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His Monthly Talk with the Farmers
of Georgia.
PIPSpI? ARTJIENT OF AGRICULTURE,
' , ATLANTA, Ga. Dec. 1. 139
The year of 1892 has nearly passed
away, and as we take a retrospective
view of our labors, onr successes and
-our defeats forthis year we find much
food for earnest thought. It is onr duty
to consider and weigh well the grave
Responsibilities which surround us, and
in making our arrangements for another
year-to ask ourselves if our efforts have
been conducted on the right lines? Have
we conducted our farms on common
sense, business principles? Have we
managed,in such a way as not only to
reap the largest yield from the smallest,
area at the : lowest cost, but have we
realized the full benefits of this result?
In planting our various crops did we
consult the ever important condition of
“supply and demand,” and in disposing
of them did we exercise the business
acumen which enabled us to market
them to the best advantage?' Is it not
too much our habit in the hurry, and
often perplexity of arranging onr busi
ness at the beginning of each year to
overlook these important questions? In
onr anxifety we are liable to forget that
the farmers obligations are not confined
to the narrow circle of his own farm
and home, but on each one rests, in
part, the duty of feeding and clothing
the world. A failure in this can but
bring disappointment and suffering to
the busy toilors in other occupations
and .trades, and also those who.
while helping us, are not pro
ducers, whose daily wants have
to be supplied. It is to the
farmers that these teeming millions
turn, not only for their meat and bread,
but for the clothes which they wear, and
thq farmers alone can produce them
This is their supreme right, affd thus to
them belongs the lever which moves the
world. Do we realize the magnitude of
the undertaking? Is it not our duty
libt only to supply our needs, but to
iheet this demand which the world
makes upon us, and are we pursuing a
system which will accomplish this
work? To understand this question
more thoroughly let us go back thirty
years. At that time there were fields in
every section of our state that, without
fertilizer, yielded large returns. With
ordinary preparation and fair cultiva
tion* we reaped abundant crops of onr
staple productions. We had wide ex
panses of woodland pastures, which
furnished onr meat at an almost nomi
nal cost, and a contented, thorough!} -
controlled labor system. Prosperity
and contentment smiled on pvery side.
Then came the devastations of war
and an entire change in our system of
labor. After this, from necessity often!
hilt as truly from mistaken farm meth
ods, 'the tenant-and renting system
began, and also the pernicious and
false., and I should say, easy and elastic
plan of Securing advances to the full,
and often more than full value qfc the
crops under cultivation. ' These mis
takes have tended to bring about a spec
ulative system of farming. The ease
with which oredit could be obtained on
cotton and the impossibility of securing
it on any other crop, and the cheapness
of our lands have influenced many
farmers to produce a money crop, or
rather what they hoped would be a
money crop, to the exclusion of those
food crops so absolutely essential to the
success, comfort and, and I may say,
perpetuity of our calling. Granted that
this system is the result, of our losses
from a most destructive war and the
wiping out of Old established customs,
It is eqfially true that it has established
temporary methods which have well
nigh bankrupted ns.
'Time has effectually demonstrated
the folly of continuing an agricultural
policy, which has brought ns only dis
appointment and defeat in the past, and
yet in some cases from apathy, in
others from a spirit born of despair.
We see our farmers plunging each year
deeper and deeper into the whirlpool of
min, Seeking and gaining the consent
of their patient and hopeful creditors,
they brace themselves for their new
work, and by increasing .cotton, their
only money crop, vainly hope to retrieve
their failing fortunes. This new work
is only new as far as the season is con
cerned. It is a new year, but it is the
same oid methods, the same old hopes,
the same old efforts to produce a cotton
crop on credit to pay old debts.
No mathematical proposition was
ever jmore-easily demonstrated than this;
t^iat a farmer cannot purchase supplies
on time to make cotton at present
prices. In nine cases out of ten the
fosses are so great that he finds liis obli
gations have been increased rather than
diminished by the honest but mistaken
effort he has made to. release himself
from the relentless grasp of debt. Let
■fis resolve on different methods. Ours
is Ml honorable calling, and farming is
just as much' a business as selling
goods, of mining ores and requires far
more study and preparation. Let no
is passed when we. can do superficial
work, because the elements once so
abundantly supplied by our soil are
unwise and careless management
from i
ifym think that "he’ can successfully
enlbaxk in it without some previous
preparation or knowledge of even its
simplest duties. To the man who
farms because he loves it and not sim
ply because he can gain a hard living
by it, who studies business as well as
the most enlightened agricultural
methods, who applies the knowledge
gidned from the brainwork researches
of others as well as that gleaned from
his owp Observation and experience,
who uses.brain force as well as physical
strength—to tifis man, nature opens her
store house and pours out her rich
treasures. In studying her laws we
shall realize that each year we owe a
duty to our land as well as to onr .fami
lies and ourselves. We shall " find that
we cannot continue indefinitely to draw
plant food from the soil, and expect that
soil to remain in fruitful condition.
