The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1881-03-09
Fon The HERALD.
The Secret Of Georgia's Success.

The question is asked alnust daily,
why is it and how is it that tSe"rg'a
is 50 far ahead Of South Carol!oa po-
liticaiIy and financially, auG a. We
have been travelling III the State OF
Georgia for the last six mouths We
feel ti'st We are prepared to answer
the qaestirn. The success Of every
State is based on thu SUCCESS ot It's
agriculture. Bread is ,he staff Of
life; without it ,man aMd beast would
cease to be; without bread money
would be of 10 use, without bread
politics would not weigh heavy in the
scale Then everything which sends
to facilitate and advance agriculture
in country, tends OF course to ad-
vance all other industries. Tue first
place of importance at which we
stopped in Georgia Was Atlanta. and
as this letter is intended to be- strictly
agricultural. We will not speak of the
great notwithstanding Of the staple
after it is made. but Will coahae our
self to the n'aoufacture Of aerlcultu
raj ilnplrments. :Hai,tau's Southern
Agricultural Works wouIJ cIaiu the
attention of visitor to Atlanta for
whole day. His Southern PIow Stock
is well known in almost every field III
Georgia. Then his fine steel sweeps,
shovels: turn.plow<, rooters. scrapes,
etc., are household pets in Georgia.
Next TO Haimar's p!ow factory in
Atlanta is the factory at Harlem,
where nothing IS made from Que sea-
sou to another but cotton planters and
seed drills. We learned from resi-
dent Of Harlem tha! over $500 Cot
ton planters were made and sold last
year FROM the Harlem shup alone.
We said to the foreman Of the shop.
II suppose you supply the State of
Georgia from your shup?' 'Oa. 10, "
SAID ne, we ooiy supply ABOUT hiteen
counties. There is Shop al Culver
ton turning out 500 macIiioes year,
and one at Fort Valley that makes
$500 to 5000 a year. but the Fort
Valley company has 10000 machines
made up North every year aud shipped
down South beside these, there are
1000 or more made at Macon. as we'll
as a large factory at Columbus" 4"
care all these machines" We asked,
used in Georgia Z" The biggest
half" he said, "is used III Georgia,
but a suall nuu. Der fad their way iuto
every cotton State, and the demand is
growing every year. The cotton planter
business" he CONTINUED, stands to.
dav where the sewing. uachine bust,
ness stood fifteen years ago, but the
business will advance to the front
much faster than sewing machines
| did. | kncw the manufacturers, at
Culverton, Of the Rhodes and Black
lidge cotton seed and guano drills,
five years ago, wheo they bought one
county right on tlnc-not being able
to pay cash for it-and to day Brad
streets Commercial Reporter rates
them at $1,000"
We then asked: What is the great
advantages Of planting cotton and
other seeds by n.ach;cery over plant
Ing by hand = In the first place in
the Seed saved" said lie. III the
second place, the time saved in plant
iny-one hand and one horse and ma.
cline doing the work oi twO horses
and three hands, aud wien the chop
piog is commenced, TWO bands will
chop as nu:.h after machine planting
as three will chop alter hand sowing .
"How is that p We asked. We'll" !"
be replied. '.tbe machine puts the seed
10 row about one aud half inches
wide, and the hand plants il a row
about six inches wide. Our second
plowiDg cleans the cotton after a ma.
chine aud keeps it SO, as it is not zig
Jagged FROM one side Of the row to
the other, as. is the haud planting -
We then asked, about what is the
price of cotton seed drills ?" From
ten to twelve dollars for q standard
machine - How long will stand
ard machine last" 1T should last
ten or twelve years if properly taken
care of; that is, keep the working
parts we'll oiled. and after planting is
over put them under shelter uutll
wanted for another season" What
patent has proven to be the best p
Now" he replied. you are rather
too hard for me, besides | may not be
competent to decide, being welded to
the kind We maaufac.ure-tbe Rhodes
patent. This is splendid machine,
and for the length Of tiuie it has been
out has made wonderful progress aud
is growing in favor every day. IT,"
Culverton firm make the Rhodes l
the BlackIidge. The Black!idge MA
chine has mauy advocates and some
strong claims to superiority, as tertili-
zers may be put 10 at the same tine
with the planting. The Fort Valley
cpmpany MAKE the D&w Law n!4chine,
but this is now consi1eled rather
clumsy as cumpsred to u,a;hiues Of
later date. Tie three anachiues
have named are shc standard, and
stand in the catalogue of cotton seed
drills about where the Hove. the
Singer and the Wheeler 4 Wilson
sewing machines stand in the sewing
machine world Bui any cotton seed
drill or sewing machine will beat the
haad to death. 1
Feeling that We had perhaps tres
passed apou the gent;euan : tia;e, and
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