Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1888-11-24
SOUTHERN AGRICULTURAL.
Middle Tennessee wheat Soils.

following figures, copied from the
Nashville (Tenn.) Democrat, both in
structive and suggestive:
''The report of the wheat buyers Of
this city shows that fully 100, 900
bushels of wheat have been marketed
already. The price paid is 20 and 70I
cents. The following are some Of the
crops reported: j. H. Whipple, 80
acres, average of 321 bushels; Geo. w.
Latimer, As acres, % bushels; John
Caldwell, 40 acres, 20 bushels; Jake
Caldwell, 80 acres, 81 bushels; A. J.
helms, $50 acres, SO bushels; H. &.
Fields, $50 acres, 40 bushels; Isabel
Bros, 10 acres, 40 bushels, and
4S acres, so bushels; Hugh Nc
Kinnis averaged 40 bushels, number
OF acres not given; S. E. Applegate, %
acres, 81 bushels; Bob Adams, ESQ.,, 20
acres, S6 bushels, IS acres of stalk
land averaged % bushels per acre; j.
D. Palmer, 80 acres, 20 bushels; G. w.
Miles, IS acres, 20 bushels; Joe Har-
per, near Rives, is reported to have
made 40 bushels on stalk land; DR..
Wesley Alexander, 60 acres, 80 bush
els"
There are millions of acres in the
Southern States that will yield, with
common tillage, over bushels of
wheat per acre, and it is an important
problem how they can be best improved
III possible), so as to produce crops
equal to those above named. Farmers
and perhaps all others have not the
data to estimate fairly the value of our
best grain, grass and cotton lands. The
rocks that yield potash, lime, phos-
phoric and sulphuric acids to soils in
Middle Tennessee are more than thou
sand feet in thickness, and generally
abound in fertilizing organic remains.
Wheat plants, with their roots in we'll
titled debris Of these rocks, tiller re-
markedly. have seen in one case,
some ten years ago, so culms (stalks)
bearing about so seed to each head and
culm-a harvest of $500 seed for one
planted. This is a much larger yield
than the writer ever saw in the
best wheat district of Western New
York, where he edited the GeneSsee
Farmer, and studied the agricultural
of the country with care and
satisfaction. Rotten limestone soils
in New York, as in Tennessee, some
times produces go bushels of sound
wheat per acre. These very fruitful
soils have no better flint sand, no bet
ter carbon, no better air, sunshine or
rain-water from the clouds than
has the poorest old field in all the
planting States. One hundred pounds
of fertilizer often adds over 1000
pounds to the crop. Now, tell an in
luiring farmer where the 1900 pounds
Of organized matter in the crop came
rom? The crop is mainly common
sir and water; but did the air over a
,orn-field change into fair crop of
hat cerealP Why change into wheat,
slower, grass or cottonP What is that
remarkable energy that uplifts from
70 to 60 bushels of new wheat every
'ear from an acre of wheat soilP In
hirty years the United States will con-
ain 12O000,000 consumers of bread,
md it will be unwise to double, per-
laps quadruple the nations impover-
shed farms, while doubling its citi-
ems to be fed and clothed from the {
ruits Of its depleted lands. {
A nation of farmers should not be
low to breed, in addition to other Or i
anic life, full supply of agricultural l
tatesmen to watch, guard and defend t
heir interests. A man looking after /
is crops, some to be harvested, some /
D be seeded, has little time or oppor- +
unity to oversee both State and Fed
raj legislation as they may saddle s
i'm with high taxes and call it party b
-isdom. Is it not enough to have a
ew department of agriculture with a P
Eat in the Cabinet. The trouble comes
'om defective Legislation in county
ourts and in the law-malSing powers
Congress and State governments. =,
i've us less taxation and more honest "
ealing with our mother earth, that :
lr posterity may not have to give I"
Tree times more labor for bushel of
heat or of corn, cotton or potatoes, q
ian we now give.-DaaicI Lee, in Dirie .
armer. u