The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-22
BE LIVES AT HOME
A Georgia FarmeWWho Raises Nearly
Everything, Including Horses.

Everything, Including Horses.
/ Sandersville. Ga. Aug. 2l-Your cor
respondent visited the stock farm of
! George Gilmore. seven miles north OF
/ Sandorsvillc, recently. Mr. Gilmore
owns the finest stallion in this section of
/ Georgia Magnus, whose pedigree is as
/ good as any of the blooded horses Of Ken
/ tuckv Mir Gilmore has several colts Of
/ various ages and these, and number Of
his neigh bors colts, are being trained to
work in harness. IL is interesting TO
watch the preparations Boots and
pads are huclSled around their feet and
legs to prevent injury. The colts
| are then exercised on the half-mile track
AS soon as one is given a
lesson in harness he is driven TO the
stable and turned over TO the grOoms,
who rub him of thoroughly blanket him
aad walk him slowly until he cOols of.
Others are brought out and exercised
in a similar manner until all in the stable
have been given a lesson. There Is lots
of hard work in thus training the ami
mails, and 10 requires patience as well as
experience on the part of the driver Mr..
Gilmore says that it is Just as easy TO
raise a colt that will bring $3.50 as it is TO
raise one that viii command or<e-third of
that amount, and he finds that it is a pay
ing Investment to have fine stock.
r. Besides his fine horses Mr.. Gilmore has
splendid farm. He lives at home in the full
sense of the word raises an abundance of
such provisions as can be raised on a
farm, and keeps his land up TO a high state
Of productiveness by rotating his crops
Not a blade of fodder is pulled from his
corn. Upon being asked the reason for neg
lecting this important forage crop, Mr.
Gilmore replied that frequently when
fodder is gathered, il is ruined by rain
stripping the blades from the stalks in
turCs the maturing ears more than the
fodder Is valued at; the fodder, if left on
the land, is more valuable for its fertiliz-
ing properties than for food He raises
an abundance of oats and forage corn for
his stock.
In large field of several acres an i'm
mense pea crop is growing to maturity
Last year this field was cultivated in peas
and after the crop had been gathered
hogs and stock were turned in TO CLEAN
what had been left Fall oats were sown
and when the crop was cut this spring a
good stand of volunteer peas had sprung
up. 1t is, doubtless, the finest field of
peas in Washington county. Mr.
Gilmore says that one of his neighbors
had complained few years ago about
variety of peas on his place that he could
not get rid Of; that they would spring up
voluntarily each year and were as hard
to destroy as grass in cotton. This was
the special variety that he had been want
ing for several years, and he obtained a
teacupful from which he saved the seed
that produced the vines now covering
several acres, and are so highly valued
When once planted on land no other
planting is necessary. They remain in
the ground all winter and come up under
the genial rays of the spring sun.
Cotton raised on this farm gives prom
Use of an abundant yield. 1t is the Peter
son variety, and 10 one who is unsophisti-
Gated il does not seem that it could be
improved upon.
Knowing that Mr.. Gilmore believed in
raising everything that could be produced
on farm, the question was asked if he
raised his own meat To this he replied
that he raised enough for his own family,
but not for his farm hands. He had tried
this and lost heavily on account of the
destruction of his hogs by cholera.
OTHER sANDERsvILLE MATTERS
Prof E. j. Robson and family leave
this week for their new home in East
man, Georgia, to the regret of the COM
munity. Prof. Robson has been princi-
pal of the school here for the past two
years and was unanimously elected for a
third time, but received a better offer
from Eastman, and resigned He has
given eminent satisfaction TO the board of
trustees and patrons of the school, and
his precept and example as a Christian
gentleman has been an influence for good.
Mr.. Jesse NJ. Tanner brought three bales
of cotton to town last Wednesday, the
first of the new crop that has been mar
keted in SandersYille. 1t classed mid
ding and was sold to Mr. b. L. ROughton
at 69Ec. Several new bales have been
brought in since.