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29 S. Cultivator 1 (1871)

handle is hein.slavery/socultva0029 and id is 1 raw text is: ) ratical ank Scientific gaaine, FOR THE PLANTATION, THE GARDEN AND THE FAMILY CIRCLE. YOL. XXIX. AT1S , GA,, JAN[AiY 1871. NO. 1, SEE COVER FOR CONTENTS, TERMS, &C. bru iht in review, and tie euestion candidlyan- swered why it so Lappened-where was the fault? Was it one of jud.ment or of lack of W M. & W . L. JONES, nimans-wasirtorc undera ken than culd be ac- complished? Ali! the delusions of hope-how EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS. like an ign~fatuvs or like a mirage of the desert git leads the trusting fainer into debtl Plausible catculatios induce hiiw to undertake more than whis capital warrants-hf owos broad fields, bates br to see them lie idle-and ithereby tempted to hire too many hands, ani to plant ground which THOUGHTS FOR THF OTH. will not bring a refhunerh.ieu crop. We would In looking forward and arranging for uost earnestly urge u1on pur readers to employ se hle' year, it s well to take a retrosective as little m-r as possible-cultivate only su view of thm one ust past, that if errors have land as will uatrally, or with the aid of the ma- been committed they ofay be avoided hereafter- lure to be had, prhaune dsg c-Ps-tbe balance if lines of discovery have been opened, theyv either rest or sow down iu grain or grass. This may be posited still farther. Acareful. thought- we aire satisfied is good farm policy in the ab- ful examination of all important stepis taken, stract-and withi the prev~t labor system at the such as contracts for labor-amiount of same e- south is (' Otblij good-as nothing we can conceive ployed, comp~ared with capital at the farmiers of, would give tile pilanlter as much control ovtr command-number of niles to nunmher of hands the negro. -number of acres to each hand or each mule- In arranging for tie next corn crop, it would rates of food producing to money crops-of crops be well to consider the policy of pushing the ;requiring a great deal of labor, like cotton and yield of branch and creek bottoms, which are corn, to those requiring compartmtively little, like susceptible of irrigation, to the maximum of pro- small grain, clover, grass, &c., &c.-all these duction. To show what can be done we publbl should be carefully pondered over and if neces- on another page the noted example of Dr, Park- sary re-adjustments made. Hardly a year passes er 6f Columbia, S. C. who upon land of the kind in the experience of most farmers, when it is not mentioned produced a little over two hundred true that such or such a crop failed, from not bushels of shelled corn per acre. The farmer is getting a working at some particular time when apt to think his bottom lands rich enough and to it should have been given, or from not having feel perfectly satisfied if he obtains from them a more than it received. Let allstilcaesle yield of thirty, forty, or fifty bushels per acre.- Digitized from Best Copy Available

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