The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1901-05-02
SEASON or PROSPERITY
BEST THE FARMERS Or GEOR.
GiA HAVE KNOWN FOR
MANY YEARS.
FIGURES SPEAK PLAINLY
Large Increases la Various Crops-State
stands In Front Rank OF All
Lines of Industry.

The season OF 1899 and 1900 was the
best that the farmers of Georgia have
known in many years The cause of
this prosperity is known toall. A large
percentage of all supplies were raised at
home and the comparatively short crop
OF cotton brought good prices. Tie
crops of Georgia for 1900 as follows:
Corn, "a, 1l9. $50 bushels; wheat, SOIL
iS3 bushels; oats, 100000 bushels, and
hay, 100, 237 tons. The cotton crop was
something over |, 100000 bales. The
average prices for these crops were:
Corn, 81 cents a bushel; wheat, 95 cents;
oats. 40 cents, and hay. $l2.75 ton.
The average price for the cotton was 9
cents pound; but this does not include
the good profit made on cotton seed. 1t
is sincerely to be hoped that the acreage
OF cotton will not be increased, and that
those who seek to run down the price of
our great staple will be foiled in their
attempt. With cotton crop not larger
than that of last year. and with good
seasons and full crop of corn and the
small grains, the prosperity which a
year ago began to dawn upon the agri-
culturists of Georgia will mount still
higher toward the zenith
Make Every Acre Productive.
The effort of the farmer should be to
make every acre under cultivation pro-
ductlve. To this end he should plant
no more than he can well cultivate. By
just so much as the cost of production is
diminished, by SO much is the net gain
increased
If some men have by the best meth.
DDS produced so or more bushels Of
wheat to the acre, why cannot others
with as good land be just as successful?
Our farmers are making wonderful pro.
gress III the improvement of their lands
and the identifying of their homes, and
they are doing much toward confirming
the proud title Empire State of the
South, conferred upon Georgia before
the civil war on account of her being
far in the van of all the south in the
construction of railways and in the va
riety and extent of her various manu-.
featuring enterprises, and still more de.
served by the fact that even in the
gloomy period of reconstruction she
maintained over almost all her terrific.
ry white supremacy, and was among
the foremost in throwing off the oppres.
sor's yoke
Large Increase of the Hay Crop.
One of the most gratifying signs of
agricultural progress i'll Georgia is the
fact that the 69,769 tons of hay harvest.
ed in 1890 had increased to 100, 237 tons
in 1900, valued at $l2 10 a ton. or g..
425,52l.15 for the entire crop. This
gives promise of more and better breeds
OF both dairy and beef cattle. There is
no reason why Georgia should not raise
Just as good beef, ana have just as rich
milk and cream and as delicious butter
as are furnished by the great grass
growing states of the west and north
west. We have lands on which alfalfa
Timothy, clover and even blue grass
respond TO the farmers labors with
abundant narvests. At the same time
there Is no more nutritious food for cat.
tie than that furnished by our own ma.
tive grasses, crowfoot. crab ana Bermu.
ola, and that marvellous restorar of ex.
hausteG soils, the peavine.s A gentle
man who spent his youth in Baldwin
county, often noticed on his fathers
farm that when sheep were turned in 70
Craze, the Timothy to which thew had
free access remained untouched so LONG
as the Bermuda lasted. This is a Strorc
witness to the superiority of Georgia :
favorite grass i'll flavor and nutritious
power.
Increase your acreage for grass
and raise both beef and dairy cattle
but be careful to keep the breeds dis.
tinct
Hayproducing Counties Have the
Best stock.
=. 'AN'S ncI ilSn RANK
cotton producing state, Georgia can
and should press to the front in the
growing Of grasses and all forage plants
Already there is a marked difference
between the cattle. hogs and horses of
the hay producing counties of Georgia
ana those of other sections of the state
Kentucky. whose farms are covered
with rich carpet of blue grass. has
long been notad for her beautiful borsas
and cattle One of the friends Of
this department. who two summers 400
spent several weeks III the far.famed
blue glass section of Kentucky tells I'd
that while his eyes were Toasted on
many sleek cattle. and horses marked
by beauty of form and grace of move.
ment, he had seen just as fine animals