! CIRCULAR No. 26. 
 
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E. MERTON COULTER 
 
CROP REPORT 
 
For the Month of Apri!, 7882. 
 
SHOWING 
AREAS PLANTED, CONDITION OF GRO\VI G CRO PS AND OTHER MATTERS RELATING TO AGRICULTURE IN GEORGIA. 
 
Commissione~. 
 
ATLANTA. GEORGIA: ]as . P. Harrison & Co., Printers, Binders and Electrotypers. 
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TEW SERIES, 
CROP 
 
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F OR THE MONTH OF APRIL, 1882. 
REl'ITRXED ro THE DEPARrMENT OF AGRWITLTITRE l\IAY 1, 18S2. 
DEPaRTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, } 
ATLANTA, Ga., May 15th, 1882. 
CORN. 
Correspo ndents rep:>rt an increase of 12.5 pu cent. in the area. planted in corn over that o11881. The experi~ nc~ of a short crop last year, with the fconseq uent t~carci ty and high price of corn has exerted a wholesome influence in the adjustment of areas devoted to the diff ~ rent crops. The areas in the different sections of the 
tate compared to t~ose of 1 81 are, north Georgia, 113.7, middle G 3o rgia, 114, southwest G~orgia, 112.7, east G Jorgia., 103, and so utheast GJorgia, 110. 
In every section except north G Jo rg ia the preparation for corn is reported above an ave rage. .This is gratifying, as much depends upon the preparation of the soil. Indeed, a thorough preparation and pulverization of the soil followed by favo rable seasons almost insures a good crop. 
Tne preparation com pared to that of last year is r eported in north Georgia, '95, in midu le G ~o rgia, 103.5, in so uthwest Georgia, 10 ; .5, in east G do rgia, 107, and in southeast G eorgia, 113. 
T he stand in the whole Stale is reported at 98. I n north Georgia, 100, in middle G ~orgia, 96.5, in sou thwest G Jorgia, 93.4, in east G ~orgia, 97, in southeast G Jo rgia, 103. T oe stand h1~ b~en somewhat impaired by bud worms and cut worm3 in all section,, but not m ne than usu al. 'V1tlt this exception no serious injury has affected tLe crop. 
vVhile the oat crop is growing justly more popular every year and is no doubt a superior food product to corn for our long warm summers, it cannot supersede the corn which has no superior as food for stock in wintet". Besides, farmers cannot afford to depend upon a s:ngle provender crop. L iberal areas should be planted in both crops, o that if one f11ils the other may be relied upon to supply .the deficiency. Both rarely fail the same season. 
 
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OATS. 
Probably a larger area bas been sown to oats than ever before in the history of Georgia . Not only so, but the prospect for a heavy yield surp:u!ses that of anJ previous year. 
The area in the whole State compared to that' of last year is reported at 125, in no~th Georgi R, 111, in middle Georgia, 137, in so uthwes t Georgia, 123, in east Georgia, 128, in southeast G~orgia, 117. Of these 53 per cent. were sown in the fall in north Georgia, 64 5 per cent. in middle Georgia, 64 per cent. in southwest Georgia, 63 per cent in east Georgia, and 73 per cent. in sou theast Georgia, making 65 per cent. of the crop of the Sta te fall sown . 
In north Georgia, 64.5 per ceot. of the crop was sown with rus t-proof varl t tiu1 85 per cent. in middle Georgb, 97 per cent. in sotllh wesL Georgi, 88 per cent. in east Georgia, and 90 per cent. in so utheast Georgia. In the whole State 4 per cent. 
It is not a litt!e remarkable, in view of the experience of the last five yearP, that a largPr proportion of the crop was not vlanted in the ru st-proef varietiee. It was thought that the experience of 1 0 and 18 1 would have convinced every one of the wperiority of the rus t-proof over all other varieties in our climate. 
'Phe condition of fall sown oats is repor ted in north Georgia, compared to an average, at 110, in middle Georgia, at 118.6, in southwest Georgia, at 111, in east Georgia and southeast Georgia, at 108, in the wh ole State, at 115.5. The condition of spring sown in north Georgia, is 104.6, in middle Georgia, 103, in southwest Georgia, 99, in east Georgia, 105, and in southeast Georgia, 97, in the whole State 102.7. The condition of the whole crop, fall and ~pring sown; is reported at 110 in north Georgia, 124 in middle Georgia, 109 in southweat Georgia, 118 in east Georgia, and 105 in southeast Georgia, in the whole State, 113.5. 
It is a matter of importance that the purest rustproof be allowed to ripen thoroughly and saved as free as possible from admixture of other varieties of oats, other grains and grasFes and weed seeds. Traveling separators often becom& the means of mixing varieties unless special care is taken to thoroughly clean ihe macl!ioes b~fore commencing to thresh each crop. 
Those who are scarce of forage will do well to harvest a portion of the crop in. the milk and cure it for hay. If wtll cured at this stage it makes a very superior hay, which seems to be preferred, by stock of all kind~, to other varieties of hay. 
There is great waste in feeding sheaf oats unleas they are finely cut before feeding. If cured as above Euggested there i!1 no wa:te at all. 
WHEAT. 
A large area was seeded to wheat Ia t fall and the crop was generally promising May 1st, but rust is reported on the blade in most of the countie~. Reporters generally remark that at thatdatethey could not estimate the injury likely toresult fr om that cause, while many express Lhe opinion that very little injury will result. 
There seems to be a mistaken imprPssion prevailing among many farmers that rnst on the blade does not seriously injure the yield or quality of the grain. This is a grave error, eFp(~ially if it appears on the blades before the wheat approaches maturity. Only a few counties report rust on the stem, conspicuous among theseare Talbot and Troup countie~. 
 
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'the area in wheat compartrl to th:tl of last year in north Georgia is 114, in middle G , orgia 122, in sout hwest Georgia 6, in east Georgia 83, and in the whole S tale ItO, none is reported in southeast G ~org ia. It will be observed that the larges t increase in area i; in the two principal wheat growing section s, nortl. 
and middle Geo rgi a . Injury by fl y is reported in a number of countieP, and in some by the army 
worm. In some counties considerable areaJ have been stripped of blades by this worm and portionq of the grain eaten from the h ads. The ravage;; of this worm have been local, being confined to a few cJ unties on the western border of the 
Stlte. The condition ar;d prospect of the crop compared to an average i; reported in 
north Georgia, at 108, in middle Georgia, at 105 5 in southwest Georgia, at 86, and in east Georgia, at 83, in the whole Stale it is 100 This does not correctly represent tbe condition of th e crop lay lot when the reports were made, as undue weight is given to southwest and east Georgia, where very limited areas are dev oted to this grain. Since the reports were made, however, the rust bas incteas~d so that the estimate is now probably a correct representation of the prospect of the crop of the StatE'. 
Dealers in farm implements and machinery report the sales of more reapers this year than for five years preceding. This i~ partly attributable to the influ~nce of the Cotton Exposition where farm ers became acquainted with these ma-chines, and partly to a rapidly growing intE'IIigence among the farmers of the State, but mainly to the fact than an unusually large area is devoted to small grain, oats and wheat, which promiae an extraord inarily large yield. 
 
COTTON. 
 
T here is a material red uction i n the area devoted to cotton in every section {)f the tate. In north Georgia the area co mpared to that of la~t year is reported 
 
 
 
at 89.5, in middle G orgia at 8-1.5, in southwest G~o rgia at 91, in east Gaorgia at 
 
89, and south Georgia at 90. The acreage for the whole State is only 88. It will 
 
be seen, therefore, that the increase in area devoted to corn corresponds within 
 
one half of one per cent. to the decrease in that devoted to cotton . This is grati- 
 
fying, even under the p eculiar circumstances which induced the change of policy, 
 
and it is sincerely h Jped that the redults of this season'd operations will so firmly 
 
iwpreesupon the minds of the farmers of the S tale the wlddom of tbe changed re- 
 
lation between the area in grain and cotton shown in this report as to establish 
 
permanently a policy wh ich muot result in greatly inc reased prosperity to every 
 
'branch of industry in the S:ate. G :orgia is ea~entially an agricultural S tate and 
 
her prosperity depends upon the successful prosecution of her agricuhural inter- 
 
-est~. Nothing has been more clenly demomtratod to thinking minds than the folly of thil policy of producing cotton to the exclu~ion of a sufficiency of home 
 
supplies. Abundant and cheap provisions iusure cheaper, more honest and re- 
 
liable labor, upon which, in its la~t analysis, success in agriculture depends. The 
 
only means by which the people of Georgia can insure cheap supplies of all ki nds 
 
is to produce them more largely at home. Let every farmer, who reads, this con- 
 
-trast his feeling~ of contentment and independence when he has his smoke-house , 
 
barn and bay loh all well filled, wi th those of anxiety arising from his feeling of 
 
