The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1895-03-21


tenn. We believe that fully one-half of
this large sum can be saved to the farm
ers OF this state, that the fertility of
their lands can be augmented at the
same time and the balance changed
from the debit to the credit side of the
ledger.
Ii our reasoning up to this point has
been sound, then the first thing to do is
to stop this unwise and reckless expen-
dlture, curtail the amount to be spent
this year to 81, 900, 900, as follows:
! /. Pay cash for everything.
| z. Reduce the acrea, e to be cultivated
| IN money crops" TO one-half.
| .. Cooperate buying and mixing of
fertilizer ingredients
4. Collecting and grinding of bones.
0. The increased use OF lime.
3. Manufacture your own nitrogen at
home.
z. More attention to home made ma
| nures.
The first item is the most difficult OF
accomplishment, and while John Ran
dolph may have discovered the philoso.
pher's stone to be pay as you go,
| only those can avail themselves of it
| who have something with which to
pay. Take the matter of oats for in
stance, many farmers have met with
heavy loss in the destruction of both
the first and second paintings, and are
left without means to again buy seed.
To such the "lines have indeed fallen
in hard places" and in eases like this
we would advise that the land be
planted in early maturing corn and
forage crops, milet, sorghum, peas, all
Of which will help to tide over the
difficulty, and if the millet is MANFRED
highly and forced forward, it will of
course be ready to cut much earlier.
/ The second, with our preconceived
ideas Of farming, will be a hard under
taking, but strict adherence to its
| recommendations would do much to set
us on our feet again.
The third, we have repeatedly urged
| as offering the best solution of the fer
tlllzer question.
The fourth, if carried out, would re-
duce the cost Of this valuable fertilizer
at least 30 per cent.
The fifth but follows in the lead of
that eminent scientist, George Vile,
who classes lime along with nitrogen,
phosphoric acid and potash in forming
a complete fertilizer. Where lime is
deficient in the soil it is very import
| anu bQaG IL De supplied.
The sixth refers to the fact that in
| leguminous plants the farmer has
certain and comparatively cheap meth
cd of supplying not only the most ex-
pensive element of nitrogen, but potash
and phosphoric acid also, for he can re-
move the top crop and still leave in the
roots and stubble q large amount of fer
tilizing material.
1 hn dc 10 IF
all successful farming. AS is briefly
said, home manure performs on the
farm, the same Office that money does
In commerce, it develops, utilities and
brings into healthy action all the dor
mant resources of the soil.
TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS IN LAST REPORT
There were two serious typographical
errors in last months report. In the
answer to the inquiry as to how much
Of nitrogen, phoSphoric acid and potash
that an average acre of corn withdraws
from the soil should read about 2l-7-7-
instead of 7-7-7, as stated.
| The second error was in the reply as
to Actual and Potential Ammonia. "
II should have read: Fourteen pounds
of nitrogen would be said to contain II
pounds of potential ammonia mot 2
pounds) from the fact that by fermenta-
ton it is capable of yielding that
amount"
IRISH POTATOES AND STARCH FACTORIES.
I There appears in this issue two arti-
Giles that were crowded out of our last
report. One, a reply to an inquiry as
to the preparation, planting and saving
of Irish potatoes, both the spring and
fall crops; and the other on establishing
starch factories in the south The SUBJ
jects are allied and pertinent to southern
industrial development. The cotton
factories for the manufacture of a finer
| grade of goods are in measure Deepen
dent on starch factories, and these three
industries are more intimately connect
ed than careless glance would reveal.
The cotton factories will need the
starch, the starch factories will need
the potatoes, and if our farmers can
learn to produce at remunerative fig.
ures the proper kind of potato, which
suitability depends more on quality
than on size, we have another money
crop to which our climate is peculiarly
suited. Elsewhere give jeff Wilborn's
| plan for raising three crops, two of
Irish potatoes, one of peas, on the same
land, and also an article from DR..
| Payne on starch.
have had several letters from parties
anxious to establish these starch facto.
ries. They are bound to come when
the cotton factories do, and before an
other twelvemonth there will be a de.
mand for the manufacturing material
The question is, will our farmers in.
form themselves on this business and
manage it in such a way as to clear
money on it? The truth is that at
present prices
NO POORER PAYING CROP THAN COTTON
can be found, and the farmer who
trusts to large crop to meet the press.
ing needs of his situation is riskinp
bankruptcy. The present month must
decide this momentous question. Be-
fore another monthly report is issued
from this Office the decision as to the
REDUCTION OF THE COTTON ACREAGE
throughout the state will have to be
made, and the crop of 1895 win be vir-
tuslly launched on the sea of futurity.
do not assume to dictate as to. how