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LHE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION.
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ATLANTA. GEORGIA. TUESDAY. JANUARY 16.1883.
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FURMAN’S FARM.
WONDERFUL WORK ON A SCRUB
FARM,
Growing from Sight Bole* of Cotton on S’xty
Acres to Ono Hundred Belts, and Bow the X..
oresas waa Hade-Formula for reading
the Earth - Startling Figures.
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Special to the Atlanta Constitution.
Atlanta, Ga., September 30.—I suppose there are
few readera of To* Constitution who do not remem*
ber Parish Furman.
He wa» a bright and brainy senator in 1876, and—
led the capital campaign againit Atlanta—wan men
tioned for congress—and I always esteemed him as
one of the best equipped and moat capable of our
young politicians. A few years ago be quit politics
and went to farming. I heard that he had settled on
a thin piece of land with poor prospects, and, in com
mon with many of his friends, thought he had
dropped out of aflaira.
At the last agricultural convention he electrified
the older farmers of the state with the details of the
most astounding five years' farming ever done in a
southern state, and Is Unlay more talked about in the
itate than If ha had served in congress twenty year*.
I have heard the record of hl» wonderful work sev
eral times within the past few months, and the com
ment with which it is usually greeted is, “I don’t be
lieve it.'* I simply say tbst I have the authority of
at least ihree excellent gentlemen for the truth of the
following main points:
Furman started work with sixty acres of the
very poorest laud In middle Georgia ti vo yearn ago.
The first year he made eight bates of cotton on the
slxryacres, or less than one talo to eight acres.
This shows thst It was the poorest of scrub land.
Tho second > ear he pul 600 pounds of compost to the
acre, and made twelve bales of cotton where he made
eight before.
The third year he used 1,000 pounds of compoat to
the acre, increased the yield on the 60 acres to 23
bales.
The third year he used 2,000 pounds of compost to
the acre and Increased hit crop to 47 bales on 60 acres.
The fourth year he used 4,000 pounds of compost to
the acre, and bis crop la certainly above 80 to the 60
acres, and may reach 100 bales.
He has done all this work with two plows, and eigh
teen days extra plowing. Ills official and detailed
statement shows that the total expenses were 92,300,
and hla net profit 92,725, a fine record on a two-horse
farm. In addition, the laud thst was worth 93 an
acre fire years ago is now worth 9100 an acre. Bowl’h
two mules this year he lias raised at least eighty bales
of cotton, 1,000 bushels of oats and 400 bushels of
corn.
Isn't that a better record than he could have made
In congress 7 Hasn’t he done the state more good by
this demonstration than he could have done by ten
years of political speeches t
WHAT MB. FURMAN SATS ABOUT IT.
I had a talk with Furman to-day. Ho ia the very
picture of health, prosperity and Intelligent enthu*
•iaun. With a perfectly independent Income, and the
secret of a better one In hla band, he la truly a happy
man. He said to me:
’’When I determined to go to farming, five yean
ago. I saw that it Would not do to farm in the old
way. I saw far'* era around me getting poorer every
dtr. though they worked like slaves. I saw them
starving their land so that each year their y‘cld waa
seamier, and tbeir farms less valuable. 1 saw that
waa atilt the plow following the ax. and that as fasti
a farmer starved one piece of laud he cleared out
new piece* With 800,000 Immigrants pouring Into
thla country annually, and the public domain vir
tually pre-empted, I realized that thUi wasteful sys
tem must stop somewhere and soon. \\ orse than all,
1 saw that my own land rented to small farmers,
was 25 ran cent, rooaxa and less valuable
than It was s few years ago, and that It would soon
cease to pay me rent. I knew that Geoigla was blessed
with the beet conditions of season and soil, and that
If properly treated It would yield large results.
I therefore selected 60 acres of the poorest land I
had and went to work. The first thing of course, was
to enrich the soil To do this there was but one way
to f» t<I it, and to give It more food than the crops
took from It-and above s!l, to give it the proper food
1 knew that certain phoepha.lc manures stimulated
the soil so that it produced heavv crops for awhile and
then fell ofl. 1 wanted none of this. 1 n id not believe
In soil analysis. That was not exact enough.
•T*»TIX0 TUB APfrrrre or the earth.
“What I wanted waa to know exactly whata perfect
cotton plant took from the soil. That sscertslnfd
then to rTatorelathe soil exactly those elements lu
larger qnat.tity than the crop had abstracted them.
Tws Is the basis of Intensive farming, and It will al
ways give laud that U richer year •«ter year. I had
a cotton plant analysed, and found that I needed
eight elements in my manure, of which commercial
fertilizers furnish only three, and the soil only one.
1 therefore determined to buy chemicals and mix them
with bumim, muck, decayed leaves, stable rnxnu re and
cotton seed till I had secured exactly what was needed.
