The Dawson journal., 1884-04-10
Truckers and Farmers.

Watermelons will be worth
money this season. People are
not going to plant great area
this year, but the melons will be
bouncerB.
: New South: The prospects for a
line melon crop III Brooks county
is good. Mr.. Ed Young has mel,
ons five and six leaves high. Mr..
Young IS one of Brooks county's
experts in the melon business.
The day Of small farms and in
tensive cultivation is upon us.
Railroads and the timber and tur-
pentlne interests absorb most of
the negro farm labor-therefore
our people who till the soil must
reduce the area and make it rich
with manures and fertilizers
| New South.
Albany News and Advertiser
Mr.. Bob Forester received intel
llgence from the watermelon crop
in Brooks county, and it was rerre-
ntrd as not excelling his own
patch, with the exception Of five
acre lot belonging to Mr.. Ed
Young. AS Brooks is generally
ahead of all other sections in the
truck business, Mr.. Forester feels
confident that he will be able this
year to keep near the head of the
procession. He reports his hun
bred acre patch doing we'll.
OUsLEY STATION, March 27, "a.
Truckers are having rather a
hard time this spring in getting a
stand of melons, etc. The acre
age planted in melons this year is
fully one-ffth less than last year,
but we think the land is better
prepared and fertilized than last
year, and we fear the crop will be
fully as large. Our experience in
Irish potatoes last year was very
bitter, We find it a costly crop to
fertilize, and when we fail to get
fair prices it hurts. We have in
creased the acreage in tomatoes,
beans, cucumberS and okra. We
have generally good stands Of Gu
cumbers and beans, and they look
promising. Melons have come up
badly and look coarse, we think
the seed is yet to be planted from
which we will make our crop
Cor. New South.
INTENSIVE FARMINd.-Having
received many letters of inquiry,
how to raise corn on the intensive
system, / have concluded to an
swer through your columns. if
you think the matter of sufficient
interest to give it space. | know
you are ready to publish any plan
which you think will help the
farmers.
plant double rows because l
cannot get stalks enough on an
acre by any other plan ana still
have ventilation.
l. Lay off rows six feet apart,
sub-soiling each row, and pat in
compost pretty heavy, say 500fbs.
per acre.
2. Bed On this sub-soiling each
furrow.
3. Lay off rows IS inches apart
on either side of the composted
furrow and put $50 lbs. per acre
of good standard guano or phos-
phate just as for cotton, and drop
corn IS to q inches apart in each
row and cover lightly.
4. When the corn is well M.
run one furrow, with very long
narrow pillow between the narrow
rows and follow with hoes. This
completes first working.
). Ten days later run the same
plow in the same furrow again,
and run common q inch scooter
around on the other side OF the
corn and follow with hoes. This
completes seco q working.
6. Ten days lister run around
Size inside rows with a larger pillow
throwing fresh earth to the corn,
and in this furrow put 500 los.
per acre of compost and pillow out
middle with scrape or sw 9ep, and
follow with hoes. This completes
third working.
7. Ten days later, take a large
shovel pillow and run a good fur
row in the middle OF the wide rows
and put $50 lbs. per acre OF guano
in this furrow snd run around that
furrow with broad scrape SO shall
low as not to cut many roots) until
you get as near the corn as you
wish. This completes the fourth
blowing, and lays the crop by with
slight rise in the middle of the
wide row, ard slight depression
toward each corn row.
Now let US see what we have
done. The corn has been cultivat-
ed with IA burrows to six feet rows
and three or four hoeiDgs, each
very light, but very essential. And
SIS to cost, we have cultivated much
cheaper than the usual plan re-