dependence upon others for supplies necessary to sustain both man and beast, 
 
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and he will involuntarily resolve to uee the means uece(lllary to eecure con&entment and independence in futurP. The farmer who depends upon others for su pplies-who muPt furnish his table from the grocery merchant, deprives himself of ~be principal charm of conn try life, and cannot complain if his sons shou ld make their headquarters nearer their source of supplies by moving from the farm to the city or town. It is sincerely hoped th at with the expe rience of this year the tide will be changed and a rnmanPnt, ra ti onal self-supporting policy generally adopted. 
'Ibe reduction in the quan tity of ccmmercial fertilizers applied to cotton i!J greater in all th sections HCeptFouthwePt Georgia, than that in area. Compared to laFt year. the quantity app li ed to co tton in north ~orgia is 70.5, in middle Georgia 72, in southwest Georgia 90, in east Georgia 801 and in southeast Georgia 81. In the whole Stall' the average df creRPe is 22.2 per cPnt, A larger proportion of the crop has been plan ted without manure of any kind than UPual. Only 80.5 per cent. of the crop has been fertilized. Of the fertilizers used 32.6 per cent. were home manure or compost ir. the whole Stall'. In north Georg ia 40.7 or nearly half the area has been manured with other than commercial fer tilJ zerP. In middle ~orgia 2i per cent., in eouthwePt Georgia 31 per cent., in east Geo rgia 27, and in eoutheas& Georgia 55. 
While farmHe are Feeking avenurs of eFcape from unn ecessary expenditures in their farm msnsgfment, they will do well to carefully examine into the Pu bject of Faving and accumulating home manureF and compoeting &hem with superphosphate. It Fe~ms strange that any intelligent farmer in Georgia who has inve~ti gated this Fubjrct shou ld fail to avail himself of it as the cheapest means of manuring hie crop. 'Ibe experience of thou Rands of farmers who have used compost for the last ten y~ars bas been uniformly Fatisfactory, the compost producing as much cotton or corn as the commercial manures at onefourth the cost per acre. Thoee who would avoid the necessity of spending their money for high-priced commercial manures should ccmmerct now to collPct the materiel for next winter's com poet heap. It is useleFa for tht>m to pay for the privilege of using patent rormulaP, which ae a gen~ral thing are valuelesP1 and sometimes the ingredients recommended are actually deleterious to the home manurt e to which they are 
added. May 1st C0.5 of the crop wa~ up in the State; 42 pt>r cent. in north Georgia, 49 
per cent. in middl e Georgia, 83 per cent. in southwest Gt>orgia, 65 per cent: in east Georgia, and 71 per cent. in southeast Georgia. 
'Ih e Ftand, where the cotton is up, CC'mparpd to a gord stand, is 94.9 in north Georgia, 94.5 in middle Gerrgia, 98 in southwest Georgia and eaPt Georgia, and 99 in poutht>ast Georgia, and 96 in the whole State. The recent cold weath er has been very unfavorable, and farmers are reportl'd plowing up cotton and planting 
corn in eome localitieP. The condition of the plants May let compa red to an average was, in north Georgia 
111, in middle Genrgia 9l.a, in southw~st Georgia 99, in east Georgia 98, and in aoutbrast Georgia 99. In the wbol~ State it was 101. 
Co mpared to the whole area in grain crops-corn, oats and wheat (100 representing Fuch area ) the area in cotton in north Georg ia is 32, in middle Georgia 59.6, in southwest Georgia 67, in east Georgia 59, and in ~outheast Georg ia 32~ 
 
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In the whole State 54 or 4 per cent more than half as much area devot.ed to cotlon as to the grain crops. 
SUGAR CA~E. 
The area in sugar cana compared to that of last year i~, in middle Georgia 108, in southwest Georgia 106, in east Georgia 104, and in southe11st Georgia 114. In the whole State it is 106. The cultivation of this crop is gradually increasing- in middle Georgia where correspondents report it very profitabl1!; much more so than sorghum. 
The stand of cane compared to an average i~, in the State, 103; in middle Geor~ria, 98, in southwest Georgia, 102, in east Georgia, 105; in southeast Georgia, 106. 
RICE. 
The area in low-land rice compared to last year is reported at 95 in the tate. This crop is cultivated in low spots to eome extent in all sections of the State and while not strictly speaking low-land J'ice is so reporttd. One county in north Georgia reports it at100, two in middle Georgia report 100; in southwest Georgia it is reported at 93, in east Georgia 99, and in "southeast Georgia, the low-land rice region proper, 92. 
Up land rice is suc01ssfully cultivated as far north a ! White county. The area compared to last ,year is in north Georgia, 100, in mi<ldle Georgia, 931 in southwest Georgia, 91, east Georgia, 103, and in southeast Georgia, 90; in the whole State the area is 96.8. 
SORGHUM. 
The area in sorghum compared to that of last year i! reported in north Georgia, 98, in middle Georgia, 113.6, in southwest Georgia, 90, in east Georgi-a, Q61 and in southeast Georgia., none reported. In .the State it is 103.8. 
CLOVER AND GRASSES. 
The area in these compared to last year -in north Georgia is 98.5, in middle Georgia, 113, in southwest Georgia 109, and i'n east Georgia, 100, none is reported in sou theaet Georgia; in the State the area is 106. Grass and clover were to a considerable extent killed by the drouth of last summer. Hence the reduction in area in some sections. The increase in middle Georgia is due mainly to the adoption of the stock law in a number oi the counties in that section. There has been more inquiry on the subject during the last nine months than in three years previous to the adoption of the stock law. 
The oonditi.on and prosput compared to an m:emge ie, in horlh Georgia, 103, in middle Georgia, 105, in southwest Georgia, 117, and in east Georgia, 102. The condi tion in the whole State is 104.6. 
FRUIT. 
Peaches are reported at 72 per cent. of a full crop in north Georgia, 78.7 in middle Geurgia, 54 in southwest Georgia,69.6 in east Georgia, and 86 in sou'thea' t 
in GeorgiA; the whole State 70.8. 
Applea are reported at 66 per cent of a full crop in north Georgia, 61 in mldd!e 
 
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Georgia, 47 in southwest Georgia, 51 in east Georgia, and 66 in souLheast Geor gia; in the State 58.9. 
Peara in r; orth Geor)?'ia 59, ill middle Georgia 75.6, in southwest Georgia 78, in east Georgia 49.7, and in southeast Georgia 77; in the Stale 66.5. 
Grapes in north Georgia 96, in middle Georgia 98, in southwest Georgia 148, in east Georgia 98, and in southeast Georgia 105; in the State 109. 
Many of the peach trees in southern Georgia have put out neither leaves nor blossoms this year. They are supposed to have been killed by a freez which succeeded a warm spell last winter. Some growers are having the trees destroyed. 
T he general outlook for a crop of fruit in the State is good this year, with the exception just mentioned. The apple bloom was partial, but those that bloomed have set well. 
STOCK. 
 
Oi all kinds have paesed the winter in good condition, considering the short crop of grain pred uced last year. 
That of sheep, May 1st, is reported at 103, compared to an average at that seaeon. They are repor ted at 99 in north Georgia, 10-! in middle G~orgia, 101 in southwest Georgia, 108 in east Georgia, and 107 in southeast Georgia. 
The num her of lambs dropped, comvared to the number of ewes kept, is reported in north Georgia, 91, in middle Georgia, 88, in southwest G~orgia 85, east G eorgia, 78.6, and in soutlieast G 3orgia, 96. Average in the whole Stai.e 86. 
Work 8lock are represented as in good condition in every section except middle Georgia, where they are reported as only 62.8. In north Georgia they are re ported at 94.8, in southwest Georgia at 96, east Georgia at 92, and in southeast G dorgia at 100. In the whole State 86. 
The stock of hogs compared to last year in north Georgia is reported a.t 85.5 in middle Georgia 93, southwest Georgia 106, in east Georgia 95.71 and in south east Georgia 93. In the whole State 94.3. There is complaint of cholera in many countiee. A number of our correspondents have found good results from the use of turpentine. 
LABOR. 
The supply of labor varies but little from last year, though complaint is made of the withdrawal of labor from the farm by the offtlr of higher wages than farmera can P"Y by the railroad contractors and lumber and turpentine men. In north Georgia it is 92 compared to last year, 96 in middle Georgia, 95 in south west Georgia, 97 in east Georgia, and 87 in southeast Georgia. In the State 94.5. 
This does not mean that there is leas labor in the State than l&St year, but that less ia available for farm work. Indeed, with a reduction of 12 per cent. in the area in cutton, less labor i3 required. 
Owing to the demand for labor on the railroads and in the lumber and turpentine business, wages have advanced in portion3 of the State near these enterprises. 
A larger per cent. of laborers work for wages this year than usual. In north GeoTgia 20 per cent. of farm labor is hired for wages, in middle Georgia 23 in southwest Georgia 38, in east Georgia 33, and in southeast Georgia 45. In north and middle Georgia 40 per cent. work for a share of the crop, in southwest Geor 
 
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gia and east Georgia 3 , and in southeast Georgia 20. In the whole State 38.8 per ce ~;~t. work on sharee. 
In north G eorgia 40 per cent of laborera rent land, in middle G. orgia 32.7, in southwPst Georgia 20, in east Georgia 28, and in southeast Georgia 35. Iu the whole S ta te 32.5, per cent. 
 
WAGES OF FARM LABORERS. 
The average wages paid farm laborers iu G~orgia this year is $9.42 per month with board. I n north Georgia the average is $ 10.25, in middle Georgia $9.11, in southwest G eorgia S9.0::1, in eaat G.Jorgia $9.00, and in southeast G eorgia $11.00 . 
PRICE OF CORN. 
The average cash price per bu bel at which corn sold in the State l!I \Y ht is reported $1.13, in north Georgia $1.07, in middle Georgia $1.13, in southwest Georgia $1.14, in east Georgia .; 1.151 and in so utheast Georgia $1.17. 
The average credit price per bushel. at which it sold at the same date is $138, in north G~orgia S1.32, in middle G ~orgia $1.38, in southwest Georgia $1.42, in eaat Georgia $140, and in southeast Georgia $1.36. 
The per cent. paid in the S tate on the cash price by those who buy on cr<dit is less than in any previous yea~. T his year it is 22 per cent., while last year it was 54 per cent. The cMh price this year, h wever, is one cent per bushel. higher than the credit price last year, so that while less per cent. is paid on the cash price, that price being . 24 cen t.s higher than last year, and even higher than the credit price of last year, the tax 9n those who buy is much greater than laat year. 
Sixteen per cent. less corn has been bought this year than last up to May 1st. 
The qnantity purchased in north Georgia compared to last year is 92, in middle 
Gaorgia 95.7, in southwest Georgia 62, in east  Georgia 79, in southeast Georgi!i 96, in the State 84. 
The fact that less corn bas been bought is attributable to two ca uses: 1. ~lore bay and other forage was saved in Georgia last hll than ever before in the history of her agriculture. H{ving long forage in abundance, leas corn has been required to keep stock in good ord~r. 2. A more determined spirit of economy has prevailed among the farmers this year than before. Preparation for this was commenced last fall by saviug all available long forage and Ly planting barley, rye, and oats for soiling or pasturing the stock. Forty two per cen!. lesa bay has bee n bought this spring than last. The quantity purchased in the differen t sectious of the State com pared to last year is as follows : In north G eorgia 72, in middle G <: orgia 57.7, in southwest G "orgia 38, in east Georgia 57, and in southeast Georgia 90, in the whole Sta te 58. 
 
COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS. 
The number of tons of commercial fertilizers purchased com pared to last year, in the whole State, is 76.7. In north Georgia 67, in middle Georgia 74.5, in sou thwest G eorgia 85, in east G~o rgia 82, and in southeast Georgia 76. 
Taking into consideration the fact that eight per c~nt. more compost has been 
 
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used this year than last, and that the area in cotton is reduced 12 per cent. , this reduction in quantity of commercial fertilizers purchased is quite natural. 
All of these facts are gratifying, as they indicate a determination on the part of farmers to reduce expense?, and at the same time puraue a more rational system of agriculture. 
The average price of commercial fertilizers this year compared to last is in the State, 95 Fer cent . In north Georgia 94.6, in middle Georgia 92.5, in sou Lhwest Georgia 97, in east Georgia 93, and in southeast Georgia 95. 
The average cotton option price at which ummoniatecl superphosphates sold this year is 453 lb~. of lint cotton. That of non-ammoniated superphoPphates is . 392 lbs. 
 
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KORTH GEORGIA. 
 
Bank3 County.-" Some complaint of rust on the bl!tdes of wbe, t. The pros- 
 
pect for the ~rain crop never was better. The cool weather unfavorable to 
 
cotton.'' "The general outlook for the farmers at this time is quite encouraging. 
 
Wheat very promi~ing. If we can have a dry May, lhe crop will be fine if it 
 
escapes storms. The uat crop is as promising as I ever ~aw in my l ife. We 
 
have very few idlers; everybody is at work. A good many ban ds are working on 
 
theN. E. Extension which makes labor scarcP." "The wheat crop is at present 
 
promising, but there is rust reported in places in this county. The farmers have 
 
a fear that the wheat crop will yet be cut short by rust, though as the month of 
 
May is at hand, we can soon tell what will be the result. We need no more rain  
 
for wheat. The outlook for grass killers and clod knockers for the pre~ent is prom 
ising."  Carp have just been introduced during the past year. ThoFe r have seen 
 
are about 3 inches long. There is a considerable fXcitement on the subject of carp 
 
raising. This day, 1st May, was nearly cold enough for frost. Two weeks have 
 
been very cool. Wheat and oats never looked more promising. Cotton (that is 
 
' up) looks badly. Corn is at par. lJpon the whole, if no disaster befalls our bar 
 
vest, our condition will not be as gloomy as anticipated . Oue good feature in 
 
our county is that as a general thing our farmers are not selling their corn as high 
 
as the merchants." 
 
Ba1tow County.- " ImmenPe quantities of iron ore and manganese are shipped 
 
from this county. Two bloomeries in Allatoona. district.'' 
 
Catoosa County.-" Outlook better than last year; farmers not burdened with 
 
debts, in better PpiritP1 waking up, and making greater e.ffort to obtain a know ledge of what to plant, bow to plant, and how to obtain the best results. A dispo 
 
sition prevails to plant more cotton than last year, but will make their own sup- 
 
pliE>~. Cotton is the surplus or money crop. A growing industry is springing up 
 
in Walker county in straw berries. All along as far as fifteen miles south of Chat- 
 
tanooga, Tenness~ee, acres have been set in two yearP1 giving astonishing good result. Shipping to Cincinnati now, May 2d, at 60 cents per gallon wholesale." 
Clarke County.-" Every ~an and his neighbor is looking around for labor 
 
saving implementP. It is only a question of money nnd two or three years to 
 
rout oet the old ripper plow and thePubstitution of ~ulky and other ,cultivators. Oats have a firm foothold with us and will be the {lrincipal ~tock food in the fu 
 
ture. J3arley pa1 ch~s all over,this section. Many commenced sowing the grasses, 
 
including B urmuda. The countr~ people Pe.e daylight ahead. Twelve wd a half 
 
cents for a good cotton crop puts them out of debt and no new ones will be 
 
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Chattooga County.-All crops plant~d this 'ppring are looking small, owing to ~ool 
 
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n ights, bot the farmers are '!'Orking with a vim. If no diaast~r to small grain farm ers will be all right. " 
Dawson County-'' I sowed oats in the month of August last year and they are the finest I have ever had-the best in my section. I am of the opinion August is the month to sow in north Georgia. Try it, fumers, on your cotton fields. In pic~ing cotton you will press lhe soil firmly about the roo ts. After pick ing is done, graze them with light stock." 
"I am satiafi ed the area in orchards is increaRing from the hct that nur~ery men are doing a good busine~s in the county selling treeP. We have a consid J rable surpl us of corn, and forage is plenty. Flour and- bacon is s~arce. '' 
Dade County.-Cbolera bas killed nearly all of the hogs. Lime and coal oil are tb e best remedy I have tried." . 
Floyd Cov.,ly.-" Our people have diversified their crops this year more than for the last ten year~, but not as much as they should have done. NecesEity, more than -choice, caused them to diversify. Cotton is still their choice crop, and could credit and food Fupplia have b~en procured easily, the co ~ton crop planted weuld have h~en as large, or larger than ever. We are now having an exce~s of rain that will cause much grasP. Tbe corn crop bas been plowed over, but the ground left in a compact condition from the rains, which will req 1i re Rnoth ~r plowing as soon as it can be given. \Veate rll corn being used is a very inferior article, greatly damaged, mouldy and rotten. In fact, it is hardly fit for h :>gP. I would not give one bushel of G eorgia. raiPed corn for five bushels of Western corn.'' 
"Mr. T. N. P inPon and Col. C. W. Sproull, report their ca rp as doing wellgrow ing to weigh 5 to 7 poundd in eighteen month ~ ." 
Forsyth C0'1tnty.-" Some improved b reeds of horses and cattle have b een intro duced. Prominent among the cattle are the J .arseys, which are giv:ng good satiafac:ion, and are st imulating all our farmers to make improvement in this importan t industry. T i1ere is also an increased desire to imp rove seeds of different cropa, which I think was brought about by distribu t ions from the Department of Agriculture." 
Franklin County .-" I received some carp in 1880. 111y pond is at bead of branch half a mile from ri ;rer. M occasons deliltroyed the carp. I have built at a place <QUt of reach of them now, and would be glad to receive carp to stock i t. I have used alum and buttermilk for cholera. in chickens with great success, and am of opinion that it will benefit bogs. I will try to get a. chance to test it when it breaks out a2ain in my community and will report results." 
Gilmer County.-" The prospects are hopeful for the farmers of this county. Plen ty of corn a.nd provisions of all kinds. Spring two weeks earlier than an average year. Wheat is beading-no sign of ruet. Ii no disaster happens in two weeks a good crop may be relied on." 
Gordm County.-" The first fact I will notice derived from observation ie, that those who raise corn, grain, clover and stock, are in a more prosperous condition than the cotton planter. Hence I conclude that cotton is not the crop for this section. Rice baa not been culti valed heretofore, but I am introducing it in a small way in this neighborhood by distributing seed of up-land rice to my neighbors. Wherever a. forage or proviaion crop in this ~ection bas been made a specialty, is has succeeded. Root crops should receive more attention. Bee culture is receiving some attention. More than half the households have bees, though moat of them 
 
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use the old style hive. The bee product makes up a large percentage of the sweetening of this section. GJoberc or pindars art! raised on a. small scale, mostly for home consumption. I think there is being more interest manifested in stock raising, particularly horses and mules. I know of no one who has any carp, there are a few fish ponds in the county. Getting tan bark is one of the industries thst engages many laborers at this time. Oak timber ia plentiful on the mountain, and heretofore considered almost valueless, now yields a. goJd profit in b:1rk at $3.50 per cord. Blind staggers in horses-all fatal. Cholera in hogs." 
Gwinnett County.-''The whealerop is fine; nearly all in full heaJ, some little rust. I have one acre of cotton, planted March 29th, which is up and chopped out to a stand. Lots of the plants are putting out the fifth leaf. The cold weather has not affectEd it like it did the young cotton." "I will gay farmers are working better than I tver saw them, and are in better circumstances than eiuce the war. The farmera that have succeeded beat since the war are those that have hired hands and superintended their own farms." ' 'There is plenty of corn in this section fe>r sail'. If the oat crop does not sustain any disaster the price will soon fall . Some farmers are becoming apprehensive and have reduced to 90cents cash. There is one farm near me where thl're is one thou Eand bushels for sale. 1 "Any observing man who values a farm cannot fail to regret seeing the dEstruction or removal of soil from the planted fields caused by the recent heavy rains, while many men in their idle hours might have preventfd it by hill-eide ditching. Not with a single furrow, but by running with a two-horae plow two furrows about eight inches apart, one furrow thrown up hill and the other down, throwing out the center with a shovel, giving a descent of 2~ inches in 12 feet, making a. ditch that (if full) would float a small canoe." "About fencee: I see that many men lay the worm of their rail fences down hill, which makes the fence look like it aimed to slide down and pile itself at the bottom of the hill. And they frequently lay a half decayed rail or perishable pole on the ground where it soon rot~ . Why not put a rock under every corner (if they can be had ) and this save~ the worm from decay, and thus makes the fence ten rails high with nine rails. To show the down hill fence worm in co~trast with the up hill worm, take a board two feet long, raise one end four inches higher than the other, then takE.' a handful! of ten penny nails and lay one worm up the board and another down, and let the people eee that the up hill worm is much the most like stair steps.'' "Fruit cultnre, ei>pecially peaches and apples, have been very much improved, both as to quality of fruit and the acreage. Also liS to grape culture, there has been a very decided improvement, owing to the fact t hat we have learned how to prune, and what kind of eoil and fertilizing is best adapted to several varieties, that but a few years ag0 were thought to be worthless. More attention is now given to vegetable gardens, and the variety and quality of the vegetables are decidedly superior to any time during our past history. More attention is now given to bee culture than at any time since the war. The Italian variety has been introduced to a small extent, and are proving highly satisfactory. I am confident that the short corn crop of last rear as a result of the long drouth, has and is benefitting this county more than anything that could have transpired. About teo times as much hay, consisting of crab anJ swamp gra"s and an increased area in 1vheat, oats and corn, and a diminution of cotton are some of the results. While the 
 
