The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-02-29

which have lately been So thoroughly suc.
ceessful as 20 embolden US to call tue atten-
tlon OF truckers generally % the subject
moreover the time seems 50 fitting
Just now uneasy lies the head which wears
cotton kingly crown
de is not half 50 regal at cents per
pound as erstwhile. and the agricultural
oppression has evolved much discussion as
70 Nhat shall be planted, ard what diversity
shall relieve the situation, and in the interior
south where husbaldry is less mixed than
on the coast the condition is so serious that
one planter In Oglethorps county, Georgia.
walls In this misunderstanding 20 the rsduc-
ton OF cotton planting, for which reform
ers are so loudly clamoring:
III tt Is not done then it will be good-by
iona 60 tue southern country.
THIS time has come when change must
Do made from utter nscessity.
TX the farmers 81 the south don't change
tactics and live at home with cotton az a
surplus crop, this is true, that within the
next three years our average lands will not
bring more 81 per acre and utter starvation
Will hover over the hpsaes of many a south
ern farmer like the vultures oyer the BODY
Of Prometheus" e
This is too lugubrious, for with cheaper
methods OF growing, by the use of more
fertilizers on less land, the use OF the cotton
picking machine Of the future and the osher
economies which the necessities OF the csse
will develop, cotton will still reign and al
ways will be a natural staple OF the south.
But 1t is time to make your business self
insurlng by growing more of what you now
buy from other sections
Corn, oats and hay, now so little grown
with their direct value as we'll as the benefit
which they afford in a system OF rotation
are the first crops which occur to mind. as
being practically raised and even producing
largely In this section.
But addressing now more directly the
truck growers or any who can control the
peculiar soil described in the following, we
will call attention to the celery crop.
Here is vegetable generally aud largely
used throughout the whole country and in
| the liveliest demand 10 every market, Yield
Ing such large profits per acre. that near the
large cities of the north growers pay rem
tails OF $50 to 800 per acre for the use of
land wherein to produce il.
Kalamazoo, Mich. has attained a
Worldwide reput alton as a great center for
| this industry, and ships daily six tons of
| this vegetable In the hight Of the season to
all parts of the country.
You find 1t in your southern markets, ar
! irving from that or other points partially
stale by reason of long transit, and its
original cost enhanced by heavy transpor-
| tation charges all this to bring 1T to you
who can produce better article at home.
1t will have singular value ae a shipping
crop II grown in the south entirely unlike
other green crops which sell higher when
first put upon the market, and at less
price as the later and general crop comes
forward to the point of a glut, for at the
time when celery should mature In the
south and will be shipped the orehern sup
| ply Is on the wane, prices begin to advance
and the season for production is over there,
competition with the southern grower has
| ceased, cool, favorable weather for shipping
has arrived and everything ut that time ia
vors successful handling of the product.
Without exaggeration, on soils suitable
for its production and proper methods and
culture aud marketing employed, a clear
derived from raising it; there are numerous
instance Of $500 to $1,000 worth being
| grown on one acre where very favorable
| conditions have obtained, but that it is
highly profitable the fact Of its culture on
high-priced lands near the large northern
cities and the profits of growers, who pay
| 800 per acre for ground rent aud high
| prices for labor all go to show.
| Its one peculiar requirement is a low moist
soil. if mixed with loan, muck or clay it is
| immaterial which.
Water must not lie on the land as in your
| rice fields, but drainage must be provided,
SO that standing water comes no nearer the
| surface than from eighteen TO twenty-fouT
| inches.
Such soil has the requisite moisture and
GOODNESS essential to this growth, and with
proper fertilizers employed there Is nothing
in the climate to prevent its maturity as
| we'll as at the north.
II should be planted south, say in the
coast territory between Savannah and
Wilmington, n. G.. from Sept. IS to Oct. /
our season is July to August-but it would
fail with you at that season.
That this is not speculation, we will cite
that several growers on this coast strip have
tried this crop experimentally at the
writer's suggestion, and all with success; and
recently we saw in Charleston much finer
celery. which was grown on the farm of W
Andel near there, than was then being
shipped from kalamazoo.
Our letter has heightened beyond our in
tention, and the other points of culture
preparation of she ground, fertilizers, plant
growing, growing two crops at the sam
time, varieties, transplantinR, double-crop.
ping, killing and banking, digging, bunch
ing and packing, winter storage and bleach
ing and shipping, with other hints TO south
ern growers cannot here be given, but to
any one interested the writer Will cheerfully
give any information which can be com
municated in the space of letter if stamp
is inclosed and inquiry addressed to Wash
ington, d. G. BURT EDDY.