The daily gazette., 1879-02-11
Extraordinary Yields I'm Farm.
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| The Georgia Commissioners requested
his correspondents TO communicate any
thing of extraordinary occurrence while
making their reports on the condition of
, the crops. The following are some of the
points thus made:
Mr.. j. n. Wright, Sugar Valley, Cor
don county, writes that "a farmer in his
county, with two plows, made 10 bales
of cotton, $50 bushels of corn, go gallons
| sorghum, 800 bushels of wheat and or
,, 10 ions OF clover hay
Mr.. 5. NJ II. Byrd, Cedartown, Polk
county, writes:
IL made two 900 lbs bales of cotton on
two acres, by using one sack of guano
| ahd what barnyatd manure | baned
with two hand, and "A two-horse wagon
! in one day. Have heard OF several 9TH
ers dong AZ we'll
Mr.. William G. Kilgore, Cedar Grove,
reports
IF. Fricker raise j75 bu.hels ofrorn
| or 40 acres; 325 bushels uf wheat on 30
acres, 225 bushel, of oats ON 10 acres
| about 40 hushels of potnors, and - BUSH
els of peas on acre All the labor, ex-
cept harvesting, was done with TWO
| hands.
| Mr., w. p. Jones, Forest Station, Clay
ton county, made 4l6 bushels of sweet
| potatoes on acre.
Nj. +. =. Thornton, of Coldwater, El-
bert county, sa"s:
| "Mr. John l., Thornton made s heavy
bales of cotton and 800 bushels of COS II,
and wheat, oats, peas, potatoes and pin
ders in proportion, with one email tilly,
and on poor land. He also male 10 gal
Ions of thick so,ghum syrup OF 81 of an
acre of bottom land"
| Mr.. Thomas q. Scott, Forsyth, Monroe
| county, reports:
| "A NJ. Weaver made about 3 bales of
cotton on acres. Tue lana was bottom
| land, planted with carefully selected
seed, and well ultivated."
| William Ii. Ellison, OF Talbot county,
lsays:
"The best diversified crop was made
with turce p!ows SO bales cotton, l 900
bushels corn, 800 bushels potatoes, 100
bushels peas, 100 bushels VIII, cat, and 800
| bushels OATS"
| Mr.. a. j. Yates, Barnsvile, Ga, pro-
duced 80 bushels of corn on three .ioutths
OF an acre of land that would not have
made five bu.hels five years ago
Mr.. ii. II. Peoples, Nashville, Berrien
| county, writes:
"Some heavy yields on small plats of
land. One-acre plats, 20, 81, 90 bushels
OF corn. Twenty acres in one field pro-
duced 5000 pound, Of cotton per acre.
Quite an exc tement getting up On small
plats of lan1.
Mr.. j. T. Pardue, Quitman, Brooks
county, gives the following:
IS A. Graves and ! farm together.
We plated 80 acres in corn-yield, 900
bushels AZ acres cotton-yield, IL bales !;
20 acres oats-yield 200 bushels; q acres
sugar cane-yield 200 gallons, besides
saving seed; acres in poiatoes-yield,
240 bushels. We fat ened As hogs, which
Will make about 5000 pounds of pork
We hired three hands and a boy, woi ksd
ourselves, making IN all about i've hands
We cultivate poor pine land, purchased
tons Charleston Phosphate, applied 5
TONS on cotton and ton on oats thinks
IL pays we'll on oats. We make all the
manure we can, anu manure ali our plow-
ed crops"
Mr.. Charles Stubbs, of Cuthbert, Ca,
| writes
} cone OF my nrighbors made, with one
mule and three hands, 800 bushels com,
800 bushels Of ground peas, go bushels of
potatoes, 800 bushels oi oats, 40 bushels
Of wheat and 5000 pounds of pork"
Mr. Daniel y. Horn, Boston, Thomas
county reports
"I made, on acres, with 200 pounds
guano, 900 gallons of syrup and 100
pounos sugar OUhers IN my neighbor-
hood did aU ut ls well "
DR.. +. w. Lane, Scarboro, Emanuel
county, says of cLutdS
at is decidedly the hest crop ever
, |
/ Is hardly any estimating there value az
feed Tor hogs. They are very easily made
and don't require gathering except for
seed. would rather have one acre of
ehuias than ten Of common corn for hog
ferd"
Mr.. j. II. Hnmehries, Halcyondale
Scfeven county, says
"Israel Iegler, ogheechte Z. o., pro-
duces | ! to 2 bales cotton and 80 to A
bushels of corn per acre on pine land. g
w. Waters, y, lvana, makes IA bale ofcot-
- ton per acre and 80 t. 40 bushels OF corr
on piue land. William Taylor does the
same. Al these work small farms, and
q hire very little help"
Dr. II. \. Hollifi- Id ,Sandersvile, Wash
ington county, gives the following re
markable results:
rs. Kittrell, on two.horse farm of u
acres made 40 bales of cotton ,averaginl
r 520 pounds, 200 bushels of corn, besides
'' wheat, potatoes, rye, etc. q. K. Prngle
r maze 80 bushels of corn on one acre o
a. upland. Several others made as high IA
" bushels per acre"