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AGRICULTURAL.
“ GO TO GRASS.”
' AN ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE
CLARKE COUNTY FARMER’S CLUB, MAY
1, BY DR. C. W. LANE.
G ntlemen of the Farmer’s C’ub of Clarke
County:
I consider it a real honor to be called
upon to address you at your county meet
jog. That man is blind, who does not
consider farming as one of the noblest, as
■well as one of the most necessary of the
av cations of man. I sympathise with
the zeal for your club of our generous
hearted friend, Dr. Newton, who is so full
of enthusiasm for everything that promises
blessing to our people. At bis request I
gladly say a few words to you to day.
Farming is the oldest occupation. Our
first father was a farmer; our first mother
■was a farmer’s wife. Farming is older
than human sin ; for before the sad fall in
Eden, our first parents were placed in the
garden to dress and keep it. How can,
this venerable occupation, which is at the
basis of all earthly prosperity be improved,
BoMiat in the changed condition -of tlie
South, it will be the vocation eagerlj'
sought for, instead of being hurried away
from by our young men, into the towns
an 1 cities? The Cotton States have hith
erto left out the largest factor in success
fill agriculture, viz: the cultivation of the
grasses. Our unremunerative farming will
be banished, if taking the example or the
agriculture of the whole civilized world,
we give a large place to the culture of
grasses and forage plants. Having no
personal experience in farming, and waiv
ing altogether the Botanic discussion of
the grasses, native and introduced, as too
tedious for the occasion, I draw very free
iy for my statements, upon a little “ Man -
ual on the cultivation of Grasses and Fo
are plants at the South,” published a few
years ago by C. W. Howard, which costs
bur twenty-five cents, and which maybe
obtained from Mrs. C. W. Howard, Cement
P. 0., Bartow co., Ga.
Ist. Great attention is paid to the cul ti
tion of the grasses in all countries and sec
tions where agriculture most flourishes.—
Hence we are suggesting to practical far
mers, not the theory of a novice, but the
result of the experience of the best farm
ers in the world, when we say, by all
means, give the grasses a prominent place
in farming.
In this country ten years ago, the value
of the hay crop, chiefly in the Northwest,
■which in the Cotton States has been left
o it, exceeded the value of the entire cotton
crop by fifty or sixty millions of dollars 1
Again; have you thought, gentlemen,
of the low price of farming lands in the
Cotton States, compared with the price of
farming land where the grasses are largely
cultivated ?
“In the State of Georgia, with which
the writer is most familiar, the highest av
erage of land in any one county, was $lO
per acre, while the lowest was less than
one dollar per acre. The average of Geoi -
gia probably quite equalled that of any
other cotion State. The good cotton lands
of Southwestern Georgia were worth from
$lO to S3O per acre. Now, they would
not command one half that price. It is a
significant fact, that the rich lands’ in up
per Georgia, in which a mixed husbandry
prevails, have rather increased than de
creased since the war in value. Let the
fact be pondered that the depression in
price has occurred only in lands devoted
to exclusive cotton and rice culture, both
of which require a large amount of labor.
A planter owning one thousand acres of
fair average land in the healthy portion of
the cotton States is a poor man. He could
not sell his land probably for more than
$5,000. He looks totbe North and finds
land ranging from SSO to S2OO per acre.—
He looks to England, Holland or Belguim,
and finds it averaging from S3OO to SSOO
per acre. Why this difference ? Is the
land in these countries belter than ours ?
Not by nature —if it be better it is by the
difference in treatment. Is their climate
better than ours ? The acknowledged su.
periority is on our side. Are the prices of
their products any better than ours ? On
an average not so good. Are their taxes
lighter than ours? If we were compelled
to pay 2their tax, either at the North
or in England, our land would at once be
sold for taxes. Have they valuable crops
which they can raise, and which we can
not raise ? There is not a farm product in
either Old or New England which we c> n
not raise in equal perfection at the South.
Is their labor cheaper than ours? The
cost of labor at the North nearly doubles
the cost of labor at the South. In Eng
land labor is cheaper than with us. But
the difference is perhaps compensated by
the poor and church rates, and other ex
cessive taxes paid by the English farmer.”
“ Without exception in Europe and
America, where a large portion of land is
in glass or forage crops, the price of laud
is high, reaching the figures above men
tioned. On the other band, without ex
ception, wherever in either continent the
grasses do not rec ive this attention,'anded
estate is comparatively of low value.
The conclusion is irresistible that a large
attention to the cultivated grasses is essen
tial, not only to improved agriculture, but
also to a high value of landed estate. If
there be a flaw in this reasoning, the wri
ter has been unable to detect it. Fifteen
years ago this solution was offered of the
apparently anomalous condition of our
lands so favored as to all the elements of
agriculture and yet so ruinously low in
s deable value. Time has but strengthened
tue conviction of its correctness.”
