Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-01-09
OUR POSSIBILITIES.

do is to subsoil and get vegetable matter
In IT, I know the renter will say he can't
afford to improve the land. Yes you can.
Any man with anything like liberal land
lord can make him a good home in three
years That is If he will work and use
economy. I can point you to men in differ
emit counties in Georgia who had been rent
ers until forty years old, then took land
and in one and two years paid for plenty
of land and every acre they cultivate i'm
proves every year. You see they quit skim
ming Many Of you don't raise corn be-
cause you can't make more than ten to
fifteen bushels per acre. Quit skimming
and make twenty, forty and in few
years a hundred.
Look around you in every neighborhood
and find few men that always have
plenty. You may say, yes. they had
good chance. Let's see. A man. renter
never had home of his own with seven
children, one little mule. moved TO an
other county, bargained for 80 acres Of a
VIGOROUSLY poor place. blackjack gray
land, paid for it in one year; four years
after bought $50 acres more, now one of
the most prosperous farmers in his sec
ton. Some of that land three years ago
produced $500 pounds of seed cotton per
acre All of his tilable land is producing
from four to eight times as much as for
merly. You can do ii too.
NOW let COupdIG pIACCS. +-NNN lAcEc a
good year corn is worth in the field from
seven to twenty cents per bushel; have
seen 1t penned up at depot on Grand
Trunk railroad offering at fifteen cents.
Then / have seen it on the border, dry
year, 81 OF course then you would have
none to sell.
Here you have a market any where for
al you can raise, and you know the
prices. Even now a large syndicate is
formed, and as their agent said IN
speech before the legislature the other
day, we are ready to buy for the Euro
pean markets, anything you will raise to
eat, and pay the cash for 1t at your de-
pot. Said he. we want everything eat
able. Here let me suggest that the sec
ton that first gets enough good things
ready will draw customers and as long
as your goods are first class. you can hold
them. Now, the main thing to enable you
to make fine things Is not to depend on
commercial fertilizers, but deepen your
soil and get vegetable matter in Ii. Plant
Bermuda grass and SOW vetch for large
pastures. Both these grasses are as rich
in proportion as clover and pea vines.
and both are great renovators. Bermuda
grows in summer and vetch in winter, or
very late in fall and one of the first things
in spring; one does not hurt or interfere
with the other Once rooted and seeded
Il say that because you want to plant
Bermuda and SOW the seed for vetch9
With such a pasture you can raise meat
for one. and half cents a pound No
farmer was ever prosperous without
pasture. Do these plain practical things
that everybody will agree on. We are
now on the eve of the most wonderful
improvement in farming that has ever
been known. VIII you take hold with
renewed energy and be one of the pros
porous men of the country. or go ON from
hand to mouth and entail on your poster
ity the curse of a slave, which you are
now laboring under the lash Of.
DO that and many Of the young men
that left the farm to live IN town, yes.
and thousands that was r4sed IN town.
will seek a home in the country.
1t is true lands now are held too high for