The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-09-04
A SUCCESSFUL rARMER.
Eighty Bales of Cotton Made with only Two
plOws


Flows.
Ho0ANsvILLE. Ca, September 1.-Onoe
before have given TO the public through your
columns the success of Mr.. Wm. NJ. Sims, Of
this neighbolhood as farmer. Since which
time bis advancement has been of so unpreee-
denied nature that feel it my duty as u
stimulant to our farmers, aud in Justice to Mr.
Sims, to again give some account of his sue
ceSsful management of his farming. On the
10th OF this month he began TO deliver cotton,
and up to the 10Th had put on the railroad
depot eight bales from two-horso farm.
From careful examination by riding over his
crop, and by minute calculation, put his yield
this season at not less than eighty bales with
two plows.
Such farming ia old Georgia seems. no DOUBT
Incredible, but within n pleasant ride Of three
miles from Hogansyille can be seen this farm,
and / dare say that there Is not O practical
farmer to be found who, after seeing the crop,
would estimate the probable yield ut less. BY
Mr.. Sins's perseverance and good Judgment he
has so managed his soils, improved his seed
and mode of cultivation that he hiss reached
certainly the maximum. And while this
gradual but continual improvement has been
going on, it has been done without the aid Of
money to layishIy invest in commercial ma
nures; 1t has all been done by scientific
plan of management, rotating md soil
ing, assisted only except in very limited
way by commercial fertilizers. Mr.. Sims was
married at the age of twenty-one, fifteen years
ago, with not over five hundred dollars Of
assets all told that he commenced to oDerate
with. Today he has four farms, each as rea-
sonably successful as his individual two-horse
farm that we have estimated the yield, neces-
sary stock, and all else to operate them and
his property estimated and assessed at twenty
five thousand dollars in the short space of
fifteen years. Mr. Sims is not alone In sue
cessiul operations rs farmer among his
neghbors, but must be acknowledged the
leader.
The great secret of such success lies In the
fact that like any other business tho closest at
tention is necessary to attain to such results
No matter when you &c to the premises of Mr..
Sims you will invariably fnd him personally
attending his ailairsif absent at all, he is
gone to market with some kind of farm pro-
duce to sell. He has not boon to town during
his farming life unless he carried something
from his farm to SELL from an egg to bale OF
cotton. During these fifteen years no has
supplied our town with meats of every kind
from chicken to beef, and kept the Village
folks warm during winter with plenty Of good
and cheap wood. lie not only supports his
family outside OF his field crops, but derives
handsome profit besides, which leaves him all
his cotton crop every year q clear
profit, even paying his hands off, by his
system of accommodating other marketable ar
ticles such as | above mention. Too much
cannot be said Of such man as benefactor
not only TO his own family and friends, but to
the public generally, as his name is sufficient
where he is known to stimulate our young
farmers to activity and desire to manage like
wise
Mr.. Sims has been unable 10 sell any OF his
crop olreadylon the market up TO this writing
az there seems to be no buyers prepared to
handle the staple in our market yet, or at least
their bids on Nj. Gims's cotton being only five
cents induced him to look up other markets,
therefore, be is shipping his cotton to Atlanta.
will look after this result in the wind up, and
report the yield of Mr. Sitnss entire crop from
his little farm when he Is through with the
gathering,