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H. T. Bridges makes 41 bo
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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!
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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 <
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i yon are baying from borne nut
the way to keep up the price ol
Southern
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IZERS
e, while Winkle Brotheri
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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
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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.
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i make se^en bales to a
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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??
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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
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