I old so, and st last produced a perfect c.unt-o*t for
CcttooTl then ascertained that my crop of eight bales
., | had taken out of each acre of my land as much of the
! I constt uents Ot cotton aa waa held In 250 pounds of my
M \ comp at. I therefore put 5U> pounds of compost on
cacnacre, restoring double what the crop of the year
before had taken out. The result wra that 1 made
four ba!« extfa I then restored double what the
twelve bales bad taken out and made twenty-three
bales. I doubled the reetoraton the next y«»r aud
gf.t forty-seven titles. 1 doubled again, aud this year
lava a . least dgbty bales.”
“But does this extra manuring payT”
’’Immensely* Here are my figure*—2.000 poundaof
my£mpu*t costs 97*5, or «4» a tboumndpunda
Ibe first year I put 600 pounds to the acre—rwt ILSO
an acre, cf till for B0 acres But my eroprtH from
u to 12 ittiea, the extra 4 bates giving me WO a irplus.
or 98) net oo m> manure. The ext year my manure
(lajQO pounds to the acre) c**t |234; but my crop in*
cita?alto23 balee from Son uamanured land. Three
exua tales give me 9750, or net profit oo manure of
OUt. The next year I used 2,000 pounds per acreat
Sat of 9725 *471j£ toad^utmycrop
went from • to « b^igvl^Uwued income cl
|l,W, or net ever coetol manured about 11,800. TWi
with thla manure, where it was 8 without. This In
crease of 72 bales is worth 93 600. Deduct coat of ma
nure, 9*.M0, and we have 92,650 os tho profit on use of
manure. ’
"And then the land is so much richer.”
“Certainly. It is worth 9100 ati acre, where It was
AN AVEBAOB OP THREE BALES 1
. ring
year, putting 8.000 pounds to the acre. I believe I
will get 150 bales from the 65 acres. I hope to pu*h it
up to three bales an acre, f have a few acres on which
ing off my enormous crop. I leave my land richer
than before. I cultivate my sixty acres with two
plows, and I will make 150 bales with those two plows
on slxtv seres. That will be glory enough for me.
and will be a revelation to the world. 1 believe I will
get ninety t«tea this year with two plows. I have
already picked thirty bales and the best judges say
hardly one third Is yet picked. This Is an astounding
result, and simply shows what intensive farming will
THE FORMULA FOR TUB COMPOST.
‘•How do you make this compoat?"
Hero Is my formula:
Take 2ft bushels well rotted stable manure, or well rot'
ted organic matter, as leaves, murk, or rich top earth,
scatter it gliout three inches thick upon a piece of
ground so situated that water will not stand oil it, but
ahrd off In every direction. The 23 bushels will
weigh about 750 pounds; then take two hundred
and fifty pounds "Parish Furman's Formula ” and
scatter evenly on the surface. Take next twenty-flv«
bushels green cotton seed and distribute evenly over
the surf cc, and wet them thoroughly; they will
weigh seven hundred and fifty pounds: take again
two hundred and fifty pounds "K*rl«h Furmsn’s
Formula" and spread over the seed We now have
2,000 pounds—or 1 ton. We then go lark to stable
immure, or muck, or rich ct’Ut, and pile up In this
way as high as we care to go, k typing shove prono--
tlun, then cover with six inches of rich top earth from
fence corner-, and leave at hast six weeks; when ready
to haul to the field cut with a spado or pickax square
down and mix as thoroughly as possible. Now, wn
hr.ve twenty-five bushels of manure weighing seven
hundred aud fifty pounds, and two hundred pounda
M Parish Furman's Formula,” andtwt nty-flv. bushels
FURMAN’S FORMULA.
My formula, aa furnished by Mr. H. H. Colquitt, ia made, under my direction, of the
highest grade materials. Mr. Colquitt has my brand put on every sack, and bo alone is
authorized to use my nam% I do this aa a protection to myself, and to farmers who may
desire to follow my method. * F. C. FURMAN.
I offer “FURMAN'S FORMULA,” the finest Fertilizer ever sold, at
very low prices. Purchase this Fertilizer, follow printed directions which
I furnish, and your compost will not cost you $10 per ton.
ISTNone genuine unless branded “Furman’s Formula.”
H. H. COLQUITT,
40 Marietta St., Atlanta, Ga.
*6TFarmers, make up clubs. Dealers protected in their territory.
one hundred bufthels of oata to the acre, and after
cleaning off the stubble I planted the cotton, oner
of which I showed the convention "
"Of course. In your five yean of study you have dis
covered other improvements In cotton planting?”
•*Ce tainly. One Is not to drop the cotton seed in a
continuous row. but simply to put a few seed In the
hill where you want a plant. By strewing the seed In
a sprinkled row there Isa great waste. A cotton seed
is like an egg. When the chick Is born there la noth
ing hut the shell lelt. When the seed has sprouted
there's nothing hut the shell left. The fertilizing
power of this seed is lost. Worse than this. It draws
from the soil for the elements that make it grow. It Is
left to depleto the soil In this way for two weeks at
least, and Is then chopped down. Icavl g only one out
of twenty plants to grow to fruitage. My plan Is to
plant four or five seed in a hill, tho hills to stand in
four feet squares. Of these 1 would lot two plants to
the hill grow to perfection. It takes from two to four
bushels of seed to plant an aero in the old w y. V
my pirn a peck to the acre is enough, and the soil _
not drawn on to support a multitude of surplus plants
for two or three weeks.”
