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llanielsvflle, Madison County, Cal Friday, Nov. 6th. 1896: —8 Pages.
ANSWERS
TO INQUIRIES
Commissioner Nesbitt’s Ques
tion Box For the Month.
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VALUABLE INFORMATION GIVEN
—
Why So Kow Sheep Are Ri*l*il3tn SoorjfX*.
More About the Wire Cotton Tin—Jptm
mlein Artichoke, a* a hood , Vr lioft*,
and Mow to Plant Tlinn
the s u ieotlon or Uooil >
On UrealtliU*
Question, —My crops are all gatfc£
ereil; I have sowed my oats and
wheat, now w trail! it not be a good idea
for me to broak my laud for next year’s
crop?
Answer.— -Yirar crops being all gath
ered, by all means start, at ouce to break
your laud for another year. Many of
our farmers, when their crops aro
housed, mako the serious mistake of
waiting until spring before starting
their plows. This mistake frequently
results i serious loss, for should thi
spring be dry, tiie ground, packed by
the’heavy winter rains, becomes so hard
that it is impossible to break it properly
and the resu.t is that they are foreod to
plant on poorly prepared grouud.
The old adage {hat “a crop well
planted is half made” is perfectly true,
therefore ‘‘take time by the forelock,”
and go to work at once preparing your
land for another crop.* In doing this
work don’t follow the too common plan,
of simply scratching the surface as it
were, but get vour plows deep into tiio
ground, bringing to tbe surface, if pos
sible, not less than an inch of the sub
soil, upon which the sua has never
shone. At the same time turn under
everything that is oil the surface, such as
grass, cornstalks oot tons talks, peaviues,
etc. Burn nothing, except in excep
tional cases, whore on very rich laud
the cottonstalks have grown so large
that burning is necessary to get rid of
them.
Our farmers, as a rule, do not appre
ciate the importance of this deep fall
plowing. The advantages of it are nu
merous and important. Among others,
I regard the deepening of the soil as
most important. Should you turn to
the surface in the spring an inch of the
red clay subsoil, it would probably be
baked into clods by the heat of the sun,
interfering with the growth and proper
cultivation of the crops through the en
tire season. Turned up, however. In
the fall this subsoil becomes disinte
grated by the frequent freezings and
thawing, and when you plow your laud
iu the spring it becomes thoroughly in
corporated with the top soil, adding to
its depth and fertility and thus insuring
yon better crops. You see at once
that if this process is repeated anunally
you will in a few years have a deep,
mellow soil, capable of withstanding
drouths, and in a condition to hold the
rain that falls upon it. There are other
advantages iu fall plowing which make
it desirable.
The grass, cornstalks, etc., which are
turned under now, add to the fertility
of the land, whereas, by spring their fer
tilizing properties have been largely ex
hausted by evaporation and by leaching
rains. Then sixain land that is deeply
plowed at this season will not wash so
badly as that that is left untouched.
Another very important gain ig, that
your fields will he iu fine tilth for your
spring preparation for planting, and
while your hb iv *>orhaos will find
iSiiK ground at that time, so hard that he
Hamuot plow it, yours so treated will be
its mellow and friable as an ash bank.
jPFiVBSe advantages of course apply chiefly
P stiff lands, for where the soil is a deep
|t|S£ud, IQ or 13 inches perhaps to the sub
fjtsil, I oan i ee no advantage in fall plow
jfcg. except the single one of getting the
’rfirass, etc., turned.u.udor while yet they
Ififcve some fertilizing properties.
|H&rust that tho farmers of this state will
Rieniliy try fall plowing at once, this
iflpr. being peculiarly favorable for it,
rule. Instead of the ese e ition, as at pres
oit—atato Igriculdural Department.
Inspection of ft llano.
Question. — ls guano Inspected at the
factories iu bulk, or where do the in
spectors get theiy samples? Under the
present inspection system, is thoro much
doom for fraudulent guano to bo sold in
Georgia?
Answer.—Some years since it was
the- practice for the Inspectors to take
samples from the guano' iu bulk lu tire
factories, but that method has been posi
tively prohibited by order of this de
partment. Now the inspectors take
samples wherever they find the goods—
in the warehouses, in the farmers’ wag
0113— ou the farms, or in freight cars.
