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* 1^ n J 1 1 n g? M r 81 I- S I | 3 k&j '"v. mc *&' KH# f 1 ? Cl| frjfcti ' H n^K BHfiV - , . ! . ffiTT V V I I THE USE ( H. T. Bridges makes 41 bo BY G. Owing to the low price of cotton and the have to pay for fertilizers, much discussion ability of not using any next year, or at lea We are rather staggered by rhe enormous basiness is extending, and we decided that i as to the results the liberal use of fsrtilizeT bating this question in our minds, we h would shed much light upon it. The first v county had not used any fertilizer on their Mr. Bridges had made 40 bales of cotton w each party, so we give as clearly as we can icauiu, rt.nu liic conclusions you can araw tc Down in the upper edge of Coweta, near two brothers known as Winkle Brothers, work and close economy have bought and p dollar oui of the soil, beside making their have built two homes, some five hundred ya together in the name of "Winkle Brothers.' men deserve credit for their good work an< of strong convictions and when there was a zers last fall, they decided thev would not u than the average, sandy soil with clay subsc do better work than the avarage farmer, bi cotton to the mule they only gathered seven had formerly been getting from 12 to 14 ba mission, they were one-half. By the use c have been doubled, then we would have a s 7 B C 43.75 13 B C 4*. 75 A difference of 4 tons of guano at $21 Leaving a loss of 1. One negro tenant who did not his la We asked them if they were satisfied by fc them quickly replied, "No, I'll not shoot at; putting some gnano on my taw." As this fall was unuasually favorable, tht could see that tendency for the top crop not not worked his cotton well, many green boll all will be badly stained. We could plainly that they had made a mistake. It seems hai a large amount for fertilizers, it is better so, The next week we sent down to Dawson i and get full particulars concerning the recoi T. Bridges. We hade often heard of good f; many good farms in this ceunty and many other in seeing who can make the largest cr held in the highest esteem and those red anc tile as the plains of the West, but now the best results. Mr. Bridges lives in one of tli ot LJawson. This year he ran five plows, 151 bales, besides oats, corn,peanuts and ha: Realizing the value of this artic that it might reach all the farmers o: Meal When you buy our fertilizer! fnn tAA/1 ura knv fcAm ?*? TL:. 1. was ?vvu nv UUJ WVUI JVU. 1111* M The IIV C. FITZSlMMONi \ ' T<? V ? ONk D kIA\l 1l< F IV IWIVU. PERTH ilea of cotton with one mult F. HUNNICUTT, EDITC large amount of money our farmers has been going on as to the advisst of greatly reducing the amount* rapidity with which the fertiliser we would make some investigations s was giving. While we were deeard of two striking examples that vas that Winkle Brothers in Coweta crop, while down in Terell county ith one plow. We went to visit a true statement of conditions and >r yourself. the line of Campbell county, live They started out poor, but by hard aid for \ good farm, getting: every living as they went along. They rds apart, and run all their business ' We like this spirit and these two 1 for their success. They are men in eff??rt to rAise the price of fertilise any. They have a farm-better >il and well watered. These men it with some twenty-three acres of i bales of cotton to the plow. They les: so, according to their Own ad>f four tons of guano this crop would tatement like this: $306.25 612.50 $306.25 .00 84.00 $222.25 nd well, is not making: half a crop, irm without fertilizers and one of a. marble in a ling next year without sir cotton opened very well, but we to open; and where the tenant had Is were left which if they opened at see, as they were willing: to admit, rd to work and have to pay out such , than to work and miss the yield, n Terrell county to see the ground d-breaking yield made by Mr. H. arming dorie in Terrell. There are good farmers who vie with one anops. Formerly the clay lands were 1 mulatto lands are as fine and ferpine and sandy soil is giving the lese sandy sections, six miles east had 160 acres in cotton and made /. He used 72 tons of guano, buyle by the editor of the Soother f this State. We manufacture < i i yon are baying