The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-11-14
No. 40
A RECORD OF PROGRESSIVE
FARMING.


the condition of Georgia agriculture,
He sends US the following account of
one Georgia farmers progress, clipped
from recent Issue of the Atlanta Con-
stitution:
Mr., Joseph T. Anderson, of Cobb
county, is one of Georgia's leading
farmers. His farm of 1 $50 acres lies
seven miles southwest from Marietta,
four miles northeast from AusteH. The
drive down is over a splendid road, and
easily made, and is through one of the
most prosperous farming sections Of
Coob county. Among the farms passed
are those of Col. R. 7. Nesbit, W. J.
Manning, A. @. Edwards, J. P. Cheney
and others. These beautiful country
homes and splendid farms show every
sign OF prosperity, happiness end cen
tentment, making the drive to the An
dersOn farm a most pleasant one. On
arriving there a spacious old time farm
house, with large lawn, well.shaded by
hne oaks, and surrounded by commo-
dlous barns and outbuildings greets
you.
His COW barn, which is the largest
building on the farm, is fitted up with
stocks and modern barn improvements.
Here from sixty to 100 head Of cattle
are cared for with ease. He has his
barn SO arranged that he saves all ma
nure, both solid and lquid, and says
the manure furnished COW will pay
we'll for her feed, if no revenue was
made in any other way.
He is now milking sixteen head OF
COWS which yield an average of thirty
gallons per day. This milk is carried
imm95 lately to the separator, where
the cream is taken from it and the ekim
milk fed TO hogs and calves. He ia
getting ninety pounds of butter per
week, which is put on the market att 25
cents per pound. Mr.. Anderson SAYS
it is just as easy to make good butter
that will bring 25 cents, as to make an
inferior quality and get less. He has
about thirty beautiful heifers which
promise to increase his supply for next
year to more than double the present
production.
His hogs are the finest the country
affords. He has Berkshire pigs for
which he was offered $25 apiece at
three months old. Tnis statement will
doubtless open the eyes OF some Of the
'rez1r back" producers, bat it they
should see the pigs ali dou5ss would be
removed. There are four In one litter
that at three months and seven days
old, weighed 157 pounds each. Their
gain in twenty seven days was fifty
three and one half pounds each. More
perfect pigs we're never seen, and souce
Georgia farmer will have to compete
With these at the State Fair this fall.
Hehas one brood SOW which has yielded
him an average of $50 per year for the
last three years. He thinks this SOW
worth more than cotton patch"
Hr. Anderson says sorghum is one OF
the best feeds for hogs he has ever tried.
He also grows artichokes for them, and
has raised 800 bushels per acre.
Four hundred tons or more of hay
have been harvested eff his place this
year. Sorghum and peavines, he says,
make the best hay he raises. He sowed
100 bushels Of each this year. He gives
two good reasons for growing them to-
gether..
1. The mixed hay is better fec d than
either separate.
2. Sorghum is a very exhaustive
crop. and when cut, the roots put forth
shoots and grow till killed by frost,
and the peavine being good fertil zeF,
will add to the land as much as the
sorghum takes away.
Besides the 400 tons of hay he will
have seventy tons of shredded corn,
fodder and ear corn in abundance, and
100 tons of ensilage or green cut corn.
His ensilage pit will hold 300 tons.
His wheat and oats are splendid, and
he is now getting rs cents per bushel
for seed of very fine winter variety.
They successfully weathered the blasts
OF last winter and yielded something
like forty bushels per acre.
Turnips, he says. is a paying crop.
Last year / sold $40 80 worth off that
little piece of ground you see there"
which was about one seventh of an
acre. They are profitable for cattle
feed and also for market II will raise
several hundred bushels this year, and
have raised 1000 bushels in one year.
II have tried q small crop of broom