The effect of grass culture in diminish
ing the labor and the cost of a crop, is
well put by Mr. Howard, in the following
paragraph ;
“The great advantage of investing mo
ney in banking or other secure stocks, is
that we get our dividends without labor
on our part. We can get that dividend
while we are giving our attention to some
thing else. Piopirty is valuable in pro
portion to its security and the smallness of
toe cost and trouble of managing it. If
we cultivate cotton or corn largely, we
must hire bauds and buy mules, corn, hay>
bacon, and pay blacksmith’s bills. If at
the end of the year these expenses over
run the sales, then the land has been worth
worse than nothing to us. And if this
process was to be repeated, it would be
wise in us to give it away. If there should
be a small piofit after all our expenses and
trouble, then the land has a small value to
us, to be determined by our net rec ipts
it. But if we put down the same
'piece of land in grass, this is done for a 1
term of years. If this land yields only a
ton of bay to the acre, and if its salable
value be only szo per ton, and expenses .
$5, we have a net profit of sls per acre,
wnich is ten per cent on $l5O, the actual ;
value of the land to the owner. The only
labor in this case is the cutting, curing *
and baling the hay. With a horse mower,
tedder, rake and hay lifter, this expense is
not more than two dollars per ton.
On a Belgian farm of one hundred acres,
every acre of which yields an income, the
steady force is not more than two bauds—
extra labor being required at grain and
hay harvest. The Belgian or English
farm of one thousand acres, under culti
vation, would require twentj' hands. The
cotton plantation of one thousand acres,
with the usual proportion of cotton and
corn, would require sixty hands, being an
excess of forty hands In addition, in
the one instance, capital is diminished by
exhaustion of the soil —in the other its
fertility, and therefore its value, is in
creased.”
A few testimonies as to the value of
Grass culture will be given, and especially
of the value of Bermuda grass.
“ I have before me a communication
from Mr. Moore, published in 1874, in the
Southern Planter, urging the general cul
tivation of the grasses at the South. Since
that time be has stgadily devoted himself
to grass culture, planting nothing else on
his farm of one hundred acres of Savan
nah river land, near Augusta, Ga. From
these one hundred acres he has derived an
income of from seven to ten thousand
dollars per annum. After persistent and
skillful trial of the different grasses, his
preference for Guinea grass will occasion
much surprise.”
With many experienced farmers, Ber
muda grass takes the first place as a grass
for the South. Col. A. J. Lane, foimerly
of Hancock county, Ga ,says:
“I cannot better illustrate the grazing
value of Bermuda grass, than by an in
stance of my own experience. Nearly
thirty years ago I bought an old plantation
near my place in Hancock county. It was
bought low on account of its being in
fested in places with Bermuda grass. I
permitted a man to use thirty acres of it,
which were fully set in Bermuda grass.—
He had at the time a cow and calf, sow
and pigs, and a brood mare. He cultivated
a little crop of corn, but never enough to
feed bis family. He cultivated a little
crop of corn, but never enough to feed his
lamily. His steck lived upon this thirty
acres of Bermuda grass, except for a short
time during the winter, when they had
access to other parts of the plantation.—
He remained upon this place for five or
six years. At the end of that time, he
had twenty five head of cattle, seventy five
hogs, and five horses. I offered him for
his increase SI,OOO, which he refused. So
much for the grazing value of Bermuda
grass.
I cannot give you a better illustration of
the manurial value of this grass, than by
reference to the crops made on this same
thirty acres of land, after the man referred
to had left the place.
First crop, cotton, half stand, owing to
the mass of undecomposed sod, eighteen
hundred pounds of seed cotton per acre.
Second crop, cotton, two thousand eight
hundred pounds seed cotton per acre.
Third crop, corn, sixty five bushels per
acre—corn manured with cotton seed.
Fourth crop, wheat, forty-two bushels
per acre.
The average product of this land with
out the sod, would have been not more
than one hundred pounds of seed cotton,
fifteen to twenty bushels of corn and eight
, or ten of wheat. I know of no crop that
will improve land more,and certainly none
that will, at the same time, give so large
an income with so little labor.”
Col. T. C. Howard says: “To destroy
Bermuda grass, run a coulter or narrow
bull tonge through it, then set a turning
plough to run very shallow, and turn the
surface over, but not under. This exposes
the roots to cold and frost, which will as
certainly kill it as it will sugar cane. But
my trouble is to raise it to the greatest
perfection—not to destroy it. One acre of
good Bermuda grass,as good as my friend’s
who sold the sll4 worth of bay from less
than an acre, will give a gross product of
twenty per cent on $570.”