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<foregoing report is Ppecially for t he weRt side of Gwinnett, it will probably apply to the entire c Juoty and the adjoioin6 counties." 
Hab:mham County. -'' F .nmers should diversify, not only in crops, but in -everything that is possible for Ui to grow or raise, and then can we be tr~ly inde pendent. Pl eaae urge upon the farmers of our dear old State the importance of turning under green crops on worn la.od. I knoov from my personal experience the valu e o( it. I iucr~aied the yield of an old field from four buahels of wheat to the acre to nine buiheL tO th s acre by turning under a heavy crop of pea vinea at a cost of $2 b') per acre, couutin;t the plowing in of peas and cost of p ea.s and turning under the vine~. A crop of rye sown in October and turned under (i n boot) first of .M:ay, and half bush. peas to acce harrowed in on the same ground and turned under in S oplember will double, if n >t threbble, the yield of any crop put upon it. If every farmer in G.~'l rgia will take five or ten acres next October a nd commence it, aud in the fall of 1883 sow the sam~ to wheat, the wheat harvest of 1884, I am satisfied, would be unprecedented in the hi3tory of the State. Every man has a hobby, and this 1 guess is m ine, an d I, knowing its value, wish from the bottom of my heart every farmer in the S tate would try it. 11 
Haralson County.-" Clln say that the paop !e are determined to plant corn and raise their supplies at hom ~ , but ~re going to make the change gradually." 
Milton County.-" We are u~ing B adley'd compoat in this county. In my set dement there is nothing else used. H LVe di~ca.rd ed guano altogether. Farmers that used it ladt year say they could n ot tell the difference between the compost and the best guano. I will give you the form J 'a : 0 ae thousand pounds stable manure, 1000 lbs. rich dirt or swamp muck, 5 bushels leached ashes, 8 lbs. of sulphate of ammonia, 8 lb;. sulphuric acid,llb. powdered alum, well mixed, 400 to 500 lb;, to the acre. This compost co~t.bu t li ttle ov er $1.00 p~r ton besides the labor, two hands can ~ix and put -qp six tons per day. If 1000 lbs. per acre is used it will be much cheaper than gu.mo. 8 >me of my neighb 3rs have used 1000 lbs. per acre oil oats and they look well. There is nothing in this formula to recommend it. T be stable manure, rich earth, ashes and sulphate of ammonia, of course, possess virtue. T he stable manure, if properly saved, is indeed valuable, and rich earth, if used at the rate of many tons per acre., will produce appreciable re,.ults, but in the quantities recommended, can serve only as an absorbent of other valuable ingredients, which in this case are used in very small qnantities. For instance, .g lbs. of sulphate of amm onia will furnish, ii pure, ouly 2.06 lbs of ammonia or a fracti on less than 1-1000 per cent. This will do no harm. The percentage of phosphoric acid derived from the stable manure and ashes will be hardly appreciableles& than one per cent. The soluble potash is leacked from the ashes before used to prevent, it is supposed, the loss of ammonia, while a microscopic homeopathic dose is given in "one lb. 11 of powdered alum . If our correspondent will substitute 1,000 lbs. of colton seed or half the weight o'f colton seed m eal for the rich earth, omit the sulphate of ammonia, sulphuric acid and alum, replace the ashes with 300 lb  ot k ainit, and add 500 or 600 lbs. of high grade acid, or superphosphate, he will have a better compost which will indeed be eqna\ in agricultural value to the beat co m mercia! manures, and one which may be used at .he same rate per acre. at which commercial fertilizers are usually applied. The feat of making something out of nothing has not yet been accomplished, and our correspondent h advised not to undertake it. The oat c rop is the larg~st and best I have ever seen in this 
 
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counly and if it i; seasonable and rains in May, will be the largest crop ever 
 
gathered in Georgia. None but the red ru st-rroof sowed in my settlement, 
 
in fact, there ie no other eeed, as the ruet killed out all other varieties two 
 
years ago. I am well pleased with my carp fish. There is no other in this seftle 
 
ment but my own. 1 bought two hundred last October from Mr. Wright, of Griffin. 
 
Got them in pond to themselves, with no other fish Hope my carp will spawn 
 
this spring. I drew down one of my ponds last September and transferred the 
 
carp into a pond with no other fidh but the carp of 1879 and 1880. They have 
 
.grown wonderfully . " 
 
The sulphuric acid is a d:mgeroue substance in the banda of farmere and farm 
 
~ahorers. This will be abundantly supplied, if needed at all, in the superphos- 
 
phate, early half of which is sulphate of lime, 
 
II there is any charge at all for the privilege of using this remarkable formula, 
 
it is very dear. The small qu'\Dtities of chemicals added will cost but little and 
 
.affect the stable manure, earth and ashes .but little-so little indeed that their 
 
omission would not be discovered. 
 
While farmers should, to the very utmost, economise in the use of fertilizers by 
 
saving every available home manure, they should at the same time avail 
 
themselves of every avenue of information to protect themselves from imposi- 
 
-tion. 
 
Murray Ocrunty.-" There is in places some rust in the wheat, and the worms 
 
have injured and entirely destroyed some sown upon pea land especially, where 
 
the vines were not turned under with a large plow. So far,, the stand of corn and 
 
-cotton ie good. " 
 
Paulding Ccrunty. -" I am glad to state to the D epartment of Agriculture that 
 
the farmE'rs of my county are determined to raise more corn-less cotton. L ess 
 
fertilizers are used . I have been farming on a small scale for fifteen years, I 
 
have bought one thousand pounds of fertilizers, I have bought no corn or meat 
 
I run a two-mnle farm, make my corn and meat at home, and from 10 to 15 bales 
 
of cotton, which is clear profit." "The International Cotton Exposition at At- 
 
lanta has aroused considerable enthusiasm in regard to improved implements, seeds 
 
and systems of agricultu re, such as will no doubt result in an improved conditiou 
 
of the agricultural clasa." 
 
Polk Ocrunty.-" Funr good reasons for hope: F irat, m:>re economy; second, more 
 
energy; tl,ird, less high-priced manurPS; fourth, more grain and 1 ~ s cotton." 
 
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Wheat 
 
and 
 
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crops were 
 
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more promising. 
 
I i they escape rust they 
 
will relieve the food press ure very mucb. The sprio,g is very early and has been 
 
'Wet; the consequence iR that lands have been planted without thorough prepara. 
 
tion. There is as much labor as usual, but it is very exacting-dem anding cash 
 
as the work is done. Farmers were verv much depressed the first part of the year, 
 
'but are much more hopeful now. Our merchants are doing all in their power to 
 
supply food for man and horse, &nd in that way to help the farmers. With all 
 
they could do the bread and meat has been a seriou 3 queotion, but it will soon be 
 
bridged over." 
 
Walker Oounty.-"Walker county is a good aeetion for ah the gras~es and clovers, 
 
making one to two tons of hay per acre, and ~roducing from ten to fifty bushels 
 
-of corn per acre, and now, in consequence of the unwis~ policy of planting too 
 
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much cotton, nine-tenths of the corn cribs are empty, and the owners purchasing corn and hay.'' 
Whitfield County.- " ! have never seen small grain looking better. Far.nera are a litUe behind in corn planting, but most of the co t ton has been put in.'' 
MrDDLE GEORGE. 
Bct.ldu-in County. -" I have seen several varieties of wheat, and all have the rnst except the Bill Dallas. I have not seen any rust in oats. Every body bas been convinced that it is better to pay a little more for ru st proof oats.'' 
Butts County. -" The drouth of last year and the partial failure of the grain crop has stimula ted our farmers to pla nt more grain, potatoe1 peas, etc., as the result of wbic.h we have the most enormous crop of oats that was ever raised in thid co unty. Many acres will yi eld 75 to 100 bus. per acre. It seems that tbe sugar cane will soon be raised extensively. Tbe deman d for the seed this spring was very much greater than the supply.'' 
Campbell Ccrnnty.-"The pla n to make more home ~upplies seems to gain ground with the farmers in this county. Tbe no fence law went in force the fir.t o! January last, in this county. ThoPe that oppo~cd it begin to see iti benefits and ce~se their clamor against it. That is the best thing for the farmers interest that bas been done in the last decade." "There are a few farmers in this county experi menting on a small scale with sugar cane. Farmers are slowly but urely learning to diversify their crops and raise at least the ir breadstuff\ and forage, and a large portion of their meat at home. They have learned from their own ~ad experi ence, by the aid of your de par tment, the preas and last, but not least, the 'Grange,' that it will not do to raise cotton to buy provisions for themselves or food for their stock ., 
Carroll County.- ' 1 Wheat never looked better. eMits promise a large yield. Cotton planted early, dying, too cool. Corn, but little planted on bottom land, too wet. There is some distress for want of breadstuffs which is stimulating the farmers to raise wore corn. Credit prices are ruinous to the farmer. It would be a good thing if they have to suffer somt>, it would probably learn them ale& Eon. 1 have been farming here, on the same place, 35 yeari'1 where I W<\S born, 53 years ago, and have never been compelled to buy a bushel of corn for wy family, but always sell more or less corn, w heat and oats, and my prospect now Is an abundant crop of grain. B ut I cannot persuade my neighbor tg plant on the cotton surplus plan, but they go on the contrary and plant on the corn surplus plan . Poor mule~, horees, hog@1 and the cry is hard times all the time. I have five or six new tenants who came on my place last winter without a bite to feed them selves or families, and they are good workers, but weut on the all cotton plan and it will always be the case here, I fear. ~Iaoy thanks for seed.'' "If the farmers will all turn their corn land in tbe fall of the year, and then crossplow it by list ing it up in the spring, and then (lant corn in water furrows thPy will not suffer from drouths so often, and this is my experience with corn. L ast summer my corn was p1:rfec tly green to the bottom blade, while corn just across the fence burnt up. I sowed cow peas broadcast the last time I plowed my corn and never fail to make a g ood crop. I like the s peckle bunch pea. better than any for sowing broadcast. Tle grai n crop in our county was nev"r more prow ising. The wheat has the blade ru st or red m ol d, wore or l~ss, but I don't think it will 
 
