low standard.
We liuvu in this bounty, at h
made good average crops, and yet are
hot excluded froih the distressed class
Again 1 ask Mg is tins'/ Hate
you thoughtfully and seriously asked
yourselves the question, why is this?
You would liuu'htless consider any
inau u benefactor, if not to his en
tire race, at least to yourselves, who
could solve this problem.
Speaking to yon and other cuttoii
planters, were 1 called upon to. say
•‘Watchman what of the night?” I)o
tell tj's why it is that ive are not ex
empt fro hi this large class at whose
door the wolf is standing ? J would
my friends, placing all the stress’and
emphasis possible upon my
tell you it is because your cribs have
not been tilled wiili
Suppose that the planters of Hibb
county lmd now thy money that has
e,oe the war liven paid for burn uud
carry this same enquiry throughout
the cotton Stales, would you or they
Have any cause to 'complain of hard
M ould the
not filled with
known a tilrnn
disasters oiliei
to planting, who ever complained ol
hard times and scarcity of mum y,
tilled with corn?
If yon find a funner who think.,
well of himself, is a good husband,
kind father, nod wlm loves ins neigh
bors, are not Ins cribs always filled
with com?
If a neighbor invites you to liis
'boose, don’t yon somehow feel tliut
would rather you would slay at
me of uoh.'e on foot, unless iiin
bs are filled with euro?
Have you known any man to sell
out and quit lamniig to emigrate,
since llie war, whose cribs were filled
witli corn?
When you hear liie oft repeated
expression Iruui a fanner that he
can’t raise bugs, negroes steal tlieni
they die with choleru, don’t y-ai
know it is because Ins dribs are not;
tilled with cum?
U lien you see poor motes, poor
rses and no leg.-, don’t you know
that they belong to a pour loan and
he reason of iiis poverty is heoaose
Ins cribs are not filled with com?
Did yon ever know or hear of a
farmer whose smoke house was filled
null bacon whose cribs wore out till
ed with com?
When the tint went forth that the
ox knowelh his owner and the lies
his master's crib, we are oldig d to.
infer thatsuch cribs wereriiliviiys lili
ed with corn.
'Should an ox know his owner or
no ass any muster's crib which is UOl
filled with o »ru?
Much more might Ik- Qaiduptm ihc
subject ol’coni, and especially the
great value to cotton planters. 1 will
not, however, detain you any iouger--
Hut proceed to give you, very briefly,
the plan of cultivation practical by
myself, which 1 understand to lui\
been mainly the object ol your reso
lution,
lo the cultivation of corn m, go
end Hindus opernndi call lie
that will applicable io every section;
hut 1 have lound it to do well uo
lands that 1 cultivate, which are
commonly known as mulatto pine
lands, with a good day subsoil. • J
cultivate about equal quantities in
corn and cotton, and about fifty aerie
to the mole. The fields tire aoourate-
ly surveyed and so mapped out that
the u'efUid acres ure fcnoWn.
1 eoiiiiiieii'ce ploughing tho 1st ol
January, breaking all the land both
for corn and cotton, broadcast with
a I wo horse plow as deep us the
mules can poll it—this being the on
ly limit as to depth. For cotton the
land is always bedded before plant
ing, hut the corn land is never bed
ded, except in bottom land. 1 have
such land, which is first broken
broadcast and tlieii bedded!
i usually commence jiluntingubout
the 15th, sometimes as late us tiie 20
ol Mtuoli, and never plant any iuud
that lias not just been thoroughly
broken; Hi the preparation lies the
great secret of success io making
corn. When reu'dv to plant, my rows
are run first wiili a large shooter or
small shovel,' ntoiil six feel wide and
ill very thin laud seven feet, follow
ing in the same furrow with a large
shovel plow made lor the purpose,
and to this plow I work two moles.
