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VOL. XXVI. HOLD YOUR CASH Don’t part with your cash until you get STREET’S Prices on the SAME article, It is my intention ty make some competitor howl before this thing is done with. I have a house full oi goods and money to bay more. NO ONE CAN DICTATE MY PRICES! It is my intention to KNOCK THE BLACK OUT OF HIGH prices every time and let competitors c ire fbir themselves. I make prices for myself and customers. Hold your money TIGHT ’till yOu get here. n GO Y ,-A-m r Ph H a FOR BARGAINS IN FANCY AND FAMILY CALL ON STREET & SAWYER, CONYERS GEORGIA- PLANTING WHEAT. W. P, Walker’s Method. The Telegraph advocates wheat sowing, a general diversification of crops and less cotton, To stimu late the good work, it offered in 1898-99 for the best yield of wheat on four acres, $100 in gold, For second best, $50 in gold, Third best $25 in gold, and for bast yield on one acre, $25 in gold, A convention of wheat growers met on July 22, 1900, in Macon, and a committee composed of Messrs J. M. Gray, E. Taylor, and C. H. Jordan, who -vere appointed by the convention, made awards of prizes as follows; First Prize, $100—W. P. Yv al ker, of Spalding, 4 acres, 147 bush¬ els, and 50 lbs. Second Prize, $50—Mrs. M. E. Wilson, of Spalding county (sister to Mr. Walker). 4 acres, 125 bush els, and. 48 lbs. Third Prize, $25—Jesse M. Tan¬ ner, of Washington county, 132j bushels on 4 acres. Fourth Prize, Best yield on one acre $25—W. P. Walker of Spald mg, 40 bushels and one pound. It will fie seen that Mr. Walker and his sister captured $175 of the $200 offered. Mr. Walker’s meth¬ od of planting wheat consequent¬ ly became of much interest, and he received a great number of in¬ quiries, which he kindly answered through The Telegraph. These have been printed in The Tele¬ graph several times, and the paper put them in pamphlet form for preservation ai.d reference. Mr. Walker prints the most common questions aske 1 him, and then gives his answers as. follows : Question—When is the l est time to sow wheat? Answer--Just after the first freeze or killing frost- in Novem ber. H H: K 3 K PS rH CQ 2 3 By waiting till then many in¬ sects that are so destructive to wheat are destroyed. To sow in October, wheat would be more li¬ able to get killed in oarly spring. As to the kind of land, I suggest that, you sow your best upland. Nearly all wheat growers are par¬ tial to red land, but I must say that two of the poorest yields I ever had was on red land, Tell me what your season will be next April and May and I can tell you the kind of soil that will give the best result. My wheat land is not especially prepared before sowing. I sow wheat after cotton that has been well cultivated. If the stalks are large I usually drag something Over them, after which I plow them upwi'li a scooter plow and let them remain where they are. Q—What is the best manure, and how do you use it? A—I use all manures broadcast. Nothing better than stable manure Cow manure when obtained from cotton seed hulls and meal equals any thing you can use. • Cotton seed are fine for rainy season and will not leach like other manures. As to commercial fertilizers, I know nothing of them. But you can always rely on acid phosphate and cotton seed meal, mixed two of acid and one of meal, though dryer the seoson the better the re¬ sult, Too much meal will kill the seed wheat at the time of germi¬ nation . Q—What kind of wheat do you sow? A—It is purple straw. Q—How do you treat your seed wheat? all .... the small ,, • A—I _ shake , , grains possible of ,,. the wheat , . , by pass- « out nig the same through a fan over a 8-16 inch sieve at about 30 degrees incline. • If you cannot secure your seed in that way go to some place in your field where you have | only ordinary wheat and there cut 1 off enough for your seed, It is ! perfectly natural for wheat to have j two grains to the mesh and when : you grow more than two you will CONYERS, GA., NOV. 7, 1900 find a great many small grains. Q—Why select the best grains for seed? A—Because it is the mother the little plant. The larger grain the,more vitality it has, the more uniform in its growth, and all the plants ara more liable to stand injuries. To get the and ripening more uniform creases the yield improves seed. Q—How do you keep down smut? A—I have never seen any smut in my wheat. Neither will you if you will annually put one-quarter of a pound of well pulverized blue stone into a gallon of boiling wa¬ ter. When disolved pour it over one bushel of wheat while hot and stir until every grain is wet. Af¬ ter you have done this you should apply slack lime just as much as vvi 1 adhere to each grain. You will find this to be very profitable. The wheat will grow a little taller and will stand a much harder win¬ ter than without this application. I sow my wheat broadcast in the manure so as to give the little plant all the strength possible during the winter months,. Q--IIow much wlnat must we sow per acre in order to get the best result? A—If you select your seed wheat as you do your corn, I say sow nothing less than one bushel per acre. An acre of land that will require two bushels to be well seeded can be sown with one bushel and the yield will be nearly as good but not near so satisfactory Why? Because when it is thinly sown the plant will spread, it shoots up irregular, is not uniform in growth, does not ripen evenly, it has a coarse starw and the only good thing that can be said about it is that it has a good head, Q—How do you plow in your wheat and how deep? A—I turn under wish a com¬ mon turn plow, and I suppose the seed could be found on an average of three to four inches under the top of the soil. 1 level the ground with a harrow, brush or anything that will put the ground in good shape for the harvesting machine. We have now six months to rest from seed time until harvest. Q—At what time do you cut your wheat? A —When you see the heads be¬ gin to turn down you can get your machine ready for harvest. Q—Why 1 y not cut on the fa green order so as to have better straw/ A—By so doing you open ....... up . a channel for mold and nut in 1 , next crop. Give the little wheat germ all that nature calls for and it will be more a le to ward off the much dreaded diseas* es. Now if we can trust our wheat in the hands of nature let’s do our field likewise. Nature says to man ‘Mitch your land. ” Mau says to nature “I will terrace.” And we evidently see that man is wrong. But I will add for safety—good sued, good soil and proper drain¬ age is a successful road for wheat growers to travel. I have seen wheat under water on terraced land nearly a week at a time. Wheat is not rice. Neither is an excess of water hemmed up on a hillside in keeping with the laws of nature. I have been asked if the height of wheat had anything to do with the yield. That depends on the seasons and amount of manure you used. Where I raised fifty bushels of wheat to the acre last year it grew to be five feet tall, I had another piece as tall that grew on¬ ly thirty-five bushels per acre. The former was broadcast with barnyard manure, about fifteen loads per acre. Also acid phate, two to one of cotton meal, about 300 pounds per acre. The latter piece had never been manured with barnyard manure, but was broad cast with cotton seed, about fifteen to twenty bush¬ els per acre, and acid physphate two to one of cotton seed meal. 300 pounds per acre. This piece of land an ordinary year will yield about 1.000 pounds of seed cotton per acre. You ca 1 safely use 400 pounds of phosphate and cotton seed meal as above mentioned. Q—Will it pay to raise wheat? A —Tes. I raised last year 350 bushels of v > heat, at $1 per bushel, $850; twelve tons of straw at 80 cents per hundred, $72 ; fourteen tons of hay, $140. Total, $562. Leaving the land benefitted 20 per cent. The expense ot these seven acres :Seed wheat, $14, preparing land $7; fertilizer- cotton seed meal and ocid, $17.50; narnyard manure, $52.50, harvest Big $10, threshing $25. Totil expense, $1.86, leaving $426 profit and e leven months months to play and one to work. 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