Nevada County picayune., 1888-01-25
AGRICULTURAL.
INTENSIVE FARMING.
Hon. Pr,r1us w Jones Success fui Methods-The Possibilities
 of our Soil.

fui Methods The Possibilities
 of our Soil.
 \ News and Advertiser scribe meeting Hon. P. W. Jones, she first bale man of Georgia, on the thc str. cts yesterday, accosted him with "HeIlol Your great success HIS a farmer is exciting the envy of all the world. Do you know that people actually pretend to say that it would strain thelr credulity to believe that you made twentv-seven bales of cotton to the mule? And some are absolutely saving that the fertilizer most popular with you is lye."
 Well" said the good natured planter prince. "they can believe or disbelieve as it suits them, but my published statement is a fact aud have many witnesses by whom to establish it beyond all cavil, if necessary.
 "Some people account for your remarkable yield by stating that your cotton packages were lght' How is this"
 We'll my factors books are open to the inspection of all, and if seeing is believing they will find that my cotton bales are fully up to the average in weight. The first thirty packages this year were lipht. owing to new hand l em- ployed to pack for me in my ab- sence. They averaged about 3I5 pounds. But my other packages have ranged from 423 to 52'' pounds.
 How many packages to the mule did you really market?
 "I marketed within fraction of 2S bales to the mule, but owing to the first thirty bales being lighter than full packages l place my yield at 2 bales to the mule, also made 3j0 bushels of corn to the mule and other side crops In abundance"
 "You certainly employ ucw and superior methods. To what dc you attribute your success"
 Well, to a combination of cir cumstances. In the first place l have the best cotton seed in the world. Seed that 1 have by con stant care and attention improved through years until they are both early and prolific. Then I work. My hasds are always ont in the field al good light, and am my overseer, and you bet they don't throw of on me and put slack work on my crops. l believe that intelligent distribution of manure has contrl buted largely to my success l do not use commercial fertilizers as others do-merely bed on them and let the strength be exhausted d in theearly and rapid develope' ment of the plant-but put enough good fertilizer to last till the crop is matured. and force it's maturity by rapid work"
 "Your plan, then is intensive!
 Why, that is it, exactly. There is no money in raising a crop with twenty mules and hands in prOpor' ton on 1000 acres that can be gathered off of 400 acres by the proper use and cultivation with eight mules. l can tell you now that if l live five years longer l VIII dSlOiilNil NilC udklN fN cllii lhOi' l am going to improve my land so that l will make fifty bales of cot ton to every mule run on my farm l am maturing my plans now for that improvement, and from my past experience, l know that it can be done"
 Mr. Jones by his remarkable success, has attracted favorable attention to this section, and it demonstrates the possibility of our soil under the most intelligent system of intense cultivation. We believe with him that fifty bales of cotton can be easily raised to the mule, if our lands are improv- cd and enriched by judicious fer tllization, and Tn the intensive system lays the hope of our coun- try.-Albany (Georgial News.
 
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