The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1883-01-20
Intensive Farmtry

In Saioilha-I he Economy nj Rotat;r.
!. Three Crops Year-Eightv Doll
to the Acre
correspondence of the Charleston New
BEAUFORT, S. elf abe w,
causes two spears of grass to gro
e, Wnere only one grew before sboul
d be considered a benefactor of -
{ human race what shall be said ,
j. two Maine farmers who live ;
/ beaufort and who own miserabl
: ] poor little farm of IS or 40 acres IN,
! outside of the town limits and yh
make two, yes three crops a veg
S where scarce one was made before
f II ever the apothegm of ..feed von
. land and it will feed you" is yer;
: leo' 1t is IN the instance of Messrs
/ oonant and Emmons, these two en-
} 1erprlsing settlers from the Pin,
Tree State, who literally live in clio
yer upon the profits of their success
ful husbandry.
Dome time in May last we wrote
you letter from this place o;v;no
You the results of their farmino ore
ela.ions up to that time, what thew
mad already realized and what thew
expected to realize from the success.
slon OF crops throughout the wear
from that time, mentioned that we
saw them moving a field of II acres
ser IN vetch, and from which thew
were then deriving ton of long
eroiase per acre in time to permit
rom the same field a cutting of Der.
huoa grass in July, estimated at
thfee -tourths of ton per acre. and
another cutting, of equal amount
per acre, to be made the last of Sen
temoer. Both of these expectations
nave been more than realized. and
1hey are now engaged in housing in
eheir large barns the hay crop ON
which they calculated.
we mentioned at the same fine
60 al from the field of five acres, from |
winch they had dug a5 barrels Of
a,isn potatoes per acre, netting Sex
IN cash in August, that thew wo1n113
sow German millet, from which
they expected to obtain from one 70
e ana half tons of forage per
acre worth SIS per ton, after which
oe1ng removed, they would he
equally sure of a ton per acre of nea
nay worth $40 per ton.
All of these conditions thew have
more than realized, and as a conse.
luence they had to build an add
ION OF Iox36 feet to their already
barn of 36xoo feet to ac,
the unexpectedly LARGE
leld of these crops. t
Now, when taken into considera
on tnat the farm herein described
nigh and exceedingly drv tract v
I hight sandy land, situated mon c
ne bluff of the river, which extepds n
ong IFS front, making it excessively q
ITS the result is remarkable n
s'ii more remarkable is it in view G
the fact that these men emnlov IA
NY the barn-yard manures re-, W
lned 70 the soil from a herd of CT
ell fed mich cattle, fed from the ST
,oducts of the farm. OF
w are induced to revert to this :.
rm again as practically settling the en-
'uot, 1t any exists, that our South an
soil and climate are adanted r. en-
ass and forage crops, and that Sc
eisioh from the routine of cotton Ia
n De Protitablysspursued. We are De
0 induced to recur to it from re- pa
wing letter from a gentleman in SCI
up country VIII - -. to II
mr. Ias+ NJ, lier1t7
Ter proPounding a number o.,
'suons, which we have taken the sha
uole to enquire into and believe son SO.
nave sufficiently answered for NE
leral information. bee
n reply to his questions we are ing
ormed by Messrs. Conant and nea
mons that for the crop of Irish me-
atoes, which were the Early pial
se variety, they prepared the Ter
una by blowing and narrowing Irae
,ltn pulverizing disk harrow tne
TO the quantity of compost ma. wit
used, they were unable to est. iect
G IT, as they just used the prod cas-
OF their stalls, containing from !, me-
o 50 head of cattle and 6 horses hgeI
shiy broadcast upon the several VIII
Is IN proportion as it may have men
on hand when ready to use i terlz
SEED was cut and dropped into l !,
: ! Ia, three feet apart, and to oi q
iIiil was addressed an additional Ia III
1tlty of manure. The potatoes OF.
lred and were dug the latter IS II
of part of Nav 81 year
. as last as they were dug in Ie Is
1eld, subjected only to sorting Like
re largest from the smallest on ing,
pot the merchantable only be- sPr'n
shlPped and sold. The yetcb the Q
soWed IN the months of Sen. snow
er and October III prov
after part of Nv T. 80 su' III haps
ng put once, and it seeds the game
"a itself. From the field from o'ner
n they are now curing the sec ~ ON
cutting of Bermuda hay the US OF
VIII spring up that scattered nome
"a at the cutting of that forage e same
sta. The land far th IL cord
ID and disk narrowed aad was Czayk
broadcast, after which roller r.
nowino . to, dresa After the pl;
manure was .lso ss;n VI Darn expert
nat was expected to afford a 49, NJ. :
sion of mowings. la rs
ht(h
, as i i csllad no. rat-taii corn sc
T. Is not LII, pu. GERMAN in his
efore c,,t4:. o ca 70 IN azure before