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THE WEEKLY OOjfSTITUTION. ATLANTA. GA.. TUESDAY DECEMBER 29, 1885.???SIXTEEN PAGES
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FARMS AND FARMERS.
A Prise* > Firmer-A Young Man T.kes n Stewart
Ccunty Farm and Seta eu Example Worthy to
be In??ltaled-A Sumpter County Parmer
' -Other New. About Parol..
Athens, Gs., December 25.???[Special Corre.
,|ondence.]???I???ve just Been a live Polish prince,
to I???ve been assured. Ho is living on a fimu
near Athens, and is unmarried. It is a severe
f l ruin on the reader???s credulity to believe that
a foreigner of blood and distinctive title, impe
cunious and ugly, could have escaped capture
at one of the eastern watering places. It la ac
counted for by the fact that he never served as
head waiter at a seaside hotel; and, besides, he
is a decent-looking fellow and talkq like a sen
sible man, so he was not suspected of being of
royal blood.
Prince Ponitowskl landed in New York city
seven yean ago, and hurried on to Syracuse,
where he secured work on a dairy farm and
began to devote himself to learning
tbo mysteries of milking and but
ter making. Afterward he held a position on
the celebrated dairy farm of Bhoemak/ at
Baltimore. Three yean ago he landedwm
Athens and took charge of the Ilolydale stock
farm of Hunnicntt & Yalley; and It was at this
farm, a visit to which I want to tell yon of,
that I met the prince.
The farm it situated one mile from the city
limits; and to get out to it, I had but to take a
seat, accompanied by Dr. Oibbs, of Clarksville,
in a bandsomo carriage dnwn by a team of
half blood, dapple gray Normans. Messrs.
md Yancy enlivened the already
Bunnicntt and . w
interesting way by anecdotes and rominis'
rcnces, connected with different old mansions
along the street..
Tbo form is five hundred acres in extent,
not hilly nor level, but rolling, with streams
of-clear water flowing between the gentle
slopes. A field of barley on the left and - big
???turnip patch" on the right gave tho plaeo tbo
growing green of spring time. Too barn is
roomy and well. arranged for twenty-four
milch cows. These stalls are ranged on cither
'Side ot a wide ball or passage, running tho
entire length of the barn. The loft is stored
with native hay. At the end of tho rows of
stalls are located the feed rooms, where, stored
in bins and begs, the dairyman keeps prov
ender for milch cows???meal made from oats,
barley, corn and cotton seed, and wheat bran.
It was near feeding time and the troughs were
filled while I was there. Prince Ponitowskl
mixed bis meals and bran in properproportion
and moistened with hot water. Then, after
putting in the trough, bo added a mixture of
turnips and turnip tops, boiled well together.
This makea a dainty dish to set before tho
gentle and mild-mannered queens of the dairy.
After thoroughly inspecting the barns, and
asking some five hundred questions, I was con
ducted to tho ???bull pen??????that???s what Dr.
Oibbs called it. The animal brought out was
a genuine eye-opener to a lover of good stock.
Bubano???s Bioter, 11,444, is as fine a piece of
cow-flesh as one gets to toe. Larger than Jer
seys usually are, yet most perfectly molded
and delicately shaded from steol gray to black
on tides, he stands at the head of the Holydalo
herd. His hide is ???mellow as a mole," while
his mien is that of a lord. ???Bioter??? is a pure
St. Lambert blood, having SO per cent of the
blood of Stoke Pogis 3d, who was the sire of
twenty-threo cows, that averaged twenty
pounds of butter in seven days. Bioter also
has 38 per cent of the blood of Pride of Wind
sor, the dam of a number of fine butter cows;
(II per cent of bis blood is from Victor Hugo,
the head of a line of forty-flve cows averaging
over fourteen pounds in sovon days, and (ii per
cent Faullnc, the head of ono of tho finest
branches of the St. Lambert family. Bioter
was purchased in Canada at a very high price,
and Is said by competent Judges to be the finest
living bull of the Bt. Imubcrt family.
