The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1869-11-05


tie labor, it leaves the land exposed but
a short time to sun and food; and as a
foundation stone of root culture. the
straw and the succeeding crop of clover
hay furnish food to winter cattle on at
almost no cost at all; and the cattle in
their turn furnish manure for roots.--
On wheat, $40 per acre in Baugh's
Phosphate will make ten bushels, where
only two and half would have grown
without; FIVE bushels, worth So of clear
profit the first year, being fifty per cent.
on the money invested, and 100 per
cent. on the previous net yield, with
the same labor. The same $40 in Phos-
plate that made the wheat is a perfect
specific for red clover. The first crop
Of this clover is worth in the market or
for home consumption Sl5 in clover
hay, profit of $50 per cent. on the
money invested the year before, and all
ready p lid in wheat, and the second
crop turned, (never pastured), will, with
$40 in phosphate again, make fifteen
bushels of wheat, showing an increased
productiveness of 90 per cent.
Could greater encouragement be of
fered to owners of the poorest land, than
this, which, in its immediate results,
overpays largely all cost, and leaves the
ground, for all the future, self-sustain-
ings The point of successful clover
growing determines the capacity of land
to preserve its fertility and to increase
it indefinitely, and only gross ignorance
and criminal carelessncss will allow it to
fall again below that. Let this be well
understood, and if the success of a North
Carolina farmer shall prove to be of
general application, the fields of the
South will soon be brought back to the
condition from which they fell under
the peculiar circumstances of wide do
main of accessible fertile soil; and an
amount of available labor inadequate to
the profitable cultivation Of all, and in
capable of increase while the condition
of slavery repealed immigration. It was
found cheaper to work new and ex-
tremcly fertile lands than to renew and
re-cnrich those which had gone through
long years Of exhaustion, and labor
went where there was most to be nnde
from it. Now it will BIO found more
profitable as we'll as more pleasant to
stay at home.
Speaking of the facility with which
stock may be raised and be included in
the items of profit, he says: "The COW
enters very important element into
this system of farming. Where there is
range, as is generally the case with us,
COW, worth, in beef, hide and tallow,
$50, can be raised with fifty cents worth
of salt and if her manure be consider
ed she can be raised at a good profit in
manure, and then sold for $50 clear cash
profit. There is the great advantage in
Inc South of being able TO raise and
keep stock through the winter with
scarcely any provision Of food or shelter,
so that in suitable range such as every
farm almost affords, cattle can be raised
in numbers proportional to the extent
of FRANCE at q mere nominal cost.
'In this Southern landholdors have a
great advantage, that they may concen-
tra.e their available labor as much as
they please, using fertilizers largely,
and cuilvating such crops as give
large return per acre, as tobacco, cotton,
and whore readily salcablc, potatoes,
etc, and throwing the lands not thus APP
porpriased into pasture, can make a.proft /
Of cattle, sheep, hogs, etc. that need no
labor, and make useful adjuncts in ma
nur;oc, tha arabic land"
Of hogs, the writer says, that with
corn at S / per bushel, they cannot be
raised on corn at less than Sl5 per hun
drcd, and that pork is worth there but
$40 in the market; yet son potatoes tho
ordinary stock of hogs can be raised at
Sc per hundred of actual cost. Il fat
tened my hogs on potatoes last fall and
know whereof affirm, and if the pota-
toes arc exchanged bashel for bushel for
corn, as DR.. Mehane and Maj. Lynch
did, the cost of pork is stil further- re-
duced, as a bushel of corn that is worth
only bushcl of potatoes in the market
is worth Two bushels of potatoes, in q
hog. What can be done by Improving
our stock of hogs am not prepared to
saw. but it is a generally received stat
ment that the feed which make 200
pounds of pork from the ordinary hog,
will make 200 pounds if fed to the i'm
proved hog, and this improved hog is
now offered at our doors at Pennsy Ivan
10 prices"
All these points made indicate, what
we note in thousand other directions,
that the energy and intelligence of
Southern agricultursts are working in
the way of improvement.
A TRUTH-men make mistake when