The Brunswick times-call. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1900-1902, 1901-06-25
QUESTIONS ANSWERED
WHERE A READY MARKET MAY
BE SECURED FOR A CROP
OF WHEAT HAY.
ATLANTA MEN WILL TRY IT
Grain Dealers Will Sell 1t on Com
mission and DO Their Best
to Create "a Demand.
ATLANTA. Ga. May 95. 1901.

DEAR SIR-Your favor of May % re-
ce we'd. i'll which you ask, "Where can
we find a market for 100 tons of wheat
hay?" This is rather hard question to
anwer. We have made some inquiries
from the wholesale grass and grain men
of Atlanta to see if we could not induce
them TO take hold of this wheat hay and
put 1t on the market, that 1t might take
western grasses. They say that they
are perfectly willing to give this hay
trial, and if you and other parties desire
to consign to them few tons they will
sell i5 on commission and do the very
best in their power to create a market,
not only for wheat hay. but for other
good Georgia grasses. as Bermuda and
peavine. They say the reason why they
bundle the northern grasses is that they
are uniform from month to month and
year to year, and that having built up
considerable trade, not only i'll Atlanta,
but In the surrounding sections, with
these grasses, it is hard to break the peo-
pie away from them. However, they
are willing, as we have said above, to
undertake to create demand for our
Georgia grasses. provided the Georgia
farmer will put on the market uniform
grass, baled in uniform bales, 100 pounds
each.
The prices of wheat hay run from SIS
to $lS per ton at LAGRANGE, where the
farmers in and around LaGrange have
built up market for this very valuable
hay. Such men as George w. Truitt,
Il w. Milan, A. L. Dallis and A. H.
Griffin have been growing this hay for
the past six years These gentlemen
write our department that for years M
western hay has been sold in LaGrauge,
but that this hay has been almost ex-
clusively used by livery stable men,
lumbermen. merchants, and farmers
who are SO thriftless as not TO raise II
supply for themselves. Wear satisfied
that you ana few other good farmers
i'll BiTtoW county could do the same
thing for Gainesville and Barlow that
THESE gentlemen have done for Troup
county; hut you must understand that
this market cannot be created ut once.
~ will take SONS tlme TO bring about
We might state in this connection
that Professor Johl NJ. McCandless,
our STATE chemist, will Mt an early date
analyze this wheat hay, comparing il
not only to other Georgia grasses but to
the northwestern grasses us well. These
analyses will be published i'll his COM
mercial fertilizer bulletin No. SO. which
will be issued from this department.
some time in August. You understand
that these gentlemen claim the wheat
hay to be well balanced ration, taking
might write to A. p. Morgan q Co.
and j. ID. Frazier % Co., Atlanta, Ga
who deal very largely in hay and grain.
Now rs to curing the hay. Cut the stalks
CLOSE to the surface of the ground while
the grain is in fairly good dough"
state, SO that when all is cured there
will be about half matured grains lin
slze). To wait later the straw would
become woody; to cut earlier would be
waste, in that weight and nutriment
would be wanting. Wheat hay is easily
cured, and comes in when you have barn
room and need Il good, non heating food
stock. Now as you would all other grass,
but rake into windows the afternoon of
the day the cutting is done. The fol-
lowing day carry to the barn. If the
weather is clear and warm this is all
that is needed. In about ten days to
two weeks from the time the hay is put
III barn lt can then be baled. The barn
curing, like the field curing, is quickly
over. Do not lot your hay remain un-
baled longer than two weeks, because il
loses not only its nutriinent, but tho
pleasant odor and beautiful color.
1.-The following were the ruling prices
of hay at LaGrange on May l, 1901"
writes A. 4. Dallis; Wheat hay, $1T
TO SIS per ton; peavine hay, SIP 20 81
per ton; Bermuda, $l3 TO $40 per ton;
johnson grass, $S 10 $40; English vetch
and red clover (mixed), $l3 Co $ll;
shredded corn stalks, 50 to 80 per ton.
II you desire further information as
to wheat hay, write TO the above par.
ties at LaGrange, Ga, and any one of
them will take pleasure in answering
your letter.
Hoping this will be satisfactory. l am
yours very truly. State Agricultural
1 k.,.N. nj,