Tradjo law model Jersey bull of very hand,
some appearance, solid mulberry fawn And
foil black points. Messrs. Hnnnicnt & Yancey
may well be urond of him as the only son of
Alice Jones, 8285???the ???queen of the southern
Jerseys"??? who has a record of 31 pounds 131
ox. in seven days. This little follow is cer
tainly a bull of wonderful promise, and if tho
Jersey world docs not hear great things of his
progeny this scribe is neither a prophet nor
???coulter??? among Jerseys.
After looking at a lot ofyonnger but not loss
f iromlsing bulls the perty proceeded to tnko a
ook at tho milking nerd. Dr. Gibbs held his
breath, Dr. llunmcutt smiled his blandest at
the other doctor???s pleased surprise, and Mr.
Yancey winked a knowing wink,!, mnch as to
say, ???Yon expected to find scrubs, eh V??? Sir.
Ponitowskl moved among his silken haired fa
vorites as a beloved teacher goes among his
pupils. Sleeking the sides or one, caressing
another, and talking gontly to a third. I do
not ico how any man can keepifrom admiring
if not actually loving the eon-eyed creature
that gives us golden hotter and delicions
cream.
Lucy Lanier 13,(153 and Mary Norton 13,053
are both descendants of the fomons imported
Clement 115, and their already
made records of 18 pounds 2
ounces and 17 pounds 14 ounces???which records
do not seem to bo their limit???betoken no
shadowing of the name of their ancestry.
???That???s a regular scrub,?????? aaidjan uninitiated
visitor, pointing to a fawn andwblto cow, thin
in flesh and, consequently, a little rugged.
???Not much!?????? was the reply of tho genial
owner. ???That is Abbie Clay 15,072, and has a
record of 18 pounds 1 ounce."
Bioter???s Maggie, 22,530 Is a beautiful young
cow, perfectly formed and very much like her
world renowned relative, Mary Ann, of St.
Lambert. Lome 5,218 is the sire of four cows,
making over fourteen pounds in soven days at
two years of age. Of the four, Maggie stood
head, making 18 pounds, A) ounces. It is with
apardonable pride thatHr.Yanceypolnted her
out She was added to the Holydale herd
when quite young, at a cost of $1500, and is the
mother of the most promising young creature
in the herd. This daughter, Farmer???s Floss,
17,773, was sired by Bubano???s Bioter, is a
double grand daughter of the celebrated prise
winner, Farmer???s Glory, 274, T. H. B., and
is of tho purest St. Lambert blood. She is a
little bcanty, and is already growing fomons.
With her first calf she gave 42) pounds of milk
per day, and now, with her calf six month I
old, and several months gono with calf, she is
undergoing a test that will, tho dairyman
thinks, come up to fifteen pounds butter per
week. Under such circumstances this is prob
ably as good as is on record.
A number of other cows are of sufficient in
terest to keep one studying a whole day, but I
will mention only two others.
Bcltuate of W???oronoco, 18,040, is a pretty grey
and white heifer andoccupied the front place
as a two year old butter maker???having a re-
cord of 24 pounds 14 ounces on common feed
???until the prise was captured by Major Camp
bell Brown???s Eltheel 2d, with her record of
30 pounds. She will come to the front again.
???Alice Jukes 8,225, with her magnificent
form and large, perfectly shaped udder, stands
the queen of the southern Jerseys, and she
look* altogatbor as though ahekne.wit Her
record is the prondcst in the south, and she
does not propose for any little upstart of a
heifer to take it from her. She mado 31 pounda
13) onncea in seven days In August, when tho
mercury stood at near 100??. Sho has also
milked as high as 53 pounds per day. She is
adding to her fomo by being the mother of
Tradjo, 13,715, nnd a danghter sired by Bnba-
no???a Bioter, 11,444.
. This Holydale herd members over fifty
head, and ia so carefully selected as to be the
wonder of all visiting breeders from the north.
But its prominence is not due to its being to a
certain degree isolated, for It would be noticed,
located in the'mldst of the best herds in the land
And as for the milking qualities it it snfliclent
to say that through the spring the entire herd
averaged over thirty pounds of milk per day.
What a Young Fanner Did.
