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SOUTHERN BANNER: MAY 14, 1878.
Agricultural
A. Model Farm near Athens.
Colton Yarns—
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HOW TO RAISE GRASS—TRUE ECONOMY
IN PLANTATION SUPPLIES.
I Correspondence Chron. and Constitutionalist.]
Hudson’s, Clarke County, April,
1878.—A delightful rest dny to a
weary man gives the opportunity of
inspecting the management of a Vir
ginia farm in the heart of Georgia;
and as so many are-inquiring how t<*
make everything at homo, I have en
deavored to present to your readers
the system successfully adopted bv a
practical man, to induce others. The
Hudson farm is situated six miles
from Athens and a half mile from
Moon’s Station, on the Northeastern
Railroad. The upland is hilly, red
land, naturally of hardly average fer
tility and yet the neat dwelling, with
a fine oak grove in front, is flanked
on one side by a beautiful green wheat
field, and below are the ample out
buildings to shelter forage and cattle,
while an otherwise unsightly hollow
beyond has been c ivt-red by the
waters of a pretty little lake prepared
for the culture of fish, and capable of
affording ranch pleaanre to the angler
and the epicure. But the interesting
experiments in fanning to which 1
refer have been made on a noble
body of land lying
along the stream and shot in by high
hills :& wood and whose decaying
vegetation is constantly adding to the
' fertility of the plain below. A few
years since Mr. II. began to experi
ment with the cultivated grasses,
especially on lands that were too wet
for corn. Besides reaping a heavy-
yield of hay he had the benefit of
pasturage and he lias found that
some wet lands have been subsoiled
by the clover roots and then thus
gradually dried and fitted for grain.
preparation for meadow lands.
Alter being thoroughly broken by
tlie plow in ilio fall or winter, plow
again in March if the land is rough fir^frbu. ...
and level in with a harrow and
smoother, which consists of several
parallel beams fastened about a foot
apart and dragged over the land.
Alter the harrow the herds grass
-Should be sown with clover seed, ten
jiounds o! each per acre, and put in
with a light brush. His favorite
•owing time is from the 15lh to the
20th of March. It eai lier, a freeze,
when the ground is wet, inay kill the
young grass. It may be sowed
earlier, when put iu with outs, which
•hellers it. Clover may be cut the
•same fall (ho has oncu cut it twice the
same year). Herd grass not until
the next year by the last of May.
He gels three c .tings of clover. The
curliest crop is the best, ihe second
-crop produces accoml clas3 hay ann
affords seed, while the third is only
b;tl fa crop.
PROFITS OP HAY PRODUCT.
Mr. H. has averaged two tons pei
•ere without any fertilizer, and with a
champion reaper he cute down as
•nuch in three hours as he can our>
•ad haul in next day, and bis hay ba>
«old readily in Athens for $20 and
fi22 per ton, and one cutting averaged
••ver three tons per acre upon land
which had been enriched by a recent
Overflow Besides this handsome re
turn his stock is kept fat iu pasturi
for several months of the winter, f u .
the frosts do not kill herds gras
(alias red top.) It only falls d’owi
when in rank growth and ehelte.
4be second growth beneath, wliiv.
keeps green aad nutritious.
WHAT GRASSES ARE BEST.
On Middle Georgia uplands iu di \
-Summer bermuds, lucern and 4 *cra
grass,” etc., arc iacalnable, bat git.
W» clover aud red top (herds gram;
wet for anvthing Inn rice, and wiif
generally exterminate c’over after a
law years. Its-u<l is -asiiy <%. t><>tl<-:.
ami, like clover, fill* lliegmund will
vegetable matter.
FOR grazing Work stock.
Unlike clover, it U ooud or pi .<u.
mules at any season. To- -e tnreeii
upon il at night, wit* a ii*yht feeil «
corn, iieedno more rraiu until n«» n
next day. Mr. II need- to raise In
fcw'arns in c<>rn, and sell- much o
that, hci-nuse bis stm-k -ataze uio-t »»
the time.
FLORIDA CAMP OATS.
This was also intro o-eed on t hi
farm several yeafr* ago, and prntluce.-
finely as a tall oat, and rust, p •
Over soten thousand bushel? lt.*v
been shipped for seed. It i« now
luxuriant growth, ami heading mi
this. 15th April. We send you en
eLsed some red clover, also in blo<>in.
It is knee high, and would remind
you of a valley oi Virginia clover fi--.*i
in June. It prtfents a luxuri n
growth, and will soon in* waist logli
I would urge with all zeal my fellow
citizens of Georgia to cultivate clover
and grass, and with the help of sh e
and cattle you can improve yo«i
lands. Grass r<m»is ever rolling and
enriching your ground, creating
humus and, loosening stiff clays,
deepens the sot). On sandy s a'
white clover (dwarf) will do to mix
with other grass see* 1, two quarts to
the aure Orchard grass is palatable
to stock and fattening. It grows iu
hunches, aud should be mixed with
other gras-es ; give it two hutltels to
the acre. Blue grass will grow in
our Gulf States on good lime lauds
Don’t graze it too severely in dry
weather; sow four quart* to the aure.
It will grow tinder some shade.
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COTTON—Middling 9JSQ9fte.
FACTORY GOODS.
PROVISIONS,
Heal, •• ...
Wheat ••
Gate
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LarJ,—
Irish, Potatoos.
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dry Hides. -
Green Hides.............
bagging, ties. rope.
Bagging pr yd — —— llall)£
Ties (per bundle) 2 56
Rope, cotton —« —... 20*25
Rope,grata —.—.....— 15a20
The aboTe arc ratal! prices. Special rates to
wholesale buyers.
GROCERIES.
4ft ingut bottom lands. The do**. JOBW
ftomes to perfection good, and help -
lo dry the land for grain crops.
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JPcoplea’ Exchange,
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dealer in general merchandise. Best famished
wagon yard in the State.
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DEALERS IN -SEGARS AND TOBACCO,
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W E can fiimiah on board C*re in Aoipu iU,
Georgia,
4 1-2 R. H. Vertical Bigelow Engine, KoanV-
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Idas ic. McCartney
Bags to inform her many fronds and customers
that on
TUmBOATST, 2£JkX 7TB,
•he will axhibit the grandest and «no6t„elegant
line of
FYench Pattern Bonnets, Hats,
and Artificial Flowers
Ever offered in thin city Ti.o present season
•laving brought lotlli puilieu.-rly handsonie
otyiesot aliguodain tl.o Mili.nery fine, this
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STYLE. ELEGANCE AND BEAUTY.
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Panicuiar a tention will be called to ^ome of JL e ^ u ...^ Horses. Can be round at Ganr.
. .... tuna- & Keavce’Stable. — -
may 6-tf.
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