Smyrna times., 1879-10-08
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Letter from the Country.

| Letter from the Country.
/ NEWSPAPER ENLAPGEMENT-TuE Use or 7,
TILIZERs-IMPROYED WHEAT CULTURE.
As | occasioned one evening last week il,
/ the principal barber shop of your town,
sat down to peruse the papers and the one
10 meet my approval was the SMYRNA Times
/ whose title | had to look at more than
/ once to be sure it was really the TINES.
was much surprised at the size of the paper
ana the contents therein, and before / was
through remembered what a Dover friend
remarked to me recently while in SMYRNA
- nat the people Of this town needed Il
weekly paper to compete with theirs" II
ne has perused it methlnks he will saw
that the ZINES is "squal to the emergency il
Now nope our citizens will not forget to
iend Its courteous editor some Of their
leisure moments i'll making these added
columns both interesting and attractive.
aho' oy so DONG. the TINES may be Justly
classed as one of the leading weekly iour.
nails Of the Diamond State" AS the
journal OF your town has been deficient in
none other than its lack of size. il il an
easy matter to bring it up to this standard,
Two OF the leading phosphate establish.
ments, which are sending forth daily tons
upon tons of their fertilizer, are located ON
your suburbs, foundries in your midst, and
railroad and water facilities COMPARATIVELY
indispensable, why then cannot SMYRNA
add to her many laurels by establishing an
lllustrious paper.
News is not very current in ourimnnediata
vicinity this week, and our close proximity to
your town 1t IS not unlikely but what Won
nave obtained our locals but, perchancs.
VIII conclude by speaking briefly of our
agricultural prosperity. As we digest our
last peaches, we are exulted at the profits
received from this delicious fruit which
Nature gave us after SO many predicting
there would be none, and | have heard
some say that their net profits were ovor
oO cts. per basket. Our wheat. being
mostly sown, we are not little doubtful
that this drought will not he iniurious to
us germlnatloa, yet most are induced bv
foreign demands augmentnc the rrice Of
cereal grains, to increase their acreage
great deal Of fertilizers are being used &c
we learn that one of our neighbors has
ordered of J. f. Tygert & Co., twenty. five
tons OF their standard phosphate for his
use on two farms, and all are using ouite
extravagantly. As our country has recently
harvested an immense crop of wheat and
IL IS hndIng ready sale at rates which will
yIelu large pront to the producer, it is
doubtless that they will be amply paid for
their energy. The price per bushel is not
as high as few years ago, but the cost of
production has been so greatly reduced
and the purchasing power of money so
largely increased that the actual profit Of
wheat growing is but little, if any, less than
1t was IN the more prosperous times. This
seasons success will probably prove a
strong incentive to farmers to largely in.
crease their crop, and, if such is ATTEMPTED
by legitimate means the effort NAV be sue.
cessful, and large profit secured. But if
the attempt to cultivate too large an area
is made, the result will be unfavorable. If
the growers in too much haste neglect 10
put their ground in good condition, if thew
attempt to put in so much that their
sowing will be deferred, or, if in order to
make the acreage as large as possible thew
use land that is no wise suited therefore
they will, as a natural result, obtain moor
yield per acre. I have attained by NV
little observation in agricultural pursuits.
that the highest profits are secured by
large quantity Of grain on a
moderate area of land, and by means of a
thorough preparation, and highly manurinr
this desirable result can be obtained
More Anon. w + d
NEAR SMYRNA, n. C. CO., Oct. 9th, 1879,