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

| where A shoe dealer IN tins city, Mr.
George w. Price has sent 10000 copies %
: II, with his advertisement. out to his couu
f trv customers Mr. Furman is ia like man
ner embarrassed, and am informed that
] visitors to his farm have revived the flush
DAYS with the hotels OF Milledgeville
; That's all very good. The more people that
, inquire the more people interested. The
more people that go to Milledgeville, the
more people will be convinced ard CON
verted The inquiries are mainlyvdrected
, to the accuracy of the article-'Is IT all
| true" is the tenor Of the c0rrespon-
dence.
n Il proper tn say that Mr. Fnrman. I'm n
lettor of late date sends the most abundant
proof of the truth of his claims The last
MiIledgevilIe Recorder publishes the GER
tifieate of two leading farmers who say that
his sixty-five acres will bring over seventy
five bales Mr. s. p Myrick writes me that
he has been over the crop four times and
his best Judgment IL that ii is certain 20
make seventy-five or eighty bales He saws
il sounds incredible when the poor land on
| which it is planted is considered and adds:
| "Had not seen il with my own eyes too
should have doubled could publish a
column of similar certificates.
But where is the incredible part of Mr.
| Furman's work. It Is no miracle and no
new invention. What he has done is as old
as mathematics and as inexorabies
He found piece of land that was starved.
And he fed IT,
That is all Just as he would have fed
| starving mule or horse A great many far
mers would have refused to feed the land,
holding that what they gave to ii would be
wasted. Many who were willing to feed
| it would have fed il recklessv. tossing into
| it's dumb mouth whatever came handiest
/ Mr.. Furman fed it intelligently. He saw
/ that it had been depleted by successive
crops of cotton being taken from IT,
What was the proper thing to do? Clear
| ly. to restore 10 it the and strength
| that had been taken from IT, But exactly
what elements had been taken from it by
| the wearing cotton crops To ascertain this
| he analysed a cotton plant, and found what
elements made it up. Then sec how care
fully he proceeds.
II found" he said, that perfect cotton
food-that is one that would restore to the
soil everything that cotton took out of it,
must have in it phosphoric acid, ammonia.
hnmus, potash. lime. magnesia, soda and
silica, OF these eight elements only one.
silica. is found in the soil in sufficient
quantity. The other seven must be sup /
piled So determined to make compost /
that supplied them"
tilizer ~
Because the best commercial fertilizers |
furnish only three of the eight elements |
needful. yiz-phosphoric acid ammonia /
and potash. Analvze them all and Won
furnish three of the needed elements So /
made me compost, made mp of % cotton
seed, t2) stable manure. (3) acid phosphate
and "a kainit Now, see how this compost
gives every one of the eight elements need
full for the perfect cotton food:
-. Acid phosphate gives phosphoric
acid and lime
- Stall manure or organic matter gives
ammonia and humus
i; Cotton seed gives ammonia, potash
- Kainit gives potash. lime. magnesia
and soda
Silica is always present in the soil is
in inexhaustible quantities !. so |
we have in my compost everything essen
tal supplied. Kainit is one of the most
important elements of this formula Can ,
tanning, AZ IT does, nearly one-third of its
bulk OF salt. it is great conservator of | .
moisture. have found it. combined with
humns, specific against rust in cotton and
owing to it, contents of sulphate of mag
nesia II is invaluable in the power that ii
possesses In the compost heap of fixing the {
as a sulphate and thereby pre- :
venting its escape"
Now; by feeding the land with this per- :,
ect food you bring it up ?"
Certainly, and why should there be sur G
Prise at the result You give your land
more every year than is taken from il. II q
attens Just as horse or mule would fat .
en-. felt that bale to the acre on this
ana that produced hale 10 eight acres t
vas Just as sure under my process as / used
o be at college that a mathematical problem +
Vouia work out right. Indeed / said at $
ne beginning that | would produce 100
'aies to the 65 acres, and keep it at that TO v
ire; say now that ] will make three bales :.
D the acre next year on many an acre and :
feel sure that | will get $50 bales off the /
, acres within two years. Now print this h
reelection" D
81 herr aras - E,,r,,o...
certain incidental rules 10 be observed
OF example, 1t does no good to yolr land |
, give Improper food if your tropical wash
lg rams sweep it out of the shallow soil Al
nd take 1t away. We must put it there
nd keep 1t there. To do this 1st I ditcb sc
Il hill-sides, turning the dirt on the MINER o.
de OF the ditch SO that il catches the -
ashIngs and in time terraces my 6eld I'll
l. break my land deeper each wear as
am able to increase the humus and this ai
lcreaseS the absorptive power of the soil NJ
40 renders 1t less liable to wash RI
ave succession of crops so that the earth NJ
Ill be kept full of organic matter and -,
'otiets all the time, and is thereby held "
gether and can't wash. | plant oats in | tn
e tall and cotton or corn when the oats al.
e taken off therefore not only give I'll
!, ia n a surplus of good food, but | XII
I'D 1t IN the land until it is absorbed
he result is memorable If 10000 farms in WI
eorgla were treated just as mine has been he
e outcome would be just the same ~
MT thurman Is right in claiming thar PI
ere IS nothing new in the principles he bo
working on. He has discovered nov De
'alis ana adjustments, and has made
me striking results. for which all credit
II be given him eD''
But it is the same old principle Of in oia
lslVe FARMING that has made France and las
lglahd proSperous-that has made cen :.
! ~ ,sM ork ana Pennyslvana and Ohio uu
5 enabled the New England farmer =, ~
and prosper on bleak and rocky hin Gee
es that southern farmer wouldn't toncb H.
q to command $500 an acre for land tbat iuc
ng5jde a Georgia farm. wouldn't b ring Me
Is Is the same system by which NJ
rdaway of Thomasville-tbe real 80 hac
II OF intensive farming in Georgia-ba
nenstrated that fifteen acres of Gea~er;a
q properly farned would support and
ne FAMILY of seven people, and e,iu- tan
the children. while many a fatrilv nm
smaller size half starves on three Inn 'iiu
q acres improperly farmed a m
writing all this there is no intention tina
enderlng advice TO farmers They know
re about their business than | do. und
Ut as a young man, l might say . word 500
Young men Mr.. Furman now in fbe
u year OF farming. declares that he viii tihu
u II thls year $1,000 on his 2-horSe farm, ,sor
- acres. have at nv hand The IL wi
ed hgures OF his expenses aud income take
ne puts his crop at rs bales when II .,b
Z probably so over so, increasing his pup
lts Just that much But, let ms saw conc
he makes $4,000 this year. He Is al.
to his acreage yearly nv bringing ~, mn eials
land and to the value of his farm by HE
easing Is fertility. He says he is de- az
nlned to make his net income ON 100 agre
s OYER 5000 ~
hat has the outlay been? He had e5
S Seno o.o9 per acre or 325,o0 pair of Clvl