Taking even a small quantity each year
wears out and depletes, and while this
depletion may not he noticeable at the
starti a gradual reduction • both in the
plant growth and yield of fruit must
take place, and each succeeding year
marks a largSMecrease in the produc-
• five power of the land. Let us illus-.
trate. When a cotton planter puts his
usual 200 pounds of fertilizer to the
acfe, he has among other elements put
in 4 pounds of ammonia, and when he
realizes his usual acreage of one-third of
a.barn to the acre, he has removed from
• fire soil in the seed alpnfe, 13 pounds of
ammonia. In other words he each
year takes off in the seed alone 8 pounds
more of ammonia than he supplies i and
the land has io make up the deficit.
Could there be stronger argument
against out present methods. Our
fathers, with a perfect system of labor,
trained and disciplined, pushed the ex
hausting process to.'such a degree, and
the consequences of our following this
destructive policy are so serious that
fbday we find ourselves confronted' by
conditions which we- mnst meet and.
conquor or own ourselves defeated.
These unsatisfactory methods do not
, ' meet the demands of onr more enligbt-
; ; .ened age. They are wrong from any
Standpoint, and with hired labor they
are absolutely ruinous. . .
If we are in debt is it. possible for us
to lessen that debt by taking on ns obli
gations to make a cotton crop; which, as
I have already stated, exists under onr
present methods more than it will bring
lii the^inarkets'. Let ns study this ques
tion thoroughly, .consider our surronnd-
ings, examine carefully the' condition
.and requirements ;of. bur .lands, count
'the cost and then 'apply ourselves dili
gently- to the -task- of. ascertaining which
methods, which! crops will pay the
Jargestj4&id£fid& ^Having- determined
these let us rise our best judgement and
energy- to prpdnee .the best results.
Selee&soncB good vagiicnltural publiea-
• tion, : nothing better than .“The Southern
Cultivator”, and its contemporary ' “The
Southern Harm,” both published in At--
jLanta, sad as ybu sit around your -rficr
‘ sides these long winter nights read'
.study, .'the results ,.which ., are
•obtained in every section by live,
wide awake fanners. The day wil
greatly exhausted,. Any one with ordi
nary intelligence and energy, can on
rich land dig a support- from the - soil.
Only, intelligent and properly directed
skill can wrest success from our changed
condition. But here science comes to
onr aid, points out the trouble and sug
gests the remedy and common sense
tells us that we have the conditions for
success in onr grasp if we will only con
trol them. Science says there are cer
tain elements necessary to the growth
of your crops, supply these in greater
qpanties than your crops require ar i
yon keep np the fertility of your land-
Common sense says you have a monopoly
on a crop which is absolutely necessary
to the world, keep it in proper bounds
and your independence is secured.
Build np a small acreage each year by a
careful system of rotation, green crops
and manuring. Take a few acres and
every spare moment haul out the scrap
ings from lot, stable and fence corners,
also from rich spots in your - woods.
Now and during the winter months is
the’ time for this work.' It has been
demonstrated that stable manure spread
on the land and allowed' to remain
during the winter has produced 70
bushels of com per acre. The same
quantity plowed under in the spring
the same season yielded only 50 bushels
per acre. Purchase yonr acid, cotton
seed meal and potash now, and during
the bad weather mix these ingredients
on a tight floor in the proportion of 600
pounds meal, 1,200 pounds acid and 200
pounds German kainit. You will save
from $4 to $5 per ton. have a first class
fertilizer and know just exactly what
you are using. Or yon can take acid,
cotton seed meal and stable manure in
the following proportions and have a
fertilizer equal, if not superior to any
on the market: Acid, 050 pounds, stable
manure, 675 pounds, cotton seed meal,
225 pounds, or green cotton seed, 675
pounds. When land is deficient in
potash add 200 pounds of kainit. In
this formula deduct 75 pounds each, of
green cotton seed and stable manure
and 50 pounds of super phosphate.
Again let me warn you not to he led
into the mistake' of raising too much cot
ton. Don’t be tempted to leave the only
true plan to success, that is plenty of
food supplies, and then all the cotton
you can cultivate without haring to
borrow more than it is worth to make it.
