The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-17
Farm Miscellany.
A PROFITABLE BRANCH OF AGRICUL,
TURE.

AGL6uG1Ou TO nay
A Griffin, Ga, correspondent Of
the Atlanta Journal writes:
"Hon. Seaton Grantland has de-
veloped an idea that places him in
the front rank of the progressive
farmers of this section, and that is
raising grass for the purpose of
making hay. Partly in the city and
on the eastern suburbs he owns
about 300 acres of the finest land in
Spalding county, a large portion of
it being in creek swamps that he has
had carefully drained, and has been
planting it in corn, oats and other
grain crops.
''Now he has become enthusiastic
upon the subject of hay, and this
year is cutting some of the finest
grass ever grown in Middle Georgia
from 40 acres, which he had in orchard
and herd grass, with a small sprink-
ling of timothy and clover. He is
now cutting for the second time, and
probably has so tons from the 40
acres while the third cutting will be
his heaviest. He went into this
business as an experiment., but is SO
we'll pleased that he will put $50
acres of his land in grass and give
considerable time to it's cultivation
and curing. He has all the i'm
proved machinery for harvesting
and baling his hay, and those who
have seen it pronounce it to be Of
the very best quality that has ever
been put on the market here.
"Another pet scheme of Colonel
Grantland is a vegetable garden that
can be irrigated during the dry sea
son, and he has already begun to put
the plan into execution. At the head
of the lake that is just back of his
home he has caused a tract to be
bedded with the richest of muck,
and this he has ditched to a depth of
about five feet, and after boxing the
bitches had them feflled. By an
arrangement he can back the water
from the lake so as to flood these
bitches and give the land a perfect
system of irrigation. On this he
will raise every vegetable that re-
quires considerable moisture, and
already he has a vegetable garden in
which he raises the finest melons
that are grown around the city. He
is enthusiastic upon all subjects that
pertain to the farm and garden and
the dairy, and has a herd of about
40 thoroughbred Jerseys that Craze
On a large pasture of Bermuda and
wild clover just in front of his house,
and in return yield him the richest
milk and butter in such quantities
that he keeps a dairyman who sup
plies d number of families with the
choicest products that can be OBJ
tanned from the COW and at prices
that inferior articles are usually sold
for. Here Colonel Grantland is a
distinct benefactOr, for he allows it
to go to the people who work at the
factories in which he is interested,
so that they can have the benefit of
pure milk and butter, that their
wealthy neighbOrs might envy
them. In his cattle pasture there is
a pine grove that is unique, and the
assertion can be made that it is the
only one of it's kind on record. 1t
was set out at a cost of no knows
how much. Is contains about 1000
pines that in a few years have gained
the height of about 80 feet and form
a grove of no mean dimensions. The
pines from a distance look like a
natural forest, but on close inspec-
ton reveal the handiwork of man,
for they are in rows that terrace the
land. Colonel Grantland says that
he planted them to get shade for his
cattle, straw for his barns and stable
lots and TO beautify a tract of land
that was barren of trees.
"Aside from the utility Of every
product of this city farm, it is one
of the h~andsomest pro ~gerties in the
State, because it gets the benefit of
all that culture can suggest or wealth
execute consequently it is an orna
ment to Griffin and Spalding county"
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