Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-03-20

hired man that costs him $l.25 per
day, and Mr.. Bone drives out every
day to see what is going on. He had
planted this year cotton, fall Cucum-
bers, and tobacco FOR his money
crops.
He had a few goats and some cat
tie. He raised all the feed that was
required on the. farm. His income
from the money crops was as fol-
lows:
acres cucumbers .... $3.50 90
IA acres turnips sold on local
market ........ .......... $500
Goats sold ...... ........... $50, 90
acres tobacco ............ 10000
s1,825.OO
Fertilizer, labor, etc. ..... $500 90
Net income 80. 1925. 90
This is over and above the Income
from his cotton. He had u acres
in cotton, but the boil weevil and
adverse weather conditions caused
his yield to be very low. 1t can be
seen. however, that by not depend
ing altogether on cotton, he is MAX
ing some money farming.
Mr.. A. f. Moye, of Camilla, Mitch
ell county, Georgia, was singularly
successful In 1923 with the Cow,
hog and hen" as his farming part
ners. He owns q farm Of 800 acres
located five and one-half miles south
east of Camilla. of which 225 acres
is cleared land. He operated his
farm in 1928 with six plows, using
three wage hands, one cropper, and
himself, he using riding cultlvator
and doing practically the work OF
two men.
Mr.. Moye's cropping system for
1928 was rs acres in cotton, "a acres
in peanuts, 10 acres in Watermelons,
100 acres in corn, u acres in oats,
acres in early corn, acres in
sweet potatoes and acres in sugar
cane.
He used for all Of the above crops
only $3.50 worth of commercial fer
tilizer. He paid his wage hands $40
per month and furnished his crop
per $40 per month, making his eX-
penses for labor $40 per month, or
$S40 for the year. His total cash
outlay for labor and fertilizer was
$1,190 for the crop.
Mr.. Moye harvested from his cash
crops $50 pounds of lint cotton, four
tons of peanuts, and one car Of wa
termelons. His sweet potatoes and
cane were practical failures, as was
his oat crop. He harvested 1 400
bushels Of corn from the 100 acres.
His total income from cash crops has
or will amount to approximately
$685., or an average Of SAT per plow
He stated that he did not borrow
enc dollar in cash or purchase any
supplies other than his fertilizer on
credit with which to operate this
farm, but that he did on or about
February 20 begin milking from nine
tc fourteen head Of grade and scrub
cows that he had on the place and
continued to do SO through the en-
tire year. From these COWS and from
six to eight brood sows he has sold
On an average of $18 worth Of cream
and So worth Of pork per week, and
with his cream and pork checks he
paid his wage hands, furnished his
cropper and himself. In addition to
the pork sold, he killed enough to
supply the farm for 1924. Mr.. Moye's
flock of chickens IS yet small, and
sales from them were practically
nOI6lnS since ne WAS. getting llS
more than needed on the farm.
Mr.. Moye still has his cotton and
peanuts unsold, and the only thing
for which he owes on the years
operations is his fertilizer bill OF
$3.50, though he states that he is in
the position of most other soUth
Georgia farmers in that he owes
great deal on losses sustained in
1922 when he was trying to run
on the one-crop system and without
his recent partners, the Cow, hog
and hen" Were it not for these old
debts, he would have some money
with which to start 1924, despite the
fact that 1923 was the worst in his
tory as a crop year for Mitchell
county. He says that it was the
Cow, the hog, and the hen" that
brought him through.
The county agent of Richmond
county, looking around for an eX-
ample Of a man who makes his cot
ton crop strictly surplus money
crop, thought of n number of farms
containing more than 100 acres in
cultivation that are growing cotton
as a surplus and making money
from the other crops and live stock.
He thinks that likely the most
worthy Of consideration is the 200
acre farm owned and operated by
Sheriff j. r. Plunkett. This farm
is six miles west Of Augusta and
is stocked with 90 mules, 30 milk
COWS, 10 purebred Poland-China
hogs, 800 hens, so guinea hens and
s goats. From this live stock, more
than $1,000 have been received from
sales made.
Eighty acres were planted in cot
ton and sixty bales averaging 500
pounds OF lint were produced. Forty
acres, which were in a higher state
Of cultivation produced forty bales.
Eleven hundred and fifty bushels
of corn were grown on forty acres.
Enough wheat was produced on ten
acres to supply the tenants on tho
farm. Cowpeas followed the wheat
and oats, and made at least one
ton of hay per acre. Besides these
crops, clover, vetch, rye, rape were
grown for grazing purposes. Also
five acres OF sweet potatoes and two
acres of ribbon cane were grown.
Most of the potatoes were sold on
the Augusta market at retail prices,
and Sheriff Plunkett has just fin
ished making 625 gallons of syrup
from the cane.
One ton of calcium arsenate and
six tons of soda were purchased for
the cotton through cooperative buy
ing at a saving Of approximately
$4,000.