The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1890-09-03
BIG COTTGN FARMING,

Claude N. Bennett, writing to
the Evening Journal of tielrre
w. Fruits cotton near LlGrlng. =,
IN IL" course of his communication
says:
Bat to the farm proper: Mr..
Truitt says he is going to make 100
bales OF cotton to 80 acres worked
by two mules. And these 80 acres
We're the principal attraction to
the convention delegates, AMI not
one of them de' led the fairness Of
Mr. Tr'Iitl's estimate.
The land is gray, with clay sub
soil. > 'verl years ago it WIS
puntully poor 1t has been built
up by high fer liz ltion and good
working. Last year it was plant
ed IN oats, 1t WAS well broken
with "a cutaway harrow in Decem,
Der. 1t Vas broken twice in .)au,
uary with a harrow, the second |
blowing being squareIy across the
first. Then the rows were laid off,
four and a half feet wide with a
scooter, followed with johnson
wing. On 40 acres so bushel off
cotton seed were broadcast to the
acre, and 500 pounds of SCOTS
best acid put in the drill. On the
other 40 acres, 800 pounds of Cos
slplum to the acre were put in the
drill and list burrows. The cot
ton is thirty inches a part 10 the
drill. Most OF it was chopped out
by running 30-inch scrape DIR
rectly across the rows. This Civ.
es the rows a beautiful regularity
and enables them to be pl5wed in
two dramatically opposite direc.
tons. (Think about this, its a
mighty good scheme.) The cot, :
ton was topped about the 10th of :
July. 1t WAS plowed five times
and hoed twice.
Mr. Truitt uses level culture. H.
breaks the land deep, cultivates !
i It and very shallow. His lan,ks
are all well terrIced and a homes
made system OF underground
trainsge-compounded out of a
ditch, some logs and a plentiful :
supply of mother earth is fire, +
luently used. By these p ecau t
lions, cotton is now growing as
high as your head where. a few q
years ago, gulleys would hide ali "
the animals in Grant park. g
Mr.. Fruit says this Ian is one 5
hundred per cent. better than it
was six seasons ago Taa cotton b
is called FRUITS Premium Profit. t
c. The seed has been selectel t
Nv sendino rrrAfll hands over the
DOLLS. This plan has been Carried Il
Dut 81 persisteltIy that now "A I
small boiled stalk cannot be
ound. Forty average hollis of this '
cotton will make ii pound.
More than three hundred bD'l4
we're counted ON one stalk. We 5
found hollis which measured 7 ID
inches round one way and 8 inches {
round the other looking very
much like green turkey egg. -
There were some single stalks 7
feet tall, niue feet IN diam ter and
g. square feet of ground.
This cotton looked like swamp,
and ut II distance appeared too
thick tor entrance. A short mlu
would get lost In it: n timid mal
would never venture in it at all;
an incrrdulOus man would never
believe it vas tn re unless he saw
it; IA wise man Gfhe We're Il turmcr)
would 20 to work a Il see it he
couldn't grow cotton just like it.
We wentOver the land where, n
few years ago, Mr. Truitt Gathered
fifteen bales from ti,e acres, and
when we reached the one acre on
which he Iaised 200 pounds ii
lint, we decided that the ground
was holy, and built thereon IA
monument OF rocks to the hes,
yield OF cotton that the world has
seen. The cotton on this land the
present sn.son had to bc planted
over IN May: therefore it will
hardly mike over TWO ana hail
bales to the acre.