The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-18
GEORGIA FARMING PAYS.
PLAN TIERS ARE LIFTING TEE
MORTGAGE FROM rae FARM

An observant Planter Says that Geor
gia is Making Tremendous Strides in
AsricuIture-Dr. Cary OF LAGRANGE,
Says the Lost Arts Have Been Re-
stored-Plenters are Practicing Econ
omy and Raising Hogs and Hominy
as Well as Cotton-Wiser Methods
and Cheap Fertilizers are Making the
Farmers Prosperous.
DIR. H. II. Cary of Lagrange, member
OF the executive committee of the State
Agricultural society, and superintendent of
| department of the state fair committee,
was il the city yesterday. DR.. Cary is trav-
cling over the state as general solicitor for
exhibits for the state fair, which is TO be
held at Macon from Oct. % to Oct. 80.
MEETING WITH ENCOURAGEMENT.
In an interview with MORNING NEWS
reporter yesterday DIR. Cary said that he
has met with great encouragement In all
parts of the state. While more particu-
larly soliciting exhibits for the department
of manufactures, DR.. Cary is also solicit
ing exhibits for every department for the
| fair. He spent the greater part Of the day
in Savannah yesterday. and was very
for exhibits from this city. He
expects that the needle work aud
art exhibits which will be sent from this
city will be very fine, and he expressed the
opinion that there will be number of ex-
hibits from manufactures of different
kinds In this city. He left for Columbus
last night, but will return in few days on
his way north to solicit exhibits from the
| manufactures for making such small art icles
as pins, needles, ETC., in Boston, New York
and Philadelphia, and he will devote some
time soliciting in this city before going
| north and after his return. The amount of
cash premiums that will be offered by the
State Fair Association this year is S10.-
900.
FARMERS PRACTICING ECONOMY.
DR.. Cary, as a result of his observations
during his tour of the state, says that Geor-
gia is making tremendous strides
| beyond all precedent. He says
| that the farmers Of Georgia are using
the most improved agricultural implements
aud have learned the principles of economy.
They have found out that it will not pay
to plant all their land in cotton and buy
their meat and food products from abroad,
and he says that those who have been fol-
lowing such mistaken policy have had to
go to the wall. He says that th
agriculturists Of Georgia are more hops fu
and are fast becoming Independent. They
are raising their own hogs, corn and other
provisions in connection with their cotton,
the cotton representing the surplus of the
farm, and as a result of this. he says that
mortgages are being reduced everywhere,
and that the Georgia farmer will soon crawl
out from under the mortgage.
INCREASE OF VALUATIONS.
Reports from 12O counties of the state to
fha .Nxrlt
lands and property, made by the farmers
themselves, shows an increase, DIR. Cary
says. of 300, zoo, 900, and this condition of
affairs proves how far wrong the late Mr..
Toombs was when he said that every year
the farmers of Georgia were growing
poorer and poorer, and Dr. Cary
says that Mr.. Toombs was equally
mistaken when he said that
the manufacture OF OK carts in Georgia was
one of the lost arts. II took occasion to
allude to this at the meeting of the state
agricultural society in LaGrange recently"
said DIR. Cary, land pointed to the fact that
Georgia had found not only the lost ART of
manufacturing OK carts, but that in the very
town in which L was speaking any vehicle
could be manufactured, from the finest
baby carriage to the best road wagon, and
that many manufacturing industries had
sprung up and were flourishing throughout
the staten
LANDS IN BETTER CONDITION.
DR.. Cary SAYS that the farmers of Geor-
gia have learned much in toe last ten years,
and that the value of agricultural societies
to them has become apparent In addition
to that good old-fashioned way of
raising on the plantation provis-
ions for man and beast, the farmers
have been keeping their lands in the very
best condition by the free use of fertiliz rs,
wi na i,,k h.
fertilizers has enabled them to do, and they
have therefore obtained better results from
the soil. Seven or eight years ago, Dr. Cary
says, Peruvian guano commanded sos per
ton, which was so high as to amount to
practical prohibition of Its use, but since
the wide discovery of phosphates prices
have had heavy fall, and farmers now
obtain fertilizers at from $40 to S22 per ton,
and DR.. Cary expressed the opinion that
the extensive phosphate fields of Florida
will tend to further reduce the price, and
at the sane time the grade will average
higher.
VALUE OF COTTON SEED.
In the last few years the farmer has found
out that the cotton seed as a fertilizer adds
81 value to every bale OF cotton raised, and.
as the farmer obtains one-half gallon of
oil TO every bushel, the money obtained
from the sale of the oil pays for
the cost of the seed, and leaves
the latter just as valuable for
fertilizing purposes. Before the war the
planter was at a loss how to get rid of his
cotton seed. Not only has the price of fer
tilizers diminished, but prices of cotton are
satisfactory, and lie says it will remain so
as long as the planter curtails the crop by
utilizing portion of his land to raise pro
visions that he used TO send north for. de-
pending on the money received from his
cotton crop to meet his obligations year by
year, aud getting deeper into debt by such
shortsighted policy. DR.. Cary expressed the
opinion that 81 cents will be the basis for
cotton this year.
CITY BREVITiRS.