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materially hurt it. Fall oats are good, stood the winter well, and both wheat and oat crops are eight or ten days earlier than last year. John Bonner has a two-acre patch of wheat that he claims will make 100 bushels. The corn crop is also very promising, with an excellent stand. Dr. Wm. Gaulding has just _told me he had 30 acres half leg high. Tbe cotton plant is looking badly, and dyiDg out, and the past two cool nights, iti~ feared, will materially damage it, as we had some frost 
this morn-ing.'' Ooweta Caunty.-" Perhaps the most in tere ling fact is the almost genera.! deter- 
mination of the farmers to make their farms elf-supporting, devoting larger area to grain and fruit, also more attention to stock-raising. The improved breeds of cows, hogs and sheep are finding their way into almost every part of the county. Many hHve not only made terms of peace with the old and hated enemy-Bermuda grass-but are actually cultivating or getting on the most friendly relationewith it." 
DeKaJ.b Cownty. -"My observation and experience brings me to know that one of the most important industries of this section would be the cultivation of the 
grasses." "I hear of a few fields of wheat with rust, very few. Prospect fine. In the 
southern part of the county fruit was damaged by a heavy hale storm on the 28th. Farmers are very busy, stimulated by fine rains and flattering prospects." 
"The blight has mu.de its appearance, which not only threatens to destroy the crop, but also the trees. It is my ob3ervation that in a well selected variety of grapes that there iRa. greater return and a surer crop than from all the other fruits combined. Only in favored localities I do not believe that peach trees, to any extentr should be allowed to encumber the ground. I think the same thing with reference to pears. The sand pear or LeConte pear is .vorthless here on account of its blooming before frost is over . I don't b~lieve we would get one crop in ten from it in this climate. In defense of what I here state, I will say that 1 am no novice in fruit culture. I have studied the subject, to some extent, lor the last ten years, and have closely observed results, and give it as my opinion that the grape crop is the coming fruit crop of this section. I do not esteem tbe scuppernong varieties very highly.'' "If we, as farmers, would purchase less commercial fertilizers, and devote more time in saving and com posting our home manure from our Juts, st.a bles and stalls, and diversify our crops, plant less, manure well, cultivnte thornnghly, we could live much better, live easy, and prosper as a people." 
Elbert Cownty.-"1 have been informed by one of our leading merchants that the farmers of this county have bought at least one-third lese supplies this year than last. The prospect for wheat and oats is very flattering at pre ent." 
Fayette County.-" Orchards and vineyard s are receiving more attention than for merly. There is a tendency to more diversified farming, of raising cereals for home consumption. T he introduction of rust proof oats has been of great advantage to our county. We need greatly a rust proof wheat. A greater interest is needed in making home-made manures." 
Greene County.-" Some persons are beginning to:appreciate the advantages of raising their supplies. This di position is growing rapidly. I know of two fields sown part in Dallas wheat and part in Fultz. The Dallas is not hurt with rust. The Fultz is badly rusted. There will be a demand next year for young carp.'' "At the commencement of the year the outlook in the county was gloomy, in 
 
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deed, for the farmers. Corn and meat scarce and high, and no money .to buy with. It seemed that the people could not get along and make a farm, but they have bought but little on time, and seem to be, and are getting along with their crops better th an they have since the war. They are working better, aud the outlook is better than it bas been fer years. Such fine grain crops, both wheat and oats, we have not seen in ten years. There are very few farmers using any guano this year in this part of Greene, but have much larger quantittes of compost and used it on both corn and cotton. The people have made out on so little that I cannot tell, but they a re working thl'ir crops well, and the outlook is more cheering than it has been for some time." . 
J anes County.-" Un less the farmers, or landowners can be induced to pl tnt more oats, rye and barley, and make tho~e who rent their lands do the same, our farms and farm stock, and the farmer with them, is sure to break , and ruin awaits us in the near fu ture. We cannot stand this purchasing Western corn at $1.20 to $1.40 per bushel more than one more season. The labor here is sufficient if those who use it, and own the land would turn their attention to it, and use their own judgment in having their land~ cnltivated with some reasonable discretion and management-they and their negro labor would both be benefited. But in stead thereof, too many of our farmers and landowners make the negro political laborers in stead of field hand8, and consequently we are tending, I fear, to some calamitou R end." "After twelve years experience in farming I am convinced th at it will not pay to raise coru on orJinary upland, and the experience of my neighbors bear me out in my premises. I think the oat crop will snpersede all other crops in our section for tock fe ed . Land that will prodnce ten bushels of corn will make twenty-five bnshels of rnst proof oats with onethird the expense. Wheat always is an uncertain crop in most sections and I think should receive more attention. Cotton, I find, is the most expensive and least remunerative of any crop we grow,and most of the farmers, if free of debt, would plant more largely of grain and less cotton. I think the decrease in the use of commercial fertilizer will lessen the crop to a great extent." 
L inooln CoJnty.-"There has evidently been a revolution in this county,and from the sent went, as expressed by the farmers themselves at the present time, I do not think they intend to take any step backward in the fnture, as to making the farm Relf-sustaining. This is evidenc.ed by the fact that there is a larger area of small grain planted than was ever known in the connty, and this is being followed by a heavy corn crop. There is being more attention paid to rearing stock of all kinds. All this will certainly tell in the future. We are determined to make the cotton as near a surplus crop as is possible. The day the Sonth do es this, her independ ence prosperity is assured, in my opinion." 
McDuffie County.-" There Feems to have been a small grain mania-never so much interest taken in it as now, and the prospect for a fine oat crop is wonderfnl. 1liany of our farmers are @0 crippled by the all cotton and credit system, that much tha.t would be done, cannot be done on that account. I believe !l better state ofthings is in the near future for us." "Our best farmers have ad opted oats for horses entirely, and loose 50 per cent. less than those fed on corn. Cows and sheep have come ont of winter quarterRin a bet~er condition than any winter for the past ten years. Our farmers are growing more independent since they adopted oats as their horse food. The best oat crop ever raised in the county and ten days 
 
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earlier than last year. Wheat a failure on gray lands, but looking well on red 
Janda." Morgan County.-" There seems to be !Ome progress in our county, as efforts are 
being made to get money out of some things besides cotton. One mao sold two thousand dollars worth of hay, and will ship several hundred worth of hooey. The wool crop is bringing in more money than it did several years ago. Common sheep have clipped this year about three lbs. average. I have a flock of merinos that clipped six and a-half, several ewe clipped from seven to nine lba., bucks from nine to sixteen lbs. The merino buck crossed on our common Pbeep makes a good sheep that will dip from five to five and a-half lbs. wool, and is also a fin11 mutton sheep." ''Decidedly an increase of interest in the rai sing of oats and hay. Toe stock law, requiring owne rs of stock to take charge of same, paPsed by a majority of 222 in the county, goes into effect A.ugust 28th 1882. " 
Newton County.-'' Oor people are, Peemingly, satisfi ed at last, that oata can and must take the place of corn in a large measure. 'rhey have sown, m any of them doublP, and are encouraged with the proFpec t of a good yield . I wish to say that unless the system of farming is entirely revols tioni zed at once, ou r people are ruined, for this maio reaAo n : The Ianda are e:llaausted, a nd fertilizers used on such lands cannot pay. Our people have not tlie fore st to fall back on as did ou r anti-bellum planters. We are shut u p to im pron , by rotation, rest, dee p plowing growing pea vines, gra~P , clover and such like cr'<> ps as fertil izers, or abandon our lands and" Go West." On our exhausted lands with shall ow plo1ving, no mao can risk fertilizers and the expense of cul tintion; for a few days drou ght on such land, thus fertilized with amoniated manures, will certainly blast the crop, either cotton, corn, wheat, oats, or potatoes. 
"Now, cannot your Department get up such an array of facta as will convince the unconvinced, and not leave them there, but point them to lhe syste m or methods by which they can continue to pay debts, continue to live, and in th e end redeem their lands, themselves and the country? It is sometimes very easy to realize the fact that we are lost; but the way out of the swamp is the trouble, and by whose light shall our people be led through this wilderness to a land of plenty if not by 
your ? "I have seen the wheat and oat crops from Covington to Sheffield, and to the 
lower part of the county to L ee's Bridge, and nev<l r have Re en in the last forty-one years so much sowed or better propect of a full crop up to thio date, May 12th, 1882.'' 
Ogletho1'pe County.-" The only fa.rmers I know in this county th tare making clear money are those that raise their own supplies. M erchants who own farms and furnish their hands from the store are, of course, making money; provid ed they do not sell too much to others on time. 
"I received a small sack of Dallas wheat from the Department in 1880, which I sowed, saved, and sowed a11;ain la t fall. It is doi ng weE, but is at least two weeks later than my Purple Straw, sown at the same time. I think th at wheat is earlier heading this year than I have ever known it. Varieties of wheat that I have heretofore cut about the lOth of June will, I think, this year be cut by the middle of l-Iay." 
Pike Counly.-" Ribbon rane is t.be most profitable article rai!ed in this county. 
 
