The Dawson journal., 1883-05-24
What will YOU do with il y,

AS IluCn OF IL as Is needed | will Dut
down III winter pasturage ror my sheep,
such as rye or peas, I shall turn the sheer
on these pastures and let them enrich them
until think them good enough to.put into
truck. What is not needed for winter
plsturage | shall ut probably in corn. |
have made cora this year at cost of 10
cents husbel, and am going to make it at
less. | sod 100 bushels last year at from
10 cents to 81 bushe | can make more.
money raising corn to sell at 40 cents =
5ushe than l can by raising cotton at 10
| cents pound"
| 'Wlll you continue to raise cotton on
your truck patches ~
Il doubt it. | do not ike cotton. II
takes all the year to make it and handle il
may plant a few acres of my truck patch
IS IN cotton, but my policy vii, be to SOW
down all the truck acreage in peas or rye,
and after the truck is taken off turn the
sheep ii on it, and in this way bring it IN
to the highest pitch of fertility
win this pay you as well as planting it
in cotton 2"
Eyes, Mutton commands twenty cents
pound in Jacksonville all the winter. l
could have sold 800 pounds day in Jack
SonVllle Tor four months last year at fifteen
cents pound, and it would have cost me-
only one cent pound 10 get it there. As
long as Atlanta, Savannah and Jackson
vile VIII pay me even five cents a pound
Tor lat mutton | can beat cotton acre ner
acre with wool and mutton, even if NV
land would average a bale 20 the acre. And
then You see every time | take bale off
an acre have drawn just that much from
my ground. When plant it in peas and
turn the sheep on it enrich it very heavily
ana must add this increased reserve to the
wo, ! and mutton take off of it,"
lou propose then to bring your whole
1000 acres of cleared and up to high
pitch ?"
Yes, and instead of buying the material
70 do 1t with, | will use my flock of sheen
Ii Is my purpose to clip ), 900 sheep annual
y and sell the wool In the winter 7 will
fatten and kill such of the wethers as can
spare and sell the mutton in the ncirhbor-
ing cities. My fenced WOO Tia, DIR n e will
be the home OF these sheep, but shall turn
them in on my cleared lands, giving the
preference to my 400 acres now in truck
and bring up the other 100 acres in
cleared land as fast as l can. The elm,
The increase and the mutton of NV focks
ought to, and doubtless will, pay me several
thousand dollars profit, and enrich my farm
lands without cost. shall, of course, have
some fine cattle hogs and few horses
running on my ranges also | believe in
raising everything on my farm that can be
raised here"
'Of course. l am just now closing a
war against stumps. | have studied the
labor question pretty closely and have long
ieit assured that the price OF negro labor
would be raised and the difficulty of com.
handing it constantly increased. 1 the e.
lore thought it wise to fortify myself
against it. The first protection suggested
was improved machinery The objection
20 this was the stumps, which clustered SC
to prevent its general use. moved al
once against the stunps. | now have 500
acres Of land in which their is not a stumr
to be seen, and I'm moving on my othel
land now. Nothing | have done has river
me so much confidence as this. | can ust
on it two-horse cultivators, screw pulver
lzers and any sort of improved machinery
and am comparatively independent | in
tend to make my place as near perfect AS
can get it, and equip it with the best stock
implements and buildings that money ca,
buy, if it takes all the profit of my trucl
farming to do it. An intelligent farme
can put his suip us money no wle"e whe
it will pay him such a large, Gel uain AM
satisfactory dividend as to put it back on hi
farm
won't the /, 800 acres of truck be to-
big farm for one man to manage 2"
ITO properly manage, it is But shal
bring it up gradually. My truck interes
is first, my sheep next, my pasturage an,
corn crop next, and cotton next, and IN,
oyershadowing object is to enrich and i'm
prove my farm. By the time l get it int
condition, some Of my boys will be ready t
take part of it and so | will divide it up"
"You will keep your boys on the farm !!
Il shall let them decide that mainly, bu
| suppose they will stay here. | hope so
There is no life that is hap ier more indie
pendent. freer from temptation or fuller o
hearty enjoyment, and none that is safer o
more lucrative. | abandoned civil engi
neering, and t1attering position too, t.
come to my farm. l shall never cease t.
thank God that | did so. My land will
give me every year, good or bad, all tn
money | want, and will carry in its sol
every season big balance to the credit o
my sols. When | die, it will he an in
heritance to them that will make them in
dependent and comfortable ali their lives
il they will only let it do So
Marketing the Truck Crop.
''T'he one danger of the trucking outlook
in Georgia lis gutTng the market. Can
this he done!"