“Is planting in four foot squares letter than the old
two t»,'©ther In four foot squares,
150 boils to the plant This wjll give me a pound of
seed cotton to the plant, «>r three bales to the acre."
UK NKVER HOES Ills COTTON.
"What about hoeing your cotton ?"
*‘I never touch It with a hoe The growth of cotton
comes from the spreading filaments that reach out
feet compost. You perceive t
have the per-
per J -
Value at cash cost is:
SO bushes cotton seed. 12% cents
(Stable manure, nominal.
Total 99 63
This mixture makes practically a perfect manure for
cotton and a splendid application for corn.
*i Ills restores to the soil everything the cotton took
"Except silica, which is in the soil In Inexhaustible
quantity. 80 that when you put in a larger quantity
of these tbau the cotton took out, your soil Is evident
ly richer."
"You do not believe In commercial fertilizers?"
"In a certain respect There are many fertilizers
thst are made with a view to showy results thst really
E tch and impoverish the land, twaldea taking all the
rmor's cash I donut believe in than. But the
chemicals that are prepared for composting are very
reliable, and wo could not do without them. The se
cret of success is buying these chemicals Judiciously
aud composting with leaves, humus, cotton seed, etc.
No farmer esn succeed permanently without compost
ing. The greatest waste in the south is with stable
manure. Many farmers never think of saving It. In
Uldo the compost raised on one 53-acre fanu, from ten
never go deep enough to cut the roots But there are
iron details in which men may differ The main
thing is the Intensive system of manuring and the
husbanding all the droppings and wsUge of the farm
for compost. I can tike any 100 acres of Jar d in Oeor-
f ;ia ami at a nominal cost can tiring its production
rnm a sixth of a bale to three bales an acre in five
years. Any man can do It.”
"Isyour system getting many followers?”
"My tenants are adopting tho intensive plan, aud
—•e very much encouraged. Nome few neighbors a»e
using my formula. 1 have sent out, I suppose, 500
formulas for composting. The speech 1 made before
tho agricultural association created more excitement
than anything in yeais. The members did not relish
•» y statements, I ssw plainly. They sent Mr. E. C.
Grier, the secretary, to Millvdgcville tos*-e my crop*
and verify my statements. He is to-day the most en
thusiastic msu in Georgia over the sys.cm I am work-
* D "You understand,” added Mr. Furman In conclu
sion, “that I have no pojtlble interest In this matter
outside of my crops. I fcave no receipt to sell, no
phosphates, no fancy seed, no land. Whit I havo
done has been with coini.ioutecd on poor land, with
cheap manure, and i-nr man. without price cr pur
chase, can do what I hive dons. I atn satisfied to
make my money out of ihc ground, and I want none
from ray fellow-fat mats.”
“Are you enlacing y. nr work?”
"Yes, but sl.'Wfy. The difficulty with us all is
'h t wc try to farm too much laud. I’m good for
93,000 wPh two mules slid sixty acres. Next year
I’ll beat this. In the meantime, I am • bringing up”
twciny five new sere. I never want over one bun
ded acres. Tin* • I will cultlvsi with three mules.
and i'll make two hundred and flf*y bslea of coiton
on them, beside alltue corn and na«s I need."
"I am anxious.” ho added, “to scetuy plan adopt
If it iadone we snail have the bcstotutein tho wot
Why, look at France! Her recup. ratlve power ia the
wonder of the wo ld. Aud what is it baaed on?
Simply that she c.in n»i*e two crops-one of these a
lentil crop—in one season. But in middle Gromit I
can raise three crops per reason on a ploce of land and
leave it richer than when I started, vis: o*ts, cotton
or corn, and peas There Is nothing liko It. .Give me
100 acres of land like the 601 own now, and 1 don’t
want an orange grove, or a factory, o a truck larra, or
anything else. 1 c n live on tn? 100 acres of Georgia
scrub laud like a king, and lay up money every year.
Any O.Hjrgiaii can have this lu five years. If he wants
It. The rule I have followed will bring it. Just m sure
ly as the sun brings beat snd light.
And yet the best class of the 8t»te University gradu
ated 23 lawyers, 6 Journalists, an! not a single farmer
climate and soil combined make her, the garden spotXof
the world.
1 herewith give you my formula for compost cor
rectly:
Cost.
1-30 bnaheis stable manure, well rotted vegetable
_ ...matter $ .00
l-iro tbs acid phosphate 9 SB
J-toOlb# kainit 75
*-*» bushel* cotton seed J 75
4- »D lbs acid phosphate
5- 100lba kainit.
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THE “FURMAN FARM."
MAJOR R. J.
A Latter from Mr. Farm an-Why Hla System Will
Staad Drought Major Mos-s Stands to the
Kaok-Soa* Xotanslvo Farming tn Mua*
oogae-Other Matters of Interest.
FURMAN'S FORMULA.
