The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-09-30
AN INTERESTING LETTER.

Lear journal An absence OF
three months has given me the ops
portunity of picking up few items
which may be of some interest to
the readers of your creditable paper.
The fret thing which | saw that
struck me as being very worthy of
notice, wac field of excellent clover
Just on the northern suburbs of your
pretty little city. The man Who
was moving it informedme that three
years ago that field was very poor,
and almost entirely bare of vegeta-
ton of any sort. Lime, ashes, deep
blowing and other Inexpensive aids
had restored the land to high de-
gree of fertility. 1t reminded me Of
the beautiful clover fields in the
Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.
The field lies near the lanyard and
is, believe, the property of Mr.. j.
J. Wilder. Many Cobb county
farmer would do we'll were he to go
and do likewise with his land. The
next notable thing saw was a re-
gion of nearly five miles without a
house, lying in Barlow county, be-
tween Cartersville and Kingston,
known as the "cosling lands" be-
cause of the great amount of coal
which has been charred upon it.
Hundreds and thousands of acres
have thus been cleared, and ell over
the land, both in the woods, as we'll
as where it was cleared, rank
growth of wild grass and heritage of
various kinds, covered the ground
| spoke about this extensive range
to some friends at Kingston, and
asked them whether any one had
availed himself OF the grand pasture
grounds in the way of enriching him.
self by cattle or sheep raising. The
reply was, "No one, but it is one of
the very best places for that indus
try which we know of between Vir>
GINA and the Gulf of Mexico" l
thought so too. After some man
from Europe or the North shall have
come among US and made bis fortune
upon this same great pasture land,
there may be some of us natives who
can then plainly see our opportuni>
ties. 1t is really better locality for
stock raising than the now famous
Sand Mountain region in north east
Alabama. AS | moved on north
ward into Floyd, Murray and WhitN
field counties, the eye was more of
ten cheered by the sight of clover
fields. l think it is safe to say than
at least ten acres are in clover now
in all the counties north, and spec
tally northwest of the Chattshoochee
river, to one acre ten years ago.
This is an encouraging fact and
speaks volumes in the praise of pro-
gress in Georgia agriculture. -
Another very noticeable fact is that
the real value of the peavine as a
fertilizer is being literally acted
upon by the enlightened farmers
Wonder if some of this is not owing
to the publications upon agriculture
which our "Bureau" so freely spread
among the people Mr.. Lochridge,
Mr.. Samuel TRIMMER and others,
who live in the Mill Creek
Sumac valleys, in Murray Co., have
already brought up much of their
land to so productive point that it
will readily sell for fifty dollars
per acre and it is richly worth it,
for it brings whatever is planted
upon it, and that in great abundance.
Mr.. Trimmer is now turning for
ty acre field with a two-horse Coli
Inns pillow, and the peaviues (three
feet high the rag weeds and crsb-
grass SO entirely fill up the furrow
that the dirt has to content itself by
sleeping high upon the top of its
vegetable bed. But it does not CONS
plain there is a warmth and food 10
such a mattress, and nature speaks
here in her tongues of grass, grain
and cotton, not to be mistaken by
even the dullest intellect. We have
eyes to see, ears to hear-let us
have heads to heed and hands to act,
if we would see our waste places
blossom like the rose, making glad
the hearts of all lovers of Georgia.