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SPLENDID FIELD OF COTTON.

A Place to Feast Your Eyes, and
Learn Lesson...The Names
OF Some Men who Make Money on
the Farm.
A year ago Messrs. Wallingford & Russell
bought fifteen acres of poor land on tbe crown
of Magazine Hill, and to-day there is crop OF
cotton on the land, ,variously estimated
mercial lnandres were put on this land,
but Messrs. Wallingford & Russell did what
many farmers In this County can do with as
little expense as they did, They saved the
land, and threw it out, broadcast. At the pro-
per time they .plowed-and plowed 1t deep
following one plow in the furrow OF another.
When the beds were made, q deep going plow
went still deeper beside the beds. The rows
with a Wilson Planter, and when the plant was
properly above ground, 1t was sided with a
short half shovel. After the stand had been
chopped out, the dirt was thrown back
with q gofer and short sweep. The middles
were then plowed-with a long gofer. The
same mode of cultivation was followed
for two other workings. The fourth and last
working was, one fprrow with gofer and q
twenty -four inch sweep.
The seed was of superior quality. The
stalk grows in cone shape, with long limbs
close to the ground, with short joints; and q
producing MS many as thirty-bolls. The
plant locks in the rows nearly every where.
and some places the stalks are SO luxuriant
that the sun can scarcely penetrate: The
has all that the ground can hold.
II the crop turns out as we'll as the pros
poets indicate, Messrs. Russell & Wallingford
will make nearly five hundred bushels OF cot
cents bushel would bring 500 at the oil mill,
but Mr. Russell says that he does not intend
| to sell them to the mills. They are OF such
fine variety, that he will keep them for seed,
and sell them before next Spring.
Besides the expense of hauling the stable
manure, Mr.. Russell estimates the entire cost
Of cultivation at q fraction less than S46
His cotton seed at twenty cents a'bushel, Will
Here then is crop of fifteen bales Of cotton
at an outlay less than fifty dollars.
Mr.. Russell hired all Of the work on this
place, and made the crop as recreation, dur.
sale and livery stable did not need his pre-.
If Mr. Russell can make cotton in this way
In the summer, and then do lively business ness
getting rich2 Nearly every man around
town, who has q farm, makes q profitable
yield, after hiring all the labor.
Mr.. Parker, as we have noted before, always
makes profit on his farm.
Mr.. DuPre as a successful grower of fine
crops has no superior In all this section.
Lately he has turned some attention to the
growing OF grapes, and now Secession Hill,
under his manipulation, produces the sweet
MI. ". T. Penney, as an unpretentions far
mer, always does well with his farm. He
gathers good crops Of grain and alway has
BILE milk COWS. ~
Capt. John g. Edwards finds his farm a
source of some profit, though he gives 1t per-
haps less attention than any Of the others
Just mentioned.
Mr.. Lee does not 60 into the farm to great
extent, but he always come out ahead of eA'
Mr. 7. w. Mcmillan is one OF the most
by working the whole year. When the
farm does not need his presence in winter,
he cuts wood to burn brick, aud when he has
O leisure time In summer he makes the brick
en- much time In the Fall to the public GIN
merry which he has been running.
Mr.. A. w. Smith is thrifty farmer. He
makes proa an his crops and his pasture
and turns them in his pasture. In few
months he sells them at perhaps hundred
per cent. profit. Besides making, money al
it The owner Of a large tract Of land lying in
the corporate limits OF the town thought last
winter to save expense OF advertising, but
Mr.. Smith learned that 1t was for sale. Keep.
ing his counsel. he bought 1t for perhaps $1,000
He Immediately hired axemen to cut the
wood off Of 1t. He now has about enough
corded wood to repay much Of the purchase
money. He will haul the wood this winter
when farm mules are usually idle. Mr.. J. s.
Hammond makes money. He works summer
and winter.
Mr.. g. H. Moore always finds 1t profitable
to have more or less land In cultivation.
Mr.. r. E. Hill finds his chief income from
the cultivated lands which he manages.
/ Messrs. A. NJ. Hill & Sons run big farm
IN the summer, when their livery horses have
ess TO do. They make money right straight
along, by finding something to do every day
In the year.
Cashier Barnwell, of the National Bank,
makes money out Of cotton.
Mr.. w. G. Chapman finds 1t profitable to
cultivate cotton patches. .
Mr.. Thomas P. Cothran is becoming quite
a farmer on the intensive and scientific plan.
He has recently built q silo on his place, from
which expects to feed his blooded cattle al
most the entire year. His cream and butter
yield, from his registered Jerseys is 80 great,
that he has also put up a superb creamery,
andiexpects good returns from the salelof but
ter and milk. He Is q firm believer In ter
racing, and a jealous advocate Of underground
tile drainage.
But we cannot attempt to note all who
make money by farming. We know Of no
man who falls to make q reasonable profit
from the lands which he cultivates.
Knowing this county as we do, and know
ing that there are thousands OF men in this
country who are making money on the farm
1t Is needless for anybody to say that there is
no mony to be made on the farm.