Hr, Robert Rood is a young former. Thin???
browned, afl fiber, slow bot easy of modoo, self-re
liant tad Indepcndent-he it a fin* type of lb*
young icuthem fanner.
rri* earth ia ft goU mtee/???he sap, ???to anj man
Ifcttworki it dUigtnUy.y
wvea years lie has made over *40,000 in fanning-
not by spcculating-for he has lost $10,000 by that
method. But by the patieut tilting of tho earth,
and the slow transmitting of sunshine, rain and
sweat into corn and cotton. The story of Ids work
is significant, and ft may lie improving, so hero
it is In paragraphs, coaxed from his own lips.
??????My father said to me, about seven vents ago, ???My
Ef n. I???m going to die, nnd I leave *0,000 in honest
debts that you mutt pay.??? in six weeks he was
dead, and 2 took the plantation in Stewart county
ou |he Chattahoochee river. I mortgaged the place
for 14,000 and went to work. Tho first lesson I
learned was economy. I darned my own socks and
patched my clothes as they wore out. When I went
to Eufaula I put a biscuit in nry pocket, and when
I go.t to town tied my horse to a rack, and saved
hotel bill. I ran & plough myself, leading the way
for my bands. At night I lit up the forgo and did
my own black smithing, learning as I went. I never
left my farm a day, and slept only six hours
night.???
???That must have brought Success r ???
??????Of course it did, as it would have brought it in
any other business. In two years I had paid my
debt and had money in bank. I havo made in
actual money over *40,000. This is my poorest year,
and yet I will clear over *3,500. I would not give
any man five dollars to guarantee me *3,000 a year
on my ten mule farm for the next ten years .Farm
ing Is the safest business a man con engage in, if
he goes at it right.???
???What are the rules by which yon woxk????
???Pint, I raise my own provisions. I now havo
3,000 bushels of corn, 1,100 bushels of oats, 800
bushels of peas and 400 gallons of syrup now for
sale. I raise much of my own meat aud would
raise it all except that my climate is too warm to
cure it in. I never saw a man who did not raise
??ls own com that made money on cotton. I never
saw a corn-raiser that wasn???t a prosperous farmer.
T ou can often figure out that you can buy com
cheaper than you can raise it-but that Is only on
paper. Corn-raisers prosper???the others fail. My
cotton crop is always a cash surplus. I make my
other crops carry the farm.???
"Next to r^Mng my own com, I court personal
attention to my business. I sow every bushel of
oats myself, because I never found a hand that
could do It right. This fall I worked eleven hours
a day with a three peck basket on my arm and
sowed oats ahead of twelve plows, till the ends of
my fingers were bleeding. In making syrup I got
along with four hours of sleep In twenty-four, and
the result Is perfect syrup. I superintend every de
tail of my farming as this. Every back strap of
my harness has a bug of moss sewed under tho
leather to protect the rattle's back. Thread
wouldn???t do for that sort of sewing, os it wonld rot.
Iron wire wouldn???t, for it would rust. So every
pad is rowed with copper wire. I never had scald
back or a piece of broken skin on a mule since l???vo
been farming.
Nc xt to personal supervision is economy. Nothing
is wasted on ray farm. I have 120 tons of home
made manure composted now, and one ton of com
posted manure is worth three tons of guano. Not a
blade or grasa is burned on my place. That with
the reftirc of my sugar cano even is turned under
and cnrlchea the ground. It la small things that
make or ruin the farmer. My neighbors use two
or three sets of plow-lines a year???mine last me two
or three years. Every night I oil over wagon on
my place, using cotton oil. Once a month I havo
every axle cleaned and the old oil rubbed off. This
saves my wagons. My stock and crops are all pro
tected the same way. The poorest houso on my
place Is the housed livo in.???
???How about your labor????
??????Better than slaves. I pay them 19 a month,
half In cash every Saturday night, one rations and
allow each hand a half aero for potatoes and an
acre for com and give them overy Saturday after
noon. They work because they know I know It
when they shirk. They began stealing from me.
Ilalept on tho (ground every night for three weeks,
bagged three of tho thieves and now I am safe.
When they are well I make them work and when
they are sick I give them medicine from my own
band. Iu short, they know I watch them and they
work.???
???You find tbo lifo a happy ono?'
???Tho freest, happiest, most independent life in
the world. I have not been sick a day in eleven
years. When I lay down I sleep. I ask no man
any odds. My broad acres are there and they aro
exhaustlcas. The best bank a farmer can have Is
his land. Every dollar ho puts there Is safe and
will pay him interest and principal Many farin
as sell their cotton seed. That is robbing their
land. I buy cotton seed, for with acid phosphato
and stable manure it makes tho best fertilizer.