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We have a. fence law now and need a dog law. We have more hounds in Pike county than sheep. I want to see the things taxed to prohibition." 
Putnam County.-" I think the production of oa.ts and ha.y in large quantities greatly needed. Sorgum also can be raised with great benefit to the farmers. Besides making syrup, it is very usetul as feed for stock. The seed alone is as good for feeding as the same amount of corn. If fa.rmers will pay more attention to getting their rich bottom lands in good order, they will find it much better than cultivating so much poor upland and depending on commercial manures. I find the best manner of preparing bottoms is to break thoroughly with a two-horse plow and harrow well ea.rly in the season; then just ~fore planting break and harrow again; lay oil with shovel and cover with oe furrow; drop corn one grain i .. a pla.ce every ten or twelve inches, and never thin out until it is knee high. Putnam county has purchased less corn than last year, 90,000 lbs. less meat, and 600 tons less guano-a saving of about $40,000. The wheat and oat crop will be ready to harvest in thirty days, and will save the county as much more. The present crop will be made $100,000cheaper than last year. Our people are selling more buUer, egg~, chickens and srass than ever before. The stock law is working finely and everybody seems satiilied with it. The acreage in cultivation will be increased this year, as we can cultivate without fences. Putnam ha.s made several poor crops, but it has taught hes people a lesson of economy they will not forget soon, a.nd with a good crop, will be in a better fix than at any time since the war." 
Troup County.-" The universal rainfall during the last four months has rendered nearly worthleBB much of the plowing that has been done, leaving the land in a clammy, tough condition,and difficult to work. There is considerable labor in the county that work by the job, having rented houseM, hence much of their time idle. As a rule, the labor system of this county is neither satisfactory or profitable. Should the time ever come when proper dignity shall be accorded labor, when it shall not be considered disgraeeful for all able bodied persons to engage in some productive industry, then may we expect better times." . Upson County.-" My observation teaches me that in this part of the State there should be a change from cotton and corn to oats, fint for ~tock, wheat, for bread, ground into Graham flour, peas potatoPs, ground peas, with some kind of winter pasture lor hogs to make our meat, together with a bunch of sheep on every farm. Sow small grain early; graze down with the sheep in winter. The sheP.p will de stroy the Hessian fly by nipping th em off. Land that will make ten bushels in corn with cultivation , will make eix to eight in wheat without cultivation-all without manure. Pl&n t a little cotton. Make it make one bale to the acre. Such a courMe will ren ovate our lands, fill our barns and graineries, smoke houses, give us winter clothing, and we can pay our debts with the money the cotton brings. Of course we should get our cribs full of the old Rtand-by-corn. I see no reason why many farmers could not raise mule colts as cheap as they can raise a cow. Verily, Georgia can raise all her ;~eople require, and still improve her soil, a legacy better than old worn out fields for the next generations, and down with the idea. I will get the cream of my land, and my children can do as I have done. No wonder many young men become discouraged with such destruction and waste of land left them." "My observation and experience is that when a farmer raises his own cereals at home and raises cotton only as a surplus, he is on the high road to prosperity while those that raise all cotton with their corn cribs and their meat 
 
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houses in the Northwest are always behind. I also find, by observation , that there is too little attention paid to the cow pea, for it is certainly the clover of the South. It is a great renovator of the soil when either plowed in green or left to decay on top of the ground. Peavine hay cannot be excelled as a tock feed when properly eaved . They eat it greedily . When fed to cows it gives a peculiar rich yellow color to their milk and butter. It al so gives to their hair, a sleek, lively appearance. It is a good antidote for disease, better than most of stock powders. Thev cannot be recommended too highly as a manure. Every old field in Georgia ought to have a crop ~f them plowed in on them when planted, to turn under as a fertilizer. Sow about two bushels per acre, broadcast . When planted for hay, plant in drill two and a half to three feet apart, two feet apart in the row, dropping eight to twelve in a bunch, so they can be easily cut with the hoe or grass blade, or pulled up, as preferred." 
Wa/IOn County.-" In our county the cotton crop will continue to grow less each year till enough of everything else is raised to supply all the wants of the people and stock at home. The farming community is beginning to see the nece sity of making the farm self sustaining. The long li"t of succllssful farmers in the State, published through your Department, has bad a marked influence on them . Farmers' clubs are being organized and revived, and the subject diacuPsed in all its features.  A great change, and for the better, is visible in the future. Since the Exposition in your city, labor saving machine~', etc., are receiving much attention. In fact, everything pertaining to the farmers' interest and prosperity is being eagerly sought after. A radical change is soon to take place. May God grant it.'' "From my own observation, and the best information I can gather, I come to the conclusion that our prospects are rapidly brightening. We certainly are tending to the desired prosperity. In the first place, our grain crops of all kinds are increased, not only irl acreage, but tbe best land is selected for corn and grai n crops. I am an old citizen here, and, to my great gratification, I see a large number of rjch lots around gin houses, and good fidds, now planted in corn. Many of them to my own knowledge have never grown a stalk of cors before ; thi~ is an omen for good. One other matter, though small in its character, I moat mention, because good must certainly come of it. I notice among our people, both white and colored, an increased disposition to abandon dog raising and k eeping and replace them by one or two nice fat pigs. Now, to my mind, this is no small beginning. Hired and farming labor are doing very well. The tight times for bread leads them to more energy. I hope tbe day is close by when we will all abandon the Western ~;rain and meat market and raise the same at home. We have the bes t country on earth if we would only use the same properly." 
 
SOUTHWEST GEORGIA. 
Baker County.-" At lflast 10 per ceat. of our labor has gone into the turpentiqe business, but our farmers have put in full crops, expecting the 1 etu rn of most of this labor in time to chop cotton, as the boxing cloaes 1st of April. From some cause the grafted and budded peach trees have neither bloomed or put on foliage, but are as bare as they were in J anuary. Seedling peaches have put on half crop. Our corn is farther advanced than I ever saw for the l~t of M&y. Choice spots 
 
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE-GEORGIA. 
 
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(early patches) are from four to six feet high ; some t8.1!seling, and will receive 
 
laat plowing by lOth inst." 
 
Brook3 County.-" The spring to date has been extraordinary. I bave only lost 
 
two days from rain since January. The stands of all crops are as near perfect as 
 
possible, espectally corn. Corn ia unu sually fine for the season. Cotton planted 
 
from ten to fifteen dayR earlier, and no disAAter to date. Fine season at this time;. 
 
ground in fine condition for all crops. Plenty of corn raised here, and some is. 
 
being shippl'd off. The very best of long forage is selling here at 80 cen ts per 
 
hundred pounds. A great deal of forage corn is grown h(lre, making the beat of 
 
feed, and is a paying crop at $10. 00 per ton. 
 
"We have had a protracted drought, injuring oats and rye badly. Good rain~~ 
 
lor the last two weeks anti much improvement in that crop. The Burt oats sent 
 
out by you a re now ready for cutting, and are of a good quality. No rust. '.rhey, 
 
I thi r.k, are th e very best we have tried as yet. 
 
 
 
"P..aches are many of them not in bloom. Last year I saw well matured and 
 
ripe peaches, of the Alexander vari ety, 24th of May, and the same trees are now 
 
only beginn ing to bloom . Many of the native trees have peaches as large as 
 
plums, but not many on the trees. Apples la te." 
 
Crawford County.-" The fruit crop is more seriously injured than was thought two or three weeks ago. Peaches as large as the end of your thumb co~tinue to 
 
fall oft, until at this time only about one-third of the crop is left. They bloomed 
 
well, but are now showing the effects of the seve re winter and spring. Apples 
 
not much better. Yon made me say in your last report th at I considered thP Dal- 
 
las wheat as not adapted to the latitude above and below Macon. I said, or I in- 
 
tended to say, that I did not regard it as suitable for the latitude below Macon. I 
 
know farmers in my county that have on hand wheat two y!'ara old. Some years, 
 
with all the preparation and all the varietiel!, we make failures, but these men have 
 
 
 
demon etrat~d thRt there is no necessity of buying a pound of flour for family use. 
 
While lam writing one of the farmers of my county has just.sent in a sample of oats 
 
five feet high, taken from a forty acre field. It is estimated that this .field will yield 
 
eighty bushels per acre. Manured with acid phosphate and cotton seed and 
 
planted in the fall. Some of his neighbors, with adjoining fiehl-, are paying $1.5() 
 
,ver bushel for damaged corn on time." 
 
Decatur County.-" I 6nd thi~ county is improving in every branch of industry 
 
The mode of farming is very much improved, compared to previous years. Sheep 
 
and cattle, .as wrll aR other stock, did better the paat winter than for many years. 
 
'l;here is not a 'loafer' in this city, and but precious few in the county. Every- 
 
body is at work, both men and wow en." " I know three farmers that gave some 
 
time and money to raising home manures for several years. It has paid thew 
 
well. Their crops at this time are 200 per cent. better than those that buy freely 
 
of commercial fertilizers." 
 
Dooly County.-'' We see qnite an incr~ased interest manifested in small grain 
 
over last year. A.s an evidence of it, J ohn Byrom has six hundred acres in oats, 
 
and U. M. Gunn has four hundred Rcres, an increase of 50 per cent. over their 
 
last year's crop. And many others are pursuing the aame policy." 
 