Another thing Is that our farmers do not appre
ciate cotton seed. That comes nearer to being a per
fect fertiliser than any one thing itt the world. And
yet over 100,000 bushels were sold at my depot but for a
trifile and hauled away ”
"You do not believe In cotton seed mills then?”
“Yea I do. I think the seed is Just aa Rood a fer
tilize;' after the oil ia extracted as before. The trouble
is when it U sent to the oil mill it never comes back.
Once made into cotton meal it is sent to England for
stock food, and the Georgia farm is robbed ot It.
“You see the English or northern fanner can sflord
top-y more for it than we can, because he feeds it to
hla it4»ck, and then saves the dropping of the stock In
this way he fattens his cattle with It and ■•ill uses It
as a manure sftor It has performed this function. We
do not reach the economy because we haven’t the
stock to feed it to, and because we do not save the ma
nure of the stock we do feed. The Ideal sys’etn would
be to tike the seed to an oil mill, sell the right to the
oil. have the premed cake returned, feed It to stock
and then return it to the soil in .be shape of drop
pings from the animal. This will come lu time. It is
one of the results of the Intensive system of f -rmlng
The more manure we need for compost, the more sheep
and cattle we’ll need. The more stock ws have the
move cotton seed cake we’U need. The more cotton
seed coke we feed to stock at home the richer our lands
will be. We waste millious of dollars annually from
the failure to pen our stock at night. There 1* no ex
cuse for any Georgian staying poor or staiving bis
“With his cotton seed and stable manure saved <*nd
composted with decayed leaves, fine straw, etc., any
farmer can become rich If he wants to, and double the
value of his land lu three years.”
“How much compost should be used to the acre?”
"It is ha d to use too much. In France the average
is20,000 pounds to the acre. A Georgia farmer will
hardly avenge lOu pounda to the sere, f will average
10 000 pounda next year. Nothing psys so well.”
MOW TO SCATTBE TTIX COMPOST.
“How do you se tterso much to the sere?"
"Slmi4*et thing in the wor d. I start a two horse
agon through toe field. I put eight Leg-o*a with
..slf bushel bask* ts without handle*, under th*4rarms
In the track of each Wagon. They sift the compost out
the bvkets as they walk along, and Itave their bas
kets filled from the w«g-m. I have changed the po
dlion of my cotton-row* four Inch** L* the rfglst every
ye r, so that the compost ur-*uM «<e thrown In r.ew
strips every year. lu tnia way I have fertU'zed my
whole tt> Id, inste d ot curb-hing the a*me rows year
after year. I shell hereafter broadcast it.
I’ve shown you the -- „ - -
There an many other advantages You make your
crop quicker aud with le*a danger. I made la-1 year—
taa a tbi»—47 bales on OJ acre* in th ce months and
five days. It was planted Juue 5th, sod the caterplll r
hula bed It on September 10th I showed the ■* Icul-
turel society a stalk five feet high with 126 bo Is by ac
tual count on it. Tbeseed from which thla p sat grew
was planted lait fifty-nine dsjn brtora. Cotton grown
Urn. Parish rarmaa Writes tmCmrrfi Krreas-
•as Imprcsstsss #f Ills Work.
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist: I write you
to thank yon for the handsome manner In which yo*
have seen fit to refer to myself In your editorial headed,
"Furman Farm and Theory*” From the conclusion ar
rived at therein, however, and reiterated In s subsequent
article entitled, "Furman's Formula," that my system In
the hands of others would be likely to prove a failure, I
must beg to differ, and under the circumstances feel that
perhaps It Is due the public that I should assert that dif
ference, and give the reasons upon which it Is based.
Ills an old saying, and one In which there Is much phil
osophy, and more truth that “there la more In the mao
than there is In Uie land," and this saw would oeem to
hear you out in your conclusions.
Take two men with equal advantages of soli, capital
and education, and start them to farming, and tho one
will grow rich and prosper, while the other Is sold out by
the sheriff and starves This Is true of men in every call
ing In life, and yet that It Is so should be no disparage,
ment upon any system or method thst properly pursued
and carried out Is a certain road to success, as when trod
with caution and Intelligence.
Even with a system the Inevitable result of which Is
perfect success If perfectly applied, few arrive at that
perfection; but, nevertheless, every attempt to reach
perfection brings about growth and development, and as
a certain resaltant, an amount cither greater or less of
Improvement In methods and results.
It may be that not many of the farmers who read Mr.
David Dickson's book and adopted Ills system referred to
by you, were as saccctsfiil as Mr. Dickson; hot the fact
Is uncontrovcrted thst the system of cultivation odvo.
cated and Introduced by Mr. Dickson has been generally
adopted by Intelligent farmers throughout the south*
and has constituted an Important factor In what little
development we have had In our agricultural Interests.
The system which I have adopted and advocate (for
with me It is no longer a theory) Is one which I am satis-
fled will at no distant day prove the salvation of the ag-
rlcnltarlsts of this country. With our old, slipshod
methods, and unsatisfactory results, farming has fallen
Into disrepute. An Impression prevails, and Justly too
that with the prevailing system there la uo money to he
made In this country at farming, and we have had no ex*
ample as yet with ns of a second Cinctnnatns, so that no
Inducement to held out to the braloa of the country to
draw them toward the soli as a probable source from
whence wealth or honor Is to be derived.
