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THE WAYCROSS HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1893.
FARMER AND PLANTER.
SEASONABLE THOUGHTS.
— Tim* or r for Iho Former to Re*
elew the Work of the Fort end Plon far
• he Future.
During the preceding part of the year j till:
the farmer's vision has been directed ■
forward; now it should be tnrned back
ward, and the field gene over should be
reviewed. His whole year's work may
he regarded as an experiment; he has
prepared his landr fertilized it and cul
tivated it in a particular way. and the
Fathered crops tell the results of the
experiment Has it been a successful
one? Has the plan pursued been different 1
from that followed the year before, and 1 this ^state
has the change been for the better or J
worse? Perhaps some will answer, the
seasons have been different in the two
years and I can't tell. This is adifficulty
we admit, but not as great as many sup
pose. for a skillful farmer is very large
ly independent of seasons—not of tor-
in nunung up wnen neeaca—tnese ana
many other leaks may be found on
most farms. Hunt them up and stop
them.
The greatest drawback on southern
farming since the war, has been the
lack of working capital, and conse
quently the getting of supplies and fer-
The farmers being
debt to the merchants, the latter vir
tually dictate the kind and amount ol
crops to lie planted. In short the mer
chants run the farms of the country.
They have no interest in the farm be
yond the immediate crop. If the soil
washes away, or its humus is de
stroyed or its productiveness decreased,
it matters naught to him so his bill it
paid at the end of the year. It i*
things that ha?
caused the over-production of cot
ton.. antf the too large use of commer
cial fertilizers. In many instances the
farmer is virtually the merchant's over
seer: he simply carries out the behest*
of the merchant. Against this thraldom
we would urge rebellion with all our
might, not by repudiation of debts, not
ything unworthy of honorable
nadoes, frost, etc., which no vigilance
or skill can circumvent, but of drought
and heat and other ordinary constitu- ' nianhood, but by contracting opera-
tents which make up what we term ; lions (abandoning the cultivation ol
seasons. Sec hotv nearly the same is i P°° r ^ndK diligent saving and ac-
the annual cotton production. We i cumulating of manure on the farm, the
talk about making a half a crop, but, I strictest economy in expenditures—
when a farmer counts the l>ales he j *°th farm a,1 ‘ l family-the raising of
packs, how rarely, if ever, itistheca.se i home supplies and the rearing of horses
tnere oe as muen grass ana weeas corns
in the way when the corn is cultivated
late.—Warren County (0.) Exchange.
PECAN "CULTURE.
A great deal having been published
NOTICE.!
NEW BUSINESS.
We have just arrived with
two car-loads of fine
RAISING CORN.
Good Torsos Indifferent Cultivation of tbs
Cereal
Now is the time to see the effect of
cultivation upon the corn, especially
that of laying corn by early or con
tinuing its tillage after harvest.
I have a good opportunity to judge 01 \ lately in regard to the culture of pecaus. '
it to-day^ My neighbor has a field of j and having had considerable experience ,
corn j ns* a cross the road from mine. 1 in the culture of this valuable and deli- :
There was a difference of three days it | cions nut, I bee you will allow me the 1 and expect to keep on hand a good supply of this grade of stock for sale,
the time of planting, and my neighbot j use of your valuable journal for the j We also expect to do a LIVERY BUSINESS, and hope to serve the
seeded with a later variety. He laid purpose of giving my experience for the j public satisfactorily, at
hi. by jo.t before the h.ree.L while | benefit of those interested therein: McIntOSh StableS, near the Union Depot.
HORSES, MARES AND MULES,
mine received a plowing after, and
about the middle of July the middles
were split with a double shovel. 1
passed through both September 17.
taking care to examine closely and note
the difference between the two fields of
corn.
Firstr—In his corn the lovrer blades on
the stalks and the husks around the ear
were turning yellow anti fast drying
up. while in my own it was entirely
different. The lower blades had not
began, comparativelyjspeaking. to turn
yellow. They were not crisp, and could
not be easily blown off by the wind *9
in the other field. The corn has a good
green color and an animated appear
ance for this time of year, with the ex
ception of a gravelly knoll, which
however, looks no worse than the otbei
FREEMAN & BAXLEY.
