The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-10-06

improvements are moderate, consisting OF
the clearing of about sixty or seventy
acres on the two hundred acre farm and
on Others proportionally, ola few fruit
trees, spring house, log stable, and frame
or log house of four or five. rooms, with
outside kitchen and cabins The soil of
this County is regarded as poor in COM
parison with The limestone counties north
of it or the rich alluvials south. Some
of the hills are too stony, and many OF
the more level tracts are too sandy the
lands being remarkably unequal in their
character. There is, however, some ex-
cellent land The bottoms ofthe Etowah
and the Nickojack creeks are not surpas-
sed anywhere, and those of the Chatta-
hoctchee can soon be restored to their
original fertility In the valleyiot the
ENickojack before the war Corn had been
grown on small tracts at the rate of one
hundred and twenty-seyen bushels per
acre It is favorable evidence of the
original strength of the soil that it has
endured bad treatment so well and per
haps none on this continent responds SO
quickly to deep couture and manure.
Fields are pointed out where after some
use of lime and fertilizer forty bushels Of
wheat have been grown, and others
where the yield of Cotton has been in
creased from half a bale per acre to the
bale by the application of one hundred
and fifty pounds per acre of some fertili-
yer. One of the most Intelligent cultiva-
tors in this part of Georgia informs me
that the ''old fields" of this region have
been made to produce thirty bushels of
wheat per acre simply by turning under
the sedge grass at this season, then in
October putting Rye, allowing stock to
feed itoff in winter, ploughing this under
in April putting in a crop ofthe cow pea,
and again ploughing this in. A good
crop of wheat was thus produced by the
comparative inexpensive process of
.ploughing in three green crops in one
season.. f .fsat
These lands have value in this eli
mate they might not have in any other,
both from varSety of productions and the
succession of crops in the sans season
Corn, Wheat, Oats, Rye, Barley. Rice,
Cotton, Irish and Sweet Potatoes can all
be grown on the same farm, and in the
same Orchard may be found Cherries,
Plums, Peaches, Pairs, Apricots, Apples,
Grapes and Figs. 1t is not, however, q
rico or cotton country proper, while they
can be grown successfully. The Grasses
will grow we'll. Glover does very well.
have seen field where three good crops
have been cut this year. The Luzerne
clover will produce four and five crops,
in the season. Blue grass and Red top
are quite easily cultivated. White
Glover comes in of itself. Timothy re-
quires more care and does best on moist
lands. a
Little can be said, however, of the ca
pacity of the country, in this respect, since
the culture of grasses has been SO recently
undertaken and is confined as yet to few
farms and small patches on those Be-
fore the war no one here saw any profit
in anything but Cotton and negroes, and
grasses were accounted aoeeds which impe-
ded Cotton cultivation. In this vicinity,
a wild growth of grass which sprang up
near Kennesaw, on the field where the |
horses Of Sherman's Army were fed, gave
the first knowledge to many that tame
grasses would grow here at ALL Yet it |
is notse stock country, although the eli
mateand water seem favorable. TIL ere |
are no insects to annoy and reduce flesh |
1t is claimed there was good stock here |
before the war. The mutton now is ex-
cellent in quality. The beef is poor AMI !
tough yet the mich COWS are fair in quail
ity and in prime condition, the pastures
of pea vine and crab grasses in the wood
ranges anu Tic sIuDUie HeIus furnishing
nutritious food. gg /
This is evidently the region for naired I
farming, and if the planters continue to
abide by the principles which are now
popular" to raise no more Cotton than
they have manure for, ''and "every farm
to raise the food for its stock" they must
soon become very prosperous The profit
will then be made on their Stock, fruit
and Cotton and no longer by selling Corn
and buying beef and bacon. -
Farms here average from forty to five hun
dred cres,-usually about two hundred.