Dr. Ravenel, of Charleston, S. C., says:
“One eighth of an acre of ordinary land,
covered with Bermuda grass was plough
ed in March last, (1874) harrowed, rolled
smooth enough for the mowing machine,
and fifty pounds of ammoniated super
phosphate of lime applied. Four cuttings
were obtained, which yielded two thous
and eight hundred and eighty pounds of
hay. This was at the rate of ten tons to
the acre.”
The opinions of these gentlemen are
very decided as to the valuable qualities
of Bermuda grass, as to grazing, for hay
and manurial purposes. The continued
and caretui observations of the writer
corroborate the results of their piactical
experience.”
Mr. A. H. Weeks, of Oglethorpe co. Ga.,
says: “ I have about 15 acres of Bermuda
on bottom laud. A fair crop is 2 tons at
2 cuttings, worth from sls to S2O per ton,
making S3O or more per acre, according
to prices.”
Again, Mr. W. L. Glessner, an energetic
and liberal Ohioan, who moved to Ameri
cus, Ga., and has been running the Re
corder, thinks that Georgia farmers have
every natural advantage over Ohio farm
ers, and wants them to make better use of
their advantages. Mr. Glessner wants
more attention paid to grasses, which, he
says, mean cattle, sheep, bogs, the recla
mation of old lands, diversified farming,
dairies, creameries, and cheese factories.
He is not far from right. For example,
take Putnam county in this State. Ber
muda bottoms are being utilized there,
good stock is being raised, and for ibe
year ending in October last 32,000 to 35,000
pounds of delicious Jersey butter we.e
shipped out of the county, some going as
far as New York, and the prices ranging
from 30c. to 40c. The dairymen there are
making money, and farming with them
promises to become simply an adjunct to
the dairy business.”
Here is a little item from the Americus
Recorder that ought to be both interesting
and instructive to farmers :
W. H. Penn, a farmer of Chattooga
county, sold to Rossiter, the contractor, at
$1 per hundred, a mixed lot of clover ai d
grass hay, made from fifteen acres of land.
He would have taken S4OO for the bay,
sold in a bulk, but the buyer preferred to
have it weighed. Mr. Peun received for
it nearly SOOO, oi about S4O per acre.
This ceriainly beats cotton, and proves
all that we have ever claimed for grass.
Mr. Glessner, who wrote last year an
admirable series of articles for the Atlanta
Constitution on Grass Culture, (which ar
ticles ought to be re-published and widely
ciiculated,) lays s less very wisely on two
points. First, that the farmer ought to
begin with a very few acres in grass at the
first, and gradually increase the acreage in
grass trom year to year, as he better un
derstands the subject. Secondly, that he
must not be discouraged by an occasional
failure. Cotton and everything else fails
at times. Let him try again.
In conclusion, let me urge the careful
study of ‘‘Howard's Manual of Grasses”
upon the farmers of Claike and the adja
cent counties. The book sellers of Alliens
will doubtless order it from Mrs. Howard
for any one desiring to obtain it. There
is new life, new hope and new prosperity
for the Souihern farmer,in the path which
we have tried to indicate.
A Well-Known Mau’s Testimony.
Mr. 11. F. Newell is the well-known
millwright who resides at Manchester, op
posite Richmond He is known all
through Eastern and Southern Virginia,
where he has been engaged in mill-wrigbt
ing for many years. An acc dent happen
ed him four years ago, the main particulars
of which he details in this letter:
Richmond, Va., April 15th, 1887.
Gentlemen —Four years ago a blow on
my left shin cracked the bone. Since
then I have had trouble nearly all the
time with erysipelas m that leg. The
least little thing would cause inflammation
and breaking out. From time to time I
have driven off the inflammation by short
courses of 8. 8. S.
Four weeks ago Saturday night the leg
was broken out and covered with festered
blisters. I took four bottles of S. 8. 8.,
and now the leg is entirely well, the skin
being as smooth and fair as a woman’s.
H. F. Newell.
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Winston, N. C., April 12,1887.
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L’ve Augusta, 10:15 p mlL’ve Atlanta 9:00 p m
Ar’ve Macon, 7:50 a m IL’ve Macon, 6:30 p m
Ar’ve Atlanta 6:30 a m‘Ar’vAugusta,s:oo a m
Train No. 27 will stop at and receive
passengers to and from the following sta
tions only: Grovetown, Harlem, Dearing,
Thomson, Norwood, Barnett, Crawford
ville, Union Point, Greensboro. Madi
son, Rudedge, Social Circle, Covington,
Conyers, Lithonia, Stone Mountain and
Decatur. Train No. 28 will stop at and re
ceive passengers to and f-om the following
stations o nly : Grovetown, Harlem, Dearing,
Thomson, Norwood, Burnett, Crawfordville,
Union Point. Greensboro, Madison, Rutledge,
Social Circle, Covington, Conyers. Lithonia
Stone M ountuin and Decatur.
