The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1892-12-15

. what quantities, when shall it be pro
duced and how, when, where and for
what price, and to whom shall it be
sold?
WHY NOT RAISE YOUR OWN WORK
| ANIMALS.
The following from The Southern
Cultvator shows that at cents Der
pound, Georgia pays 100000 bales of
cotton for horses and mules. Can our
farmers prosper and pursue this course?
IA careful estimate reveals the fact
that most of the counties in middle
Georgia have for long years. paid, in
actual cash, from eighteen to thirty
thousand dollars, annually, for mules
and horses brought from the west.
Striking low average from the entire
state, we find between three and four
million dollars taken from the state for
stock that could be raised for nominal
sum upon our own fields. What stun
endous folly, when it is conceded on all
hands that our stock can be raised at
less cost than in the markets from
which we buy. Grass grows as freely:
our soil produces forage as abundantly:
our winters are far less rigorous and
the necessary case. therefore, less ex-
penslve. Every thing is favorable to
the enterprise wisdom and economy
urge the undertaking. Every farmer
| should raise, at least, the stock needed
upon his farm. 1t greatly helps the
general good to hold annual colt shows.
both as an evicence of progress and an
encouragement to others
USE MORE FERTILIZERS.
The farmers of the south do not use
enough manure, or to state it in q diff
ferent form, they take from the soil
every year very much more than they
return to it in manure. 1t is easv to
show, that fertilizers pay better divi-
dends than any other investment on the
farm. The conclusion is irresistible that
we should use more fertilizers not COM
mercial or bought fertilizers alone, but
home manures, composts, green crops
turned under, marls, ETC., everything
that will add more to the yield of the
crop than the cost of its application
To have an abundance of stable or
barnyard manures there must be an in
crease in the number of animals fed
This gives diversity to the farm and in
| creases the sources of income. A well
fed COW will nearly pay for her keep in
manure, besides good profit on the
butter sold and consumed.
A GOOD MAXIM FOR FARMERS.
Raising cotton on poor land does not
| pay. | cannot afford to raise cotton in
| lees quantities than one bale per acre,
| and in order to bring my land up to
! that point must make manure, and the
| cheapest is that made from stock raised
on farm,
The cold beaten track is not always
the best. The sold beaten track" is
not the one that will always lead us
most quickly. or even most surely, to
success in agriculture. New ideas and
new methods have come up IL every
branch of farm practice during recent
years. and many of them have already
been tried and found good. A preju-
dice in favor of old ways should not
keep one from being progressive. Read,
study and keep up with times.
Farmers cannot prosper as long
as they are compelled to sell their
cotton or starve. The situation is an
unfortunate one for our farmers, but
they can improve it very much. here
after by their own efforts. They can
| never command the situation so long as
they must sell their cotton or starve.
/ They can command, it when they can
live without selling and sell only to
realize profits. The increase in the pro-
duction of food crops on southern farms
shows a tendency in the right direction.
! 1t is a tendency which no rise in the
price of cotton should stop. If it con.
| f;,,h7oc 1opC, II will la Tho yo,o
duction of cotton again profitable and
our farmers prosperous.
| X X X x x
CULTIVATE WELL IF YOU HAVE TO
! PLANT LESS.
More work amounts to nothing, unless
there is reason, judgement and calcula-
ton back of it. Judgement and calcu-
( lation are all important in all undertak-
| ings. The know how, the know when,
and the know why, is calculation and
judgement nicely balanced. Labor
without forethought and calculation
will end in failure, or poor support.
System, plan, methodical ways do not
beget fussy, busting or an excited
way of doing things, but the machinery
of action seems to run itself.
Again, small business with small
| prOf1t6 demand long ana arduOuS TABOR.
| There is no expension in some callings
the field is limited and it will not grow
larger for there is no room for enlarge.
ment. A certain amount of business
can be done in certain calling, and nc
extra efforts will add to it. Take the
newspaper business of today, with a
paper in every county, and in some two
or three. They will have a certain
amount of circulation and no more, q
certain amount of business and no more
and all the fuss and fury displayed
or put on will not add a dollar, but
rather sink money A piece of India
rubber will stretch to certain length
and any more pulling will break it.
Again two farmers-Baldwin and
Milledge-with a mule piece goes tx
farming. Baldwin cultivates about
thirty acres with his mule, nanures
well, works deep, plants. everything he
consumes on the place, corn, potatoes
ETC., raises his own meat, has system
judgement and calculation in every
thing he does, does not rush and push tc
try to do too much with his force, anG
the result is a success. His cotton
money is all clear gain. NIilledge
without judgment and calculation