With my system properly applied, returns and remuno*
ratlve ones are as#red, and earely the fact that all wb#
follow In my footsteps m »y not equal my results, should
be do ground lor discouragement, and the prediction
that my system In the bonds of others will prove n
failure.
Once let that system be understood (and It to simplicity
Itself, for all that It does to to follow nature), and lu op
plication will, I predict, be general, and generally sue
cessful. In proof of this assertion, I will say that my ne
gro tenants are adopting It with marked success, and are
now as macb interested In compost and tbemlcals as I
am myself. Three years ago I could not keep them from
selling their cotton seed. To-day no Inducement would
moke them port with them. I And them quick to catch
my Ideas and eager to apply them practically.
When our yoaag men of talent torn their attention, as
they soon will do, to the true source of wealth and hap
piness, which they have so long spurnsd noder thtlr tout,
n few decade* willtosths Georgia of tht totur* whathsr
Marietta street there to a new foundry end
machine shop In which a largo force of the men are very
busy. A Pittsburg manufacturer, coming oat of this
foundry tho other day, said:
"I havejast seen a casting made In that building that
equals anything that I ever saw made In the cast, and
that l thought could not he made In the south.”
This foundry was built for the manufacture of the
Globe cotton planter that created such a furore at the
expoattlon, and that took rank as the most useful agri
cultural Implement there. They were formerly menu-
factored by the Kemlngtons, at Illon, New York, hut the
demand became so great that a company was formed
with |50,no0 capital for the purpose of manufacturing
them In Atlanta, where they can be distributed to the
cotton section with less freight and lower prices. This
company has commenced operations, with Mr. T. M.
Darna, the Inventor, ss president and general manager;
Mr. W. 8. Thomson, as treasurer; K. Kent, as secretary;
and Rush Thomson, ss superintendent. The success of
the«*ompanv has been phenomenal. A gentleman sent
out to travel over the whole sonth found that he would
be kept tho whole season supplying orders In Texas.
The company Is manufaetnrlng as rapidly as possible,
and has not yet consigned a single planter, the actual
sales outrunning tho capacity. They are now prepared
to make from three to six thousand a year, and will push
everything to snnpty the demand. The factory to organ
ized on the best principle, and the work to not surpassed
anywhere. It 1s fair to say that there to no agrlcultnral
Implement now before Uiu country that has anything
like such strong Indorsement as the Globe planter* At
the Isle exposition It took the highest certificate and a
special grand gold uiedal aa best, it this exposition
there were 2t competitors, and tor eleven days the vari
ous planters were In the field lu the presence ot the
Judges, members of the National cotton planters' asau*
elation, and thousands ot the very best farmers In the
•oath. It carried off the prise by an easy fight at very
much the best that was exhibited. Much better than
this was the Indorsement that It received from practical
fanners. Colonel Kd. Richardson, the largest cotton
planter lu the world, boa„ht between twenty and forty
of the planters. Colonel B. B. Ulcks, the next largest
planter In Mississippi, bought ten of the Globe planters,
and has given an enthusiastic certificate of their merit,
Mr* C. ll.Bmlth, a large planter In Mississippi, bought
twelve of the planters, and pronounces them superior In
every respect to any he ever used. Mr. A. D. Lawhon,
of Macon station, Mississippi, bos tbrts of them that he
tried on different kinds of land, and he writes that they
gave a perfect stand of cotton, and that In planting 1(W
acres be saved seed enough alone, over the old way of
planting, to pay for the planters, aud says: "It to the
most perfect planter I have ever seen." Messrs. W. V.
Dickinson. L. F.Oary. A. D. Lawhon, J A. Collins, and
W. F* Gordon, of Macon station, Mississippi, have
blned to say that they have tested It on Vvery variety of
land, and that It to far better than any planter they ever
used, and the only planter that ever successfully worked
their land. These certificates are hut a few out of thou
•suds that could bo furnished. At the Weldon, N. G\,
fair, the first prise waa also token. «.t the Arkansas
state fair the first prise was given to the globe planter,
and a committee was appointed by the National Cotton
Planters association to Investigate the matter, recom
mended the globe planter to tbe association as the best
In short, wherever It baa been exhibited, whether before
Individual planters or communities or committees, It h* s
the first place over all competitors. It has nevtr
exhibition. Wherever one Is Introduced H icreates
tain demand tor others. The cost Is put at f»». T
higher than aome wooden machine* that continually
need repair, and last tor only two or three vears, but the
Globe planter, with the exception of handles and beam,
I* all Iron, and so nearly faulUeM In construction that It
will last at ordinary lifetime and never ered repairs. As
to whether a farmer can afford to psy • « for this machine
when he can plant by hand the old way, we submit the tot*
,0 Take 'tor'exomple 80 acres and figure up the cost of
planing It bv hand, andI than the Globe planter. Bay It
takes, by either method, 7 days to do It. Bv the first
method yon use I horses and 4 hands. They are
certainly worth BOcentsi each, or |I.Wp» r day
not counting iheir board-7 days. .......Ill u>
Assume the cotton seed to be worth IS rent*
per bushel, and that you ure fi bushels per
acre. This would require3ftObu*hels ...37 90-954 90
By the second method you us* one hand and
one mule at90cenu earh-7 days........ 7 00
Seed used 3 bushels per a» re, or MS)hu*heUat
15 cents IS (W- » O)
A clear saving In one year of 93* »
Being |3C50 above the coat of the machine, besides
planting the crop so maeh better than can possljly be
^corresponding saving can be relied on In drilling
corn, peas and fertilisers.
