The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-17
SEPTEMBER NOTES.
What Can a Farmer Do Now-Wha at
Can a Trucker DoP

Besides gathering his ripened crops.
there are not many things that the
Zimmerman can do just now. But the
few things that he can do are very i'm
pOrtant. 1t is unfortunate that the great
mass of southern farmers still hold to the
idea that there is little or nothing to do
for the next four or five months beyond
gathering the two or three crops they
have been working on for the past six
months
Certainly anywhere south of Tennessee
every farmer who pretends to be one
should sow at least five acres of oats to
the mule. This is the minimum The
wise farmer will sow twenty; the very
wise one will sow more that is if he has
the land that he can devote to such a
cheaply raised crop, which, as a rule, per-
haps pays him more clear profit to the
acre than either his corn or cotton, and
especially the latter in the past two or
three years. We are not afraid of having
this statement disputed by any intelligent
farmer who understands the matter;
sowing two bushels of oats on rich land,
three on medium, with cost of from
q 10 50 per acre, it IS possible to get any
where from seVenty-five bushels down to
twenty bushels OF oats per acre; on very
poor land possibly twelve or fifteen bush
els may be the output. There are cases
where less than twelve bushels would be
profitable to the backwoods farmer of
southern Georgia.
Any farmer who has fair land-land,
say, that will make ten bushels of corn
Without artificial fertilizing-should sow
Two bushels of oats and fifteen pounds of
req clover seed in October or early in
November After cutting the oats
In May or early June, the land should not
be plowed again until fall or the follow
ING spring II by any chance the clover
Ialls TO take possession of the land after
Jne grain is cut of, the weeds viii do it,
ana will thereby enrich the land 1t will
De very poor land though when the clover
Will tau to grow and enrich it.
1t is a source of regret to every intelli-
gent observer who understands the situa-
ton mat our farmers do not recognize the
value OF the several varieties OF clover
mat suit our soils, as well as any varieties
USED III other sections Of the country.
Inc Gay is not far off when our views
Will be accepted that the south can grow
Clover, one kind or another, as well as
New York or Ohio The clovers are bet
Ter enrichers of worn soil than are peas,
Cnle1y from the fact that they are winter
growers instead of summer growers. We
o1u SOW clover in the fall and it will
sroW during the winter, whereas peas
VIII grow only in the summer time. This
44NASS great difference.
crop of bur clover. or crimson clover
Is more economical, in fact, than two
Crops OF peas, when we look al il Alright,
simply from the fact that the latter de-
mauus The soil when we can be growing
C4r chlet money crops, cotton and corn.
cover OF the several kinds that we can
grow 70 best advantage are winter grown
exclusively. They grow al time when
peas VIII not grow, and allow of the land
oelng planted to corn or cotton the fol-
owing season in the majority OF cases, if
Inc southern farmer that fails 10 grow
otIs and set aside reason BILE area in
t,.oVer' certainly does not avail himself of
Iue enviable privilege that is his, and
suould not complain if his farming ven
'uIe rails short of his early expectations.
now that corn is worth something
Hore probably than has been the case In
ssSNeral years-it would seem, that more
nan usual efforts would be made to raise
such crops as could be used in its stead
lor STOCK feeding. Good winter pastures
anu an early crop of oats would slbserve
sue purpose to the fullest extent. Why
uol resort to them2
Inc southern trucker, or market gar
ugnet cannot obtain the best results with
UuU que regard for those crops that are
nos appropriately started in the fall
,pepJembeF and October Are there
v risee more profitable crops, year in and
Seat out then those of onion, cabbage
9plnachf The earliest crops Of these