The Brunswick times-call. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1900-1902, 1900-11-20
YALk WITH farmers
nazaEv ARR UnaED 70 PLANT 4
eTsxsk K4ABoER AoRKAGE
M GRAIN.
i FINE YIELD OF WHEAT
arH Brldses' methods Of Cultivation
Produce Good ResuIts-sIr. cox,s
Experiments Also Successful.
NoY. l5, Zee.

Nov. ID, 1860.
Last year the farmers Of Georgia put
more land In wheat than ever before
and were rewarded with rich harvest
Of golden grain. We again urge still
larger acreage Of wheat and other grains
The raising Of all the home supplies is
the road to. Independence. With every
thing in the way Of necessary food raised
at home, the farmer need not feel 80
uneasy about the price Of cotton. II It
Is high, his profits are good; # low, he y
not burdened with debt II win soon be
too late to plant wheat. Whatever is 70
be done on that line must be done at
once. Mr.. w. ], Bridges Of Spalding
county, Whom acres last spring made
an average Of o. bushels Of wheat 70 the
acre, saye shat wheat should never be
sown until after the first big frost IN
November, for then It win stand more
successfully the raynges Of the fly Or
synan grub that begins at the root and
gaps the vigor from the young shoots.
AS Mr.. Bridges hes made such y sue.
cess Of wheat growing, we give bis
method in his own words:
..As to the land that planted in
wheat this year. I gave 1t . heavy coat.
ing of manure IN the spring and then
planted II In cotton After had gath.
erred the crop ripped out the stalks
and then turned the land over with 8
two-hozsS plow. following that with :
cut away harrow, then rolling 1t with d
heavy roller. NY wheat was then put
ia with drill. using about 400 pounds
Of special high grade potash fertilizer
"a the game time. n planting the
wheAs put ii Io0 pounds e. 1 buahel
aud paoks to the acre |"
de used the Wlus stem variety Of
wheat, and before planting soaked It in
biusssons, putting ponnd Of 1t into
enough water 70 wet the wheat thor
0uehly. It takes about gallon Of wa
tar TO every two bushels Of wheat The
blusstone should b dissolved ii boiling
water. The land % which be made
this large yield 4 gray, loamy top soii
with an undarsoil ~ stir red clay on
t6 acres which had besn plenaed ia
wheat Tor three consecutive years Mr.,
Bridges made an average Of about "a V
bushels to the acre. His wheat was
made on uplands.
u Mr. Theuas H Cox, who, on 1
acres Of land Ia Washington county,
made rs bushels Of wheat to the acre,
Gays that bis land was q light gray and
/ that be sowed bushels Of the blue stem
variety PEI acre broadcast ana plowsd
IL as deep as he could with single
plows, using as a fertilizer about II
A bushels Of ootbonseed. He sowed his
4 crop the middle Of November and gath.
4 cred It May 20, His land was elevated
but well terraced.
Mr.. w. +, White, who, on 4 acres
in Jones county, made an average Of II
bushels 60 the acre. wrote to tine Depart
ment Of Agriculture that his land wai
what is known as red land. clay subsoil
that he broke up this land with one.
horse Haimen stock, using a common 4
ineh turn plow. He used "a bushels d
cottonssed to the acre, and sowed
bushel Of wheat to the acre on Nov. i,
aud reaped May 49, He sowed hlus
stem broadcast, plowed wheat in viii
4-inoh turner and ran over land with
Thomas smoothing harrow. B0for,
plating he soaked the wheat for q
hours in solution Of IL pounds O
blpestope to bushels Of wheat, keeping
it well covered under water for the tim,
mentioned aud then rolled it in slacke,
lime
RYE.
Hon. j. NJ Smith Of Oglethorpi
county, than whom there Is no NOR