Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-02-14

corn in foot rows and planted a
row of beans and row of peanuts
in every corn middle and in the four
years farming on this system and
without the use of a single bag of
commercial fertilizer l had the most
fertile farm in my county and would
equal any othe. in the state in pro
ductiveness. Had wiped out the in
debtedness hanging over my farm
and was on easy street.
Now in raising the beans if you
have not sufficient stock to utilize
them, and after you have gathered
a sufficiency to feed your milk cows
and to feed your hogs during the
year and until the new crop comes
in, and the market does not marrant
you to gather them for sale, just
pillow them under, as you do not lose
anything as they are as good for your
soil and will increase. the yield Of
your next crop, as they are better
fertilizer than your commercial
goods and which cost you money out
of your crop to buy, and which has
been the big factor in putting the
farmers of our state unable to pay
his obligations from the proceeds of
his crops, and to cause him to have
to place a loan on his farming lands
to cover up this deficiency. The far
mers are not altogether to blame for
this state of affairs, because they
have been advised by all the county
demonstrators and agricultural
agents of our state that it was &C
tually necessary to use freely of this
commercial goods to make a profit
able crop and to reserve the fertility
of the soil. when in fact it has proved
to be the reverse, from the further
fact that all farmers operating un
der this system had made a failure
to succeed along along this line and
usual amount / put in truck, cane
and potatoes, put in corn, velvet
beans and peanuts and planted them
in the following manner; | put my
under this system. You either have
got to admit that all the farmers of
our state are failures to begin with
and have not performed the work he
should have done to his crops, or
this system and custom of commercial
fertilizers to keep up the fertility of
the soil and to raise profitable crops
have been a failure This commercial
fertilizer system to make profitable
crops and to keep up the fertility of
the soils has been the means of driv-
ing thousands of our young and able
bodied young men from the field and
caused them to seek ether fields of in
dustry for a livelihood.
This would not be the case if they
had been taught to grow their crops
and keep up the fertility of their soil
under the system I have outlined in
stead of operating under this never
failing system of using commercial
fertilizers for this purpose. l know
the fertilizer manufacturers and
dealers will not agree with me, be-
cause it is a big industry and they
have been reaping a big revenue from
it from the farmers, and they are
in only for profits, but I will defy
them or any county demonstration,
agricultural agent or experiment
station to prove my plan a failure
or that it will reduce his profits in his
crops from my system, compared
with the commercial fertilizer goods
system.
In 1915 there were fertilizer goods
sold without potash and / was some
what amused to hear them discuss
the effects of these goods to their
crops and from all / heard speak
on the suits said they could>not dis
cover any difference, and they had
been paying for an element in fertil-