The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1899-03-02
AMONG GEORGIA FARMERS.
Interesting Particulars About Some Biz
Crops and How They Were Made.

| Crops and How They Were Made.
Whenever one succeeds in produc-
| ing or causing to be produced, such
excessively large yields per acre as to
spring at once into public notice and
establish q national reputation rs q
progressive farmer and public bene-
factor, by making two blades Of grass,
two bales of cotton, etc., etc., grow
where but one grew before, imme-
diately the entire fraternity Of progress
i've agriculturists becomes intensely
interested and wishes to know all the
particulars bearing thereon.
1t has been our good fortune, writes
G. II. Purner, OF Burgess, Miss, to
inspect tho lands of Messrs. G. W.
Truitt and J. G. Sims, each of Troup
county, Ga, both of which gentlemen
have made themselves famous by rails
ing the astonishing amount OF four
bales of cotton to the acre. Contrary
to our preconceived ideas on the sub
ject, we found the soils of this part OF
the county of Troup very poor; yet, it
was on such soils that such remarka-
BILE results were achieved.
Many other good farmers reside in
this section and many other fine farms
are to be found, but in every single
instance these farms have been made
to be what they are by the quintes-
sence of good farming, or, in other
words, by maximum fertilization.
Take Mr.. Simss crop, for instance.
The land on which his ia
nous crop grew was small branch
bottom of Doggy or peaty nature;
had originally been very wet, but was
then thoroughly drained. The inst
years of cultivation it was planted in
cotton, receiving 800 pounds OF
commercial fertilizer per acre;
second year, sown in oats, fer
tilted with fofty bushels cotton
seed per acre; third year, chip
manure from woodpile aud lot manure,
together with rakings and scrapings
of fence corners, were applied liber-
ally to the entire five acres broadcast
and worked in; then 400 to 500 pounds
of o good ammoniated fertilizer (guar-
anteed to contain not less than four
per cent of potash) was applied per
acre aud the land planted in cotton;
fourth year, fertilizer at the rate OF
HOO to 1900 pounds per acre was
applied, 400 pounds in drill. 400
pounds in siding burrows at first work
ing, and the balance scattered broad
cast at the last working, and the land
again planted in cotton.
1t was at this time that well known
fertilizer company of Atlanta, Ga,
offered liberal prizes in cash for the
best crops of cotton raised on five
acres Upwards Of 200 farmers in the
states of Georgia, Alabama and South
Carolina contested, and the entire 200
averaged upwards of two bales Of cot
ton per acre, while Messrs. Sims and
Truitt, of Troup county, aps-n
Raw and NJ II n2i II. G.
c ceSs ~ - g4s ffsyr ;on of Campbell
l~'raii ny " averaged all around 2O6S
i mounds of lint cotton on the five-acre
patches, or ninety-two bales ontwenty
acres. -.
This year, the fifth year OF cultiva-
ton of Mr.. Sims fve-scre patch, that
gentleman applied 1000 pounds OF
fertilizer per acre. The result was
that the cotton grew until a man SIX
feet tall standing on tip"toe could not
reach the top of it. Added to this. it
was a large boiled variety, we'll boiled
from bottom to top, and all of 1t open.
ed. The yield was 10, 1877 pounds Of
lint cotton on the five acres. The
same year Mr.. Rays crop was 10,S0s
pounds, Mr.. Pyron's 1911 pounds
and Mr.. Truths 1888 pounds-o1
five acres.
There are some points in connec
ton with the raising Of these prize crops
that it would be we'll for all would-bs
progressive farmers to carefully study
The greatest yield is obtained wher'
the soil contains an excess OF all tn
elements of plant food in available
form over and above the requirement.
of the plant.
The second point is Mr.. Sims's ear
nest advocacy of a larger percentage
of potash in his fertilizers than is psp.
ally to be found. Mr.. Sims stated 10
us that he never used any fertilizer
not guaranteed to contain four POI
cent. of potash; that his soil needed
it, and that his crops responded to It'll
application in no uncertain manner
Mr.. Sims cheerfully pays for the in
creased percentage Of potash, we'll a.
sured that-in his case at least-it /
"bread cast upon the waters" AM
that it will assuredly return to him II
future days with liberal interest.
Much has been written of the bru.
tallty OF football and of other sports in
which the players get their shins
bruised and their hands calloused.
But rough and tumble sport OF that
kind is excellent for the youths. We
know that there IS Miss Nancy school
of education which objects to the use OF
fists by small boys at school, but the
good old British system of settling
differences in square, knock-down
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