It will be seen that any farmer who plants as ranch as
luto 19 acres in cotton can afford to bny a planter and
U will pay for itself in a season or two, besides doing tbe
'% , suanksus»siBnii!b «,«
sufficient capital, headed by men of the highest character
SW'S SSl R!SSCU , ai^t
that will pay tor Itoalf In planting thirty acres ol cotton,
and Inst a lifetime. They mnnufe tare their own mn-
chlnce, and know tbntthe material ossd to of the best.
They will supply every southern state from heir factory
n Atlanta, as headquarters, and U to oar bon st opinion
bat every machine they sell represents a saving of at
east |» a year to tbe average coMon-plantej of the
sooth, making him ro*»re Independent of labor tb >a ever,
saving hla cotton seodl and guaranteeing him better mops.
They will be prepared, as ws have aafd before, to m ae
several tnoasaaa during the coming year, and will in*
crease this capacity If it Is toaad peeessary. It ts an In
stitution of which the south should be prou I. As soon
on we learn Pi manufacture oar own agricultural imple
ments, and our farmers learn to ate only the best, wa
shall become independent and prosp^foos.
The cut below represents the implement to w. lcb
It will be remembered that Sir. John P. Fort, while In
dorsing the general results achieved by Mr. Farlsh Fur-
expressed a doubt as to whether or not his crops
would stand a drought.
Desiring to give the people exact Information on this
subject, we asked Mr. Furman to write us his answer—If
he had any answer to this suggested objection. He writes
• follows:
LLKiKitvtLLR, October 37.—fn reply to "Man Aboat
Town," In the Sunday’s Issue of Tiro CoxertTUTing a
difficulty advanced by Mr. John P. Fort as an objection
to my Intensive system of farming Is this, "that heavy
manuring renders a crop more liable to burn np from
drought In summer." I have this to say. Had Mr. Fort
r " seen me, and had an explanation of my system, he
J never, I am satisfied, have entertained or ad
vanced such an opinion aa applicable to that system.
THU TlltORT of DROUOUT OR (.'ROPS.
Crops suffer from drought for two causes.
1. On account of an Insufficient supply of plant food.
3. From lack or moisture to renderthe food. If present,
soluble, mid Unfit prepared to be assimilated by the
plant.
If food to supplied In plenty and ol proper kind, and
enough moisture secured and retained to carry your crop
through von are In no danger of drought. For example:
No one ever saw a crop of any kind that did not stand a
drought Infinitely better whore an old hedgerow covered
the field, or a manure pita tiad stood In the field, than In
any other part of the farm. Now an old hedgerow to
fertilized entirely by nature-tlin ground under a manure
pile to fertilised by man. and were It possible to make
the whole field like the hedgerow or the ground
nndcr the manure pile, then the evil effects of drought
would he directly diminished. Now the hedgerow to
manured by nature, bringing together an aggregation of
organic matter and liumns In the shape ot decaying veg
etation, and Uie ground under the manure pile Is en
riched tty the leaching Into U of mineral matter from the
pile. In both Instances the humus and mineral matter
being disseminated through Uie soil. If a mannra pile
were allowed to stand on the hedge row, adding mlueral
matter and ammonia to the humus already In the soil, the
benefit wonld be still more marked, and the plants grow
ing on that spot would bn practically unaffected by
drought. Any experienced farmer will vouch for the
truth of this assertion.
This Is what I endeavored to accomplish In my system.
My manure ton mixture of humus, ammonia, (same aa
hedge row) and soluble miners! matter, (same asmannre
heap.) And a part of the kainit (M)- to common
which Is a great attractor or moisture. My method of
application to such as after the first year to obviate any
danger from drought. Observe: My rows aro four feet
wide, every year I change the row twelve Inehes.sothat
In four years the rows are manured In the drill clear
across. The fifth year I manure broadcast, and turn un
der with a sulky turn plow set by machinery six Inches,
and plant in the hill 4x1. Next yesr manure broadcast
again and turn under .seven toche*, and so on. turnln/r
deeper every year, as I apply hnmns until I get my soil
13 Inches deep. Then I will he able to set any ordinary
drought at defiance, and call for an average crop S hale#
per acre. . ..
i have many letters asking me l_ _
begin with pounds of compost to the acre the first
year. That might lie hazardous, hut beginning, os 1 did
with «0 and Increasing every year, aa the manure lie*
comee more disseminated through the soil, all danger to
thwarted, F* C. Furman.
