The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1869-11-26
SUCCESSFUL FARMING.

It. Twenty years ago gentleman SAID
to us 81 would not have farm in Cobb
County, as gift, if compelled to cult
vate it." The prospect has changed
A new zeal fires the energies of our far
mers, and the thought is taking posses
sion of their minds, ttat this compare
lively poor soil can be made to yield,
with proper economy, the highest re-
munerative values. That, it is at once
seen, is all we need to render this coun
try the seat Of every attraction earth can
afford to man.
Animated with the thought of improve
ment most of our farmers are engaged in
some mode or other In its accomplish
mont. We propose to show that the
means arc abundant and that it only re-
ouircs we'll drccted effort to insure
success. In times past the great nn-
solved problem was Show to improve
your lands at cost less than the en-
HANGED values" The problem is now
solved and the question may be answer
ed. You may rely alone upon CONNER
cial fertilizers and if judiciously applied,
the land will improve and the increased
production will repay the cost. But
there are cheaper processes, open to all,
which though not as quickly remuncra-
tive arc not SO soon exhausted and which
afford greater permanent improvement
to the soil.
In adopting the processes to which we
refer it is essential that the farmer should
limit the area cultivated to the means of
improvement employed. If he can pro-
duce as much with the means at COM
mand from ten acres as he can from
twenty, then ten acres for the time, is
enough for him; and he should not de-
ceiye himself as to the amount of labor
or tho quantity of manure an acre will
proftably bear. The poorest ridge lands
in this country may be made to yield
with proper culture and manure from
fifty to one hundred bushels of corn or
from twenty to forty bushels of wheat
per acre.
How will you doi.9 In the first place,
prepare and work it like garden
Then fertilize, if you choose, and sew in
wheat and clover the latter for vegetable
matter to be turned under. The in
creased product of wheat will pay the
cost and your farming is that of progress
sive Improvement.
Better still /; VIC suggest process
which will be more readily appreciated.
Haul up your forest leaves and fill your
hog pen, stables, barn yard, to be worked
up into proper condition when needed,
and in every possible way see to every
thing which can add to or preserve from
loss the manure pile. Haul surface mold
from the woods, muck. from the swamp,
and apply all to thc fields in cultivation.
1t will surprise many faSmcr to see
how much vegetable matter anu valSa-
bic fertilizers he can THUS accumulate
and apply with no cost except the labor
He may hasten the process ofsipproVe'
mcnt with commercial fertilizers !; but il
he confines himself to the mode indica-
ted, gradually deepening his culture
and never running upland in corn or
cotton more than once in three years his
success will be certain.
Keep all the stock on the farm that
can be well kept. Pen an acre, or hall,
or quarter-acre, and during spring and
summer have your cattle in it every
night, and every month, if possible,
break up the ground deeply and in the
fall you may make crop of turnips
worth having, to be followed by any
other crop of which you wish good
yield. Take for this purpose if you
choose the most thoroughly worn ground
you have; it will make it all right, and
in few years, from this practice alone
a number of acres may be added to the
farm each a hundred-f fold improved in
value.
We delight>in the intelligent zeal now
animating our farmers; we look with joy |
upon the future of the country in which
our lot has been cast. Nature had blcs-
sed it with every gift she could bestow
and left il to man to appreciate and right
ly use them. And we will learn to do |
it, until its teeming productions bring joy |
to every homestead.
This is the foundation upon which we
arA IN huild Let us he unmindful of