The present condition of the cotton
market is sufficient proof of the unalter
able laws of “supply and demand.” The
theory that we cannot produce too much
cotton is.entirely exploded by the ex
periences of 1891 and 1892. 'In ’91 we
produced the biggest crop on record,
and the price fell far below the cost pro
duction, and many farmers, more
especially those who bought their pro
visions are yet struggling to pay off the
obligations incurred in making that
crop. In ’92 by reason of reduced
acreage and uapropitious seasons, the
yield has fallen below the average, and
now that this fact is established beyond
controversy, we see the price bounding
np in spite of speculative effort tb de
press it, and notwithstanding the fact
that we have no more money in circula
tion than we had one year ago when
there was a popular theory that scarity
of money and underconsumption, and
not over production depressed the
market and was the cause of the disas
trously low price.
Had the majority of farmers by pur-
sueing a sound agricultural' policy been
able to hold this year’s crop, that is the
crop of ’92, they would now he reaping
the golden harvest over which the spec
ulators are rejoicing. It is true there
are farmers who by raising an abun
dance of provisions, reducing the cotton
area and by careful methods increasing
the yield while lessening the cost, are
today reaping the benefit frjm their
wise forethought. But unfortunately
they are the exception. The hulk of the
cottofi has gone out of the hands of the
farmers, and they are compelled to sqo
their crop, the result of much anxious
thought and weary toil, enriching others
instead of themselves. Let me urge
yon in planning yonr crops for '93 to
remember that when we glut the mar
kets of the world, we have to accept
such prices as the buyer sees fit to give,
but when we have our supplies and a
cotton crop just sufficient to meet the de
mands of trade, we can, to a certain
extent, dictate the price. Don’t allow
yourselves to be allured into false meth
ods by the present high price of cotton.
This will be my last talk with the
farmers before the opening of the new
year. May they realize the grave re
sponsibilities which it brings, and by a
Wise and careful policy, use its oppor
tunities to their own best advantage.
R. T. Nesbitt, Commissioner.
General Remarks.
As this report will be the a last issued
from the department for the year 1892,
we desire to thank the correspondents of
the department who have rendered ns
such valuable aid in their preparations,
We are glad to note that the estimates
made from the reports sent during the
growth and gathering of the crop are
proving enhstantaly correct, while we
regret that in some mistakes they are
not so gratifying as we would wish.
The large increase made in the number
of reporters has rendered the result from
the compiled figures much more certain
as inequalities m the crop in different
localites of the same section were more
acurately ascertained.
cotton.
In regard to this crop the present in
dications and reports are that it will be
under rather than above previous esti
mates of the department.
Whilein nearly every quarter the crop
of 1891 for the state has been placed at
1,100,000 bale3. the department from the
best information at its command has
never regarded it as in excess of 1,000,00b
bales, and of the two great crops the
actual production in .1890 .as the greater:
Taking therefore 1,000,000 bales as the
yield lor last year,65 per cent, or 650,000
balesornearthatnumber will bethecrop
for this year. These figuaes were given
in the November report since issuing
which reports have been received which
might justify a redaction in the estimate
and which assures us that the yield will
certainly not exceed the amount given.
PICKING.
• The gathering of the crop in nearly
every part of the state has been com
pleted and the quantity remaining in
the fields is hardly worthy of computa
tion. While the crop was late, the
total absence of a top crop concentrated
the picking within a short time and
gathering was finished at an earlier date
than usual
MARKETING.
As soon as ginned and pack.ed cotton
has been carried to the markets and a
much larger percent of the crop has
been sold up to this timethanforseveral
yearB
plant less.
Let every farmer remember what wo
have so ofted said on the reduction of
the cotton acreage and plant less in the
year 1893 than ia 1892, with more grain
and forage crops,
COHN.
The total yield of corn in the state
exceeds that of last year. The average
yield is not great, especially in north
Georgia but the loss in this respect is
more than compensated by .the increased
acreage. We hope to see a large increase
this year and for succeeding years until
onr farmers are for the production of
this crop independent of the grain fields
Of the west
SMALL CHAIN.
The season fop sewing fnll crops of
small grain has not been so propitious
as we might desire, but we trust that
onr farmers have not been detered from
increasing the acreage ia their crop. In
those portions of the state adapted to
wheat culture, we would urge upon
our farmers to study the best methods
.of fertilizing and cultivating until all
failures in this crop will be entirely due
Farm Values.
