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THE FIELD AM) FIRESIDE.
Vol. I.
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Marietta, Augu-t 7, 1877. Iv.
MARIETTA. GEORGIA, MARCH 19, 1878.
Agricultural.
Intense Fanning.
A writer (L. ( 1 . B.) to tin* Sa
vannah Weekly Xiu'h has the fol
lowing to say of Judge Harda
way’s experience in intensive
fanning, and upon the system
pursued by him so successfully :
Mr. R. 11. Hardaway, of Thom
as county, in tlie January num
ber of the Southern Cultivator,
says : “ There are two small farms
adjoining mine. This year (l 577)
one neighbor planted four acres
of corn, on which he put seven
bushels of cotton seed to the acre,
and the other planted two acres
of corn, on which he used ten
bushels of cotton seed to the acre.
I planted six acres in corn, and
used sixty bushels of cotton seed
composted with lot scrapings and
one hundred pounds fertilizer to
the acre. Each crop had the same
workings and the same rains, and
all had seven weeks drought,
which did much injury. As mine
was most largely fertilized, it had
a severe ‘water test.' Mv corn
stood the fiery ordeal far better
than that of either of my neigh
bors. One neighbor planted six
by live feet, one stalk in a bill.—
J planted four by two feet, two
stocks in a bill. Result—my four
acre neighbor made twenty seven
bushels of com on his four acres,
and half a stack of fodder. The
other, with two acres, made twen
ty-one bushels of corn and half a
stack of fodder. Both together,
with six acres, made forty eight
bushels of corn and one stack of
fodder. My six acres made three
hundred and ninety seven bushels
of corn and 2,032 bundles of fod
der.
“In a former year," continues
Mr. Hardaway, “1 planted one
acre of corn and used ten times
more fertilizers than did a neigh
bor, and planted ten times its
much corn on the one acre. I
made one hundred and nineteen
bushels of corn, and he made on
ly t welve bushels. The same sea
son that will produce a good crop
of corn on highly manured land
will produce equally as line a crop
on land containing ten times the
quantity of manure.”
It would seem by these experi
ments that the intense system
has far outstripped every other.
The same experiments are easily
made by every farmer, for be who
cannot intensely manure even
one acre can manure a half, a
fourth or even one-eighth til' an
acre. Surely his horses, his cows,
his hogs, his cotton seed, and his
branch muck would enable him
to manure intensely one-eighth
cf an acre. That would furnish
him with the facts, about which
there is so much diversity of opin
ion, and each can prove the sys
tem for himself.
And now, if Mr. Hardaway’s
success in yield is Ihe result of
the manuring, as stated by him,
why not every farmer practice it
as well as lie ? Is it not better to
concentrate the labor and manure
upon a few acres than to scatter
them wide upon many acres,
where the yield would he the
same? Would it not be infinitely
better to make one hundred and
nineteen bushels of corn on one
acre by using ten times the quan
tity of fertilizers, than to culti
vate ten acres, using the same
quantity of manure? Mr. Hard
away is not alone in these experi
ments. Many other farmers in
Thomas county, and in other
counties all over the State, have
reported similar yields from such
management, in corn, cotton,oats,
wheat, potatoes, and many other
tilings. They all prove that Geor
gia farmers have it. in their pow
er to make a great deal more than
they do on less than one third of
the land they cultivate, and with
much less labor and expense. If
these are real truths, are they not
worthy of the very highest con
sideration a/nong farmers? We
think they are.
The quickest way to improve
our pastures when short of ma
nure is to top-dress them, or to
pasture sheep for a season, as
these animals will exterminate
such weeds and grasses as cows
will not eat. If the pasture can
not be given up to sheep, pasture
as many sheep a cows, and it
will be found that the pasture
will sustain as many cows as
when they were pastured alone,
while the fertility of the pasture
will allow an increase in cows of
at least 10 percen, annually.
The Soil.
Silica, or sand, or clay, and car
botiato of lime, are the principal
ingredients of tho soil. The o
pen, porous,or sandy,is where the
silica is (lie main ingredient. The
still’, clay soil is that in which al
umina predominates, and what is
called a loam contains nearly e
<jual proportions of silica, alumi
na, and carbonate of lime, furnish
ing the best soil for tilage.
