The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-04-16
AGRICULTURE.
Intensive SyEtem-Crops of a One
Horse Farm.
from the Southern Cu.ivasorI

/ eastern North Carolina, in race Of six
/ acres ofland, to be put in cotton. in the
( spring of 1874 Having finished pick
/ ing, packing and weighing, will report
/ the crop to you. 1t is considered a
large crop here, but I presume would not
/ he so regarded in Georgia. The six
/ acres named made fourteen bags Of cot
ton, average weight 4jT Il pounds at
[ gin, bagging and ties included. The
land, in 1896, was stocked IN long leaf
/ pines and covered with the wire erase
/ (Which Is so common to eastern \. ca
/ 1--WE suppose Bermuda is not intended
Ed > Cuit) and now has 32G Ii-htwood
stumps On 1t. It was well MANFRED and
put IN potatoes yearly, up to the war. In
/ 49,, planted In cotton, and made from
( $50 TO 900 pounds Of lint cotton per
acre. in March, 1873, put in rust proof
oats, with 10 manure; made Il good
crop. The first Of July, planted in
| coTn'held peas manfred with 100 pounds
Of superphosphate per acre. Let the
hogs take the peas. but permitted noth-
/ ing to JCuch the vines. Ia March. 1874,
| put on 20 one-ho 81 loads lot, stable and
/ hog pen manure per acre scattered the
me broadcast, and flushed the land
with Briniey pIows, 6 or : inches
/ deep. Twenty fifth Of April run rows
north and south, I feet apar- and s
/ inches deep with shovel, and pat in
/ drill fifteen bushels cotton seed, 2GO
| pounds plain dissolved bones, one bush
el salt, ard 100 pounds plaster-com,
! posted Made beds on this by running
twice in the same FUR ", a small Brin~
! ly plow following a larger one. On the
first day of May, with planter, preceded
! by harrow, put in ] bushels improved
! Simpson cotton seed per acre (raised and
selected by myself;) broke out the m;d>
dies with turning pIOT and cultivated
with hoe and sweep. ! lost some OF this
cotton, the picking not being finished
till the 18th Of December. Willie the
Simpson cotton Is the most prolific
/ have ever seen, it falls out very badly. If
not picked in time. | an only a one~
! horse farmer but the above was not all
Of ny crop. put four other acres 10
cotton, an old dungshill which had not
| been MANFRED since | moved Of Of IL
| twenty years ago, and a part Of II Eow
| very poor This vas MANFRED with II
| bushels green cotton seed, and 200
/ pounds GmmOniated dissolved bones lscT
acre 1t made three bags Of cotton, and
! 1876 pounds lint, which was put in other
| bags. Average weight Of the three bales
! 453 pounds. | also had ~ enty acres in
| corn, two aces in potatoes laanurra
| with cotton seed and one and a half
| acres in a garden. The corn, land ma
nured with . bushels cotton saeI and
! 1870 pounds plain dissolved bones per
acre, made l25 barrels, measured by
wagon leads The potatoes were not
! good, bus the garden was splendid The
crop was I't'7' ~. w. ,
ny SoL' " S, 49, 90 - nc ~
" -" ~ - 80 - -
oi1U 9-HIIellA"' I"9 ""5 i''--
Some negro servants on the land un~
der my directions, dld well making
cary one D'5 10 L''G AZ, 80 u" %
- - AZ r,,..l
80 - o6S -. 2 -. 49,, No..
80 - - -
- - tn1 W.. SGo .'.,.r ....-. 800
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-, -, -, a., 49,,
,F 80. ~ So L.,,-,3 ~ al
ob,,, Ill Iy snr-tit,r.;r.r r,a.rra far
L. NoJ vyba+ eau-aI .hon p, =,
tbosa tbinrs The teachings If the
| Southern Cultivation. and that alone Dna
80 ,Io ,rra.,t ra,,rats NJ nav Iir. -H,,
! a;J NJ I,,ov,, fbara vas cI-e5 % irr,-.,.r
tr-o,,t1 vaars 400 whom h,4 r11 br,T.
~ -
no" prone d 80 L, ca .-J,
mo- De''S'I 80 ''''s -''
anu S,mt'y ".1ao % ",I
Ihe't ""ou'19 81 me- - ,'.''7 '.e's %,
~ SlJ ~ .'
u " a. '''gn - g - w
Gu So'u '''o"' 80 VI
was '7oU'I9'n M li'a 'Io
was GeI'l"T" ~ ~ ~ %. ~
lI , ~ tE1 49, ". ,'.s
80 "a - ,iI 10 va
- g o10' -. '''l 7-''
V'elna" '0"'" 49,
To ms brother farmers l "QuiI 81
cut down your acres make as much cot,
ton or corn or enc acre as you now d.
1 on five, thereby save the labor and wages
Of five hands; use the very best lmproy
ed plOws; use all the weeds, woods mold
lot and stable manure you can, and b
sure to use with 1t, Tor cotton, from ! I,
| 800 pounds Of good suPeTPhosphaEe
buy the best seeds, il YOU have net them
> if you have to give five or ten do.I.Ts pc
bag. 1t will pay YOU and by all means
if you are farmer, or expect TO be, TAX
the Southern Cuiuvator. But, says one
have a large tarm-"hat shall | d.
with 1t? Cultivate as much of 1t as yoJ
can axe bring IRON 4UO to 900 pound