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Agricultural i = The Science of Farming is Only in Its Infancy. Southern Uultivator. "The (science of farming is in its infancy," so declares Capt. T J. James, of Emanuel county, one of our legislators and most successful farmers. Capt. ' James says: "1 have built and operated railroad", merchandized and am now devoting myself to farming. While I have made a success in all three callings, it takes more brains to farm than io pursue any other calling; to Jo it in the most successful man nor. New things and new meth ^,1.. 4. II.. 1 .. vue vn'iutj up l Uimiiu.uiy tut nuiu1' lion, and there are many prob leniB to be solved yet unthoughi oi. As an example of how things change, the first fertilizer I ever used I bought from John Merryman & Co., of Maryland, then they commenced to manufacture it at Savannah aud 1 bought it there. Now I manufacture it upon my own farm." Capt. James makes 800 bales of cotton a year and says: "I have put it into Ilarvie Jordan's hands for 15 cents." He also raises Vklortf tr nf nnrn q ml f nr Kia |"vai mj tvn 11 aim iccu i wi inn plantation. We delight in meeting with farmers of Capt. James' uahbre, aud we also like to see them making a success of farm ing upon a large scale ; then we Jike equally as well to meet and hear the experience of some far mer who, though upon small cale, is making a success and is stampiug his individuality in Vfolibly upon IrrS farm and is making an impression for good upon his community, The other dav we cot Arniinint.ed with such n man in the person of Mr. P. E Duffey, of Clayton county, Ga. Mr. DufTey's conversation ran about as follows: "When I came of uge, I dnl like so many of our vonug uieti in the country, 1 came to Atlanta to hunt me a job, but they treated me with so much .indifference and insolence that 1 Vent home and swore an oath that I would never ask another nan for work. I took a mule and wagon and hauled some wood for my first money ; the next year 1 farmed on halves. In two years I saved $400, and took this money and went to school to get a better education, ben I went back to farming. 1 '250 acres of land all paid id 1 am making a good liv1 rent out a seven horse tend about 20 acres for op. I have my terraces I trees and from them 1 >1)0, worth of fruit a to. wonder how it people up northwest orii at 25 cents a ake money, while use it at 75 cents \ went up there it j way thoy plowed .ted it. By using 3 and cultivators one ? enabled to do more i an three down with us ,ot me better tools. As an sample, 1 had a boy helping me last year who cost me 30 cents a ; -day and board. In one day w?<pnc live acres in wheat, and in another day we sowed the pame five acres in peas and sorghum! after the wheat;so at an expense ot CO cents for labor 1 made two :ood crops on five acres of land." < 'his sounds very much like bus * ess to us, ( Now, hucIi as this should give i n Department. our farmers food for thought. Though 6,000 years old, our farm uig is in its infancy when it comes to the use of better methods and real scientific and most success ful operations. And whether we fake it upon a large Rcale as ii the case of Oapt. James, or get down close to Mother Earth, do ing with our own hands as with Mr. DufToy, the faet still con fronts us, that there is much to learn, more to do and still ma nothings untried and yet undiscovered. So let us start in this year for more light and better efforts. How to Plow and When to Put in Manure. Editor Southern Cultivator: Enclosed I ask your advice in regard to some plowing 1 am doing. I am laying ofF corn and cotton with a good two horse plow, (Syracuse) going two times to the row, plowing up the corn and cotton stalks. I am also going to subsoil these furrows with bulltongue or scooter plow with two horses, which will get it down 8 or 10 inches; when this is done 1 am goiug to apply all the rough manure 1 can get during the n i ii in oo aouu 111 tncno iuwb. ii is an experiment with me. Will it be best to list on these furrows and then subsoil the same? Please give me any and all in formation on this line, as 1 am anxious to know. Would the mouth of December be too soon to put in with this rough manure, green cottonseed? Awaiting your valuable advice, 1 am yours truly, J. H. R. Charlotte, N. C. Comment By The Editor: You are doing a good work, miu juur pittn ih un rignt. v> e would list and then subsoil these list furrows also, if we had the time. You can never tell how much, and when you can, do the plowing in the winter time; but would do it as fast and as early as the weather conditions would allow. Cottonseed and manure are not going to injure if put in the soil early in the winter if your land is so it will not wash. W o Inan trnr if 1 i f f 1 *-? *v> <> ?-* n f ii vj woo ini j nvwo maiiuic uuui leaching; but we do lose h fear ful amount by allowing it to be washed away. The South loses thousands of dollars annually from the lack of poperly kept terraces, deep plowing and vegetable matter or a grain crop growing upon our tie Ids.?South em Cultivator. Preparing Corn Land. Country Gentleman. The following is a plan which we have found to put most land in excellent condition: We use only two tools?a disk harrow and a plank drag. The dink is Bet to cut about its full depth, nn<l the furrows are lapped, so that the land will be left level. We disk twice, trying as tar as it is practicable on our hilly lands, to run the second time at right angles to the course followed the first time. We then finish up with the drag, which leaves the land smooth and in fine shape for drilling. By this plan most of the stalks will be thrown out of the earth by the disk, and the Irag will break down any that are left. The most serious obJ jection to the disk is that it leaves a sort of gutter around each corn stalk, which the drag wilt not always <ill up. To obviate this and th> turning around the shocks, some farmers bring th? corn from sixteen rows on each side to make a row of shocks The shocks are thus necessarily made very close together in the row, and the row is left until the nnm ia nff ailiuti 1 unno through with the drill will need the strip. The extra labor in the eorn-cuti.ng, however, seems to me to more than make up for that saved in preparing and seeding the land. A spring tooth harrow might bp made to answer instead of a disk on corn land ; but we have found drag harrows very unsatisfactory, as they will be continually dragging up the cornfta'ks and other trash. 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