The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1894-11-15

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a position where we can enjoy the full
return for our labor.
The high prices, which ruled for Sc.
ries of years, did not make our farmers
| prosperous. On the contrary, the strug.
| gle became. harder and harder each
| year. In many cases farmers are now
staggering under debts contracted when
cotton was high and credit easy, when
we staked our all on one crop and lost.
With the slack season and the long
winter evenings the opportunity comes
for him to look around and study the
questions most nearly affecting his in.
terests. 1t is the interchange OF
thought and plan which promotes i'm.
! provement, and the farmer who sue.
| ceeds is the one who is willing and
quick to receive as well as impart infor.
nation, who grasps the salient points in
| any well considered, progressive plan
| and lifts himself higher in the scale OF
agriculture.
A farmer needs sharp wits as well as
| sharp plows, and if he would succeed
! he must "feed the brain" as we'll as the
| soil.
AS help to every inquiring farmer
nothing is more valuable than a we'll es'
tablished and reliable agricultul IL jour.
nal. The cost of subscription, compared
with &the ideas. suggested, the train OF
thought awakened, the impetus given
] to improved and better paying methods,
| is scarcely to be considered. The usual
| subscription price of $l.00 is returned
many times oyer before the year is out
Amid the gloom of general depression
and low priced cotton, there is one
| spot to which we can turn with thank.
| fulness, and that is our
BIG CORN CROP.
The corn crop of the south is est.
mated at 200, 900, 900 bushels more this
| year than from the same states in 1898,
which will run the yield up to about
| one-third the entire corn product of the
whole country. This fact taken in con.
| nection with the almost total failure OF
| the crop i'll the corn producing states OF
the west and the probable high prices in
the spring, point to the Importance of
care, not only in gathering and hous.
ing, but III using in such manner as to
| avoid waste of that which will bring a
J good cash price later ON. Already corn
has sold at higher figure than wheat,
| and the price is now much above the
average for several years.
The south has had the good fortune
to produce a large crop at period when
the general market is short, and for the
| first time since the war, conditions are
reversed, and we will help to supply
| our western neighborS. Let us not lose
this advantage by too prodigal use Of
waste in feeding. To make this condi.
ton yield its full value to us, we should
| plant such fall crops as will enable us tc
1 ~ ~ QoN.
munerative price, or, if we have the
stock and necessary arrangements fol
feeding and for saving the manure, let
us manufacture our raw product into
the higher and better paying forms of
milk, butter and cheese. always remem.
bering that the mere feeding of stock on
barely sufficient to carry them through
the winter, is a wasteful policy. While
it is not necessary to build expensive
stables, it is very important to afford
our stock ample protection against wind
and weather, and if the stables are well
Uttered to absorb all the liquid as well
as solid droppings, we have laid the
foundation for utilizing to the best ad.
vantage the food given to our live stock
and the profit will make an ample re.
| turn for the labor of feeding and atten-
ton.
Quoting from the North Carolina ex
pertinent station: "The dairy industry
! means very great deal for the state
in the improvement of lands and in
producing safe money crop, that does
not exhaust, and in the saving of fertil.
izer bills"
NOW IS THE TIME
for making ready all buildings intend.
ed for this purpose. See that they are
weather proof, and having given them
thorough cleaning, see that the stalls
are well bedded with straw, leaves, OF
any other convenient absorbent. AT
odd times, and during wet weather, Law
in a supply of these, to have on hand as
needed.
Provide place for securely storing
the manure during the winter. Lack.
ing this, haul at once and spread on the
| fields. This secures cleanliness and
health, aud we thus get its first value,
which is often wasted by leaving ex-
posed to the weather, or by poorly con-
structed compost heaps. The site for
THE COMPOST HEAPS
should be selected on level ground, and
in such a position that the water from
Vic UulAIAllES WILL lOG 1dlA Ol GIlGI1.
Take off the surface soil, say to the
depth of foot, or until we come to the
firm clay subsoil, give a little fall to-
wards the center, and put in the ma
nure, packing firmly, and then finish
off the heap with the top soil previously
taken out, packing on carefully and
leaving the heapa little higher in the
center than at the sides. In the alb.
sence Of shelter this is the best plan;
but if one can afford it, even q rough
shelter will secure the mass from all
loss by teaching, and is good invest.
ment where lumber is cheap.
FALL FLOWING,
effectually accomplished, is of untold
value in the successful management of
another years operations. Land, both
heavy and light, so broken, absorbs the
heavy winter rain, and forms a res.
ervoir on which our crops can draw dur.
ing the inevitable summer drouth. An
other reason in it's favor is that the un
available potash and phosphoric acid in
which most of our subsoils abound, are
exposed to the action of the atmosphere
and the diSintepratinp effects of any