The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1894-09-13

every quarter, and to emphasize the fact
that this tremendous loss is expected
and allowed for when the price of our
commodity is fixed, and therefore does
not fall on the buyer or shipper but di-
rectly on the farmer The suggestions
as TO better covering and more bands i'm
making up bale, as to the abolition of
double pressing, screwing into the shin.
cutting off bale ends to make them fit
better into the ships hold. and also of
adopting bale of uniform size through
out the south, are valuable to the farm
er III SO fa= as he takes measures to have
them carried out. Let us begin more
careIui pollcy at home; let us see to it
that cur cotton is put on the market in
nrst class condition, and then, if i'm
properly handled, the fault will not rest
at our door.
FALL WORK
AS cotton is, at present, almost our
only money crop, its gathering will nee
essarlly occupy the greater part of our
attention, until all is safely housed and
mace ready for market. It is the best
poIcy to gather as fast as it opens, for
the combined injurious effects of wind,
ram, trash, sand and dew, induced BY
TOO long standing in the field cause a
poor sample, and, though the proportion
OF such cotton in a bale be small, the
entlre bale is classed by it, and not by
the larger amount of good cotton, and
the consequence is a falling off of several
points in the price of every pound.
Ii, from storms, delays, or any other
causes, the sample is injured, don't mix
TINS cotton in bale with good cotton.
heep all such cotton separate, and pack
1t to itself. If put in bale with good
s9Et9p. 1t simply reduces the price of the
Another important item is the spread
ing and drying of the cotton before it is
stored or carried to the gin. This is es-
peclally important for the earlier pick
!ags. which have more moisture-both
IN lint and seed-than later, when the
plant is entirely matured, and the dry
ing and falling of the foliage leave the
Dolls exposed ito the full action of the
sun.
though the saving of the cotton crop
is the most absorbing work, there are
intervals all during the gathering season
when other farm duties can be safely
attended to. The thoughtful farmer,
even during the heavy pressure of cot
ton picking, will plan ahead, and when
opportunity offers made needed repairs
on terraces, bitches, stables, fences and
houses, and also get his land in shape
Tor the various fall crops. To succeed
with
GRASSES,
the land should be put in as fine filth
and MANFRED as highly as for turnips.
In the northern part of the cotton belt
September is considered the best time
for sowing; further south, it is safer to
defer this work until October. The fall
sown grass stands much better chance
In the struggle for possession with the
native grasses when the spring comes
on, because it has attained such vigor as
to easily hold its own against crab grass
and other ANIMALS that terminate in the
spring, and the weeds can be kept in
check by successive mowings.
In previous reports the proper varie-
ties and mixtures of seed have been
given. Bermuda, as summer pasture
grass, is all that could be desired, but
we need a perennial winter grass, and
according to the best authorities the
"Schrader" bids fair to take this place.
This grass should not be COMPOUNDED
with the Rescue, which it somewhat re.
sembles, but to (which it is much supe.
rior. They belong to the same family.
but the Schrader is perennial, grow
ing vigorously; the Rescue is small and
an annual.
George d. Tillman of South Carolina
who has given the subject Of grass cult
ure great deal of study and expert
mentation, says:
"Schrader is most likely one of the
new grasses that will shortly force it.
self upon the attention of the whole ag.
ricultural world, as neither heat nor
cold affects it injuriously much. A
number of my correspondents in the
northwest write that it resists their arc.
tic freezes as heroically as it does our
long, parching drouths at the south.
and am sure it is well adapted to the
stiff, damp rice swamps of our southern
seacoast. AS regards the fertile low
grounds that are subject to overflow by
our up country water courses, Schrader.
rightly utilized, would prove an inesti.
mable blessing, by making such lands
the most profitable of any at the south.
"Schrader will not thrive on sandy
soil, unless clay be near the surface, as
it affects rather compact gravel or
clay, although it does remarkably well
on the gray granite land of Edgefield.
This arises perhaps from the fact that
the grass seems to need good supply
of potash.
"The grass also does much better on
stiff, moist land, if not too wet, than
on dry soil; yet it will thrive splendid.
~ on the latter, too, if it be fertile, and
never have seen any grass, not even
the far-famed Kentucky bluegrass. or
the worldwide orchard grass, that
fourishes in the shade of trees as Schra.
der does. There is no use sowing Schra-
der on poor soil, unless it be highly ma
nured, as the grass yields such a large
amount of forage and seed that it is
obliged to rapidly exhaust the land, es.
pecially when the seed natures, as thew
are as large as oats. The seed can be
harvested about as easily as oats, and
nearly every seed will come up when
plowed in like oats. Even when not
plowed in, the seed have an aggressive
tendency to take possession of the land;
still the grass can be as readily exter.
minated as oats, wheat or any other
small grain. During 10 years observa-
ton, have never noticed any indica-