Tho manufacturers ;f course oan not
know, from what- sac!;-', samples will bo
taken, aipi are there;ore compelled to
make their goods equal to Hie guarantee
that tho law rdqpiros them to brand on
.tit<*ir sacks. I will say i.p'B. however,
that from my a"qnaintiVuoe with tho
guano manufactub-rs, I consider them
as Utmost and honorable iu their busi
ness dealings, as any men iu the stato,
and tho suspicions entertained against
them, is in most cases ontiroly un
founded. The manufacturers are. re
quired by law to notify this department
of every shipment made by them, giv
ing the name of tho goods shipped, to
whom sent and the number of sacks, in
the shipment. They are also required
by law to have a tag on each sack or
barrel in which they ship their goods,
which shows that sai 1 goods are regis
tered with this department. These tags
cost the mauufar.'tarers 10 cents fir each
ton of guano sold. This trifling ex
pense adds nothing to t-lio cost of the
poods to the purchasers, ami yet fixe atr
gregate amount rei-e. ve t from tiie sale
Of tags, pays the salaries and expenses
of the inspectors, the salaries of the state
chemist and his two associar.es, the sal
aries of the commissioner and las clerk,
and iii addition to all this, turns over a
large amount to tho pabiio school fund.
This state uses more commercial fertili
zers than any other state in tho Union,
indeed almost twice as much as any
' other; ahd the mode of taking samples,
and making analy.so.s. affords hotter pro
tection to the farmers, than tiie methods
adopted m any other stabs. Were there
no inspection or analyses undo, the state
would be flooded with worthless fertili
zers, which the farmers could uot dis
tinguish from honest goods. Tiie in
spectors aro all sworn offbinls of the
state, and are selected for their fitness
for the work. Tho safeguards thrown
around this business ih this state aro so
many, and so carefully prepared, that
thei-e is practically no chance for worth
less fertilizers to be sold within onr
borders, without detection. To show
the great increase iu the fertilize busi
ness, and consequently tho greater ne
cessity of careful inspection. I append
a table showing the numbrsr of tons in
spected for each of the lust 21 seasons:
Season of 187-1-5 48,848.00 tons
Season of 1875-8 55,810 00 tous
Season of 1878-7 75,824.00 tons
Season of 1877 8 051,178.00 tous
Season of 1878'.)... 85,049.00 tous
Season of 1879-80 110,688.00 tons
Season of 1880 1 152,424.00 tons
Seasou of 1881-2 125,827.00 tons
Season of 1883-8 135,377.00 tous
Season of 1808 4 151,840.00 tous
Season of 1884- 5 170.108.00 tons
Season of ’BBS 0 100.705.00 tons
Season of 188(1-7. 1(10 078 08 tons
Soason of 1837 8 308,097.89 tous
bee noil of 1888 9 ~ , {pus
;SB®u of 18811-90.., 288 113,110 tons
iof f.s ?, .''L.x HO tons
Season of ih9:i 1 315,812.00 tons
Seasou of 1894-3 239.632.30 tons
Season of 1893-8........835,017 80 tons
—Slate Agricultural Department.
Gm.il Bi>eil J-'or nanf litg.
Question. —Is tho selection of good
seed for planting as important us many
think?
Answer. —Good seed is the very first
requisite for a good crop, but a great
number of farmers aro very indifferent
on this point, eeeiuing to think that any
seed of a giveu plant will produco a good
crop. There could be no. greater mis
take. '* For instance, taka seed of oats or
wheat that has boon cut when tho grain
was only half ripe, and what is the re- ',
suit? There is an immediate deteriora
tion in the crop, the yield diminishes,
and smut and rust aro greatly increased.
