The Brunswick times-call., 1900-12-05
TALK WITH FARMERS
rHEY ARE URGED TO PLANT A
STILL LARGER ACREAGE
IN GRAIN.
d FINE YIELD OF WHEAT
sis. Bridges' Methods Of Cultivation
Produce Good Results ar Cox's
Experiments Also Successful.

Atos-. 10 t0ySss
Last year the farmers of Georgia put
more land III wheat than ever before
and we've rewarded with rich harvest
Of golden grain XIV again urge still
larger acreage 81 wheat ana other grains.
The raising 81 allthe home supplies Is
the road 70 Independence Will every
thing ia the way 81 n necessary food raised
NJ home, the farmer need not feel 20
uneasy about tie paiceof cotton II it
u higiI, his profits are good if low. b 8 Is
not hardened with debt Is viii soon be
too late to plant wheat. Whatever il to
Be done sn that line must BE- done At
once. Mr.. w j. Bridges 81 spalding
county, whoon acres last spring made
An average Of 6a bushels OF wheat to the
acre, says that wheat should never be
sown until after the frst big frost in
November. for then ii will stand more
suecessfnlly the ravages of the az or
small grub that begins at the root and
caps the vigor from tho young shoots. .
"A Mr.. Bridges has made such sno-
cess Of wheat growing, we give his
method in his own words
"As to the land that I planted III
wheat chs year. gayeit q heavy cost
tpg Of manure In the spring ana then
planted Il In cotton. After had gath.
erred The crop. ripped out the ssaa
and sheu turned the land over with IL
two-horas piow. following that with
eut away harrow, then rolling 1t with =
heavy roller My wheat was then put
in with q drill. Ning nbout 100 pounds
Of q special high erade potash fertilizer
a. the same time. IN planning the
wheat ] put IN los pounds, or / bushel
and pecks TO the acre .
He used the blue stem variety Of
wheat. and before planting soaked it In
limestone, putting pound Of it into
enough water to wet the wheat thor
sushly. II takes about gallon q wa.
Ter to every two bushels Of wheat. The
blueseons should be dissolved In boiling
water The land ca which he made
shia large yield Is gray. loany top soiIs
with an undersoil 81 stin red clay. On
10 acres which had been planted IN
whoas for three consecutive years Mr..
Bridges made en- average Of about Az
bpsheis to the acre. His wheat was
Made on uplands.
Mr. Thomas II. Cox, who, on
acres Of land in Washin gton county.
naaas as bushels Of wheat to the acre.
says thai his Land was light gray aud
that he sowed : bushels Of the blne ssena
variety per aore broadcast and plowed
IL as deep as he could With single
plows, using as a fertilizer about %
bushels Of oottonseed. He sowed his
crop the middle Of November and gath.
cred II May 20, His land was elevated |
bat we'll terraoed.
Mr.. W F. White. who. on { arras
IN Jones county. made an average Of al
bushels to the acre, wrote to the Depart.
mont Of agriculture that his land was
what Is known rs red land. clay subsoiI
chat he broke mp this land with a one.
horse Haiman stock. using a common 1.
Inch turn plow. He used "a bushels 81
oottonseed to the acre, and sowed 4
enshel of wheat to the acre on Nov. ii
and rsaped May ls He sowea blue
ssem broadcast, piowed wheat in With !
&inch turner and ran over land with
Thomas smoothing harrow. Before
plapting he soaked the wheat for
s6lTs In q solution OF IL pounds 81
olusstoae to5 bushels Of wheat, keeping
4 we'll covered under water for the time
mentioned, and then rolled it IN Stacked
ime
RYE.