Dougherty County.-" G ood compost of manure, green cotton seed and acid 
 
phosphate, will pay 25 per c~nt. on entire cost. When my manure gives ou' I stop. ' 
 
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planting. Manure on oats will increase the crop more than it will any other food 
crop!!." Marion County.-" IntenRive framing, as exhibited by the small grain patches 
scattered over our State, will convince any close observer that if adopted univer sally, it would solve the problem of how to make our farms self su t~t.ining and our labor remun erative. BesidP , it would enable us to control the poor labor we have, so that they would serve us, and not we them, as we are now doinr. Dallas wheat on clay laud has not rn sted, but on sandy land bas. Cotton iR sick ly, puny 
and less promising than I ever saw it. Corn and O!\ts look well; also, wheat, o~ 
well fertilized clay soil, bnt on sandy land is a failure." llfiller County.-" The crops in this cvunty are the best ever known here, and 
are fully two weeks in advance. Oats :ue in full head and unusually fine. The farm ers are hard at work and greatly ehted at the fine prospect$. We are profiting by the timely sugge~tious from the Agricultural Department of the State, and are beginning to realize the benefits of the Depa rtment." 
Randolph County.-" For blind stagge r~. R emedy, raise the tail and cut to the bone abo ut six inches from the root. B<ltts-Take one pin t of mdted lard and drenc n the animal . If not relieved, repeat the dose. Sure cu re." 
"Sea on up to this time fine. Farmers hopel ul. Wheat and oats nearly ready to cut, that is, early sown. The crop is earlier by ten to twenty days than ever known." 
Schley County.-" Carp introduced in 1879 weigh eight lbs. Those of 1880 weign 4 lbe. each. 
Worth County.-" L abor has become Pearce, and the best farm laborers are not to be had at any reasonable price. They have gone to saw mills and turpentine distileries where they can command about, 20.00 per month., hence a falling off of area in cotton. It eems to be pretty general all over South Georgia. Crops looking well. Fall oats made." 
 
EAST GEORGIA. 
Burke County.-'' A greater effort is being made at the production of food, with an increased desire for improved implements of husbandry. Labor being diverted from a dependent cotton culture, is finding occupation in lumber and turpentine manufactories and building railroads. Some maoufactorie of machinery is constantly starled, and money seeking investment in other pursuits than real estate in he county and tilling the soil. Fruita and vegetables are bein~ more exten sively cultivated for home use and shipment. Good stock is being sought after; and tho? talk of the rural population is a. desire to diversify and grow a variE-ty of products for greater independence at home. How far this state of mind will continue to influence healthy agriculture, remains to be seen in the future fluctuations in price and dem11nd. " 
"There is every indication and promise of a productive year, if only the seasons-to come, prove propitious. An early spring, early plantin2, good preparation of the land, good stands and growing seasons, form altogether, the moet gratifying prospect I have seen for many years. Every crop is promising except rye, which as far as my observation goes, is a. failurE>. This is attributable, I am satisfied, to the want of good, or acclimated seed, Last fall we had to depend on 
 
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE -GEORGIA. 
 
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"Weetern "seed, sold under the name of "Tennessee rye. " My experience is that rye is a sure crop, and the best seed I ever saw were grown in No;th Georgia, and my observation has satisfied me that there is as truly a specific rye lands or soil, as wheat land, and am eUJpri~ed , th at those who have such lands do not grow, to as full an extent as pos~ibl e, a crop, which for twenty years, perhaps, has not in Georgia, faUen below an average of $1.50, and haq been oftener over $2 
than below $1.50 per bushel. The Georgia and Carolina rye is the only reliable seed for our section. The Western rye, for seed, is worthless." 
 
SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. 
Appling County.-" There are saw mill interests in this county and section, also large turpentine farms in this county, and they pay high wages for hands which make it more diffictliL for the farmers to get labor ufficient, though our farms are all small and mostly cultivated by their own labor and their children." 
Olinch County.-'' By experience I find that work animals can be kept in good condition at th e least cost upon sweet potatoes and corn fodder in winter, and oats in summer. The fodder must be made by sowing corn ei't bushela per acre. in drills three feet apart. They do better on potttoP.s a little mixed with corn, than on corn alone; and then potatoes can be rai8ed on less land and at much lese ex pense." 
"Naval store manufactories should be noticed by us from the fact that many farms will suffer for the want of field labor- Hands are constantly leving the corn and co:ton field for the turpenttne farm~. Turpentine farms are platted off into crop~, and each crop has regular attention from January until! November when new crops are started. Mo>' t of this work i paid for by piece-work. For instance, clearing and burning for vi rgin crop is paid by the crop, sometimes for the lo ~ of land, ca~ h paid wi:len work is done. Boxing, cash is paid every week. 
Chipping, paid for in ca h, 18 to $20 per month . Dipping paid for monthly, 33l 
to 35 cents per barrel. TeamFters ~et $20 per month. Our average field hand ean earn from $18 to 26 per month. This countv doet~ not suffer much yet for field labor, as we are ol'le-horRe farmers, and crops gPnerally are worked by white families. There is at least an increase of two hundred laborers in this county, a majority of which are moving from one turpentine farm to another seeking for better pay. It is '1. hard matter to l ocate them on theae turpentine farm~, as they do not have their families with them . " 
Chatham County.-" In endeavoring to raise sheep successfully, I am discouraged, looRing two-thirds. I made clear investigation of the sympto013 as dis charged from the nostrils with cough. Third day hanging hack from flock, raven ous appetite, urine free about fifth day. Druped and dE'ath within forty-eight 
Enifigham County.-" I am fully convinced that in this section we can make more by raising cane and making syrup than :~.ny other farm crop, though cotton does well in this county, but lab()r is so taken up with turpentine men that we .cannot get labor when we need it to raise cotton. Uhufas do well down her&j and are growing in favor with the planters." 
Gl{lscock County.-' 'There is no gram crop for the Georgia farmer that can ex. eel that of oats, compared to the expense of raising, they being a certain crop 
 
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SUPPLEMENTAL CROP REPORT-1882. 
 
25 
 
if sown in September or October. I can raise three bushels of oats cheaper than one of corn." 
"This county bas generally been considered unsuited to growing oats success fully, but the Rust Proof having produced four successive good crops here, appears to demonstrate the adaptability of ~oil and climate to the Rust Proof Oats." 
Montgomery County.-" The timber businPas in this section is a curse, as cotton is in some other sections of the State. Diversified far ming is all the kind that will pay in this section of the State. All who raise their own supplies at U"l 'IU ar prosperous, and no others. Sheep raising would be a nice and profitable business if a few obst acles could be removed, most prominent amon~t them, thieves and dogs. There is some attention now given to fruit growing in this county, which has been very satisfactory where proper a.tten tioa has been paid. It is hard to tell what fruit will do this yt"ar. About 25 per cent. of the peach trees are well set with healthy looking fruit, well grown for the season. Some are now in full bloom, while others have but few scattering blooms and no leaves at this date, April 24th. Apples are now j ust blooming, and there is no telling what will be the result. I have answered for my county on ly so far as my kno wledl(e extends. The peach crop is almost a tailure. A great many of the two and three year old tree& are commencing to bud, and some are dead; can't account for it. Apple trees are very backward. The chances, altogether, are very poor indeed. The farmers in our county seem to be alive to their interest, letting politicians take care of themselves and working at home, and the result will be in the fall (with good seasons) a bountiful crop of breadstufid. I think the day is not far distant when we will be independent of the West for food for man and beast. M ay God speed the day when there will not be seen one grain of Western corn, nor one pound of Western meat on a Georgia. farm, but our cribs and smokehouses filled with our own raising, then we will be a. prosperous people." 
Telfair County.-" I can't make any report in regard to the fruit. The trees are later putting forth than I have ever known. Some are just now beginning to bloom, and I think the crop will be light and late. I can't account for it, a.s we have had an unusually favorable spring." 
Washington County.-" I notice that the Atlanta. Exposition seems to have awakened an interest in farmers, and is ca.using a great many of them to introduce labor saving implements and improved machinery. This section is b~coming more interested in grain crops, and are planting with a view of not having to buy any corn, bay or oats another year." 
Wilkinson County.-" My Dallas wheat is exempt from rust to date, and shows no signs of it, while my old red is rusted to the top, and will paint a. dog red to run through it after a rain or when the dew is on it. I tbink the Dallas a. valuable acquisition in our locality in the wheat line. Lees bacon and corn bought in this county this year than any year for ten. Farmers are hard at work. Crop work well advanced. Two destructive cyclones have passed through the upper portion of my county, doing considerable damage to crops, timber and fences . Some lives were lost. All who were near enough have extended help to those who suffered." 
 
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Milton ........ no 110 135 50 85 110 120 135 185 140 85 ...... 100 50 75 ............................. 105 so ~o 100 110 Sli sro so 1 oo 1 311 .... ... 50 100 
 
Mnrrar....... 120 100 160 7ii 70 110 100 100 100 100 75 60 80 25 100 SO..... ...... ...... ...... 80 80 100 100 100 100 80 100 I 00 l 25 76 100 60 90 
 
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('oweiiL...... 11 2 lOS IS5 45 85 
DoKnlo ...... 11 5 9.1 12V 85 65 Douglas .. ....... ..... . ...... ... ... ..... Elbert..... .. 12> 95 140 S5 8~ Fayctto .. .. 110 100 13~ 45 83 
Fu lton.. .... 120 100 IZ5 60 50 Uruc uc .... ... 110 105 150 00 00 
 
118 105 116 11 5 
125 It O t9J 120 ..... ..... ...... ... .. 160 110 15Q 125 105 105 105 130 
125 11 0 116 1211 110 10 11 11 1211 
 
126 85 65 85 15 9.i 55 ....... ... .. .. .. ... ... 111\ 98 51! 105 80 911 8~ 911 JQ.) 145 90 7~ 70 95 125 85 80 90 SO tOO 85 ... .. . ...... ...... ... .. 95 70 45 90 85 90 90 ~5 115 145 120 65 70 90 .... . ...... .. ... .... ...... ... .. . .. .... .... . .... .. .... .. .. .... .... .. .. .. .. .... . ............................. ............ . .. ............... 125 85 65 71> 2~ SO 40 ......... ........ .. 11 5 511 4~ 11 0 A~ 80 10~ 105 115 145 911 65 86 9 100 g2 70 70 25 95 65 120 100 ...... .... 90 100 70 100 100 ~8 100 ~00 ll~ 145 1()11 85 70 9 
121 90 25 !)P ...... 100 GO ...... ....... ................. 7C. 50 .............. ...... 60 110 ..... .... ..... ........... Il l SO M Go 15 95 60 ...... .... ...... ... 100 65 3f 95 911 90 S.~ 95 125 14!; 110 60 1\.5 95 
 
"d t" 
!a':! 
zt'Jj ~ 
 
lh1nc"ck ... 1211 100 150 75 76 125 100 laS 160 LIO 100 75 95 25 lOti 40 ..... .. ... ...... ..... 150 25 25 ...... ....  60 100 100 125 t a5 175 50 75 100 t" 
 
lllluc~r~rrlds. ............... 
 