Each of these soils require a
different treatment for their im
provement. The silicious’or san
dy, is deficient in humus, or veg
etable and animal matter. This
can be supplied by < lie addition
of muck, found in swamps or low
places, by plowing under green
crops, either clover, rye or oats,
and by the application of barn
yard manures. The open, porous
nature of the soil has permitted
the humus to either evaporate or
sink beneath the roots of the
growing crop. The more we ap
ply vegetable and animal matter
to this soil, the, more tenacious,
sticky, and salvy it becomes, and
thus better lifted to prevent sud
den, extreme evaporation, leav
ing the ground too dry, and also
arresting the sinking of the ma
nure. Where there is a stiff sub
soil, five or six inches below the
surface, a sandy soil may be read
ily and permanently improved;
and the purchaser of a farm of
sandy soil snould be careful to
examine the subsoil, which, if
loose and gravelly, will make t he
soil and ils top dressings of less
value.
The aluminous or clay soil will
be benefit ted by the application
of lime, which unites with the
clay, disintegrating it, or break
ing up into fine particles the
whole mass, and thus permitting
the small roots to penetrate eve
ry part and find their food, which
before this disintegrating, lay la
tent and useless. Lime is also, in
very small proportions, a direct
aliment, or food lor plants. It is
from the grass and grain the ani
mal obtains the lima that, makes
the bones. The clay soil is great
ly improved by pulverization,
and hence should never be work
ed when wet ‘ when dry, it should
then be broken tip as finely as
possible. As this soil does not
permit the surface-water to soak
through readily, open and ample
drainage should be provided. For
this soil, a dressing of ashes is
particularly valuable, the potash
producing a looseness of the hard,
adhesive clay, and being also a
mineral food for plants.
The calcaneus or lime soil
combines, in greater or less pro
portions, the silicious, aluminous,
and carbonaeious, and being a
mixture of the principal primary
earths, it is the most fertile of all
the soils, and on this soil, we may
profitably put gypsum, or plaster,
linte and humus in every form,
and it may be more certainly re
lied on, whether the season be a
wet or a drv one.
It is what is called loam, and is
the soil of the Western prairies,
holding in that primitive state a
large amount of dead vegetable
matter. The soil holds in its bo
som the food lor plants. This food
is mostly from decayed vegetable
or decomposed dead plants and
animals, the decaying and the
dead becoming food for the * 1 iv
! ing. Rut this food can be taken
' only in liquid form, and hence
the necesstiy of the presence of
water, which is a solvent, and
holds in solution that which the
plant is seeking and can take iu
no other way. This shows why
liquid manures are more immedi
I ate in their action than those
I that are solid.
The best soil is that which not
only contains the most food foi
plants, but that which has it also
in the best prepared state for the
; plants to appropriate. The stiff',
hard, and lumpy clay soil locks
up the food; the open sandy soil
permits it to run away, and even
in the loamy soil, the plant fre
quently is not able to take its
food, either from the want or ex
cess of water (for water in either
anu sor dilutes too much),or from
it not being broken up to the re
quisite fineness. The intelligent
farmer, by close observation of
the habits and appetites, likes
and dislikes of plants, can feed
them with as much certainty as
lie can feed an animal. And he
may analyze his soil and know
what it is wanting in, and whaU
will supply the wanff .did
work blindly and mee
the dark.—/. n. hi
Yorker. jjj£|g^SS|
Hints lo FarmjSijffiffi|
Flowing w hen I he
at I In- -easoii ol iho
climate, is exceedingly HgS&ml
to I lie soil, and should I
11 is not injurious
ly enough in the winter
freezes to pulverize the surfaflH
The soil, however, should not ha
stirred at any season when
Subsoiling is becoming
common every year in
and while on the subject <>l
ing wet, we wish to cant si;
readers against turning ! hWßpi
soil to the surface, or
when wet and sticky—better
leave it undisturbed than break
it when wet.
Under the share and renting
system so generally adopted, the
farmer must watch narrowly the
treatment of his land, or his pro
fits, if lie receives any, will be
made at the expense of the rapid
deterioration of his land—his div
idends will be declared out of his
capital.
The compost, heap should be
frequently examined to see that
the fermentation is progressing
satisfactorily. If too much heat
is generated, either turn over the
mass or pour water into holes
made with a crowbar.
Experiments should he made
by every farmer with different
combinat ions of plant food, to as
certain what bis soil needs. This
may be done by selecting from
the list of brands outlie market,
with theaid of the analysis pub
lished by the Commissioners of
Agriculture, several having the
principal elements of plant food
in different percentages.
To illustrate, some brands have
only phosphoric acid; others phos
phoric and pot ash, and still ot hers
have all three of these ingro
dients.
The farmer who wishes to ask
his soil, through the agency of
experiment, what it, needs, can
purchase a sack, each, of the
brands having the above different
combinations,and apply a portion
of each to small plats on the diff
erent classes of soil on his farm.