from borne nut the way to keep up the price ol Southern >, Gen 7. Mgr. PI AI I Lrt I St OF C IZERS e, while Winkle Brotheri )R SOUTHERN CULTI in^ the cotton ?eed meal and, aci Some say his great yield could 01 so, he had a nine weeks drouth; < ienced in years. Mr. Bridges ra the tenants and saw that ail worl banner yield was named Will Shi fresh land and the rest tree from ton and three in corn. TMe land fall. But he did all planting, cul all the help he had until picking t as much as seven bales a week foi ment that we figured from the cc 41 BC 20703 It 41 Bales seed ? , ' Gross returns 1 Less 16 tons gi Net Returns Mr. Bridges keeps all the seed the negro got $905.73 ? $116.0C Dpwn in the sandy lands we cs we can 30 up in the clay hills, t Winkle Brothers we have $408.3: ference in soil and work, but larj acre. Mr. bridges has a fine sy ciate a good thing and will use it He says either put your guano as he has not the plow force or hi has bought a grain drill and is g over his cotton land for next yeai his land with a four-mule turnii and cutting about eight to nine ii land, so much as that he is plow to pick it, says it will pay better 2. He plants his cotton seed ii and lays off his rows five feet ap of guano and lists on this with V gives him a narrow list and he r his cotton to come up as we have 3. He runs around the cotton Jl-i. / * " ? uixx iu it irora mis wiae miaaie. down where they get more moisti He pulled up several stalks and 1 six inches below the surface of th by. For cultivating large area 1 plow, Mr. Bridges' system can hi acres with two plows and two sti try to make fify bales of cotton tc 3 acres this year on account of p< He made 37 bales with the sam good work and liberal use af fer the low price, as all others do, y< year's crop, with existing condi management cone in. d Cultivat or we have paid th every grade of Fertilizers an< nnfactnrers and are standing f seed. Let's work together. Cntton (lil wmvii 1 , X I _ t _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ; .. .1 3Hf"^' jp3 t7?^7ftij8vyjiE # m OMMLRCI i make se^en bales to a IVATOR id ann kainit, ane doing: his own n aly have been made with tine se one of the most severe ones they n his farm on halves, but he stayi c was done right. The negro th ingles. Thib land sandy soil, 1< stumps. He tended 40-acres in i was broken deep with a two hors< Itivating with ode mule and two \ ime. Then he had all he could g< r several weeks. Here lis a tab itton receipts. >s at 8X $1811.47 it $7 per bale 287.00 :rom 1 plow $2098.47 uano 232.00 $1866.47 and gives the negro help half of l or $789.73 for all work, in cultivate 40 acres with r?n*? mn1 >ut cutting the area down to the 5 agains $1866.47, whick was not a ?ely due to the 600 pounds of gua stem and we wish to give it to all broad-cast or put it on as a side ands to put in a side application oing to drill sixty pounds per aci r during the month of March. H? ng plow, using two large turners aches deep. He believes in fall tt ing in all scattering cotton rathe to plow now. n the water furrow. He takes a n art. Then drills one or two hunt ivo fuiTows made with a small sc uns his planter, putting seed in tl our corn, down below the level, and chops it out, then he gradual He yains fwn thincrc?? c, ... - ft" fc?*v V.VJUU ire, and in plowing: he never brea we saw that all the roots he had, i e soil. His rows are about level v to the mule and for producing: lai irdly be excelled. He is going to 1 anding wages hands this year and ? the plow. It can be done all righ x>r stand and five bales on accout ie plow last yea-1. There is no t tilizers will do. While Mr. Lfid it he freely admits that he made m tions. This is where good worl e Herald newspaper to publi 1 supply our amonia from G by. home products made froi Co. COLUMBIA, V mule. ^|H yVeran* and lixing. Some j Ok asons. Not J have exper- S ilV^^ ed right with l^i at made the | ill i acres was * KM _-hH ill; 37 in cot- g "">M s plow in the n p^Vl .rfl vomen were tj P st, gathering jj jju HV ulated state- n /N jj !e as easy as L same as the 3 | re broad-cast liddle buster ?VU pv/uuuo >ut out some MQ^ jjS ih it here, BN irftoii Seed SK^dK n the cot- n> *4 rM v6S 3* SC. ? 2. ' 19H PHIy *" ^R^^^K5p*99 |HHBI * s I^K "*?H * V^yV%JMMMM^M|^V *UQB WL 4&* M