Let your seed for planting be always
fully matured and ripened, that the re
sulting crop may have in it but few im
perfect plants. Seed corn should not be
selected in tho crib, but in the field,
where the stalk ns well ns the oar can
be seen, and whore by judicious and
porsistent selection, great improvement
in size of ear and early maturity can be
attained. There is much room for im
provement in the way we select our cot
tonseed for planting, and with more
care in this respect wo could considera
bly increase our cotton crop.—ritato Ag
ricultural Department
La Grippe
If you have had the Grippe,
you know its aches and pains,
the fever, the chilis, the cough,
the depression —you know
them ail. The Grippe exhausts
the nervous system quickly,
lowers the vitality. Two
thing; should te done at once:
—t.ie s: j-y must be strength
ened, a d force must be given
to the n:rvous system. God
liver Oil will do the first; Hy
po phesph tes the second. These
arc permanently and leasantly
combined in Scott’s Emulsion.
It lift; the despondency and
heals the .inflamed membranes
of the throat and lungs.
But you need not have LA
GRIPPE.
You can put your system in
a condition unfavorable to it.
You can have rich, red blood;
resistive strength; steady brain
and nerves. Scott’s Emulsion
prevents as well as cures.
And whether you send or go
for Scott’s Emu'sion, be sure
you get the genuine.
SCOTT & BOWNE, New York.
You can now get ready for
the judges election. •
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Ou Dollar rf Tw
NO 14
l'la-itlng Oats.
Qu: ■stion.—l want to plant; a large
oat crop; would you advise me to plant
it all uow. niid wit at kind of seed oate
would you recommend?
Answer. —On account of tho frequent
j winter-killing of oats, I woffltl advise
planting half your laud iu>#, nad the
rest of your or,op iu the spring. Iu this
wny you do not take the risk of having
all yom-orops killed, and !.uiv P’ iy*
sure of at crop, JXjfoweJ
laud is rich,
•>’ 'f. mnMittßf
■ tfcau aujpMhor variety, and on
laud will make you,a fine crop. 90wL
ami ivjuttf to two busht&n
per ni|fitshpuJtl.ydtt Uot be able to'get i
your laiid is fairly good. j.
rust-proof oats,'and for 1 '
always use soed from ftß'c
sown dftts, a* they are without doulAv
more hardy than seed from those sow'ea'
lu the spring. Foryour spring planting
use the Burt .oat, soVriug leaflet'
bushel and ahalf to the acre.";-' The Burt,
oat is very ljght, and therefore not ast
but it gfflww rapidly and mojllres
early, and thoro is more certainty: of a
orop from them than from any. other
variety, when sowed in the spring.
Don’t be afraid to fertilize your lund tot
the oat crop, for none responds niorft
readily to thorough preparation thaik
this, the oheapost and best food crops
for our horses and mules. After taking
off the oats next summer, don’t fail to
plnnt the lund in peas, and thus keep up
the fertility of your field)!.— State Agri
cultural Department
flow tho Conwtcck Lodo Wan Dloover<l
In January, lo'SO, a streak of warm
weather tempting somoof them out 4
Comstock, Old Virginia and sev
eral others found “surface diggings”
near Slippery gulch. They named
tho plane Gold Hill, and,' stuking out
claims, proccedod to work the de
composed outcroppings over Crown
Point, Yellow Jacket, Belcher, Ken
tuck and other great mines as yet
undiscovered. From the tirtje they
started tho rockers,using water from
a spring close by, Gold Hill averaged
S2O a day to the man. June 1, O’F"-
loy and MbLaughtin, whoso claim in
Bix Milo canyon paid only $2 or $3 a
day, suddenly out into the rook on
the surfaoo of Ophir, at tho nort&
end of tho Comstook, and begnn to
take out gold at.the rate of SI,OOO a
flay. They had only been working
a few houri/. when Cqmstook happen
ed along, saw tho value of the dis
covery, laid a general floating claim
to a mythical stock ranch in tho re
gion und fairly bluffed tho good na
tured discoverers into taking him
self and Manny Penrod as equal
partners. Kentuqk Osborne after
ward came in, and the flve took up
tho original Ophir claim.— Charles
Howard tihinn in Popular Soienoe
Monthly. _ *
Matrimony.
Matrimony rosomblos a pair of
shears, so joined that they cannot be
sopnratod, often moving in opposite
directions, yot always punishing any
one who comes between them.—&
Smith.
Peter I of Portugal was known an
tho Severe on account of the merot-*
lessness with which he put down*
several attempts; at insurrection.