The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1890-08-26

Not Quite up to Mr.. Doty on so Acres,
But His Farm Shows What 135 Pounds
of Energy and Intensive Farming Will
Do. He Started Poor and is Now
Worth 100000.
1.-The Ahanta JournaEl
There is inspiration in well-worked
Georgia farm. Inspiration, infor-
nation and an important lesson 10 all
who see it. 1t is an object lesson
which beats ali the essays that have
ever been read and all the books that
have ever been written on the great
question of agriculture. During the
recent agricultural convention in La
Granse-a little city noted for its many
and varied attraciions-more attention
was given to the farm Of George W..
| Truitt than 10 every other Interesting
feature of that interesting town.
| When men will 60 six miles to see a
piece of cotton rather than 60 few
hunlred yards TO see lovely flow er
garden or an unique factory, their
action is at once testimonial of their
practical ideas and d compliment 10
the farm which they visit.
George TRUTHS farm was of more
benefit 20 the State than that entire con-
veniion-and O better and more har-
moniouS convention was never held in
this part of tie world. My assertion
| will be snbstantiate6 by the hundreds
Of delegates who visited this farm and
| went away determined to duplicate
what they had seen. An old gentle
man from Texas said he had never
seen cotton the like Of that; Il Lrouisi-
ana man said it gave him good news
to carry back to his people; all Ala
bamian said that the famous black belt
Of his State had never equalled it.
George w. Truitt, known as the
famous Georgia cotton grower and
pro paaator OF improved cotton seed,
EIives in Tropp County, six miles from
ELaGranee. lie is middle-aged, !,
medium sized man-weighing about
lao pounds, 1S5 being energy.
| In approaching his home the first
tLing noticed was that his barn was
much larger than his houses mighty
good sign, | can tell you. His dwell
| ing contains four rooms and wide
I piazzss front and back. It is q cosey
looking, white painted building, with
fresh, pretty vines clambering over the
piazza. The walk leading from the
gate to the steps is completely covered
by an arch of cedars which are so per-
! fectly intertwined that they seem 10
begin growing in the sir and to grow
downward into the ground Oh each
side of the walk. Beautiful circular
walks in the yard, flower beds formed
in various fgures, with humming
birds fittering here and there--ex-
hibited a guiding hand faircr than that
of any man.
Magnificent orchards containing
fruits of many choice kinds and all the
attendant conveniences Of country
home were prominently visible.
The barn is two and a half stories
high, 55 by 80. with a rock cementcd
| foundation. 1t contains enough last
years corn to last the plantation till
Christmas-and stacks of many kinds
of forage. Oats, sorghum, millet and
the like, are cut up by a machine in the
second story and dropped down into
troughs to suit the appetite of the
mules or horses. There is a we'll in
the barn and water is pumped directly
into trouebs which are fixed to serve
each animal in the stable. If Mr..
Trait would train one OF the horses
to water the others his arrangements
would be perfect. The horses walk
out of the rear stable door into g fresh
Bermuda pasture.
An excellent steam ginEery, a neat
machine shop in which all tie plan
tation machines arskept, socti black
smith shop, several >we!l-bu:lt te:le-
ment houses-al ;R a lovely oak grove
|isodded with Bel mada grass-help TO
completec, the picture of this model
! farmers home. -. Ia :" T.;
|: At the, last' Piedmont Exposition y;
Truitt received one oflhs -. - -"
for farm exhibits: ~ l.. Ils5 prizes
| awarded ser.A:, i. Mrs. fruit wa'
I hibite :. -1eral xriEes tor ladies' ex
! ." Some Of the fCrty kinds o
wine, sni the many varieties Of canne'
goods, etc, arc still here to add to Is
plea sure of this household and. tn
comfort of its guests. From wograd
ed Jersey COWS Mrs. Tyai'l has sol'
/, This year 200 pounds Of butter. Sh
has sold enough eggs aud chickens t
run small farm.
But to The farm proper: Mr.. Truit
says he is going {" make 100 bales o
cotton ON so acres worked bv Nv
mules. And these Sc acres were tn
principal X! ractfolH 10 the Col,ventio
delegates, :Int3 not one of them deniet
the fairness of Mr.. TRUTHS estimate.
The lana is gray, with clay subsoil
poor. It. has been built up by hig
fertilization and good working. Las
year it Ras planted in oats. 1t wa
well broken with cutaWay harrow
in December. It was broken twice il
January with harrow, the secont
ploughsag being squarely across th
first. :Ehen the rows were laid off
four and 8 half feet wide, with
scooter, followed by q johnson wing
On fpxty acres fifty bushels of cottol
see6i were broadcast to the acre, ant
I five. hundred pounds OF Scott's bes
ass3 put in the drill. On the othe
forty acres five hundred pounds o;
Gossipum tt, the acre were put in th'
drill and list fulTews. The cotton i:
thirty inches apart in the drill. Mos
of it was chopped out by running :
thirty-inch scrape directly across the
rows. This gives the rows beauti
full regularity, and enables them to be
ploughed i'll two Numerically oppo
site directions. (Think about this, it;
mighty good scheme.) The cottol
was topped about the 10th of July
1t was ploughed five times and hoed