If several years’ tests shows t hat,
(lie potash adds nothing to the
yield of his crops, he may con
clude that his soil is already sup
plied with a sufficient quantity of
this salt.
If the compost of superphos
phate with stable manure gives as
good results as an amnioniated
superphosphate, be may conclude
that his stable manure and cotton
seed supply enough ammonia.
These Experiments will cost
very little, while they will add
both interest and instruction to
farm work.
Selection of seed receives too
little attention at the hands of far
liters generally. The improve
ment, in varieties of cotton illus
trates the advantage to be deriv
ed from a careful and judicious
selection of seed. Corn may be
improved materially by careful
selection even in Hie same varie
ty.
Those who have previously neg
lected this important matter,
should commence now by secur
ing enough of the best varieties
to be bad to be used for seed for
the next year,and then by careful
selection of the best and earliest
seed produced, improve them ev
ery year.
Corn will be planted in moro
than half of the States during Ibis
month. On the manner in which
this is done will largely depend
the amount of work that will be
required in cultivation.
When the land is well prepar
ed and the corn planted, tin* work
of making the crop should he half
done.
Plow stock should receive good
attention in every respect, that
they may commence the crop in
good condition Good work can
not he done by poor stock. The
watchword on the farm should
now be “speed the plow.” Enter
peine.
Rural Hi
The soil is thai
ill which I'nnJgj
plants. |§
] and (
fpjlteW "oul ion.- in 1 1,
n| < ''n'crmi^HfiSS
Hi,mi, under the
HW ; ! ' <•<>llll *<-tent -cii.ntiMjSMß
Hil ' • l ' practical iinm.-Mgfgpli
■d ashes -cal(
''Fddo Mom- will ahsorb
feUgMU 1 '- P l ''vent the catjflßHH
falling,
, i" 11 the
a iv 1 Lmd'yM4|H9HHßH|
‘•in . TV\ ards-hc
soil.
file Ini/iidtK
that I here will ho mi.,
"I h,-r improved r<>ad
Indiana during nc.x t Vm
than in nn\ |.rc\ imt
history of the Slate, !> h^||g§|pj
for an open winter and
ble roads.
Good seasoned nittek is
nirntse service to farmers
iisml as tin absorbent, and
stalls for animals should he
constructed as to admit of a
passage iu the rear, with geuMS
rous room for the muck to ■
used daily with tlie droppings.
“Farmers,” says the
AyriniUi/rlst , “should be hitSl
ness men.” Whereupon an e:S
change pertinently
“And, on the other hand, wo"
think it would lie a good thing for
the resources of (ho country just *
now if more of our‘business men’
could he ‘fanners.”
The French Government, real
izing that national and individu
al prosperity are depenhent upon
the development of agriculture,
have introduced a bill in the Sen
ate making it, obligatory to teach
the elements of agriculture and
horticulture in the 30,000 primary
schools of the nation.
Threshing by water-power is
being successfully done at the
grist-mill at. McKellar’ Parry
Sound District, Canada. Some
off lie fanners bring their wheat
to mill, where it is threshed by
water-power and then gristed,
and return shortly afterwards
( with their Hour-bags well filled.
Trees should be planted not
only by dwelling-houses and a
long roads, but they should bo in
j every pasture and by watering
places, and near every barn
| wherever cattle, horses or sheep
j are to be provided for. All these
I animals suffer from our burning
sun ; and to say nothing of their
comfort and enjoyment, the cost
of shade trees will be many times
paid back in the saving of milk
fat, lleece and strength, which
will result by protecting domest
ic animals from the heat of the
, suit. — llural. Southland.
M. Genin, in a communication
to the French Academy of Scien
ces, states that he was able, after
having carefully investigated the
matter for several years, to say
that, all eggs containing the germ
of males have wrinkles on the
small end, while female eggs are
smooth.
.Johnson says of millet, that its
grain is quite equal in nutritive
value to the average of English
wheats. No one can doubt its
value after seeing a field of Uer
mait millet ripe and ready for the
sickle. It contains 9 per cent, of
nitrogenous matter, 74 of starch
and sugar, 2,<> of fat, with 2,3 of
mineral matter.
If milch cows be fed upon dry
hay it cannot be expected of them
to give full supplies
without succulent food the
cannot, except upon a linirtt?
scale, carry on its milk secreting
operations. In view of these
facts every farmer should make!
it a part of his business to raise]
a sulJicient quantity of beets, ca"*
rots and parsnips to give eaclJ
milch cow on his farm
bushel daily during the winfl|
and early spring— GemantJM
1 Telegraph. '
