The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-12
Diversity ana Intensity.

DIVERSITY Unu
If our farmers from now on would
study how they may so diversity their
crops that pretty much everything needed
on the farm was produced on it, the hard
times they are encountering at this time
might be accepted as carrying a blessing
along with its apparent evils. 1t is not
fancifuI or impracticable. If the southern
farmer can not have a self-supporting
farm it would seem to be useless for any
other TO try TO have such. When we
cnumerate everything that has been sue
ccssfully and profitably produced on
southern farms a long list of desirable
and salable products is the result. Their
name is legion" To while away some
idle half hour take a sheet of legal or
fools cap and fold it lengthways and with
pencil proceed to list the various plants
and animals that you have either grown
yourself or know that can be grown any
where near the thirty-second degree lat
itude. Begin with "A"-Apple, Asparagus
or Aruchoke, and go on alphabetically
down to Zengi, Zebu, cattle or Zante,
cUrrents-that is if you cannot resist the
temptation to make bear it's burden in
the alphabet of enumeration Practical
ly, however, w may be esteemed as end
ing the list with wool watermelons, wine
and wheat. Who can name the greatest
number of products, animal and vegita-
bic that has been or can be grown in
Georgia and Florida?
The time is coming, the day not so far
off, perhaps, when the agriculture of these
states in the matter of diversity will APP
prOximate that of the old countries of Ell
rope and the east If anything, we will
lead in this respect for no doubt there
are many things, animal or vegetable,
mat are more congeneal to our climate or
better appreciated by our mixed popula-
ton. More mixed as time ,elapses. 1t will
be many years before our cultivation Is
so intense as it is in France or China,
but We will surely come to it after awhile.
Land is still too plentiful with us to JUS
uty double and triple cropping where
special land can be used for every crop
whatever the season it may be grown
STILL even under conditions that now pre-
Vail 1t will generally be found more sat
lsfactory to concentrate manure on one
acre and make it produce two crops than
10 grow the crops on different land with
less manure and poorer preparation or
cultivation. Even cotton, which holds
the land longer than any other annual,
allows of a second crop in a period of
Twelve months, either for fallow or pas
lure purposes This crop should almost
hyariable be clover of one kind or an
other
One thing sure 1t is only intense di-
Versified farming that is likely to give
pleasure and profit in the time to come
we should study to make it that.
Wheat Growing in South Carolina.
am determined from now on. so far
as l can, to make my farm self-support-
lhs-that is raise every thing for my fam
Ay to eat (and wear that possibly can.
know it is very generally accepted as
true that it is a poor business to attempt
wheat growing, but intend to make the
attempt, fail or win, as the case may be.
nave two acres of very fair upland that
o. now in corn and peas. / will get the
eIops OF by October and can put 1t in
proper shape for planting again by Nov.
j. or little earlier.
WI you or some of your subscribers
all me by answering the following ques-
tons.
flrst-What kind Of wheat would do
LIST ~ Central South Carolina?
Second-When is the best time 10 SOW
"neat and how much would you SOW per
Ihird-What way would be tha best for
bltuns b. the seed. ] have nothing but
"uAafE pioWsi 40 harrow or roller or