MAJOR Monte MARKS rOtMA* A VI-IT,
Mslnr IL J. Meses, of Columbus, who could not take
the entire story of Furman’s form, went to Mllledgevlll#
that he might sea for himself. Ths result of bis investiga
tion to told below:
I rend the statement of Orady In Tnt Constitution,
* I knew him In M«*neral to be accnratelnhto
FURMAN IMTZNTIRWXD.
Farlsh Forman was in town Isst week looking fat and
happy. He was the center of attraction, and was piled
with questions to hto intensive system of farming. He
said.
"I have already gathered 81 bales of cotton from my <5
acres, and will get 75 to 80 bales. If It bad not been for
the storm I would have picked 80 to 100 balea."
"You bad ffi acres In cotton ?"
"I thought 1 had, but I have Just had It surveyed, and it
to Just 80 acres. Bat I am going to reduce even this next
year. I find Uiat 30 acres of my land has no clay under
It, and I'm going to plant grain and grass on it altogether,
until I give It more substance.
What will yon do with the other 40 acres?"
I will make it produce 100 bates of cotton, or two and
a half bales to the acre. I believe I can do It next year
I'm going to mannre for It and plant for It, and I'm dead
sure to get It—In two years If not next ye*r."
“ boa * ^ p>“ »■
A! W9
more ihap satisfied with what they Mw.and have gone
homo determined to do likewise. My book*, bills, re
ceipts, evi rythlng have been open to Inspection, and 1
have been g.ad to give any Information. A great many
•ati*ni-(| that I have pualiL-tl my land just os fast as was
any event the reform will be beneficial If It only eon-
y necs the farmers that It will pa/ them to save their sta
ble manure and compost It with leaves. Anything that
tend* to make them save and economize wlh be a benefit
to the aonth. As for me. Intensive forming bo* paid me
10 on . 6 two-muto form, end
doubled the value of my land. I shall stick to It.
$ioo imt cold:
and although I knew him In g-neral to be ocean...
mala fart*. I thought boaslble In stating the results of
on'* farming, that they might possibly be colored
^OMlna^oi/jfbrTUlrrr^l^raMi^^^i
irniao'sto
sny h ihlng he hasTately w'ri11en.YxrrptlilYdraeriptloa of
•* surf bathing," and while my modesty prevented me
from verity Ing hto accuracy as to seashore amusements,
there was nolli ‘ “
selrhto
»prevent my Investigating for my-
t-lf hi* agricultural report "t tytr bales to a mule I
bought somehow, he hod mixed It nn with the old radl*
|*1 promise of forty acres and a mule, and to solve all
bmbmrtiMgiMfoMmifor myaelf-arat saw.
PffiRPJMBwtrr homestead la nesflffiH
■Moftlie red hlila for which Mllledgevlllu win I IliffiB
roundings ore hlstorfml. As I drove up to the plscit
which I last visited in toff? on an Important law ro»*e that
I was attending to for Carter, whose grandson, Furman,
Inowoccuple* It, a thousand old memories returned to
me, and among others, the fact that this place woareto
lertrd by the u«nr ' • — "■
II aome ofC- l'-r'a
[ The old Farlsh-carler homestead la near ficotsboro, on
L^|kMtoM|||mffiU|yill|eilgivllls amU|jM|to
I drove up to t
II Important law r
.. vliose grandson, 1
I old memories n turnei
..... ... fort that thla place wa
r'd nho it mgroen, (who lived
land In North Georgia), ttccaase
It was too poor to be sickly, there wm not rich laud
enough anywhere In the nHgblmrhood to support a *
cent case of ehltl and fever, and f doubt If Ita fora
peas." and he was under no necessity to Improve It. The
land* around the homestead, like thousand* of seres Ini
Georgia, lay out as arid a* the desert.
■ I ought to "ay before g-dng farther that when ( arrived
HiMMIedgeville I naked some of the citizens about Fur-
farm. and they ••simile" mu Incredulous smile, and
hod Ih*I
at Mliredgevllle I
man's farm, and tl.
wound up by saying,'
,iff.
KAINIT, ACID PHOSPHATE,
OSIER’S BILK COTTON SEED,
DOW LAW COTTON PLANTERS,
McCUHMIcK REAPERS,
1IILLO MAZE,
AS* 6«ds of All kinds S’. MARK W., OHNSON A CO,,
unsri.' a wii
srlttta bt., Atlanta, G*.
... belter see for yourself tit
Is only five mile- oW." I began to think I hadbeen sold,
but. having goto* thus for, I hired * horse and baggy oral
took one of my Incredulous Mllledgsvllle friends along
so that I might have a witness to prove Orsdy a-imfi-
taken Individual). On arriving at Ihe farm wr Inquired
for Furman t H»* was at hU gin, and we went for him,
passing through very excellent cotton, hut not the kind
that make* over a hale to the acre, Mid we thought wa
had him." I felt rather sad but my willrdgevdle friend
looked Joyous: he had on the "didn't I tell you so" look.
