The Brunswick times-call., 1901-05-11
TALK WITH FARMERS
HHEY ARE URGED TO PLANT A
STILL LARGER ACREAGE
IN GRAIN
A FINE YIELD OF WHEAT
Mr.. Bridges Methods OF Cultivation
Produce Good Results-Mr. Cox's
Experiments Also Successful.
Nov. is, 1900.

AtONs 40 tOVVs
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 SO
uneasy about the price of cotton. II it
Is high. his profits are good; if low. he is
not burdened with debt 1t will soon be
too late to plant wheat. Whatever is to
be done on that line must be done at
once. Mr.. W. j. Bridges of Spalding
county. who on acres last spring made
an average of e5 bushels OF wheat to the
acre, says that wheat should never be
sown until after the first big frost i'll
November. for then it will stand more
successfully the ravages of the fly or
small grub that begins at the root and
saps the vigor from the young shoots. "
AS Mr.. Bridges has made such a sue
cess of wheat growing, we give his
method in his own words;
cas- to the land that planted in
wheat this year, gave 1t a heavy coat
ing Of manure In the spring and then
planted IL In cotton. After had gath
cred the crop, ripped out the stalk,
oVnA khn,, k,t, ,o1 tl,o la,,l 81,
two-horse pillow, following that with n
cut away harrow, then rolling it with r
heavy roller. Ny wheat was then put
in with drill, using about 400 pounds
of special high grade potash fertilizer
at the same time. In planting the
wheat put i'll los pounds. or l bushel
and 8 pecks to the acre"
He used the blue stem variety Of
wheat, and before planting soaked 1t In
bluestone. putting a pound of it into
enough water to wet the wheat thor.
oughly. 1t takes about gallon of wa
ter to every two bushels of wheat. Tie
bluestone should be dissolved In boiling
NuNOL' AhS Atll1u Oh WHICH u0 HtiIu6
this large yield Is o gray, loamy top soil
with an undersoil Of stiff red clay. On
10 acres which had been planted In
wheat for three consecutive years Mr..
Bridges made an average of about Az
bushels to the acre. His wheat was
made Oh uplands.
Mr. 1fhnvnnc
acres of land In Washington county,
made28 bushels Of wheat to the acre,
says that his land was a light gray and
that he sowed & bushels of the blue stem
variety per acre broadcast and plowed
1t as deep as he could with single
plows, using as a fertilizer about 10
bushels OF cottonseed. He sowed his
crop the middle of November and gath.
cred 1t May 20. His land was elevated
but well terraced.
Mr. w. 7. White, who, on acres
In Jones county. made an average of "a
bushels to the acre. wrote to the Depart.
ment Of Agriculture that his land was
what Is known as red land clay subsoil;
that he broke up this land with one.
horse Haiman stock. using common 4.
inch turn pillow. He used 30 bushels OF
cottonseed to the acre, and sowed
bushel Of wheat to the acre on Nov. 10
and reaped May 10. He sowed blue
stem broadcast, plowed wheat In with
&inch turner and ran over hand With
Thomas smoothing harrow. Before
planting he soaked the wheat for "a
hours in solution Of IL pounds Of
bluestone to bushels of wheat, keeping
It well covered under water for the time
mentioned, and then rolled 1t in Stacked
lime