The farmer is the one independent man.???
???I cannot understand,??? Mr. Rood went ou to
say, ???why a young fellow will stay in tho city and
clerk at a small salary with no ftituro when a
farmer???s Hie Is open to him. No man could have
had a much worse start than I did. Now, in spito
of markets, weather or anything e'sc, I cun live a
free man's life, with health, open air, exercise, and
at the end of every year put from *3,500 to 95,000 in
bank. This is not chance. It is certainty. And
there Is nothing in me except bard work, attention
and a little common sense. If fifty young clerks
wero to go to Stewart county today and farm just an
I do, each one would reach the samo result. It In
no experiment. It is tho most certain of certain
things.???
And away tho young farmer wont with agang of
friends who had called for him. Why may not he
prove to be a type? Why may not there follow jin
bis footsteps a race of young formers, sturdy and
self-reliant, with smooth brows, clear eyes and
strong arms? Why may they not come to ho res
cue of our section from tho domination of western
smokehouse and cribs, and win for tho south
smld their com rows a ftiller and better experieno
than their fathers fought for twenty-five years ago?
There is plenty of land * and more to come. Mr.
Rood started with 2,000 acres which ho has already
cut down to 1,200. Ho contracts his arablo onco
every year. "Intensive farming,??? says he, ???is tho
policy of the ftiture. There is ono war cry un
der which the routh can command the situation.
That (s ???a bale to the acre, or frill comcribs, a big
ccmpost heap aud home on tho farm!??? Frankly
now hasn???t this broad shouldered yonng farmer,
with bis steel-like slncwes, this untroubled sleep,
come nearer to to solving the problem than those
of us who, aiming at glittering heights, are
fighting and stumbing along the uneavcu way.
Farm Notes.
Sir. William Cotton, one of tho champion
farmers of Bartow, has picked nearly 1,650
pounds of seed cotton from a measured acre of
land tbia year.
Mr. W. 8. Dickson, of Hancock, killed seven
hogs that weighed, net, 1,921 pounds. He has
a full smokehouse and frill barns. He ia ono
of the farmers of tho old-fashioned sort.
Mr. Matt Wilkinson, who lives one and a
half miles south of Jackson county, made this
year, with two males, thirty bales of cotton
and 250 bushels of corn, besides plcuty of pota
toes, peas', syrup, etc., to do him.
W. J. Bridges of Crcswcll, will gin four or
five hundred bales of cotton this season. Mr.
Bridges is a good farmer. He runs ten plows,
and fass mado 3.000 bushels of com and 110
bales of cotton. He used $420 worth of guano,
and says he is able to pay his debts.
Rarnesvillc Democrat: E. A.. Parker has
made this year from two acre* of grapes aaveral
hundred gallons of tuperlor wine. He has
now on hand about 250 gallons of sweet and
dry wines. We have sampled hfs dry wine
and prononnre it orthodox.
Mr. W. D. Pierce, who lives within about a
mile of Perry, has killed ten liog<tbls season
that averaged 250 pounds in weight each, four
of them weighed 2601 pounds each: the
heaviest weighed 298 pounds, and the Ughest
weighed 246 pounds. An aggregate of 2^00
pounds of pork from ten hogs.
Mr. I. T. Stephens, farming on Cedar creek,
in Pularki county, made this year on a two-
horse farm, twenty-two bale* of cotton, 100
bushels of corn, 100 bushels of potatoes, four
barrels of syrup and peas in abundance. The
greater portion of the land cultivated by Kr.
Stephens was cleared sixty years ago.
Mr. J. J. Kinchen, of Pulaski county, has
made this year seventy-nine bales of cotton
enough corn to run five plows next year. Tho
plowing of the cotton and corn???105 acres???
was done with four mules. Another Pul ukl
farmer made this year sixty-eight bales of cot
ton on 100 acres.
Mr. W. H. Harp, of Sumter county, runs a
two-mule farm. This last year he only paid
*o for labor, the work of tbo farm being done
by himself ind-family. He raised 200 bushels
of oats, 200 bushels of corn, 15 bales of cottou
(which brought him $018.30), 84 gallons of
syrup, 40 bushels of potatoes, besides vege
tables for his family. Besides the $5 for labor
he paid $83.50 for fertilizers. He lives at
home and his cotton is a surplus crop.
