The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1892-07-14
is remarkably small for the time of

yield. Farmers will be UP with their
work and crops clean.
Tatnall. -Good prospect for fruit crop.
Crops generally in good condition. Far
mers working hard and economizing.
Telfair. Crop condition has improved
since last report. Cotton planted since
that date is a perfect stand. Corn rather
small, but looking we'll.
Washington.-Thi is the first year
that tobacco has been planted here to
any extent. 1t looks we'll. The patches
are small, but many of them. Crop
generally we'll worked. A large per
cent. of the crop is late; due to spring
drought.
Wilkinson. Farm work we'll ad-
vanced.N Dry weather has caused all
crops to be small Corn looking we'll.
SOUTHEAST GEORGIA.
Camden-Owing to a drought crops
In some parts of the state are badly in.
jured
Charlton-Cotton stand in this coun-
ty very poor on account of dry weather.
Corn looking we'll, considering the
drought.
Chatham.-Oat crop fine, but to some
extent injured by the dry weather.
Rice not all planted. Corn inferior on
account Of dry weather.
Cllnch.-Oat crop almost failure in
consequence of the drought, from which
all crops have suffered.
Coffee. Corn is the leading crop here
this season. Sugar cane perfect stand
Fruit damaged by late frost.
Effingham. very backward on
account of dry weather. Plants small
but seemingly healthy.
Glynn. looking very well.
Rain needed very much. Grasshoppers
destroying small plants.
Llberty.-Stands irregular and bro
ken. Fields clear of grass and we'll
cultivated.
Mcintosh early spring weather
was too cool for the rapid growth of
plants, and the crops are all backward
on this account and that of the drought
Plerce.-Crop very small and back
ward all over the country; caused by
the drought.
Ware.-Oats badly damaged BY
drought. rs per cent more area in corn,
30 less in cotton.
Monthly Talk With the Farmers.
have travelled recently over a large
part of the state, addressing the farm
ers in the interest of intensive and pro-
gressive agriculture, and explaining the
relations of this department to them
and to their work. was most favora-
bly, impressed with the promising con-
dition of the
CORN CROP.
Where the proper fertilizer has been
used and in sufficient quantities, and
the work has been rapid and thorough.
the result is most gratifying. All
through southern Georgia the dark
waving fields Of this grain give promise
of an abundant yield.
THE DAT CROP,
Except on very fertile land or where
on poorer land "a liberal application of
lot manure or suitable commercial fer
tilizers has been used, will not amount
to more than half crop. This is due
In some measure to the long drought
Wherever the crop has been sowed in
the fall or early winter, and the former
is undoubtedly the most favorable time
for sowing, and where the land has
been well prepared the contrast is so
marked that no thinking man, witness
ing the vast difference, would ever again
take the risk of sowing in the spring or
ON unmanured land. Even with all the
dry weather, which has prevailed to an
alarming degree for eight or nine weeks
in the middle and southern portions of
the state; this crop, when sowed in the
fall and we'll MANFRED, will give most
satisfactory results, while the spring
sowing. and that on unmanured land
will actually scarcely pay for the plow-
ing necessary to put In the seed. With
this object lesson meeting us on every
side, why should we continue the at
tempt to grow crops on land that past
experience has shown will scarcely pay
for the work put upon it. Oats is the
very best and cheapest crop we can grow.
In hot weather there is no food for
horses or mules that equals it, and with
the same attention that we give to other
food crops, it can be made as surely.
Had the seasons been favorable this
year, the yield of oats on rich or fertil-
lied lands would have been. immense
When the oats are housed SOW 100
pounds phosphate to the acre and then
SOW.
The reduction of the acreage in
COTTON
Amounts in some cases to so per cent,
but this large reduction is, however,
only noticeable in individual instances,
the general reduction being only about
half this figure. The stand in many
localities is imperfect, owing to the hard
and dry condition of the land. Where
stands were obtained early, the plants
are healthy and growing well. The
long dry spell has given the farmers
ample time to work their crops thor
oughly, and it is an exceptional case
where this has not been done.
THE CATTLE AND SHEEP INDUSTRY
Is not receiving the attention and care
which its Importance merits. Our peo-
pie are losing interest because the
ranges are not 80 good as formerly. As
the country grows older, and the popu-
lation increases and the lands are cleared
and cultivated, we find that it is nee
essary to make preparation for shelter
ing and feeding stock during part of
each year. The trouble and expense of
keeping the cattle together and housing
them during the cold months, is amply
paid for in the improved condition Of
the stock, and the saving of large guam
titles of valuable manure. Cotton seed
hulls are so cheap, that by feeding them
with very small quantity of cotton
seed meal, cattle can be kept at small
cost, and the manure is rich in all the
elements needed by our starved lands.
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