C. K MURPHY
At the age of 56 I gave $1 per pound 1
for the largest and best “Paper Shell” i
pecans I could find in Mississippi and j ■ . ■
Louisiana. I planted wiser than l \ v , n . r . r
knew*. Such nut® have maintained j ' LUU -
their value through all these years. ,
and to-day, in the same market, not
only command the identical price, but :
even higher: and. furthermore, I find j
myself unable to supply all the order- ;
I receive for these nuts. In my sixty- j ' ,
one year later sold 1700 worth, and ^ i INSURANCE AGENTS and BROKER
business of selling nuts and young trees j
has increased proportionately. My own) WAYCROSS, GrA.
experience is that pecan trees do b *ara j 9
little fruit at from eight to nine years; j Nothing but F irst-class Companies represented. Insurance collected on a
LOTT & MURPHY,
Fire. Life and Accident
It i
that he makes only lmlf’what lie AM 1 anil inulM. In many instances selling hlon*. ami consequently
that we may expect paying crops f«i„
ten fifteen years, and that the nut does j classes of property
not. »in every instance, reproduce itself I ffsafffasw?
itoubt making corn l ight f —they sport more or less.
dollars. ,
the year before.
A little discount on a bad season is
allowable, but. it will not do to let a
farmer hide entirely liehind bad sea
sons. It isan old trick, but it will not
' answer. ltad management is oftener
to blame than kul seasons. We insist
that the farmer must lie candid with
himself, if he has made mistakes let
him own up like a man
It is very important that these an
nual experiments should lie scanned
and st udied very closely. One cannot
make n very great many of them in a
life time—it virtually takes a whole
year to make an agricultural experi-
ment; perhaps it would In* more accu
rate to say that an experiment can ,
rarely l»e repented in one year. Ilmv
important, therefore, that these yearly !
experiments lie most carefully planned
and results most closely studied. Let j
us ask ourselves some questions and |
answer them to ourselves impartially
and truthfully. In pitching the crops 1
of the present year, were we guided by i
principles about the rotation of crops; 1
or did we have regard only to present
gains? Did we plant land in cotton •
which had been run in that crop for !
two. three or more years in succession,
till it lmrl become exhausted of humus j
and rendered an easy prey to heat and j
drought? Did we plant corn after corn j
Ih without change, till a large per- -
cent age of the crop was blasted by smut j
or ypttcd? Did we plant nearly the j
whofiVunn in cotton and far too little j
grain tol^upply the need of the farm? j
Was corn tne prominent grain crop, or !
did oats, rvifc and Vithcr grain constitute •
•*" \W ***“- “ 1
iff a part of the farm would lie advisa
ble.
The farmer must operate his farm on
souml principles; he must regulate his
expenditures according to strict econ
omical rules: lie must look after little
as well as big leaks: in short he must i will we find the latter corn
work on strictly business principles.' reply is too evident to requir
He ought to keep books just as regu- j swer.
larlv as merchant or manufacturer | loads
chief rttl'u
there a sufli-
cieney of drilled corn planted to fill j
barns andf silos, or must western hay 1
Is* liouglit? Were there any colts foaled j
upon the farm, or must western stock |
lie purchased to keep up the supply of I
plow animals? Were there any arrange
ments or efforts made to raise the pork 1
required at home, or must western meat j
►till lie bought? In short, was the old j
story repeated of raising cotton to buy
bread, meat and stock? Does any
does, lie ought to be able at the end
of the year to say whether this
field or that crop, or that cow
or that hog has paid a profit ot
caused a loss. Why, of all business
men.should the farmcralonc goon from
year to year groping in the djirk? I!
you have not kept any books the pres
ent year think over the matter—recall
as well a- vou can from memory, from
receipts and the books of your mer
chants what you have spent—it will
not lie diflicuit to get at what you
have so!.I and the proceed thereof. )
H E RE AN D TH ERE.
—Hogs that are treated as scavengers
and fed upon slops and garbage do not
make good, wholesome meat. Treat
your pigs decently if yon intend them
for human food.
—One swallow docs not make a sum
mer. One good dairy bull or cow of a
beef breed does not prove »at all that
dairymen should go in for that breed as
the long-sought general purpose bovine.
—It is a poor policy to starve hogs.
If you have not the grain to feed well
and can not see your way clear to get
it. better sell your stock to some one
who can feed properly.
—No kind of stock is affected more
by dry. warm weather than hogs. It
you want your swine to do the best
possible see that they have, plenty of
good fresh, cool water whenever they
want it.
—The heaviest loss among swine, ac
cording to the department of agri
culture reports, is sustained in the
south. (Jeorgia leads with a loss of
, l almost to per vent-, while Alabama,
. , trees have been tap-
field will hare long, deep grains j rooted. My trees are scattered over
•olid. w«ll»tilled earn; while in theoLha* | twenty-five or thirty acres, and I never
field will be found as large a cob and a» [ stated that my pecau trees brought
long an ear, but grains of no length, I $300 to $600 per acre, as has been
inclined to be chaffy, and many cobs j charged. I now have from 150 to 260
not filled out to the end. What field ! grafted and budded trees, and will
Th® ' plant more as long as l live. None, of
an- j these grafted trees are bearing ns yet.
have as many wagon- but 1 have great faith in this method ot
1. but there will lie consider;*- j propagating the pecan, for in this way
ig®»W.L.DOUGLAS
$3 SHOE o™
ble more shelled corn in my own field.