The Hawkinsvillc News says: It will lie re
membered that the Newp, in July last, referred
to Mr. J. J. Kinchen???s farming operations.
Meeting Mr. Kinchcn iu town tho other day,
Weasked him about the yield from his farm.
???Well,??? said be, ???I have made moro cotton and
corn than I expected from tho number of acres
uuQer cultivation. I hod 120 acres in cotton
and 75 acres in corn. I cultivated this crop
with four mules. From the 120 acre* in cot
ton I got 70 bales averaging 508 pounds per
bale, and I made enough com on 75 acres to
supply n five-mule farm another year.??? Mr.
Rfuchen is one of Pulaski???s most thoroughgo
ing and successful farmers, and notwithstand
ing the fact that ho is 65 years old, he stays on
tho faun with his laborers, and when tho
f rass and weeds teem to be making too rauch-
cadway, he takes the fore row and says,
???come, boys,??? and you may just put it down
that the boys come. You never boar such
fanners os Mr. Kinchen say that there is no
money in fanning. Ho makes money every
year farming, and conducts his operations upon
practical aud scientific principles. He ia eco
nomical in his expenditures and knows ex
actly how to mako every lick count.
STORIES Of THE" WAR,
Which Never Faff to Interest the Reader,
Whether Old or Young.
From the Washington Republican.
Boon after the war actually began and the ad
vance on Bull Run was mado many of the southern
women showed their mettle. Some time lie fore tho
battle was joined General J. E. B. Stuart, com
manding the cavalry, was very anxious to obtain
certain information as to the position of several
federal brigades. He was acquainted with ?? highly
educated, quiet and refined young lady of Fairfax
Courthouse, and be doubtless had discovered that
she was poo-erred of great nerve and spirit, and of
an enthusiastic devotion to the cause of tho
south. He managed to get a note to her,
requested her to obtain such information an sho
could, little thinking that sho would not only ob
tain it, but bring it herself instead of sending a
messenger. 1IU surprise was great, then, to see her
ride into his headquarters on the evo of tho battlo
thoroughly posted as to what he wanted to know.
She bad undergone much hardships and danger,
having been shot at many times in running tho
gauntlet of the pickets, but the gamely persevered
until her mission was accomplished.
In recognition of her bravery and intclllgenoo,
Stuart commissioned her as lieutenant and aide-de-
camp on his stair, and this appolutment was actu
ally recognized by tho confederate government.
Mir* F. was perhaps the only female commissioned
officer m either army. This lady was afterward
captured and locked up for many months in tho
old capitol prison, I think, and, after her release,
tiuth compels the statement that,in the latter days
cf tho war, sho was married to a federal major,
then and now a prominent and wealthy citizen of
the city of Washington.
Of Bello Boyd, the well-known confederate spy,
I need only refer to ncrc, but if h?r adventures
were written out they would read like a romance,
and would show that her services at one time wen
simply Invaluable to the cause she esponrod. She
U now. a staid matron, quietly residing in her Tex
as home, and resolutely shuns the notoriety ahe
acquired in time of war.
Mrs Grecnhow, too, was a famous confederate
secret agent, and sho had as much nerve and dar-
_jftt,
Her losa was a severe blow to the confederate auth
orities, particularly at the time it occurred.
1 have heard soldiers of tho army ortho #o??t
speak tntbiwJai-IIcally of an Snebbml well known
in that army. During ono of General N. II. For
rest's campaigns In Tennessee ho was anxious to
point. Forrest brought up his artillery, and charg
ed again and again ???** *??? J
but ilia every attack .
ward nightfall, in a final desperate charge, Colonel
Forresd, the brother of the general,
fell dead at tho head of hla command,
General Forrest, who
COTTON AND CORN.
THE PRODUCT OF THE STATE FOR
THE YEAR JUST ENDED.
