The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-02-13
FsaTilizino.

business makes the following sugges-
tons, which should be read by every
farmer in the South "When we
turn to the South the condition of af-
fairs are such as to create necessity
for using COMMERCIAL fertilizers.
Here the ground has been rendered
comparatively sterile by the most
vicious and deploSable industrial sys-
TEN that, probably ever cursed a
land, certainly the worst that ever
cursed soil. For, long years the
ground has been TILED with prinli-
tive implements in the hands of ig-
norant labor; and kept year after
year in exhaustive crops without the
application of manure. The result
had to be what it is-unproduetive,
brier-growing fields that can be rem
.dered remuneratNe only by the use
of commercial fertilizers. The yield
of corn in the 4 corn producing
States Of the " EFT Has shown us that
even there commercial fertilizers may
well be used; ana if we consult the
statistics relating to the other princi-
pal crops Of that section, We shall
ind only mot dalnnaDlt iteration,
al augmentation to the same point.
Ii we consult the statistics relating |
10 southern crops, We are convinced |
not only that commercial fertilizers
may well be used in the south, but |
ern Agricultural can be highly pro-
ductiVe, The condition OF affair, /
such as to warrant serious apprehtn- |
sion. They are making u mantui |.
struggle it is true, but they feel each |
year with scarcely diminishing force
the oppression Of debt, grown almost
intolerable, anu always but one re-
move from the unbearabIc. In the !
midst of their difficulties the South |
ern planters have derried the very |
thing which alone can save them |
greater prOuuctlun. Those who have !
set themselves up as teacher, Of thi, /
people are loud in their cry that toe
much cotton j. bcing produced. TIL, /
trouble is thai roo many acres ur
being devoted 10 it. The Southern
planters can dulDlt the yield Of cot
ton per acre, by the use Of CONNER
cial fertilizers, etc., ana when they
have done this they can produce one
naIf more cotton on threttOurth> til,
number of acres devoted to it now. .
They need not fear that they will no,
lind a profitable market for fifty pc.
cent more cotton than they now pro-
duce. The world will need that
quantity; ana on account Of the dc
creased cost of production the pIHM-
ters can afford to sell their crop at I,
less figure per pound than that Tt
ceiVed now, and yet realize a large.
profit. The cry Of too much cotton
is true just this far, that HOW cotton
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