The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-08-21
INTENSIVE FARMING.
An Alab" ma Farmers Idea of What II
Means.

per collar style, something too big,
high and grand for the comprehension
of the common one and two-horse
farmers. But there never was a greater
II, take.
Intensive farming means theory of
the wise deduced to practical use by
the man Of good common sense, in
other words, in means the experience
of the ages used in concentrated
form.
An object lesson in intensive farm
ing: In 1892 there lived a man in
Dallas county. Ala, by the name of
Bill Webb, who was running a large
cotton plantation on the extensive
plan in the true sense of that term
But Bill saw that he was on a cold
trial for money hunt, and decided to
sell out everything he had and pay up
what he owed, if he could, which he
proceeded at once to do. After paying
his debts, his once ample means had
all melted away except 5000, a good
mule, a one-horse wagon and a good
set of farming implements to run
One-hOrse farm
He went in the month of November,
near Mobile, and bought little thir-
teen acre truck farm at $3.50, paying
$3.50 cash. the balance on twelve
months time.
He then bought a Jersey cow and
Berkshire SOW, paying $75 for both.
One acre of the thirteen was Occu.
pied by buildings, garden, and orchard,
the other twelve having been planted
in watermelOns with a row of unknown
peas between, the peas covering almost
the entire ground; he turned it under
as deep as he could with a Six-inch
turn pillow letting it lie till first of Feb
ruary, then laid off in rows three feet
apart with a ten-inch corn-shovel;
using 1000 pounds of cotton seed meal,
900 pounds Of phosphate and 400 pounds
of muriate of potash, putting 1000
pounds in drill, and 500 pounds in each
siding furrOw in making bed, mixing
we'll in each furrow with long bull
tongue scooter.
He opened the beds on the 18th of
February, with 10-inch corn shovel,
running yOnder and back in same fur
row and planted it in early Hebron pO-
tatoes, covering VITA two burrows with
turn pillow five days after knocking
them off with a heavy cotton board,
bringing the bed to a general level;
when the potatoes first commenced
breaking the ground he run around
them with a Cine shovel far enough
off not to cover them more than from
to inches deep: when they came up
a second time he let lnrm Gtt inches
high, then ploWed then! out with d IA
inch solid sweep. leaving th'lll on a Hat
bed; two weeks Aer gave Cn@n one
good hoeiug and laid them by.
On the goth day of May he dug
5000 bushels of fine marketing
potatoes which he readily sold
at 81 per buShel. He laid off the land
again in three-teet rows, running across
old rows, and bedded up for sweet po-
tatoes. After bedding the land he
used 600 pounds Of phosphate, 400
pounds of muriate of potash and 200
pounds of cOttOn-Seed meal to the acre,
putting the fertilizer in hills thirty
inches apart, mixing it well and maxi
ing rather fat Hill. and planted in
Dooly yam sweet potatoes one plant to
the hill, cultivating twice with plow
and hoe.
He dug $500 bushels October 25,
which he sold at 662S cents per bushel,
making $2,4OO Adding to this his Irish
potato crop makes a grand total of
S., 900; deducting $1,000 for fertilizers
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