The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1895-10-17

full blast for two weeks past In Middle
and upper Georgia. and larger guam.
tity OF syrup will be made than Is u.s.
ual. A good many are not getting the
yield they expected, but the acreage Is
larger and in the aggregate the yield
will be large. Sugar cane grinding
has not yet commenced, but the crop Is
good and there will be plenty of syrup
and sugar from that source in the lower
half of the state.
POTATOES.
This crop is good oil over the state,
and If only put up with propsr care, is
very easily kept. don't think we
fully appreciate this valuable food crop,
which can be raised 80 easily and in
such guam titles. Many farmers still
plant the poorer varieties, very def
cient in saccharine matter, and there.
fore neither SO palatable nor so fatten.
ing as the better varieties.
Let US strive to have the best In
everything, not in potatoes only.
I admit it is easier to raise
Cuba, Hayti or St. Domingo than
q Georgia yam. but after raising
the Cuba yam. you have q potato that,
when I lived in southwest Georgia. the
hogs wouldn't eat. while If you raise
Georgia yam, you have potato flt for
a kings table. Potatoes are good food
for oil kinds of stock. 3 bushels being
equal to Of corn in feeding value.
FIELD PEAS.
There has been a larger area than
usual planted throughout the state. and
the crop of peas is large one. There
Is complaint from some sections that
the vines have not borne we'll, but, az
a rule, the crop is good one.
GROUND PEAS
are reported good. and in lower Geor-
gia the fattening hogs are in many
cases already turned on them. This
crop Is planted in this state chiefly to
fatten hogs. for which 1t Is admirably
adapted. Not many are planted for
market. though In our sister states of
Tennessee and North Carolina they are
largely cultivated for that purpose. In
this era Of diversified farming. some of
our farmers might find this profitable
crop.
The crop is generally good oil over
the state, with more planted than usual
hope next year to see this valuable
grain more generally planted than ever
before. It 10 not hard TO raise, yields
fairly we'll, and Is healthy and nutri.
tious for man and beast The chief
trouble is to clean the hull from the
grain before 1t can DO cooked. The
people on the coast who live largely on
rice. do this by pounding the grain a
long time. using wooden mortar and
pestle. (For commercial purposes the
cleaning is done in large steam mills.
There are now on the market small
rice mills, which might be run like the
cotton gins throughout the country, the
farmer paying 30 much toll to have his
rice cleaned. Were these small mills
established, am satisfied that the pro
duction Of rice would be greatly IN
creased.
The fruit crop has all been gathered
and disposed Of. except some varieties
of apples. pears and grapes.
A few days since saw carload oil
watermelons in Atlanta shipped from
some point in Indiana, and they
seemed to be selling very rapidly. Car
not some of our watermelon raisers
have melons for the market until frostI
The last in the market, think would
do as we'll as the first. and command
just as good prices, for the people seem
to want them more wher
they are not to be had. Try 1t mex
year. shipping south instead Of north
think it would pay II moderately en-
gagged in.
Much of the fruit was injured this
year by the very wet August PARTON
larly peaches, grapes and melons, non,
of which were. In quality, as good O.
usual in North Georgia. lacking thu
sweetness which sunshine alone car
give.
STOCK
Stock Is in fair condition. Reports O.
some sickness and few deaths, among
cattle. in different parts Of the state
but nothing very serious OF that will
not readily yield to treatment. Hogs
generally reported healthy and in de-
cidedly greater numbers than usual
though some localities. particularly l.
southwest Georgia, have reported large
losses from cholera am happy to re
port that the farmers Of Georgia viii
not need much meat from the west mex
year.
Cottonseed Meal For Swine.