The Savannah morning news., 1900-10-29
THE FARM AND THE GARDEN
MATTERS or INTEREST TO AGRI-
CULTJRIsT AND HOUSEWIFE.

Wheat CuIture-Thc Persimmon as a
stock-stRkinE TomRtOes-heep-
ing soil Open-PfneappIes an Flor
tdn-GrowinE Carnations.
There is not single farmer In all OF
Georgia probably that would plant oithsr
corn or cotton broadcast and give no oui-
ovation. Year after year he plows ana
plants corn with the expectation Of CIV
the growing season. lie does this too.
when be knows that the yield viii 10, b.
more than ten cor even 81 bushels 10 the
acre.
From time immemorial Il has been the
custom of farmers TO plant corn and cul-
tvate % and 10 SOW the small grains
broadcast and give no cultivation. II s.
worry hard 20 change a custom. but II there
is any grain Ia the world that pays for
cultivation q IS whea'. and yet II has
never occurred 10 one farmer tn a hun
dred that this most valuable OF all the
grains viii pay far more for cultivation
than any crop he plants.
Ten bushels % wheat S. Justly regarded
as a very satisfactory crop on an acre OF
our average Southern soil. In tho way
that So is usually sown-to-wft. a bushel
Of seed carelessly broadcasted and plow-
ga ia with scooter or shovel Il takes very
cool soil indeed 90 make a yield o. 10
bushels. The average yield iu Georgia T.
cons .dcrably less tgan this. in fact. not
over bushels. We believe.
While wheat Is not 20 be recommended
20 the Southern farmer as money
crop stil We have always believed a.
was good policy for every one 70 grow
enough 10 suppy his own home needs Of
Hour shorts and bran In other words
every small farmer should SOW ono or two
acres in wheat
ono acre ~ fair land properly prepared
and sowcd 20 wheat in Is or 2i-inrh dfnls
$50 that n can be cultivated as many times
az the corn IS cultivated, can be made 60
produce two or three times more -four
ana shorts than any average sized family
can consume "a a year
We know whereof we speak when We
AFFIRM shat good lard such as will make
twenty or twenty-five bushels Of corn cor
10 bushels Of wheat hroadcasO can easily
Doe made 10 produce thirty bushels Of
drills and cultivated three 70 five times
during the growing season. n the small
farmer could only ne made 60 understand
this great advantage of sowing wheat 10
drills u would help him greatly In becom-
INK more independent of the merchant
and consequently more successful as a
farmer every way.
Thirty bushels % wheat stands for s
barrels ~ four a barrel or so Of shorts
and several hundred rounds 81 bran for
the mlch cows All the wheat grown by
the small one horse farmer need not b.
converted into -four and bran. however
He can have Just enough ground 20 supply
Its own needs. and besides what he re-
serves FOR seed another year he can read
ilv sell "a 81 TO 81 - per husheL the bal
auco FOR seed purposes This would not
Le the case n every one grew
his own wheat. but as IL VIII be n long
time vet before this condition prevails
there vii. Do no probability % overstock
Ink tho market with such wheat. Nova
DAYS q Is dimeuli 20 find good seed wheat
and o. finds a ready sale at 81 50 per bush
Il anywhere iu this section.
IL our farmers could once be persuaded
that wheat could be grown 20 great proni
hy cultivaung s. as they would their corn
there would soon be a great change IN
their condition. For Il is not dimcult tc
make twenty 20 thirty bushels IN this
wav-thlt is. three pecks Of selected wheat
seed washed tn h.uestone water and roll
ed iu lime. then sowed IN eighteen or
twenty-iuch drills. lightly covered and
rolled The cultivation consists OF two T.
four cultivaunRs with harrow or sweep
begun as soon a. growing weather sots In
along IN March perhaps earlier In South
cru Georgia and Florida.
The object is 20 crowd the seeds in the
drills. not counting much on any uiler-
ing 81 the plants. but trusting each seed
20 make few large heads Of heavy. we'll
developed grains.