The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1895-01-10

of Great Importance. N Il
DEPARTMENT OF AoRIouIru
With the close Of 1854
ginning of 1895 the farms
self confronted by con-
have been gradually az
YEARS. but which he has ant
emit time failed to fully percel
nreciate. and now that the harr
with all its depressing infiuenc0
come we find him almost overwnel
by the difficulties surrounding nim. &
ovsrstocked cotton market. starval
rr,ces financial depression. gems
stagnation, such are the main po
If the situation. But, notwithstanQ
this discouraging outlook, con-
are not hopeless. 1t is not ye = T.
to retrieve our past errors.
hopeful sign Is the fact that e
rule are more fully alive 70
mistakes and are more anxlo
ing for the proper remedies v
time since the high price OF
lured us into false methods.
Another faot which tempers
ent hard reality is that, except
cases, farmers have bread and me-
another year, and the price q
uecessaries, which they have
also correspondingly low. U.s.
therefore, take courage and WORK OUT
orr agricultural emancipation. orn-
fed With home supplies, and with the 4
light of experience to warn us away 3
from past quioksands and pitfalls, there
is no reason why we should again fali
into them, or why we should not Tree Ii
ourselves once and for all time from an b
agricultural policy which has brought
as tc;s le verge Of ruias-. i not by :
any very sudden or radical reforms that t
we hope to do this. Over a e-y large
area cotton must remain sR1eI
money crop, to , apa az ss1,r ~ =
m maSt ad is sE ou nsi1 Vs
which all
farm revc
that place
into line.
may reas
interest.
Elsewl
by reques
duced by " x
and pass FL.
preAaa
GeoE9ISs< FL
only to thsVa
men Of all classt
most universal
resolutions also
for farm opera
year; and empha
the advice so Oft
department.; to
crops in field AND
money at home b
selves, the merchants
encouraging the raising
plies by buying from 4
sending outside the
things as they need
have for sale;
Of our cotton,
gies, farm imIeHs
nitQTe, for allbf which M 8 d
ray material with water NJ krs a
climate unrivaled In other rds.
practice diversity Of industries kn to,
as we'll as on the farm AS to
use Of
COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS,
we repeat what we have said in
Southern Cultivator:
Il have recently been much i,
ested ~ an investigation, which 81
oeen carefully conducting ID
nno out the average yield pa
9e various staple crops raised
Ga, and also TO ascartaiD, yvl, Il.
the use Of commercial fertsls s.
nave oeen permanently buildin1
!Anos, or have only been supplyl 8
tYE inc immediate demands
cSops, leaving The future to tai
itaef. This Question Is one of 81
teEeat. involving as it does tba
perity. e-0n'urn
IN England and On the cont;
ans system Of agricu1ure adontaa
1niy prevents liberalization ana
niaustion, but keeps steadily in NJ
Improvement Of the land .anas1
crease Css IN the yield That. S
s ss agEicuiture is evia r.
'nan one fact and
united experience
population.
ons in its "a
y'eld entails scsrCs : / =
s asmalI yield Ind W
t th are so cheap an i
49,, olo principal item Of ~
V ~ Important ~ considtd
=, IN the investigation
., na'e nau access to thu III l.
uon OF statistics obta;,
gret to say that these ] i
, lateral ilmIproveme ' = I.
averages throughou
not as it should beg