Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-05-01
FARMER AND PLANTER.
PRIZE FACTS.
The Result OF the Southern Farms ''Five
Facts" Contest.

AJOiuD hlAllO SlnCC Oub h3Oubutlli Il al III
offered prizes for the best ten groups of
five facts of Importance. Below we give
the winning groups. which will be found
to contain ideas worthy of perusal and
bordering:
n. L. DURHAM, ELDER, GA.
]. That 1t is economy for the farmers to so
manure and rotate their crops as to improve
their land each year.
2. That there are more failures made In
corn and cotton crops for the want of ma
nure and from having too many stalks to
the acre, than there are by dry weather.
3. That a farmers land is his bank. and his
draft will be honored In proportion to the
amount OF his deposit in labor and manure.
I. That Whist It will take to sustain a worth
less dog Will raise a hog
5. That a bushel OF corn or side of meat,
raised at home, is worth two in town.
JOHN IL DENT, COTTAGE HOME, FLOYD coUN-
TY,
|. farmer must make his occupation his
chief and first duty, and give his time and
close attention to it, relying n the farm for
his maintenance and support through life.
2. Make your farm selfsupportng and
elf-sustalning; raise all your food supplies,
for man and animals, on your farm; buy
nothing what you can produce yourself. and
keep close watch on the details OF the
farm. Dollars are apt to take care Of them
selves; cents must be cared for.
ga. Never undertake more than you can
have done properly. Ten acres thoroughly
prepared and well titled is worth twenty
acres half cultivated-it pays in the saving
of labor as well as in the Increase of produc-
ton. We own too much land sell the sur
plus, and what you retain make 1t more val
liable by judicious management 1t will
lessen expenses and increase profits.
4. One great error in Southern farming is
Ee don't keep stock enough on our farms
Keep all you can have properly attended to.
| The butcher wan Is meat, and the land wants
manure. Home made manures are cheaper
more reliable and better than bought ma
nures. Commercial manures make no humus
-humus is what your land needs. Animal
manure and vegetable matter comp osted
gives you what you need, and in the fall
turn under weeds, stubble, and all vegetable
matter left on the land, and you will supply
| your land with what it wants-humus
Don't clean off your lands with fire; clean
them with the pillow.
8. Read and study-take agricultural works
You can from experiesce see what is prac'
teal In Them; adopt what you believe to rs
| practical; what may seem doubtful try
and then be your own gauge. Reading
hurts no one. If they read good
books no danger of making them bool
farmers as some call 1t, but on the contrary
1t has made more practical successful
farmers than by the old routine methods
Perseverance,, energy and industry must be
component parts of successful farmer
Reading will never interfere with those Gle
ments, but quicken them and give then
proper direction, and often new and i'm
portant ideas. A farmer should read, worl
and be a close observer of all things. Hi
occupation embraces several importan
sciences, which he should study A farmc
should be a man of information, as well al
worker.
HON FELIX CORRUPT, CAVE SPRINGS, GA.
l. That the good, bright days, with plenty
of good sunshine, will take care of them
selves, and can always be probably utl
lied for farm work. but that In order to ge
full value of timu, and fair return TO
hired labor during rainy, sloppy, bat
weather, or severe cold spells, indoor worl
of some kind should be provided. / neve
have an idle day on the farm.
2. That it is cheaper to take care of agri
cultural implements than to buy new ones
few hours work in rainy weather will
keep them properly clea ed and oiled, ant
a cheap shelter will keep them out of the
weather. Alternate rains and sunshine vii
wear out machinery faster than actual use
3. That in order to make farm profitable
crops should be diversified, all necessar,
supplies raised at home, and the farme
should have something to offer for salt
every day In the year.
T. That the farm should be constituted
home savings bank, the value of which Cal
be yearly added to; first, by proper ter
racing and drainage; secondly, by the judi
cous application of home made fertilizer
distributed under the Immediate supervision
10 1, Hlxy lNxy1 "A rn n
soil, shallow crop cultivation and the rota
tion from clean.crop culture, to small grail
and clover or grasses.
S. That In order TO economic in the mat
ter of stock food and obtain tho very best re
suits from what Is fed, proper managers an'
shelters should be provided to prevent TIN
wasting OF food and protect stock from raj
or severe weather of any kind Stock shout
also be kept free from vermin. This can b.
easily done by the judlcious use of kerosen
oil. For dry cattle good, warm shelter Cal
| be built out of p ne poles and brush, coverc
W it'll leaves and weighted down with coars
manure. This Will absolutely cost nothin
aud can be put up in few hours, when TIL
weather is unfit for work Try it.
W. f. COLLINS, CAROLINA, MISS.
l. 1t does not pay to waste time trying I
save crop once neglected.
l. =. Average crops do not pay Profit lies I
the extraordinary yields, TO be obtaine
only by application of brain and hand labor
g. Empty barns carry no prosperity
though the cotton fields be white.
4. Good teams, well fed and hard ticks o
tic right time, mean profit-contra, loss
5. Milk, butter, vegetables anu poultr
mean health for the farmers family, an
less expense, consequently more money I
educate his children.
Il. W. HUNT EAToNToN, GA.
]. Build southern barns, adopted to South
ern winters. Don't copy expensive plan
from Northern agr cultural journals.
2. Build stables separate from barns, an
make them fire and tornado proof, wit
light plank sides and iron roofs. Use N
logs and heavy tlmbers to crush stock in on
tornado swept country.
3. Northern agricultural writer's do ne
crap the Southern situation. Make you
Gwn combinations of property balance
food rations, albuminoids and carbo
| hydrates, fats. ETC.. always fciuehberih
too much can not be said on the side {
cleanliness and that butter fat is plant Il
separated from the other constituents of til
cows food, and this butter fat will carry tn
flavor of the plant. Therefore, feed only til
best food. Some food makes hard and SON
soft butter, some sweet and some bite
The dairy farmer must be constant an
careful eNperimentor.
4. The successful raiser of thoroughbre
stock must be also somewhat of veternar
surgeon. The most fatal malady anon
horses and mules in the South is flatuler
collie, which is always relieved by punctul
ing with small trocar the c8cum or colol
or both, on the right side of the animal, hig
in the flank For hooven in cows wiz. fla
in the left flank. The use of the tr0car nee
give the operator no uneasiness. / hay
never known fatal results to follow.
5. II you wish to purchase horned Gait
for the South, buy only those acclmated
the South. Your Northern purchases wi
result in u loss of fifty per cent Don't e.
pecr success in stock-rasing from sever
purpose animals. The pillow horse will NJ
ride like the kentucky saddler; the trott,
will not pillow like the mule; the beef CO
will not make MS much butter on one hun
bred dollars worth of food as the Jerse
Avail yourself of the experience and skill
breeders in the past by buying the best
the kind you wish t. propagate, alwa'
making sure that your selection suits Il
environment.
u. W. HAWKINS, MONA, "a.
/. To make farming ply We must make
self sustaining by raising stock and
growing less cotton; make it surplus Gro
and planting more grain, such as cor
wheat, oats rye, barley and the growing
hay and making sirup; in fact Just living
home and boarding at the same place
home-raised provisions. This, Ihave learnt
from experience, is the only road to su
cess.
2 Rotating your crops-it pays best on a
lands, espec ally; an { on lowlands where