Nofthen in his last in-
._.gaye the figures show-
_ increase in the taxable
if'tKoiprpperty of the'.state .dur
ing the past decade. These figures \?e?e
gratifying to all who have the interest
of the state at. heart; bat their effect
was mared by tbe fact that nearly the
entire increase was urban, and the per
centage of increase in the value 6f farm
lands was very small. The figures are
particularly striking when we consider
that onr state is classed as agricultural,
and that upon the farm a majority of
onr people depend for their livelihood
and onr state for its financial and com
mercial standing. In arriving at the
- causes that have led to these results let
us consider upon what the value of onr
farm lands depend. The land itself
does not constitute the farmer’s wealth,
but the constituents of the soil are his
capital. If these constituents serve for
the nutrition of plants his land Is pro
ductive and valuable, otherwise
yields hut little and is of small value.
Outside of the productive features as
the basis of the value of our lamia,
other things are to be considered- as
forming a part of thy valuation. For
however valuable the products, if the
cost of making approximates or exceeds
its worth, there being little or ho net
earning from the soil, its value will not
be enhanced by reason of its produc
tiveness.
The three great questions therefore to
he considered by the practical and theoi;-
etrical agriculturalist are—how to ip-
crease the productiveness of the soil,
how to reduce the cost of making, aiid
how to obtain the highest price in the
market.
“Rational Agriculture,” Bays a writer
“in contradiction to the spoliation sys
tem of farming is based upon the priu
ciples of rostithtion.”
The farmer each year with the gath
ered crop takes from the soil a part of
its actual value. This mnst be restored
or to that extent his capital is impaired,
and, like the man living beyond the in
terest on his money, consumes each year
a portion of his principal, ‘ thus impov
erishing himself eventually. The rota
tion of crops as a method of restitution
has been repeatedly considered in these
reports. When the crops are removed
from the soil it should be remembered
that no rotation will restore land, and
that all crops exhaust to some extent
certainly as to their own reproduction.
The physical and chemical condition of
the soil may he improved and existing
nutritions matter converted into an
available form, thus compensating for
exhaustion, hut no permanent improve
ment is accomplished. On the other
hand if the crop is allowed to remain on
the land, extracting as it. has certain
manural values from the atmosphere, or
its product in barn manure in returned
to the field the soil will increase in pro
ductiveness, In any elaborate consid
eration of the compensation, that the
soil for removed crops it would be neces
sary to deal with each crop seperately
and to go into the results obtained by
scientific investigation a worx two com-
prohensives to find space in these re
ports.
A study of these matters are however
of vital importance not only where it is
sought to restore land after a certain
prop, but also as indicating the class of
fertilizer essential to the production of
that crop. We would not be under
stood as in anyway detracting from “the
.merits of rotation, hut simply as sug
gesting that in studying methods of re
storing land,or of holding them to their
present standard, not only should such
crops he planted and rotation adopted as
will result in the least exhaustion, but
the plant nutrition of the crop as often
as possible returned to the soil.
This may in a great degree he accom
plished and yet the crop utilized as food
for farm animals. Commercial fertilizer
while we approve their use at the proper
time and in the proper place have too
often led to a tcital abandonment of the
manure pile, and. farmers have grown
lax in returning to the soil, plant food
with which a little care need only he
taken to prevent spoliation of their land
and which may be used to renovate and
restore it.
Care should be taken in saving barn
yard manure, otherwise it will loose
much of its valuable and most solnnble
nutritions property by evaporation wast
ing etc. Our open farmyards too often
lead to injudicious management of maure
where efforts is made to husband their
resources and spread over a large area,
without timely saving, our manures
loose half of their fertilizing value. In
asking our farmers in preparing and
fertilizing tlieir land, for a crop to con
sider not only the yield for the year but
a permanent increase in the produc-
tioness of the soil we would emphasize
the necessity of rotation as improving
the pliysicial and chemical condition • of
the soil and compensating for exhaustion
which attends reproduction, and injoin
the necessity of not permitting any
thing of mamiral value on the farm to
wast. Do this, and with judicous use
of chemical fertilizer material the value
of onr farm lands will increase.
REDUCE THE COST OF MAKING.
In rendering our lands productive and
increasing tqe yield per acre, we have
done mrffih towards reducing the cost of
making. As approxamately the same
amount of labor is involved in cultivation
where the yield is small as where the
yield is large. In addition to this the
use of labor saving implements should
be studied, and adopted where they can
be a saving in this direction. Here it
woffid not be out of place to say that
fine economy can be shown on the farm by
a proper care of tools, harness, etc.