An Interview with Commla*loa*r Henderson, of the
State Agricultural Department, Upon the Re
sources of the Field, Showing the
???jretem of Farming that will Tay.
j
byhfa ifeatb, and resolved to???whin the enemy
lose his command. Ho selected a nicked squadron
and a single niece of artillery, aud direct!
remainder of hla command to skirmish bit
hold the enemy at the bridge, he moved off to find
a ford, but could get no information of one. Fi
nally. be inquired at a farmhouse, and a young
....... ??? guide him thither. 8he
replied promptly in the negative and. despite th t
B linding* of her widowed mother, she sprang up
ehlnd Forrest and after a hard rldo showed him
licie he could safe *
of the officer* and men were killed and wounded,
hut the girl never Uluciicd. 8ho wa* sent safely
home under escort and, as a consequence of her
R luck, Forrod wa* enabled to strike tho flank of
ic enemy at daybreak aud to rout them complete
ly. After the war was over and Forrest had somo-
whftt recovered his fallen fortune* lie sent tho lit-
An Amusing War Incident,
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
During the war tho ???loatman??? and ???last
ditch??? were ermmen phrases, and, strango aait
may seem, they were located at the end of tho war.
On Fourth of July morning, law, fifteen month
alter I-ee???s surrender, the secretary of war, who had
planned a fishing excursion to the fall* of tho J???mo-
mac, received a telegram from tho provost marshal
at Richmond, Vo., stating that a squad of confed
erate soldiers were at his office ready to deliver
up their arms and be amnestied. Knowing
that Joking of that description would subject the
perpetrator to court martial, ho mado a boo-lino
for ihe while house to consult President Johnson,
whlce resulted In a telegram to tho provost marshal:
???Who aro they and where did they cornu from????
The answer was direct to tho point: ???Sergeant
Twekshtiry and guard from Dismal swamp. Did
not know the war was over.??? After ft good roar of
Virginian, ordered a couple of Georgian* to
come forward, give up their shooting Iron*yiud
stick their flrt* to tlnr'docymcnt,??? resolving film-
self os the last man and old Dismal Hwamp'bo
lfl>t ditch. Twcksbury???s description of how he as
certained the w??r was over was very amudug. Ho
and his companions had been ported on the edge
of i he swamp to watch movements of yanks from
Norfolk, with orders to remain until relieved. Ho
never was relieved, and had subsisted on game
and fish for three years. Ho met an old negro who
told him that tho war had been over about a year,
which tickled him better than If ho had been
kicked by a mule, as he facetiously expressed it.
Utilising the Fence Corners*
A statistician has estimated tbit If all tho
fenqg comers of the United States were cultivated
the crops produced on them would bo sufficient to
pay the national dclrt. The amount of laud
wasted by the awkward corners of a
worm fence Is almost inconceivable. Having
lain follow so long, the fence comen are the rich
est rpota on the furm. Anything that reclaims
them from waste Is a public benefaction. This is
exactly what the Georgia fenco company
proposes to do. The fence they offer Is a
coral (nation of twLstcd strands of wire and
wooded slat*. It has taken the prize at all fain
and exposition as the best fenct ever offered, and
for economy and durability is unsurpassed. It has
many advantages over the barbed wire fence. In
the first place It does not destroy stock, although It
is stronger than a barbed wire. In the second place
it fa not an Invisible fence, and stock arc not lia
ble, therefore, to rush against IL It will resist any
pressure that Is likely to be applied,
It la a movable fence, and pari tires can be shifted
as desired. This fence can either be bought by tho
yard, or a machine can be bought and tho fence
manufactured on your place. Where a man has
ft large farm the latter to perhaps the
cheapest. Or ira man desires he can buy
a county right, and by getting ono of these ma
chines he can manufacture It and sell it to his
neighbors; being protected in bis right by the pat
ent A great many counties have been sold already
and are being handled very profitably. A few
forma will pay back the amount paid for
the entire county. Those who wish ft good holi
ness for (becoming yeftr, and good fence* ou their
farm*, will do well to correspond with the Georgia
Within the next few days J. T. IIondcrsQii
commissioner of agriculture for the state of Georgia,
will present bis supplemental crop report, which
will be an Interesting publication. The report fa
now in the hands of the printer, and will bo ls*u??d
as soon a* practicable.
Yesterday a Constitution* reporter colled updn
Commissioner Hcndcretm for the purpose of getting
at some of the con touts of tho report.
???What information of unusual interest will ap
pear in your forthcoming reportf was asked Hie
commissioner.