We soon met Furman, and be cnminrnred talking aul-
phatea, hi anlphates, humus, phosphoric acid, solubles,
and Insoluble* *o fost that I called him to a halt, quietly
Informing him that I had come for Information and that
e wanted me to learn anything, he must "go alow."
tried to hut couldn't, lie Is naturally a fast man. but
re wa* no raMaklng him. . lie said, * r rkto tomy worst
ton; come along ini* way," whereupon we fo'lowed
».or rather mr friend did: I couldn't except part of
the way. The storm hod blown the cotton down and
tangled It so that my old .toga could not aatwwt the
twining norj-irop over It without untwisting It. I lite
rally SAW a Wlldorne-s of rotlomone flrbl on which, I
thing, he said he had from 4 to lO/BO pounds of Compost,
looked like a vast snow flake, aud judging from the num
ber of unopened boll*. It prow toed[to keep a snowing for
some time longer. I am not niurh of a cotton planter,
and f am not quits tore f would have believed It was cot
ton, If mv Mllledgevllle friend had not Indorsed Furman
aa felly and emphatically a* Grier Indorsed Grady, and
as I now Indorse nil they hnve said or dare to say on th«
wonderful products of Fnrtnan'* sixty acres, off of
which he had then, on the 9th of October, MMhered forty*
five hales, nnd lie and my MUIeegi-vllle friend said the
balance of the senson was gomT for thirty-five more,
which would make eighty; and that ten to fifteen balea
a* a moderate allowance for Injurle* dona ny the otorm,
»that with the same season* and th* *tormleno«t, the
xly acre* wm good for Nlaety*flv* to one hundred
..ales. Tins wm their opinion. In which I folly con
curred t hut being entirely nnacoastomed to any such
cotton field*. I wm prepared to believe anything, and If
they hod sold the sixty acre* would msike one hun
dred and nny bole* I should not have been nay more enr-
prised th»n I wm|o see such *n epidemic of cotton boll*
n any field Icm tortile than th* Delta of tbe # Klle. #
In eoaeloslon. yon may rely upon It an a fact that Far-
Ish Furman will gather this year from II to SO hole* of
cotton, mod* wit • twomnl** and U daysextra plowing,
betide* 900 bushel* oats, BO or 4>0 bushel* corn, sod hay
in abandonee, and others following hto methods can do
tbe lf1|Ijr( r. j. Mosx*.
FCSMAN’a FORMtLA.
Lnytr Coat.
1 30 bushels stobl* manure or rich earth
wood* or fence corners, satins*-
The proprietor, of the Wizkly Coxstito-
tion, appreciating the (More of it* agent, end
of the public in general, make the following
offer!
$50 1q Ooid.—To tie peraon tending in
the largcat number of weekly lubtcrlberi for a
yo»r’» aubacription from the lit of February,
1883, to the Inf of February, 1884, we will girt
a priae of $80 in gold.
$25 In Gold.—'To the peraon tending fa
the next largest Hat of aubteribera during the
ammo lime we will give $2-5 in gold.
$16 In Gold.—To the peraon aendlng In
the next largeat Hat we will glre $16 in gold.
$10 In Gold.—To the peraon aending in
the next largeat Hat we will gire $10 in gold.
ttaTOur traveling agentt will not compete
for theie prizes.
Any peraon, whether an agent now or not,
can enter for theae prize, by simply sending
us their namca, with request that they be put
on prise Hat.
The name, of agent* will be recorded in a
book, and each aubecrlberaent will be credited
to the proper contestant.
Huheoribcrs sent from any point will be
credited to the peraon sending them, but no
ne* agent will be niado at a post-office where
an agent i* already at work.
tel wo lb, .....
too It* mM ph>m lute
100Itakalntt orOtrmsn all..
90) Ita (*> bu*ti) cotton Mat..
a 1*54
Tub Weekly Coxrrrnmow is the beat pa
per in tlie Stale, and the lowest to canvaaa for.
The price to single subscribers ia $1.60 a year
—to club, of 20 or more, $1.00 each a year,
and one copy to tbe tender of the dab. Send
for agent,’ circular, and particulars.
If you are not an agent already, send yonr
name in and become an agent, and enter for
these prise,. It ia a year to work in, and if
you don’t get one prix* you may get another.
Before becoming tn agent, you may wish to
ace the paper for which gou are asked to can-
raw. Send 26 cent, and the Weekly Cox-
rrtTDTiON will be aent you for two montha.
It ia coufeMldly the beat paper for farmer*
aud for the Southern reader ever publiihed.
Bend for it, look at It, ahow it to your neigh
bor., and become an agent for it.
No aubacription rent until the fint of Feb
ruary will be entered on the Hat for print*.
But the aubecription of Ihore rent in before
tbst time will have expired before the first o£
February, 1883, and can then be renewed and.
credited on the homestretch.
A good chance to make $50.00 in gold.
Send 26 cent* for two months’ trial.
Addrcaa
THE CONSTITUTION,
Atlanta, Georgia.-