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About Conyers weekly. (Conyers, GA.) 1895-1901 | View Entire Issue (June 6, 1896)
ME. NESBITT’S TALK , MONTHLY The Commissioner’s Letter to the Farmers of Georgia. rOBTAJST MATTERS DISCUSSED n,.« Again Point* Ont the ot Deep Preparation—Dur nn \,j: Two Months Cultivation of should Not Be Neglected For j „,, , it,,-Outlook Encouraging;. A ?. n.TTT.AL Department, Atlanta, Ga., June 1, 1896. T'? widespread and long continued :■ sstea ling through the greater pin f vwo months, has sorely tried the r-i Z r:.- > and faith of many anxious t tiers, i r.r while the injury to crops is considerable, the general outlook is mu:h m re encouraging than condi¬ tions w. nli l seem to warrant. The oat crop, where the preparation and fertili¬ ration were thorough and the seed sown in the fall, has made a fair yield. It is only where the seed were hastily scratched in, in the spring, that the crop Ss an entire failure. Corn and cotton, as a rule, have borne the strain with less injury than might have been ap¬ prehended—attributable without doubt to the more careful characterized preparation and planting whicli have our methods. importance of deep preparation. As we have pointed out before, if our land is deeply and thoroughly plowed, the subsoil being reached and broken, we take double chances against little disaster rain. from either too much or too In the first case the rain, instead of washing over the land carrying destruc¬ tion in its course, sinks into the upper soil and downward to lower depths, there to be ready for future demands. In the second, the surplus moisture hav¬ ing been stored In the subsoil, is, dur¬ ing a long dry spell, drawn to the sur¬ face by the power of capellary action, y nnd if we can stop it there by a mulch of finely pulverized soil, we will be able to hold it until the thirsty plants can absorb it. cultivation of the crops. There are two months yet of unre¬ mitting watchfulness and labor before we can pause in our efforts to make our bread by the sweat of our brow—the crops must not be permitted to if suffer it is for cultivation for even one day, possible for us to prevent it. As so often emphasized in these columns, we must, if we would succeed, lay aside the slow moving, narrow cutting plows of the past, and keep ourselves wide awake to the necessity of rapid work. To follow a mule and plow up and down a row five or six times, when one', or at most, two trips is sufficient, seems folly, and the man who has tried the wiser and quicker, can never be Ho induced realizes to return to the slower plan. that where the land has been thor¬ oughly prepared, the one thing needful, after the crops have been planted and begin to grow, is to keep only the sur¬ face stirred, and that a spreading culti¬ vator or wide extending sweep is the best, and in the end, the most economi¬ cal implement for doing the work sat¬ isfactorily. Some times, at the first plowing of the young crops it is neces¬ sary to plow hair’s close and deep, but after that, every breadth we go be¬ yond an inch in depth causes incalcu¬ lable and irremediable injury to the del¬ icate rootlets, increasing in destructive¬ ness as wo progress downward. If only every farmer in Georgia could realize this fundamental principle and put into execution plans for promoting it, how vastly surely would our task be lightened and liow and greatly would our re¬ turns be increased ! Let us study and plan to work over our crops at least every two weeks, and if the periods can bo reduced to ten days—so much more will it tend to the satisfactory develop¬ ment of the plants. Let the plowiugs bo done, as soon as possible after each rain, though there he no grass to kill, we should, if possible, prevent the form¬ ation of a crust. PEAS. While the crop of peas for seed should have been sown during May, the main crop, for the vines and hay, which at last is the most valuable part of the plant, should be broadcast or planted in h center furrow in the corn fields, to¬ wards the latter part of this month. One or two pecks of seed to the acre, ac¬ cording to the fertility of the land, will be about the right quantity. The stub¬ ble oat and wheat fields will soon be ready for this rescuing, renovating, de¬ veloper of our worn lands. But wo must keen in mind, that although there is no agent, which will give in iulhir measure the needed elements of fertil¬ ity to our long tried fields, we must, in order to get the full benefit of these life giving properties, realize that even peas will uot produce a profitable crop on laud. very poor, If properly or very nourished, carelessly managed full they will gather a supply of that most expen sivo element, nitrogen, but, like every other crop, if simply scratched in and left to take care of itself it will most surely disappoint the improvident worker. The stubble fields should not be left one day longer than is absolutely necessary. If'the ground is in good con dition—that is, if the preparation and management of the small grain crops have been such as to leave the land soft and moderately smooth_the harrow alone will do very effective work, but if the ground is hard and rough it will lie necessary horse to turn it with a” one or two bushel turnplow, then sow the seed about a to the acre, and the fertilizer equal ull at ports the of acid phosphate and kainit’ harrow. same time and cover with the If preferred, and the area j s not too great to successfully accomplish it, the plan of plowing the field and Y," lhe ’ 11 - * n drills, is a very good one. rows should be from 2L, t 0 3 feet wide and will require one or two subsequent plowiugs. In all cases the above mentioned fertilizers should be used, applied at the rate of from 200 to 400 pounds per acre. It is true that the pea crop is not an exacting one, but the better care and food it receives, the bet ter returns it will make. Plantings of FOR Mil; crops may still continue, although the ear This haf 'ou.t,' h wever U T T U ' lly ;U SUC ‘ ' 0 C, -T ' oe t ' d l , best tl ' ni ‘ - am allvdiv aiv seasou ami i m many localities , long continued dry weather has eu» tirely prevented the sowing of such crops. Crops for forage has been most successfully raised from June plantings, also the large family of millets will field good returns. SPANISH GROUND PEAS may also