Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-10
CORN PALACE.
Corn Carnival to be Held in
Connection With Georgia
Carolina Fair This


Augusta Herald, has the following
to say concerning the corn carnival
which will be held in connection
with the Georgia Carolina fair:
This is, a year of surprising
| fruitfulness in the South in all things
save cotton.
There is too much rain for cot
ton and the grass is growing so lux.
uriant that it chokes the weed and
robs it of the substance which the
farmer has placed in the earth for
its nourishment. To plow, in sea-
sons like this, would do the crops
no good, besides running the soil,
and consequently all the fertilizing
quantities of the soil intended for
the cotton are taken up by the grass
and weeds, and the prospects for an
average yield are at this time quite
gloomy.
But while this is true of the cot
ton crop, as generous compensa-
tion for the loss sustained in the
decreased production of the feecy
staple, we are blessed with the most
bounteous and record-breaking yield
of fruits, vegetables, food and for
age products that the good Dame
Nature has ever put forth from her
storehouse. The railroads can not
furnish cars enough to haul the
peach crop, 1t is estimated that
Georgia's contribution alone will
require 5000 cars to market the
crop, Notwithstanding the fact that
they are now being rushed out of
the State at the rate of $50 cars per
day. Many train loads are rotting,
on the side tracks and in the pack
ing houses, to say nothing of the
immense quantities Of splendid fruit.
going No waste in the great com-z
nleEcia orchards. At Fort Valley
the newspapers report, there was
train load of peaches, packed and:
ready for shipment, lost through
lack of adequate shipping arrange
ments.
Near Americus, immense guam
titles have been dumped into the
Flint river, and a small station in
the fruit belt, $4,000 crates, were
destroyed. These instances, which
show the enormous volume of the
crop, might doubtless be multiplied
indefinitely. 1t is hard to glut the
market with Georgia peaches. The
sum arising from the prodigious
of peaches will probably
equal if it does not exceed $4,000, 900
and which will be brought into this
State.
Hay and Forage Crops.
"This is year that emphasizes
the benefits to be derived from irri-
CATION and illustrates the use of wa
ter as a fertilizer. Take, for ex-
ample, hay and the forage crops
such as peas, alfalfa, Johnson grass
Bermuda and such other as are in
digenous to this soil or that grow
we'll under these skies. The spon-
taneous and exuberant soil of the
South-under the influences of abun-
dant warmth and moisture, pro-
duces in the shortest time the most
luAuriant growth of grasses and
forage plants. I, myself, have
seen with my own eyes in the rich
aliuvial bottoms of the Oconee, a !
growth of Bermuda and lepedesa
strata SO rank the heaviest make
of Buckeye or Champion mowers
failed to cut it without stopping to
clear the cutter bar every few
steps.
SIN the beautiful meadow of Do
ver, Oakalona, Maysword, Fonte-
noy and other plantations this was
of frequent occurrence.
Such years as, this four of five
cuttings should be taken from
these meadows season. The main
difficulty to be experienced is to get
the hay cured and housed when the
intervals of fair weather between
the rains are so short. The tom
mage from these lands is enormous.
There is scarcely a farm in this Sec
ton where few acres could not be
economically and easily,
and which would not if properly
fertilized and cultivated, produce
all the hay needed, thereby saving
the money paid out in the purchase
Of Western hay, together with the
cost of freight and hauling. If
small hillside streamlet was not at
hand to furnish the water supply,
perhaps an artesian well might be
employed.
Here is comparison demon
strating The benefits accruing from
Sugar cane lands in
Puerto Rico in an unirrigated state
average in price about 5000 an
acre, and produce about ten tons of
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