???A thing of the most unusual Interest to me. is to
see one of tho largest crops ever made In the ktato
and all marketed without any money being left in
the hands of tho fanners. I fear that such has been
tbo case this season. The price was origiually very
low and has been still Airther reduced by the
damages inflicted by ono notably bod spell of
weather, which we hod sumo time in the latter i??art
of Beptcmber, I think it waz ?????? **?????? ' ???
cession of rains since, wh
or less damaging, tiuppolng it takos about S100 to
every thirty acres of well-cultivated land,
and that the yield has been but about
ono hundred and fifty pounds llut per acre or cue
commercial bale of four hundred and fifty pound*
for every three acres, then you see we have only
ten bales to tho thirty acres, which does not require
much figuring to convinco you that it will not re
produce the outlay, viz.: 1400.
???Hence,I am confident that the sequel well shows
*???--* * r - * -???
uuceu ki n wry unusual expense, whiclK to'say P the
least of it, is rather encouraging. The supple
mental report ol tho deportment, in addition to
the estimate of the yield of cropa of tho year, will
contain a lecture on the Irish -potatory Prorc
Yillo, and the report of experiments on the _...
versify farm, conducted by Professor II. (J. White,
under tho auspices of tho deportment of agricul
ture*.
???You ore satisfied then that the cottou crop of
this year has not been a paying one????
???Such is my opinion, as you ??? *???
that 1 have Just made. ???
??? What was the character or averago grado of tho
crop nnd what the pricer???
???As to quality it was unusually mixed, dlfiei
very widely in this respect from tho crop of ...
year, for last year there was no rainfall from tho
beginning to thr * *
3 from the remarks
* utc generally. 1
other cnora.
???Well, commissioner, tell us all about other crops
of the state.???
among tho forge ... ???.
W lil.o tho cotton crop has not been a paying one,
owing to Inferior condition of the lint and low
prices, and has gone to liquidate debts accruing
from previous short crops or cotton or grain, still,
they lcld of tboyear, taVijigJntoconniJeratloa the
Dlygivo. r ... ,
tlnuoui curies of such years.
???1 have always thought that we were a fraction
too high on the corn crop of that year, and I believe
that Colonel Newman, then tho editing clerk of
tj^is department, hod some doubt os to the occur*-
itiuui ri'iiva ui biiuii Jims.
T have always thought that we were a fract
) high on the corn crop of that year.and I bell
it Colonel Newman, then tho editing clcrl
s department, had some doubt as to the aoct
of there figure*. 1 believe our estimate for 1882
s 30,000,000 bushels. I am sure #e are in bounds
when we put the crop of thtoyear at80,000,000 bash
??? : Tho oat crop was an unamallytanall ono, andfitt
that differs more widely from the corn crop of'82
than did the crop of th to year. My recollection Is
that the oat crop or '82 was 11,500,000 bushels where
as this year it to but a little in excess of 6,000,000 ~
in other words, but little more than one-half.
ble* there was no such thing as an inferior garden,
unless where It was choked by the woods and
* f ???Is the all-cotton system ou the Increase or dc*
???Diminishing slowly. In former years all ol tho
choice spots about our village*, and eYen tho cities
were crowded with cotton, but now they are a
ed fey grasses aud not InfrtniuonUy. by patch
mJJJomsJxe or potatoes,or some other crop, any ono
??f which will net moro profit than cottou. I am
ideavoring, in every possible way, to obtain fomo
for
cotton???something that
ubril . _ w
ells readily and Is equally as convertible
in addition to the patches which I hare
J *- -fifti^ifif
if goo$
substitute for com, and consequently tho disposi
tion teems to bo to Incroaso the acreage in oat t Jn
)port Ion as tho acreage of other products to bi
ased to thclcotton crop diminished.???
HOW IT WILL PAY.
'How would youadvtoc a man to plant Jso at to
make bis farm telf-suitalniug????
???1 would advice both diversification and Intend-
Heat ion, if 1 may be allowed so to speak.
???Tho system of growinglbut ono thing Is bad poli
cy In more particulars than one if any attention is
vnricii proportion*, or course in ail sons, nnci irono
plant to grown to the exclusion of all others there
toon gets to be a deficiency of the om mast fed
upon and that lrarc* a superabundance ot others
and cither
the i
plum
on 120BCTCS.MtaWi* Hwj????J!iX7-~P???!*'/.
