The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-11-09
AADEtsON $. c. THURSDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 8 1889

S'o h'C ohyS' ~ WAS piaDtcC June 9th
and the caterpillar finished it ON Septem.
Der 10Th. showed the agricultural go.
clety stalk FIVE feet high with 126 bolls
oy actual count on IL. The seed from
which this plant grew was planted Just
this way can be picked with half the
cost and time of ordinary cotton. On
my cotton land this year raised one
hundred bushels Of oats TO the acre, and
after cleaning Of the stubble l planted
the cotton, one stalk of which showed
the convention"
"Of course, in your FIVE years of study
you have discovered other Improvements
in cotton pianting?"
Certainly. One is not TO drop the
seed in continuous row, but simply put
a few seed in the hill where you want a
plant. BY strewing the seed in n
sprinkled row there is = great waste. a
cotton eeed is like an egg. When the
chick is born there is nothing but the
she'll left. When tho seed has sprouted
theIe is nothing bat the shell left. The
fertilizer power of the seed is lost
Worse ;han this. Is draws from the soil
Tor the elements that make ii grow. It
is lett to deplete the soil in this way for
two weeks Mt least, and is then chopped
down, leaving only one out of twenty
plants tc grow to fruitage. Ny plan In
to plant four or five seed in hili The
hills to stand in four feet squares. or
these l would let two plants to the hill
grow to perfection. Il takes flam two 10
four bushels Of seed to plant an acre in
tie old 1ry. isy my plan peck to the
acre is enough, and the sol! is not drawn
to support q multitude Of surplus plants
for two or three weeks"
"1s planting in four foot squares better
than the old Vay9"
Yes, cotton 10 q sun plant and needs
room for its roots. When cramped to l2
or 10 inches it can not attain it's perfect
growth. My aim is to put the plants two
together in four foot squares, and average
76 to $50 bolls to the plant. This will
give me q pound of seed cotton to the
plant, or three bales to the acre."
HE NEVER HOBS HIS COTTON.
! What about hoeing your cotton7"
II never touch it with o hoe. The
growth of cotton comes from the spread.
ing filaments that reach out from the
root and feed it. If these are destroyed
the growth stops till they are restored
Pm satisfied that three hoeings lost me
eighteen days Of growth, or six days each
l run shallow plcw along the cotton
rows, and never go deep enough to cut
the roots. But there are moro details in
which men may differ. The main thing
is the intensive system Of manuring and
the outstanding all The droppinga and
wastags of the farm for compost. I can
take any 100 acres Of land 10 Georgia,
and at nominal cost can bring its pro.
duction from sixth of bale to three
bales an acss in ave years. ANY mac
csn 10 it,"
"Js your system getting many follow
ers?"
,"My tenants are sdop,ing the intensive
plan, hnd are very muGh encouraged.
Same few neighboss are using my formu.
ls. 4 have sent ous, | suppose. 500 for:
made before the agricultural association
created more excitement than ANYTHING
for years. The members did not relish
my statements, saw plainly. They
sent MIR. +. G. Grier, the secretary. to
h1illedgeville to see my crops and verify
my statements. He is to-day the most
| enthusiastic s1sn III Georgia cgsT the
| system am working on"
You understand" added Mr.. Furman,
in conclusion, "that have no possible in.
terest in this matter outside of my crops.
have no receipt to sell, no phospEates.
no fancy seed, no land. What / have
done has been with common seed on poor
land, with cheap manure, and any man,
without price or purchase, can do what |
have done. am satisfied to make my
money out Of the ground, and | want
none from my fellow.farmers."
Are you eDlarging your vork7''
Yes, but slowly. The difficulty with
| ns all is that we try to farm too much
land. I'm good for $4,000 with two
mules and sixty-fve acres. Next year
I'll beat this. In the meantime, I am
bringing up twenty-five new acres. I
never want over one hundred acres.
t .>se will cultivate with three nules,
and I'll make two hundred and ifty bales
of cotton on them besides all the corn.
and oats I need"
II am anxious" he added, ito see my
plan adopted. If it 10 done We, shail
have the best State ia the world. Why,
look at France. Her Eecuperative power
Is the wonder of the world. And what
ia it haaed nn2 Simply tha. che cen
| crop-in one season. But in middle
! Georgia can raiaa three crnna ner seaann
on piece Of land and leave it richer
than when I startsd, viz, oats, cotton or
corn, and peas. There is nothing like it.
Give me 100 acres of land like the sixty
Eve that own now, and don't want an
orange grove, or factory, or q truck
farm, or anything else. can live on
my 100 acres Of Georgia scrub land like
king, and lay up money every year.
Any Georgian can have this in FIVE years
II he wants it. The rule have followed
will bring it, just as surely as the sun
brings heat and light"
! And yet the best class OF the State
University graduated twenty three law
yers, ak joui nalists, and not q ringle far.
| mer.
AREMARKABLE CAsE.-Mr. Johnston,
grocer on Marietta street, is in some
respects one of the most remarkable