The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-01-19

We had quantity; the Stops and vege-
tables from the kitchen: the wasting
fruits from the orchard. and then fat.
tened on the patches of peas. ground
peas and potatoes, hardened with a lit
Tie corn, has cost me so little that have
scarcely felt it. There is not a farmer
In the state, who will fail to make this
a success if he will give to it the same
thought and care that he gives his corn
and cotton.
If you are
RENTING YOUR LANDS
advise with your tenants and by exam
pie, as well as by precept, induce them
to attend to this question, which will be
profitable to you and of equal benefit to
them. If the owner is unmethodical
and careless, the renter is apt to exhibit
the same spirit. The ex@mple of one
good farmer in neighborhood is worth
all the letters or essays that could be
written in a year. The need for intelli-
gent energy and business forethought
was never more pressing than
now. Push your business. Keep it
well in hand, and don't for a
moment suffer it to fall into unprofit-
able ruts for the want of a little atten-
ton, a little forethought. The mistakes
and follies, as well as the successes, of a
quarter of a century are known to us,
and these should guide us to like sue
cesses and away from similar failures.
Let US not repine, and by permitting
our fears to take possession of us, lead
us into deeper difficulties. Utilize the
days when too wet for farm work in
giving to the old
a more comfortable appearance. Put
coat of whitewash, or better still, if you
can afford it, a coat of paint on the barn
and out-buildings. reset the garden
posts, either having charred the ends,
tar; trim up the orchards, adorn
the yard as much as your time and
means will allow. The wife and
daughters will value this, and in after
years the grandchildren will love to re-
call the days spent at the old homestead
We can't stand still. We must either
go forward or retrogrrde Resolve not
to be drone.
Parties wishing information which
our department can furnish will be
cheerfully aided, and have only to ad-
dress postal or letter to agricultural
department, new capitol, Atlanta A
large number of the weekly papers are
now handling the publications of the
department, and | would be glad if they
could be so distributed in every county
in the state. | hope those papers which
are not now publishing them will write
to the department as to terms for pub
LEGATION, etc. r. T. NEsBITT,
Commissioner of Agriculture.
The following are taken from our ex-
changes:
Farmers Should BE Thankful for Some
Things.
Good living returns have come and
are sure to come to the farmer who does
his best. AS in any other line of bust
ness, there will be good and poor years.
| am thankful that the average returns
from farming are reasonably good and
certain.
'On my farm I am king. No man
can spit tobacco juice about me, or he
foul my air with the smoke from his
mouth, or make me listen to swearing
or any impure or foul conversation. I
do not have to put up with anYbody's
impudence as a matter of business pol
ICY" said a merchant to me the other
day as customer left his store, whose
words could not have stood. "Thank
God that you do not have to be all
smiles and bows when you are Just
aching to kick man across the street.
| am my own boss, except that [ must
produce what the world wants. No one
can discharge me or find fault with nv
work. There is always work to do [
am never out of a job, and still am not
closely tied up. except for a few weeks
of the year. Many farmers are as close
ly confined as other business men.
am not. thanks to not undertaking too
much"
Continue the work of opening out
bitches and draining the wet places on
the farm. BY SO much as the land is
kept dry, by so much is it kept warm
and fitted to become proper seed bed
in due season. Few crops succeed with
their ''feet in the water.S There should
be good drainage to the depth of at
least two feet in all land under cultiva-
ton. In this two feet enough water
will be stored to keep the land moist
and serve to supply the needs of the
crop in all ordinary seasons. Below
that depth the water should not stag
nate, but have opportunity to drain
away. We made practice OF putting
all drains down to depth of three feet
where practicable when draining land,
and saw marked advantage in doing SO.
In our last issue we wrote somewhat
fully on the subject of rotation of crops.
We hope that our readers have given
the subject consideration and decided to
practice a sound system of rotation
during the coming year. The fields for
the different crops should now be de-
cided upon. and the necessary prepare
ton be carefully studied, and as far as
the weather and labor will permit, the
first steps towards this preparation be
taken. In deciding upon the question
OF the crops to b6raised, we would once
again strongly urge the Importance of
not attempting too much, Do not work
an acre of land which you cannot prop
erly manure and fertilize. Much of the
unproftableness of farming arises from
the neglect of this rule. To rely simply
upon the natural fertility of the soil to
produce a crop is in the south to rely
upon broken reed. 1t only means that
you will get your labor for your pains.
There will be no profit. How can there
be profit in growing ten bushels OF
wheat or tyUaDtv b11Sha1S of corn on tho