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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. The Moravian's of the Old North State. No people stand higher in this country for veracity and integrity than do the Mo ravians of Salem, N. C. Mr. Jonas Lime bach is one. of the oldest living members of that excellent religious sect. He is now 82 years old. He has just been cured of cancer. Let him tell his own remarkable story as follows: Winston, N. 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