be planted this month and make a good with crop. Although renovating not usu¬ ally ranked peas as family a of le¬ crop, it belongs to the left the gumes, and if the vines are on land and only the nuts removed, they contribute something to the improve¬ ment of the land. SWEET POTATOES from the cuttings taken from the earlier planted vines, if carefully planted, will succeed as well as the rooted slips and the potatoes will be smoother and more evenly developed, and be of good keeping quality. The beds should be thrown up uot too high, after, rather than before a rain, and when the land is in good condition. The cutting should contain not more than five leaves, three is enough—if longer the result will be more but smaller sized potatoes. Bury all but one eye and press the soil firmly to each cutting. This is one crop which seems to succeed best on land plowed to only a moderate depth, for which reason the old high hills have been almost abau doned. R. T. Nesbitt. i TEXAS FEVER. A Remedy For the Deadly Disease Given by an Experienced Dairyman. The following report will be of inter¬ est to all dairymen and cattle owners: Experiment, Ga., April 18, 1896. Commissioner Nesbitt, Atlanta, Ga.: Dear Sir —At your request, through Director Redding of the Experiment Station, I visited the farm of Mr. S. H. Phelan near Greensboro, Ga., to inspect his herd of dairy cows, which were re¬ ported to be dying. I found them dying with Texas fever, called also in differ¬ ent sections, Spanish fever, acclima¬ tion fever, redwater, ^blackwater, mur¬ rain, yellow murrain and bloody mur¬ rain. Twenty-one head of valuable registered Jerseys had died. Normal temperature is 101 to 102 degrees, in this disease it rises to 107 to 109 degrees, and nearly every case is fatal when the ani¬ mal is grown or matured. The best up-to-date remedy is calomel quickly given in two drachm doses, to move the bowels; then follow with quinine in 30 grain doses, three times a day, until improvement begins, then give iodide of irou in two drachm doses twice a A post mortem examination of a cow that had died the night previous to my arrival, showed the spleen or melt to be much larger than in healthy animals; the liver also was enlarged; the gall bladder was also enlarged and held in suspension a large quantity of flakes resembling coarse bran. (The bile in health is a limpid fluid, containing no solid particles.) The urine taken from the bladder was the color of port wine or deep claret. All of the sick cows previous to Nov. 18, 189.6, were kept near Atlanta and had never had any ticks on them. About April 1, 1896, they were turned to pasture with cows that had been kept on the plantation. In about ten days they were all well covered with ticks, and the cows from Atlanta began to get sick and die. I could not discover any¬ thing wrong in the feeding or manage¬ ment. (Overfeeding of highly concen¬ trated food—especially cottonseed meal —will bring on a bloody condition of the urine, but remove the cause and the an¬ imal generally recovers.) I suggested to Mr. Phelan that ho use in future the well tried preventative of Mr. Chopin, of Richmond, Va., who lias imported cows from all quarters of the globe to the infected lands of Virginia and has never lost a single head. The follow¬ ing is his preventative: 50 pounds Common salt, 5 pounds Coperas, 5 pounds Saltpetre, 5 pouuds Sulphur. Thoroughly pulverize and mix and give one tablespoonfnl once per day in the feed, long enough to get the remedy into the system. Samples of urine and gall were taken and sent to Dr. D. E. Salmon, Chief of Bureau of Animal Industry, Washing¬ ton, D. C., and he has pronounced my diagnosis correct. Respectfully yours, H. J. Wing, Dairyman, Experiment, Ga. SOME GOOD ADVICE. Practical ami Useful Maxims For Farmers Who Are Just Starting Out. Many young farmers do not know when they are really doing well, and frequently when they have made a good start and are in a fair way to dis¬ tinguish themselves as excellent and ^ cee>sf ^| farmers, will ... „ ‘sell „ out. sis all wrong, btick to your farm, if you have a good location do uot sel1 out e *P ec !? ll £ t0 ^ etter lt because you ,T° oftered a f ood P rice - If ^ur uel 8“ bor cai * T ia * e farming pay on yo ” r far ! n resolve that you can do it as weU as be cau ‘ Plau a system of im puhcncht, and as your means warrant, carry this sys te “ out - Do not enter in to auy s P 0Culatlon , , either with other people's money or your own. Do not mort K a 8 e y° ur farm to buy goods. Do not bu Y fancy stoek at enormous prices, wi<bout knowing how you will make tde Livestmeut profitable. Do not keep 1>oor stock when you can keep good at tlie 8ame expense and with twice the profit: ' 1)0 nofc be tempted by high P rices to plant excessively of any one cro P* Ten chances to one the price tbat cr °P wid 1)6 low at harvest time, while the price of the crops you neg lected will be high. Do not try to grow for . whlch . . , farm . is 3rops your not atla P te, b Resolve (and stick to it) that if industry and good management will make it so, your farm shall be a profita ble one. Put your surplus earnings into such . ----- improvements as will add to the Pr°fit. appearance and convenience of '' our fann - Mu ke experiments, despite ' vhat your neighbors may say. Make yourse * ves thoroughly acquainted with the Principles of agriculture and be K mdei1 by them. Do not keep more stock than yon have pasture for. If you ake ^ mole^to selTpart “ <>f 'pessary land improvements. your and use the monev to mv tout debts or make 7 tout imnpov«. iwpro>e meuti.^Exckaiige FOR THE BEST HOW ING HACHINE. The Wood Tubular Steel mow¬ er is given up to be the best made, so says every one who uses it. The Walter A. Wood M. & R. Machine Co. received the gold medal for the best mower at the Atlauta Exposi¬ tion last year, and at nearly all other fairs and expositions where it was exhibited. The material is op the very best, has steel driving wheels, and besides being the most durable it has more power and runs lighter than any other ma¬ chine, has an equal drart on both hor¬ ses and is no heavier on stock than ordinary plowing. Ip you are think¬ ing op buying a mower all that is asked is that you see it work or ask some one Alio has run the Wood Machine. 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