The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1870-03-11

80 y -s
farms il the working capital is sufficient,
say 80 per acre.
AS an Instance Of what should be ac-
complishcd with proper means, Mr. Me-
chi cites his own ''slnalln farin- OF one
hundred and seyrnty acrcs-all arabic
land with the exception Of fourteen
acres Of permanent pasture. He pur-
chased his lard in comparatively poor
condition, in 1871, at a cost .f23 per
acre. He invested nearly the same
amount in drainage, roads, buildings
clcaranccS, and machinery. So that in
his exhibit as tenant farmer, he charges
himself with an annual renssof 81 per
acre. His capital as tenant, December
81, 1868, averaged per acre, is stated
thus; Live stock, &c los; farn-hous-
es, lib Is; tillage manure, &c, BIB. los.
Cd; implements and machinery, Bib.
l0s.; hay, corn, &c, unsold, BIB. 5s-
Total per acre, lob Is. I'D. The items
for live stock and tilagc may seem
large, but the considerable amount in
vested inliye stock, fedlnostly on ppr-
chased food, is he key to3lls large and
frequent crops and net profit; the large
! item of tillage, &c.. arising front very
l-deep cultivation, andamuchlafge 4PpG-
Iicatidns ofrieh oi!-caile and corn manure
tI,ab are generally Administered. These
llmelAods Of outlay account for his pro-
Iduction Of forty tons Of maugold per
acre in 1869. aud for his. frequent pro-
duction Of forty -cigIlt 10 sfxfy four bush
els of wheat. Although she season of
l.lS69 was not good oee, his best I'VE
fields of white wheat produced forty
eight bushels per acre,
His statement shows a capital of about
7,S00lb. invested in the farm for which
he charges landlords rental Of 2lb. Der
acre, or nearly four and a bali per cent
He employs also a tenants capital OF :,
72Olb., from which he obtains profit
Of more than 260lb., or nearly ten per
cent. In series Of years this profit
ranges from eight 10 fifteen per cent.
But as more outlay for live stock and
purchased food is needed to maintain
naturally poor soils in the desired con-
lition Of fertility than is required on
richer lands, his experience has convinc-
cd him that on such land as his own, he
could do much better with capital Of
20Ib. to 25lb. per acre than with lob.
per acre. Many farmers IN Norfolk and
Lincolnshire employ a capital Of 20lb. to
.ff4ftk ,,o,. .taro :, 4vaotn eaOuSIv
In respect to the preparation of the
soil, Mr.. Mech contnues
80 f2rm to the greatest advantage,
he soil and subsoil, to the depth OF 3
feet, should be well nanured now we
only manure the top FIVE or six inches
Our root and green crops and never be
ovcr-nanured, for obey feed in the deep
subsoiI, wheni a tit condition. Mag-
ket gardeners understand this well and
around the metropolis they easily gro"
seventy tons Of mangoids per acre, AMI
other crops in proportion"
These are his views upon the econoni-
cal restoration Of land:
Poor land may be almost Immediately
made fertile by heavily folding with
sheep, consuming lob. or LIB. worth
ner acre of oil-dakc, corn, hay, roots,
&C., not the produce of The land upon
which the sheep are placed supposir6
that there should be loss even Of Bib.
10 5lJ per acre, great will be the after
gain. his system requires capital;
but where there is capital it is IA. cheap !
or than guano or other artiiiciaIs.-
Where my forty tons Of mangolds per
acre grew this year, the iaAd was al
tumn- manured with shed manure, at the
rate of 20Ib. worth Of oil cake, &c, con-
sumed for every acre MANFRED, and
some guano in addition. This is what
| call capital farni g, as well as farm
ing witt, capital. 1t is the true way TO
make land pay"