- STUDY THE MARKET.
Of all questions intermantely related
to profit on the farm the southern planter
has perhaps paid less attention to a study
of the markets than any other.
This result from the fact that our
principal crop is one that has always
found a ready sale for cash. It is the
duty of the farmer to study the wants
of the town, city or village near which
he has located, ficelities for shipping to
tho large marts of commerce, and their
demand for various farm products. By
doing, this he Vill frequently find side
crops which he may profitably cultivate
ana for which he may be able to get
cash when it is much needed.
ThO diversification that would result
would noi only be of immense benefit in
restoring worn land but would aid at
ariring at what shoult be the aim of the
farmer of the cotton states, a reduction
of the acreage. in cotton and that crop
as a surplus. It may be said by some
tfiat now that the cotton markets has
gOne up it is useless to further urge upon
the farmer.
THE NECESSITY OF A SMALL ACREAGE.
To this we need only reply that the
same error will again result in the same
disaster, and thatliring prices can only
be obtained, by a reduction in the
amount made. The journey began in
the right diriction, we should not turn
back allured by the hope of tempo
rary profit when experience has demon
strated that it can bring only ruin. We
wish it was in our power to convincingly
impress on tbe mind of every farmer, if
yre of the south would prosper, we must
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Bradfield Regulator Co., Atlanta, Ga.
GEORGIA—Houston County:
J. -E. Jones, gnardian of Jas. D. Bate-
man, has applied for dismission from his
trust:
This is therefore to cite all persons
concerned to appear at the January term
1893, of the court of Ordinary of said
county and show cause, if any they have,
why said application should not be
granted.
Witness my official signature this
December 5.1892.
J.H. HOUSER, Ordinary.
GEORGIA—Houston County:
Mrs. M. A. Blewster, widow of 1,
Blewster, deceased, has applied for 12
months support for herself and minor
children. The appraisers have made
their return to this office. Ordered that
citation issue and be published in terms
of the law:
This is therefore to cite all persons con
cerned to appear at the January term,
1393, of the court of Ordinary of said
county, and show cause,if any they have,
why said application should not be
granted.
Witness my official signature this
Dec. 5, 1892.
J. H. HOUSER, Ordinary.
GEORGIA—Houston County:
R. S. Woolfolk, administrator of the
estate of Josephine Woolfolk, deceased,
has applied for leave to sell the lands
belonging to said estate:
This is therefore to cite all persons con
cerned to appear at the January term,
1893, of the court of Ordinary of said
county, and show cause, if any they have,
why said application should not be
granted.
Witness my official signature this
Dec. a, 1892.
J.H. HOUSER. Ordinary.
GEORGIA—Houston County.
R. S Woolfolk has applied for letters
of administration on tho estato of J. W.
Woolfolk, Sr., deceased:
This-’.s therefore to cite all personscon
cerned to appear at the January term,
1893, of the court of Ordiuary of said
county, and show cause, if any they have,
why said application should not be
granted.
Witness my official signature this
Dec. 5,1892. —
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GEORGIA—Houston County:
A. B. Greene, executor of the estate of
Emma A. Dickerson, deceased, has ap
plied tor dismission from his said trust.
This is therefore to cite all persons
concerned to appear at the January term,
1893, of the court of Ordinary of said
county, and show cause, if any they have,
why said' application should not be
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0.ct 3,1892.
J. H. HOUSER, Ordinary.
GEORGIA—Houston County:
T. .ZE. Means, administrator of the es
tate of M. H. Meands, deceased, has ap
plied for dismission from his trust.
This is therefore to cite all persons
concerned to appear at the Jan. term,
1893, of the court of Ordinary of said
county, and show cause, if any they have,
why said application should not. be
ranted.
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Oct. 3, 1892.
J. H. Houser, Ordinary.
GEOBGIA—Houston County:
Mrs. Amanda A. Havis, administratrix
of the estate of M. W. Havis, deceased,
has applied for dismission from her said
trust:
This is therefore to cite all persons con
cerned to appear at the January term
1893 of the court of Ordinary of said
county and show cause, if any^they have,
why said application should not be
granted.
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7:!S |
9 C2
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11:55
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i -4.35 p. m. j
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4.45 a. m
2.55 p. m.
1 -50 p. in.
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6.24 am
6.45 a m
8.15 a m
9.05 a m
10.05 am
10.20am
8.30 a m
10.37 a m
11.47 am
2.25 pm
4.13 pm
6.05pm
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