Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-02-12


count, on it. The seed from which this
grew was planted just fifty-nine days before.
Cotton grown this way can be picked with
half the cost and time Of ordinary cotton.
On my cotton land this year 1 raised 100
bushels of oats to the acre, and after clean
ing off the stubble planted the cotton, one
stalk of which I showed the convention.
"One is not to drop the cotton seed in a
continuous row, but simply to put few
seed in the hill where you want a plant.
BY strewing the seed in sprinked row
there is is great waste. A cotton seed is
like an egg, when the chick is born there is
nothing left but the she'll: When the SEED
sprouts there is nothing but the shell left.
The fertlizing power of this seed is lost.
Worse than this. 1t draws from the soil for
the elements that make it grow. 1t is lett
to deplete the soil in this way for two weeks
at least, and is then chopped down, leaving
only one out of twenty plants to grow to
fruitage. My plan is to plant four or five
seed in hill. The hills to stand in four
feet squares. OF these l would let two
plants to the hill grow to perfection: 1t 1t
takes from two to four bushels of seed to
plant an acre in the old way. BY my plan
a peck to the acre is enough, and the soil is
not drawn to support multitude of surplus
plants for two or three weeks. Planting
in four foot squares is better than the OLD
way.
"Cotton is a sun plant and needs room for
it's roots. When cramped to II or 10 inches
it cannot attain its perfect growth. My aim
is to put the plants together in four foot
squares, and average Is to $50 bols to the
plant. This will give me pound OF seed
cotton to the plant, or three bales to the acre.
"Inever touch it with hoe. The growth
of cotton comes from the spreading tilaments
/ &l>ok ol, hn
If these are destroyed the growth stops
until they are restored. am satisfied that
three hoeings lost me eighteen days of
growth, or six days each. run shallow
plow along the cotton rows, and never
20 deep enough to cut the roots. But
there are more details, in which men may
differ. The main thing is the intensive
system of manuring and the husbandlng all
the droppings and wastage of the farm for
compost. I can take 100 acres OF land In
Georgia, and at nominal cost can bring
it's production from sixth of bale to three
bales an acre in five years. Any man can
do it.
"My tenants are adopting the intensive
Some few neighbors are using my formula:
I have sent Out, suppose, five hundred
formulas for composing. The speech
made before the agricultural association Gre
ated more excitement than anything for
five wears. The members did not relish my
statements I saw plainly. They sent Mr..
F. G.. Greer, the secretary, to Miledgeville
to see my crops and verify my statements.
He is to-day the most enthusiastic man in
Georgia over the system l am working on.
"You understand" added Mr.. Furman,
that have no possible interest in this mat
ter outside of my crops. l have no receipt
70 nh
What l have done has been with common
seed on poor land, with cheap manure, and
any man without price or purchase, can 40
what have done. / am satisfied to make
money out of the ground ; [ want none from
my fellow-farmers.
"The difficulty with us is that we try to
farm too much land. Pm good for $4,000
with two mules and siXty-five' acres.
Next year I'll beat this. In the meantime,
I am "bringing up'' twenty-five acres. [
never want over one hundred acres. These
1 will cultivate with three mules, and 1'll
make $50 bales of cotton on them, besides
all the corn and oats need.
81 am anxious" he added, "to see my
plan adopted. If it is done we shall have
the hest State in the world. Why, look at
France. Her recuperative power is the
wonder of the world. And what is it based
on? Simply that she can raise two crops
one of those lentil crop-in one season. But
in middle Georgia l can raise three crops
per season on piece of land and leave it
richer than when started, viz: oats, cot
ton or corn and peas. There is nothing like
it, Give me 100 Oacres of land like the sixty
five that own now, and don't want an
orange grove, or factory, or a truck farm,
or anything else. lean 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 if he wants it. TIE
rule I have followed will bring it just as
surely as the sun brings heat and light"
CULTIVATION OF THE POTATO.