Oil all Op land, my corn is dropped
three feet apart io the drill, two
grains io the hill, and nfiei ivtiids
thinned to one stalk. On bottom
lands the rows are laid oil'five feet
and planted from eighteen inulies to
two l'eet apart. The richer the laud
the more stalks, and vice versa. Ma
nure with cotton seed a handful to
the hill, and which are dropped in
the furrow with the corn, and from
six to eight inches on either side of
the lull. Dover very lightly with a
harrow with two teeth set about ten
inches apart. The cottonseed is
heated so us to prevent germination,
might be done quit
more economically with Koine of the
improved ]>1u\vr working l wo or more
plows on the aiime bt* ck.
The two lust plowing* arc done
entirely with a sweep, and very light
the object being to stir the land
lightly on top and keep down the
weeds and grass, but not to break the
roots of the corn.
Plant pens immediately after the
second plowing and always in the
mid Me • < the ov, opening with a
-i."■ pm’ and which makes u fin- The
i•-1. iI'i'oY/ of ilie second pk u ing.
Drt.p ; ‘ in eight to twelve peas ill a
hill an i cover the mime as Corn. Tnu
] consider the cheap ,-•'
tc on e larm, and if T
'•frilled no lull-
need hi app:• bended.
(m more oflielails might
but it you will as before ud
pure your land thoroughly
plant Enough
uf it—and cultivate
directions, th nigh ft*
given, you will
complaining of hard times,
and not till then will y
filled with corn.
— “ d f'0-. W. Feallterntor, & Co.
Singer
Sewing
Machines. —
202,310 SINGER MACHINES
SOT.l) TN 1870.
The Largest'Sales beam sc the Must
7’i am tar.
/■v/uilur hw.,.. the /lest
up grown
unted as
Over 2,000,00fi now in Daily IT
T’HK SIPIGSR
STILL TRIUMPHANT!
D—E—A—L—E—It—S I—N
oof)
Are now receiving their mammoth stock of new
Fall end Wftnfor Goods.
TH!) .ftTOCHSC Ift <•<>»!! i».IxKTK r
Prices in Keeping with the Times, and Goods Musi be Sold.
Call uirlv ami make your selections
Kr We also BUY COTTON, and pay the highest Cash price tor
»uho Ommlry Produce out, 5, 1877-ly
XiXFK t
The Following Table, being a partial List of losses paid by the
rrs;;2.:3s^SSS3SS.]IIol)ile Life Insurance Company,
Wlmiv nmcliliii'H arc ordered bv Kxprrn*. C. O. I».
SL^l-iaWsr
•An Guarantee Satisfaction,
ori I'-r.'VcMr'i *1 u red lc; ifif'oVx
ii>r our now ITIl'o-LIsI ami
Pt?rchat»e SINGER
aulhorizod A^uts only.
PRINCIPAL OPFICR.
OUK.
li. W. LEONARD, Ag.-H.
AGENTS WANTED.^
u;i board, HtnbJe Or livery bilR.uto.
L. G. ItAV,
C. i.r.t.e ing Agent, P'dk county.
S. 1’. fill Ki’AKD,
so, hut so-,riling everythin!; which is Canvassing Agent, Cleh mie county
false or deceitful. And when old Ala. jan. 31-fiui j
.,11 your, fi'uris I
Youth.—Youth, like everything ; Cll j™
else, must he cherished, mo, sqoftn-j p.
tiered; and, if wo waste it
frivolous dissipation, ago iv
before years. The luster we travel . 34 UNION SQUAUE NEW
the sooner will we pet lo the soil of
oW journey. Enjoy youth in every
reasonable way whilst we have it, hut
always remember that eve y time yon
overdraw on 'it yon are ooiiiraelmg a
debt oliieli most be repaid ivilli
heavy interest in the fiuiiru. itelaiiii
youth as long as yon nan, oegl.-ciiiil;
nothing which will ass 1 yon io doing
Atlantic and
1 will, despile
contrary—110-
cepl the inevitable grncclnlly, and do
out attempt lo disguise nuv to disown
it.
I never hurry in first plowing—
preierVing. that the corn should have
sufficient height and stalk to slum!
ns much dirt us possible. In plow
ing the first time 1 side wiili
aud long hull tongue, breaking
tlii middles with a large
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