Train No 54 on Athens Branch gives pas
sengers from Nq. 28 on main line, 15 minutes
for supper at Harlem.
Trains to and from Athens connect with
trains 27, 28, 1 and 2
F. R. DORSEY, Gen. Pass. Agent.
JOHN W. GREEN, Gen’L Manager.
JOE W. WHITE, G T. P. A., Augusta, Ga
Charlie Scliuchart
Will sell the best
Beef, Mutton, Pork
and Sausage
at the lowest prices. Will pay tbe bighes I
market prices for
BEEF AND CATTLE.
Call and see him at tbe old Dorsey store,
East Broad Street.
HORSES, and MULES.
We have
onltand
now, and .
will keep : J’-.i ...
constantly
during the .. .hi
season, a
large stock
of Horses
and Mules, t V&P
of all kinds >i ’■s /jY
and to suit 1 YdC'''
all classes
of customers.
11111.111.)' 4- DEABWYLFR,
Successors to W. S. Holman ATHENS, GA
Popular Fertilizers.
DOBBS’ AMONIATED COTTON
FER TIL IZ E R S.—DOBBS’
CHEMICALS FOR
COMPOS TI N G.
The above well known Fertilizers
are now ready for the planters trade
for 1888. These Fertilizers are
made tinder a written contract, and
guaranteed to come up to the fol- j
lowing
ANALYSIS—DOBBS’ AMMONI
ATED COTTON FERTILIZER.
A mon ia, - - - 280 per cent.
Available Phosphoric
Acid, .... 907 per cent.
Potash, - - - - 171 p er cent. I
For prices of the Guanos call on
the undersigned, as lie guarantees
the prices as low as any other dealer
in Clarke county, on good standard
goods.
S. O. DQBBS.
PATENTS
Caveats, and Trade Marks obtained, and all
PaUnt business conducted for MODERATE
OUR OFFICE IS OPPOSITE U.S. PATENT
OFFICE. We have no sub-agencies, all busi
ness direct, hence can transact business in less
time and at LESS COST than those remote
from Washington.
Send model, drawing, or photo with descrip
tion. We advise if patentable or not, free of
charge. Our fee not due till oatent is secured.
A book, “How to Obtain Patents,” with re
ference to actual clients id your State, county,
or town, sent free. Address,
C. A, SNOW & CO-,
Opposite Patent Office, Washington, D. C.
A. GtRANT
AGENT.
! INSURE AGAINST
Loss by Fire or Tornadoes. ‘
; ALSO REPRESENTS ‘
: Accid’t Dep t Continental Life ins. Co.
! A , (OKHARTFORD.)
i Asset is represented over S4O 000 900 . ..m ..
Corner Thomas and Cla, ton Prompt Payments. Offic.
PARR BROS I
HOUSE FAlKtbis.
: decorators
i AND DEALERS IN
1
i WALL PAPER, PAINTS, OILS, ETCi
BY TIBIE.
, And proven to be the White, Pumnix,
Cairiage and Buggy Paints,
To See It Tested
w,.!, , t . Blow Pip.. « CLAYTON STKEET.aTBEXS.oa.
AV eBB Crawford,
GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS.
Clayton St., Athens, Ga
FARMERS, TAKE NOTICE
We have on hand and keeep several brands of FIRST CLASS GUANO, viz :
BRADLEY’S PATENT, BRADLEY’S AMMONIATED DIS unvi?
SEA FOWL, FARMER’S FAVORITE, EAGLF’ AMMONIA? ’ ■
lED BONE, PALMETTO ACID PHOSPHATE.
AU in good mechanical condition, which we offer at competing prices. We also propose to
FURNISH PROVISIONS
To reliable parties at REASONABLE PRICES on time »
success depends upon iair and liberal dealings’ Give us a Cali. 5 P ° n the P nncl P>e ‘hat our
SHACKELFORD & HATTAWAY,
THZOnsZEJLS STREET, ■ ATHENS, G-JL
C. c. c. c.
Dodges’ Certain Chicken Cholera Cure,
tribeLchol«a r ‘ No'poXv faTs’er or farmed: 1 "T “ nd dreade<i '“'“J ° f th
JOHN CRAWFORD & CO.’S DRUG STORE
SCHOOL BOOKS,
smoffli ttooiis nn iiimi ra
AT
Burke’s Book Store,
Liberal discounts on all goods to the wholesale trade. Merchants
wil d<> well to call on us for what they need in otir line. Lowest prices
ami best goods guaranteed. Subscriptions taken for all newspapers and
periodicals at lowest published rates
E. W. BURKE,
Cornel Broad Street and College Ave. ATHENS GA ■