The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-02-16
A LIVING AT HOME.
rs WHAT EVERY FARMER SHOULD
RESOLVE no HAVE.
Grass and Stock Raising is Far Ahead OF
Cotton is the Opinion Of Larry CAN'T
Instances OF Success in This Limo

WArK1Nsv1LLE Co., February 12.-[Spec-
ial.l-"There is life in the old land yet" and
scattered over Georgia are thousands OF little
GASES of agricultural prosperity amid the
sterile desert of the heecy staple.
When you show me farmer free OF debt
and carrying the evidences of independence
written upon his face and mouldered in every
step that he takes, I will show you man who
raises his own provisions at homo, and makes
cotton his surplus and money crop. And
there is not happier or moro independent
man that walks our globe than the farmer
who owns his own land, with cash in his
rocket, and not the scratch of q pen against
him. When in the fields, he is indeed the
monarch of all he surveys" There is no
need of deceit in his heart, and he can pro-
claim his sentiments and defend his convlc-
tons without fear Of the world. In truth,
this favored class of farmers are the only men
on our continent who are not at times forced
to dissemble, or curb their tongue, lest 1t re-
suit in injury to their business. The farmer IS
the one man that can live within himself and
is not dependent upon the public for support.
Oh, what q glOrus country we would nave
if Georgia was peopled with such men--H all
of our planters were free of debt.
In my travels over the country, find many
such men, but will confne this letter to
history of few farmers who have found sue
cessand indepcndence through other crops than
cotton.
Mr.. Thomas +. Hudson, Of Clarke county,
at the close of the war, began work preparing
about one hundred acres of bottom land ho
owned on Sandy creek, for the cultivation OF
grass. The ground was lagoon; tho soil
stiff blue clay, filed with crawiish holes, while
the whole area was covered with stumps and
fallen timbers. While other farmers were de-
voting their time to raising cotton, Mr.. Hudson
was expanding all of his surplus hours and
cash on draining, clearing away logs and priz-
ing I'D stumps from this large plat Each
year he would extend the limits of his work,
and so soon as a strip of ground was in proper
condition he would SOW it in grass. AT last
his labor was rewarded, and he saw spread out
before his eye hundred acres of land in one
body as smooth as a prairo and with every
obstacle removed, and verdant with all the
cultivated clover and grasses grown in Ken
lucky and the west. For many years past Mr..
Hudson has supplied the southern market
with hay, and that one tract brings its owner
in net increase of $1,000 per annum, with
Just about one-ffth the labor it requires to
produce a cotton crop.
MI Weeks farmer of Oglethorpe county,
several years ago bought an old place near
Cherokee corner, that had been thrown out ON
account Of being covered with Bermuda grass.
Mr.. Weeks plowcd down tho ridges, smoothed
the fields with harrow, applied heavy coat
of manure, and for years past has been re-
warded with most luXuriant harvest Of the
finest hay, that costs him only the moving
and marketing. He paid for the farm with
the same therefrom, and makes more per
acre than any other farmer in his county And
there are hundreds of thousands of acres OF
the finest Bermuda in this section of Georgia,
rotting upon the land, while our farmers con-
tinue to import inferior and high priced hay
from tho west.
Mr. Bob Branch, young farmer of Oconee
county, has turned his attention to raising
blOcIcd horses, and ho has conCluslvely proven
that as fine animals can be bred i'll middle
Georgia as i'll Kentucky, and that there is
moro clear profit in one such colt, at the age OF
three wears, than in tho cotton from several
hundred acres of land. Mr. Branch has colts
Of his own raising. now on hand, That Will
m nvs Ing $40 snd ann IN amy
lucky can furnish, and from q small beginning
his stock farm is destined to become one of
the noted institutions of our state. Mr.
Branch says there is no reason why Georgia
should not raise as fine horses as any section
of our globe--that our climate and grasses
are peculiarly adapted for bringing this noble
animal to the greatest perfection.
Mr.. Joe II. Carlton, proprietor of the far
mers' Scull shoals grass and stock farm, in
Greene county, has now forty-nne colts, from
one to three years old, in his pasture, and by
spring will increase the number to consider
ably over hundred. He has stallion that is
the same blood as "NIaud S." and 'Jay-Eye-
see, lnat S0,CtU NOuiu IOG DuY, ana Dfet upon
his farm Mr.. Carlton devotes special atten-
ton to mule colts, and last year imported q
jack from Spain. He says you can raise q
mule as cheap as you can COW, and there is
no sense and reason III our Georgia farmers
depending on Tennessee for their blowing
stock--that any of our farmers can keep
themselves supplied with mules from the
litter that is thrown away around their barns
Mr.. W. 2. Price, of High Shoals, near the
Walton and Oconeo rivers has for several
years past turned his attention to raising
fine cattle for market and the butter. Be-
sides the increase, this gentleman sells from
$T5 to 500 worth of butter q month. Mr..
Price says that experience has taught him
that nothing pays SO large dividend to tho
farmer as cattle. You not only have the butter
milk and increase, but the enrichment of your
fields will pay for their feed.
And I will cite another case: About twenty
years ago Mr. Sam Bailey bought o small
farm at Maxey's, Oglethorpe county, so very
poor that it would scarcely sprout pea. He
devoted his care ana time to fruit indigenous
to this principally strawberres-and
has not only lived like prince, but saved
money One year Mr.. Bailey added to his
farm and raised crop OF cotton, but no lost
so heavily thereon that he returned to his
little fruit farm.
These are only few of the many cases that
have come under my observation, clearly es-
tablishing the fact that there are hundreds of
avenues yet open to our Georgia farmers,
leading to Independence and wealth, besides
the heecy staple. t. L. CAN'T.
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CONCERNING COTTON.
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