A mistake is often made in gauging
the yield of a field of corn by looking
at the quantity or how many rows it
will take to make a wagon load,
stead of the quality
■tly what we want.
many good men who say their seedling
trees bore at six or seven years. 'Phis
past season, on my own place, one
seedling over twenty-two feet high.
Their difference ! bloomed at the age of six years, and I
not far
believe after the experience of the last
twenty years, that such a policy as that
is a sound one?
Now is a good time to hunt up all the
leaks and stop them. Unnecessary la
bor—manure injudiciously applied—
workings not given at proper times,
necessitating deep plowing when it
should be shnllow-^-time lost by put-
ting a good hand behind a poor mule, j' Young Jayeox—Travel improves one
having a poor, sliackly plow and old j *o» Miss Flypp.
dull lioes—having no place to keep j Miss Flypp— Indeed! Why don't you
tools which are scattered and time lost travel, MrjJaycox?—Brooklyn Life.
Mississippi and Arkansa:
behind.
— in feeding many hogs it is better to
separate? them into two or three small
bunches, putting '.hose of the same size
and weight together. This will give all
an equal show at the trough, and tho
small ones can be crowded more if uoc-
at least amounts sometimes to five ; hope to see fruit on it next
bushels on a load. I remember last j sell my largest and best nuts for $1
spring in shelling the seed corn, j $1.50 per pound for seed. Many (
an accurate test was made. Of on® | bought and shipped north and to li
kind, rather small ears, deep grams, , rope as presents to distant friends,
well filled, it took 77 ears to make th®
56 pounds of shelled corn to the bushel;
while of a larger sort, which was ap
parently better corn, it took 103 ears
to make the 56 pounds.
So we should lie caraful in making
estimates of our yields, to look closely
after the quality and not give so much
attention to the quantity as is usually
done. Sometimes there are farmers
who have laid their corn by late but i meanwhile.
have not obtained the results expected, j t il tlie trees shade the ground too much,
Frequently the failure can be traced j then turn them into pasture lands for
to them plowing too close to the ! flne registered .lersey cattle,
corn the last time. I did so my- ; There is no danger of overstoclting
self one^year, and am ^satisfied I cut , the pecan market for years to come, as
-*- ,J -* » * 1 1 --»- * * 1 England, France and Europe in general.
There is no necessity in misleading Hit
public in regard to the cultivation of
this delicious nut—the plain, unvar-
; nislied truth is
j aider the planting of fine nuts a
safe and sure investment, tap-rooted
! or not. and granting that the trees
do not produce paying crops until they
j are ten. fifteen or twenty years old,
1 | your land m?ed not remain idle in the
Cultivate other crop-
the yield short ten bushels. I intend
to have the outside shovel of the culti
vator to go to the middle of the row in
cultivating in July, and run shallow.
Second—The physical condition of
the ground was entirely different in
two fields. In one the surface soil was
loose, crumbly, and I could take my
loot and easily scrape a good quantity
of dirt together. In my neighbor's
field it was wholly unlike it. The sur
face was solid, hard and dry to a good
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ent the best value
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know very little about the pecan,
strong point in pecan culture lies in
the fact that one can sell, or hold for
higher prices. Not so with pears,
peaches, oranges, etc., which, when
ripe, must lie sold at any price.- Cor.
Texas Farm and Ranch.
—As against summer-matte stable
manure it may be said that, owing to
tlie fields being at that time genei
depth. By cultivating late I had | under cultivation, it is often more difli-
broken up tlie surface capillary attrac
tion. The moisture which had come in
abundance during June was held in
check so that the corn suffered but litr
tie in the dry spell. •»
Third—If we should desire to cut the
corn up and seed to wheat, I can liav®
a better seed bed with less work and
time. The harrow in his field will have
cult to place it where it is most wanted
or to preserve*it from loss than is tho
case in winter and spring.
—A New York farmer who grows lvg
crops of potatoes, manures a clover sod
heavily, ami when the clover grows up
through it about the first of June,
plows all down, broadcasts one thou
sand pounds of phosphate per acre, pul- ‘
to be heavily weighted to cut any verizes well and plants,
depth. But even if he does get as good | ^Although clover is rich in nitrogen, ,
^seed bed. Instill have the advantage. y et jj takes but little nitrogen from th® J
1. 1..1. i... • soil, returning more than it receives.
It is very partial to lime and potash.
Sulphate of lime (land plaster) is a spe
cial fertilizer for clover on some soils.
My stirring during July has materially 1
helped the nitrification in the soil I
which is so valuable and essential tc ;
produce n good wheat crop. Nor will !
READ!
Mark, Learn
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DIGEST.
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THE WAYCROSS HERALD
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