The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-07-30
CORN AND COTTON.
rgEYhRE GROWING MORE LUAUN1-
ANTLY THAN EYER.
Corn All that Could be Expecte" o"' oo
Has Been Forced into "eeoS o'"'o'
Iniuring the Prospective Aieio'

s'The change in the condlton ol lhe wy;
during the last three weeks is wonderful
remarked Commissioner NeSpltt' u 'ii@
state AGRICULTURAL department Thursday.
Corn is better than it has ever peen
known to be before. Especiahy % ~
true of north Georgia. The rains nov
come Just in the right time, anu INC 'r'
from a condition of wlted despair mas
bloomed up into of unusual PROMISE
The other day I passed through CheroKee
county on my return from tennessee
corn which 1 there reminded lhe u 49,
most fertile sections of Illinois FROM o.he.
parts of Georgia come reports ~ cod
promise, which show that out OIL d a., 80
condition of affairs providence Is leauihS
| US to a season of plenty , ,+
| GAS for cotton, the reports are good' put
| the rains which doing so much ~
corn and other crops, are haVlhs an W
| posite effect on cotton. The lHliiehe0 Nv
petus which has been given to the slo"u
| of tho plant is at the expense OF the lru!I'
| The rains have already encourascu wv
growth of weed, and the longer inns ~
tinues the worse will be the elecI oli '
cotton crop
The Tenant System.
croissionar Nesbitt talked Interestingly |
| on farmers and farming. He touno IL
| difficult to answer the question do ~
whether the farming interest was lmpros-
ing. ,,,o+ion
ia apricultural" said he. "Of that Az per
cent are tenant farmers. Now, no one can
dispute the statement that tenant worms
merely for the present seasoh.he h'n ~
interest in the future years OIL tne CO.
# follows that he is not Interested III 'le
perrnanent Improvement, ana as d coli'o
a,npca no does not attempt it. The close
dailv care and vigilance which an owner
gives to property is not TO De eNpe ,
from mere tenant of year. Now VIC.
| 90 Iorea a percentage of the farms are IN
, |
+ ;r, tarracing or other work looking Tor us
f retnrn in the crops of future years the
i right kind of Improvements CANNOT NC CA
. pected. ;, 4.o
I .orhe great work we have to DO, sala the
:. oon7njssioner. lis to induce these tenant
y farmers to become the owners OIL tie"
= for,oc Take a man who owns fifty acres
he buses himself in the repaiIihs -
{ fences digging bitches, terraclns ms l'ilu'
l. nlanting fruit trees and otherwise lniploN
&c ing his place permanently. AS q ten'ht nc
- never thinks of such work as inns l-V'
u oyar 40 ner cent of tenant farmers pc
came land owners and their alnpllloh anu
IL sense of thrift will be largely increase"
N IT is noticeable that the first e1oft Oh the
10 E,uronean emigrant when he lands IN the
49, west is to become a landed proPiletoi' 80
y sorna reason our Georgia tenant farmer
ne is not so ambitious, and the result Is INA
at he continues poor Our lahoS are me-
IN and there is no reason why every i1N''
to should not own his farm. s,or
1t, The commissioner told OF SeVerdl La NY
who had made money by utilizing all thel
resources, instead of concentrating then
" all on one crop. There is one FARMER /
n Cobb county who makes 1t point new
d. to go to town without something TO sci
to If NAV be a dozen eggs, half doZe
ht sticks of wood, but whatever II ls'
oa makes out to bring some money pach WIZ
lu- him from the trip. This mans cotto
crop is absolutely surplus-a state ol d
he fairs Which every farmer in Inc std'
en- should emulate. Around him may be loui
re neighbors VINO complain that the times I
AN ha~a - -. rs Superior
rec Georgia for stock raising but here aga il
nd too much reliance is placed upon the mil
af. weather and the few cold days which d
me come find no preparation made for resist
,+s anee. In Miller Mitchell and Coffee coun
ng ties large hockS of sheep go from on
cd years END to another with hardly the at
he tention of Identification In some place
. there will be found focks of $500 mo,
~ which not cent has been spent for shejte
" or food They yield an annual clip of thre
"a pounds of wool each, for which the marke
~ Is as certain as that for cotton
-. Il farmed for years in Early county .
~ said Commissioner Nesbitt land got int
~ the habit Of leaving my stock to the care
OF nature. When moved up to Cobb coun-
ty twelve years ago, L chung to the habit
lie OF not feeding the hogs in the morning but
le leaving them until night, when [ would call
n ly. The frost came and / lost numbers
"a OF them as q consequence. Ever since tina
e time l have housed and fed my live stock
y with a success which tells me how far
p wrong l had been before.
= Farmers buying Food.
. What a commentary it was that durinq,
: the late strike it should have been reported
that the wholesale houses ran short of
meat; that there was no corn in the land
t and that we were even threatened with a
famine in cow feed. All this in a state
: where everything possible for man or
I beast to eat may be grown in profusion.
We are today sending west as much money
: for -four corn and meat we get for our
entire cotton crop.
The policy of a farmer buying ANYTHING
that he can raise is suicidal There js
money in the farm, but it cannot be ex-
tracted by being confined TO one crop. and
exchanging the money obtained for that
crop Tor the products of another section
IN 1ltton Tor instance. there is a canning
factory. All around, a consequences
| people are raising tomatoes fruits e4c
ana taking them to the factory where the
money is obtained for them. This little
enterprise IS an object lesson showing
what can be done. In every neighborhood
there should be an effort made at diyersi-
hcation-it means money in pocket and sue |
| cess in farming"
Is 1t Cnse of Root Rot.
"A Ietter was received at the department |
| yesterday from Colonel Peacock, of Snow.
| III Dooly county, 1t narrated that some
| strange disease had attacked the cotton
| plant in that section. First the leaves took
on yellowish hue. withered and died
| This continued until at last the entire stalk
gave way. The writer DESTROYS of
knowledge as to what 1t was The disease
was in existence last year and the vear
before but this year it had assumed large
proportions. " sc
The commissioner is of opinion from tha
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