The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-03-06
ALLIANCE DEPARTMENT.
Intensive Farming Has Come to Be
Burning Question.
George w. Truitt Says it is the Saliva
vation of the Country---Lack OF
Labor Makes it Necessity.

George w. Truitt, is successful Geor-
gia farmer on the intensive plan, as ev-
erybody knows who has been to tho
Piedmont Exposition at Atlanta for the
last year or so. Last fall he and Mrs.
Truitt carried off several thousands dol
lars in prizes for their displays-Mr
Truitt in the products Of the farm and
Mrs. Truitt i'm multitude of exhibits Of
the housewives skill.
The picturesque plantation cabin, sur
rounded hy II real cotton patch, which
attracted 50 much attention at the pre-
viouS exposition, was Mr. Truitt's con-
ceit
The point of this article is the renais-
sancc of intensive farming 4 dozen
years ago it was much talked of, and the
Hon. Farris Furnau. its apostle, stirred
up great deal ni enthusiasm for the new
culture. Sine" then the idea has been
quietly but steadily growing. Each year
has raised up some new advocate of the
system and in some counties it has been
extensively adopted.
The scarcity of Labor has now made in
tcnsivc farming a pressing question. II
has almost come I" hc II necessity. The
migration of the negroes within the last
two years has, in many instances, left the
l'ittltCIS Will crop III tlC llcllt duu
nobody to harvest it, This has caused
loss and has forced the owners of land to
consider means of culture with fewer
hands. Happily it has been found, and
found to be much more profitable than
the old way. Mr.. Truiit says it will be
the salvation of the country, and he has
come to the conclusion through expert
CnCc.
Mr. Truitt gives description of the
method which. in his pointed words,
brings contcntmcnt and happiness.
Here is what he says:
There is no question in the minds OF
observing people that we are drifting to
the small farm. In fact. our labor is so
disorganized and unreliable that the day
of profit on the plantation is gone, except
in rare instances where the owner is q
man of cXccptionable executive ability,
and has reduced all his operations down
to the most economic business system.
BY hard work and constant, unremit-
ting attention to details, | have succeed
| ed in bringing average poor land up to
| where it averages bale to the acre. OF
course some land produces more than
other On eighty acres of my individual
crop last year made lO4 bales, aversg-
ing 40 pounds per bale. On seventy
acres my tenants made forty.six bales, or
on $50 acres of land $50 bales of cotton.
This is plain statement of simple fact.
AS to how do this:
First, break about one-half of my
land with a two horse plow, alternating
each year, plowing very deep. The 9TH
er ialf bed with squarc-pointed scoot-
| erS.
Il lay oil my rows four feet wide, run
ming scooter in front and johnson
| wing the opposite direction in same fur
| row. In that furro@ place the cotton
sced~for fertilizer us early after Christmas
as:;possiblc. forty bushels to the/acre.
Abaiit the 10th or 18th of MARCH, l put
on top okfhese seed 400 pounds of acid
| IR9!ere. find the heary rains wash
the Ssaea 4 A.a ssSs H., ,tniS0tSS aaa- -ssis-i'