The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-11-21


to be found in rotstion in succession OF
crops, keeping the soil thereby full Of
footlets and organic matter all the time,
causing it to hold together and prevent
ing washing. For example--plant your
field in the fall with oats-you sll know
that from the time the oats come fairly
up until they are cut they viii prevent
washing
M Now as soon as your oats are cut lay
off your land in rows seven feet wide, as
follows !: Take q. turn plow and lay of
each way leaving ridge from four TO six
inches wide in the middle hnbroken.
Break this out with two shovel furrows
put from Eve hundred to q thousand
pounds to the acre of good ammoniated
fertilizer in the bottom Of this furrow and
cover with little dirt, to prevent the fer
tilizer coming in direct contact with your
seed, with scooter furrOw from the eide,
then SOW your seed by hand using q plen-
ty, from three to four bushels per acre,
and cover with harrow or forked plow.
Yon will get stand in few days; the
stubble in the ground will prevent wash
ing until It rots. Your cotton at that sea-
son (almoat the first of June) will grow
very rapidly. Now when yon give your
cotton the last sweeping, drill peas 10 the
middle of each row, and apply with them
about two hundred pounds of ash element
to the acre. Your peas will grow of rap
idly, will in their turn prevent washing,
will not interfere with the opening or
picking of your cotton, will protect the
lower bolls against dirt and will give you
q magnificent coat of humus as manure
for your land.
In the history of the world the fact is
well attested that no people who are so
fortunate as to be able to raise two food
crops in one year, can be kept long in
subjection. To this fact is due the won
derful recuperative powers exhibited un-
der the most unfavorable circumstances
by the people of France. The French can
raise but two crops year, but we excel
France, we can raise three with almost a
certainty of success. Nature has done
everything for us in this favored cline.
1t only remains for us to embrace the op-
portunities she 80 freely offers, and an era
Of unexampled prosperity certainly awaits
US.
There is one trouble that has often
struck me as applicable to the farmers of
this country they are not deficient in en-
ergy, but they don't think enough.
Now above all I would recommend to
our farmers to read, think, study and ex-
pertinent for themselves.
As rule we work too hard and think
too little.
Some one has said: "Work is the en-
gine which draws the car of success
Now if were an artist would draw for
you a picture of huge car tabled success,
drawn by powerful engine entitled
workout the picture would not be COM
plete without skilled engineer in the
cab, with his hand on the lever and eye
looking ever ahead, and upon his brow /
would inscribe in characters of living fire,
the word 7Hossght
Let us determine to-day, then, gentle
men, that we will no longer run in the old
groove, and plant as our fathers did, be-
cause they were our fathers The world
never stands still. The circumstances
that surrounded our fathers no longer en-
velop us. Times have changed and we
must wake up to that change, or we will
be left in the race. We have a glorious
country-glorious in its climate-glorious
In its soil, and hallowed to Us by those
tender and endearing associations that
ever cluster around the name of home.
Let us resolve that we will make it a home
that we shall be proud to leave as an
heritage for our children. Then shall the
waste places be made to blossom as the
rose-then will it be our glorious mission
to restore Georgia to Georgians, redeem
ed, regenerate and disenthralled, and for
our reward it shall be that generations
yet unborn shall arise and call us blessed.