W.wortBUlum.". . ??? - . ^ mUug ??? leapt j ri,hfo 4K beinf rapidly.
It t&s ctrvuniy proTeu to be one to Mr. Rood. In | tirating acre y
growing plant. I therefore warmly urgo
itlng of everything needftil to the sustananre
roan and boas I upon the farm. Heed ootton doc* not
make big bogs but a plenty of com does and many
or them. A plenty of both meat and com satisfies
the laborer, and satisfied labor causes everything
to go off smoothly. It would be invidious In me
??? ??? -ye a large
rmqst that
you could mention upon thefr' farms, really the
cotton they now to but supplementary. Thoy hero
something or every kind grown upon the farm for
sale, sometimes even poultry. I havo In my eye
now ono man who. 1 am informed, has slaughtered
seventy five bogs, all largo and fat, and in addi
tion, ha* corn, wheat,oafe, bermuda hay. etc., etc.,
in equal profusion around him. What to the se
cret of all this. May It not be that this gentleman.
" Iam informed, to always athto post planning and
ring for hto sheep, hog*, laborers, and looking
out Iu every way to increase the fertility
of hJssoll. Whilst he boys liberally of guano, ho
docs not. as to too frequently the case, rely entirely
upon it. but builds Immense heaps or comport with
which to supplement his guano. Now Just think
of it. The nroportlon of tlmo that is wasted
upon the farm to often perfectly appall
ing. Could the merchant do this
and prosper? Could the manufacturer,
the Insurance agent, the broker, the banker, the
fruit grower, or indeed anybody else, but the
fir mors do the half of it and still live. With them
eternal vigilance is the price of success. Is it not
reasonable to suppose that If farmers, too, would
??????--Bguneives at home Saturday afternoons
rhout tho week as well, there would be a
ud of balance sheet shown at tbo con
clusion of ~
the main
seclusion
fa one cause of the frequency of hto visits to the
village*. If fanner* were more social, and w-rutd
visit at odd hours one another at thslr homss, tho
ennui of country Ufa would bo measurably over
come.
STOCK rahino.
???Is stock raising on the increase?*'
???Fork hogs ore 14 percent short of lost year??? and
stock hogs ore 13 per cent less, and sheep are like*
wire on the decline in numbers.???
???What do you attribute this decrease tof ???
???The decrease In hogs I attribute to the ravages
of cholera, which existed In many portions of the
rtatednring the spring and summer, and tho de
crease in sheep to dog*, which to quite as fatal.???
???To what use could the lands in the southern por
tions of the state, from which timber has been re
moved, be nicctssftilly applied????
???I know of no use to which they could be belter
applied than to grazing purposes for cattle and
sheep, and particularly for sheep. I think that by
rr asou of the mildness of the climate Urge flooluof
sheep could subsist there upon the tender groat at
all returns of the year.???
rnimjtda.%
Is the production of commercial -fertilizers on
the Increase In Georgia????
???During the season of IWti and 1805 the total
amount of ammonlated fertilizer* inspected fat
Georgia was ]S3,017 tons. Out or this amount Geor
gia manufactured *7 Ji2 tons. For tbo same season
there were 16,012 tons of arid phoqrhate or dissolved
tones iiapectrd. out of which amount Georgia man
ufactured 0,457 tons, making the total aamntof
???rrmonfated fertilizers and add phonphat?* mini-
factored In Georgia tons.
f ???During the year 1M?? the inspections were the
cav lest ever made In this state, and there has
*??n*Ic*s complaint so far, notwithxtanling the
U>w price of cotton. I am of the opinion the acid
??? ???.ophate* have been used for composting as lib-
ally as daring any preceding year.???
???Good gracious,??? sold the hen, when she dis
covered the porcelain egg in her nest, ???I shall be ???
brick lay tv next.??? ^
Iforsford's Add Phosphate in fieasiekness.
Professor Adolph OtL New York, says: ???I
used it for maaickaeah daring an ocean pos
tage. In most of the cases, the violent symp
toms which characterize that disease yielded,
and gave way to a healthful action of the func
tus Impaired.???
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