The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-15
HOW CATTLE RAISING PAYS.
100000 Profits from 100 Acres in
Ten Years-The Increased Use of
Fertilizers Urged.

100000 Profits from 100 Acres in
Ten Years-The Increased Use of
Fertilizers Urged.
From the Athens tGa) Bonner.
Col. James M, Smith has now over 500
head of cattle, and will increase his herd to
number 1000 COWS. He says there is as
much money in stock raising in this section
of Georgia as on the Texas plains, if a
farmer makes proper preparations for the
business. Col. Smith was the first man in
the south to utilize cotton seed hulls as a
feed for cattle. Until he disclosed their real
value the hulls were thrown away or
burned. They contain as much nutriment
as any stock feed, and by sprinkling small
amount of cotton seed meal over them,
cattle are made seal fat. AT the Eberton
Oil Mills, Hon. A. o. Harper tells US that
the citizens pay 50 per month to have their
mich COWS thus fed.
Col. Smith made this proposition to
G. NJ. Seymour, of Ebert county, and
offered to give him a written guarantee
that he would succeed if his (Smith's) direc-
tions were followed. Col Smith said:
You can take 100 acres of average good
farming land in this section of Georgia
and l do not know any better soil for the
purpose than you have in Goshen district of
Elbert-and In ten years you can make
SlOO,JOU C16dF PROM from L know
whereof | speak, and if you will try it, and
follow my instructions to the letter, l will
guarantee you to clear that sum. 1t seems
Incredible, but l have had enough expert
euce in farming to be convinced that / do
not exaggerate. My plan is this;
You must first select ground that lays
well, and with a clay suhsoil, SO as to retain
the manure. 1t is not necessary that the
land be rich to start on, for you are ex-
cd tO al ha
first clean the field of every stump and
rock, 50 as it can be moved over You
will want about ten good, stout mules, and
as many experienced plowmen, so as to get
your crop In at the right time. You can
use your surplus stock to cultivate other
fields The land must be SUBSIDIZED to a
depth Of eighteen or twenty inches-going
down deeper every year. Your first crop
will be spring oats-the best variety you
can find. Under them you must put 1000
pounds of guano to the acre. would sug-
gest the "Davy Crockett" Your oats will
average 100 bushels per acre, or 10000 bush
els from the field. For good seed oat you
can get so cents per bushel, or 5000 for the
crop. You must NOW your oats with a
machine, as you have no time to waste with
the cradle. So soon as they are off the lard,
start every pillow to work planting the field
in cotton. This work you should finish in
eight days. Under your cotton put 500
pounds more of fertilizer to every acre
making 800 pounds in all. This may APP
pear very heavy mauuring, but its takes a
great deal of it to go through 20 inches of
soil. Then work your crop thoroughly and
at the right time. and you will
gather the first year $4,000 worth
of cotton. After paying your ex-
penses, place the rest of the money
at interest, which will help to swell your
income The next year repeat the same
process, onlv use, say 2, 900 pounds of guano
per acre. You will fad your crop increas-
ing every year, and by the time the decade
expire, there is no telling what the field
will produce-pro ably two bales per acre.
Your land will be worth in itself fortune,
you will have large sum atinterest, and if
you strike balance sheet l will stake my
word and reputation as a farmer that you
will find you have cleared cool 500, 900 by
farming on 100 acres of land in ten years.