The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1914-11-13
NESBITT

10 II being so dry Inat tney could
4 +rrn their lands, though it is
~ really necessary to turn land
much for small grain except
,.ro If has been only half culti-
.od or has a good deal of trash on
practical experience has proven
- that where land has been we'll
,,+ivated a good disc narrowing be-
inning at lower side of field or ter
Tace going right and left instead of
o;rcIing around plat, or IN absence
- disc harrow turn with one-horse
DIow. then drag your land and be-
din LAYING off rows at upper side Of
a,ot or field and work down the hill.
n this way rows can be made much
closer and left open in better shape.
We read with much interest the
article in the Journal on the prepar-
otion, planting, fertilizing and Gull
tivation of oats by Mr.. Grow, CT
SMYRNA. We agree with Mr.. Grow
m some points; but observation and
ovnerience compels us to differ with
him on some of his suggestions. in
the first place it is not best to turn
land very deep unless it has very
deep soil. Oats are surface crop
and clay turned up on top will not
increase the yield. In the next
Mace it is absolutely necessary to
nut them down in a deep open fur
row with but little or no covering.
To scatter oats around on top of
the ground in the old fashion way is
worse than foley and more like
childs play than mans work. And
in the third place, in times of adj
yersity like the present we would not
{hse any fertilizer at all at sowing
time unless we had surplus cash to
pay for it and then we would use
only Is per cent acid 800 to 400 lbs.
per acre and top dress with rs lbs.
Of nitrate of soda the first of March
then run section harrow over them
two to three times at intervals of
ten to fifteen days.
Mr.. ]. B. Petree sowed five bush
els about November 10th last year
in his cotton middles two or three
rows to the middle on good ordinary
land. He did not fertilize them any
or use any soda on them and he
thrashed SO bushels from the. five
Sown. In time of prosperity it is
mighty nice to use lots of fertilizer
and make a big show, lots of straw
and few more oats, but in times of
adversely better let guano alone. Sow
few more acres and have as many
oats and more to devote to forage
crops and less to cotton, and owe no
one for guano to be paid for with
cheap cotton. Sow oats, sow them
quick, SOW lots of them.
II every acre in cultivation in Cobb
county was planted to grain next
year there would not be half enough
produced to supply the city of At
lah'a for one year, and they get
practically all of their feed stuff
from the north and west. They pay
the Dig elevator companies, the rail-
PNoads, the wholesale men. the Job
j sFS and the retail man a profit and
alter all the profits are taken off
'ne producer has grown immensely
'iVn IN very few years.
Inc only successful farmers in this
country today are those who rarely
ever Ouy any supplies and almost al
ways make their cotton a surplus
we Know personally not a few men
- Cooo today that are quite indie
penueht Notwithstanding the war.
'He panic and the cry of hard times.
we can name scores of them that
nave their cribs full of corn, big fat
LOsS IN the pen, their cotton under
s sl and they owe no man. What
Nv W. ~ Growing plenty of home sup
'igs' and making cotton a surplus
D. maze a hurried trip out the
n no'"ell road few days ago and saw
ma. interesting sights, some of the
r. lOS' interesting things was Mr. E.
VIZ. .1,'dFlty raking some fine pea
M ne nay with a pair of nice horses.
na,. Ernest Handy preparing and
Nor. 10 acres in onions; Mr..
som luan Bishop offering for sale
psoa;. me berkshire pigs, and after
And ls by a number of nice farms
sol,,. "elI-kept homes, we found our
M q, Vhe manufacturing plant of
w. D. W. Franklin and for a while
4 Nv watched them make flower pos
Sb,d machinery. They told us they
! aor,. al order from a West View
If ,a.r 'or 1000 eight-inch pots and
eoo ,y',Iy looked to us like there was
Dot <" flower pots already made to
4 ANU, plant that would be grown