..... .. 105 
 
.... . 95 
 
..... !GO 
 
...... 25 
 
...... 85 
 
...... ...... ...... ...... 110 11 0 120 160 
 
... ... ...... 95 100 
 
..... 40 
 
.... ...... GO 45 
 
..... ...... ... ... 72 70 106 
 
...... 90 ...... 
 
.... 120 
 
..1.1.~....1.0.0. 
 
  9(\ 
 
... 110 
 
.... 90 
 
...... 9ii 
 
...... 95 
 
... ~.!.l 
 
. ... IJ 5 
 
...... 136 
 
..... llO 
 
..... 26 
 
 4G 
 
....0.~. 
 
~ 
 
llcnry .... .... 115 100 120 40 90 11 0 100 It O 110 12.~ 87 8!) 90 30 100 65 .... . ...... .. . ...... 85 87 87 10< 100 95 77 90 118 150 12" 00 90 S5 
 
Jas per.. .... .... . ...... ...... ... ... ...... ...... ... ..... ..... .. .... ..... ...... ...... .. .... Jones . ....... 100 100 lll5 85 120 110 95 110 ti ll 951 9.5 77 65 tO 
 
.. ...... .. .... ...... ...... ... ...... ..... 85 75 . ....................... 1011 
 
60 
 
.. 100 
 
.. . . . . . . .. ... HlO 
 
...... 85 
 
..... 105 
 
...... 120 
 
  140 
 
...... 
no 
 
.... .. 75 
 
........... . 70 95 
 
L.incoln .. ,... 115 90 175 80 85 t85 105 145 11 6 120 90 85 Sa 22 toO 85 .... .. .... .. ...... ...... 200 77 so 120 6~ 86 120 So 110 185 120 105 S.~ 97 
 
lltcDulllc .... 115 90 145 85 9;; 185 102 130 110 80 8.1 76 75 25 82 46 105 100 .... .. ...... 110 85 65 105 00 85 98 tOO 112 132 85 T~ 85 90 
 
~~~;;;,~~~.~~~....i.io ...iio "i20 ...8.5 .. 95 "ii'oioo "iii ..ioo ...65 ...oo ...iii ...75 Go 1oo ...85:::::: :::::: :::::: :::::: :::::: "iiio...60 ''i'1o 100 "ioo "iiio "iiio "i2il "iiiol"'7o "5o::::::...oo 
 
~ 
:>II 
I 
1-' 
 
ll1ogan . . llO 90 180 so 9.1 90 80 a.~ 1~ 95 85 G5 sn ao JOO 011  ...... ... ...... uo 85 30 101 85 70 9:l 9~ 115 145 75 55 60 85 Newton .... 110 96 130 71\ 11 0 11 8 JIO l15 130 ll li 90 GO 75 R2 9.~ 55 .. .... .... .. ......... 110 6~ 45 115 ~6 11 0 90 05 11 11 H 5 85 I)() 76 ... ... Oconee.. ..... 110 105 120 85 SO 115 ...... 11 5 110 120 SH 75 95 50 90 ~7 80 100 .... . ... .. ... .. . 25 10 110 76 100 10< 100 120 151 !)(I 110 70 80 
 
00 00 ~ 
 
Oglethorpe.. 11 5 tOO 135 SO 85 125 11 0 125 11 5 120 8'1 70 75 2l 95 40 ...... ..... . .. .... .. .... 100 20 4u 100 8~ U6 !Oil 100 120 H7 85 ... ... 75 1110 
 
Pike... ........ 116 106 125 55 76 120 120 130 120 95 85 80 85 60 85 s.; 100 100 100 100 100 100 Sto 110 80 I Ill IOV IOii 11 2 140 80 GO M 90 
 
Putnam .. .... 103 95 150 90 100 120 76 115 180 85 9'1 50 65 26 80 80 126 100 ... .. ...... 150 95 HO 102 85 108 100 96 11 5 160 100 80 70 100 Rockdale.... 135 tOO 130 45 g5 U~ I SO 185 180 120 77 70 tiO 28 00 45 ...... ..... . ... ... .. ... . 175 75 50 110 ..... 100 100 101> 120 148 70 10 75 90 
 
Spalding.... .. ..... ... .. ....., ..... .. .. .. ...... ...... ...... .... . ...... ...... ... ... ...... . .. .... ...... ..... . .... ..... ... ... ...~.. .... .. .. .. .. .. .. ...... ..... ...... .... . .... . .... .. .............. ... . 
Tnlbot.. .. .. 108 95 185 90 95 125 105 122 00 65 9~ 85 75 25 100 55 110 1~0 ... ... .... . .... .. 100 60 100 &li us ~5 98 120 140 75 40 85 95 
 
u a Tnliaferro .... . .... ... ... ..... ...... ..... ...... ... ... .. .. . ...... .... . ..... ...... ..... 
 
.... .. .... ... ...  ......................  
 
...  ...... ...... ..... ...... ...... ...... ... .... . 
 
Troup....... .. 120 95 186 UO 85 125 105 120 120 100 85 70 GO 27 100 70 105 85 .. .... ..... tOO 100 85 100 95 80 98 100 
 
187 9S 75 65 9 
 
Upson ..... .... 125 00 :65 65 85 120 100 I :5 160 95 85 70 60 20 90 40 135 108 .... .. ...... 80 100 Gfi 102 911 95 90 95 118 147 103 80 50 9 
Wahon...... 110 100 140 70 G5 115 106 180 110 110 s:; 70\ 95 25 00 Go..... . . ...... ..... 110 GO 65\ 1UO 85 9i> ll01 106 115 145 70 SO 70 ~5 
Warren.... .. 115 110 115 85 95 115 100 115 90 86 85 100 85 80 85 76 100 100 ...... 125 100 1>0 75 115 75 110 86 tOO lt5 150 75 GO 75 85 
 
\\<Ukes ........ .......... . .... ... ............... ................ .... .. .. ... .............................   ........... ............ ...... ... ......... .. ... .........  ............................  .:::.::: 
 
ru 118.6loSIUmi05fisu Average... rn96 .5 lWT64 5 ~ 
 
n792791.559 .6loS9s 100 93113.678.7 
 
10lSs62.8MwllslsS96.7m~74.6~. 5 
 
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E.:. 00 
 
SOUTHWEST GEORGIA . 
 
I Oorn. 
e s.; a , " ' . 8 ~go~~ 1St res ~ ~ 
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Oats. 
 
Wl1eat. 
 
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g 
 
Cotton . 
 
~~a 0 ...; , 
 
 
 
o.IOO. q) 
 
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Suuar- Rue. ~ .IJiruit. 
 
Stock. 
 
g 0a~ne. -~,- -~,- ~~c'8"~ 
 
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q) 
 
,w 
 
tlt.C ID~C. 
 
~rc: 
0. 
 
~~ ~~~~ 'd = . , Lawr and 8UPJ1lies. ..:o ..:a .S 
 
,_. 
 
O~OG.IQ> 
 
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~ 
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:-:: ~C;~s"~Q~-Sc~~;~;tui. 
 
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tj pj 
~ 
a~ : zpj 
>-l 
 
Bak~r...=wlo2moo%1oo~~= =?2s~654g1oo~~W2 ===2 5o~ww2Wo~~ 1 a545~ m~ 
Berrien.. ..... 106 97 u a 87 ...... 106 102 1 0~ ...... ...... ?7 92 88 3 105 ~0 10(1 110 108 103 ...... 60 5(J I I~ 87 101 105 Sa 1 26 1 2!; 811 82 9o 100 Brool<~ ........ 104 100 110 70 100 88 88 90 ...... ...... 95 95 70 40 100 40 103 108 100 103 ..... 100 50 97 8~ 102 108 88 0 88 1 111 ...... ..... 98 100 
 
0 
~ 
> 
 
Calhoun...... ...... ...... .............................. ............ .................................... .. ......... .................. ...... ..........., ................. ............ .............................. ...... Ci) 
 
8l:~;~~~~-~.'~ "i20 ii5 i~;i ...fio ...9o "ii'5"iii5 "iiio ...so ..iio ...iiu ...so ...oo ...4.o "ioo ...oo 1io 'iiio :::::: :::::: ::::: ::::: ::::.. :::::: ::.... '1iol"iiiu"iiio i"2o i..ii.o ...30 ...i'o :::.....ii:i 
 
::0 
() 
 
Colquitt 
 
c: 102 IOU 132 51 711 ll5 100 I 12 .. ,... ...... 95 102 92 17 95 ~0 102 liO IUO 75 ................. 120 87 1121 100 lOu I 05 l R2 76 50 106 100 
 
Crawford.::: 107 !17 130 77 95 110 105 11 t ll 7 U5 95 62 60 37 100 t!O 126 l t'O 25 50 ............... 100 101 !17 IOU 106 I 12 l 5[ 82 25 75 100 Decatnr...... 112 11V 105 85 11)0 125 100 12 75...... 9~ 95 62 .LJ 115 95 105 II ~ lOU 1011 70 87 92 ll7 107 101) 110 t!O I 17 1 42 100 125 !10 100 Dooly..... .... lOS 10 > 122 82 IOl l 'lU 111 1~0 105 !10 U5 100 80 a7 100 GO 101\ 9u 90 110 75 M 46 97 9~ 10',! 102 102 I 05 1 82 5 ..... 96 !flO . Dougherty.. 120 100 130 70 100 1 5 11 2 125 100 75 85 75 ~0 80 100 50 100 100 lUO 100 ..... 50 ...... 110 75 100 115 80 I :l5 1 50 66 GG 75 100 Ellrly ......... 110 !16 150 50 9(J 120 100 1!0 .. ... ...... 9a 100 73 ~~ 105 125 110 100 ...... ...... .... .. 100 10 100 75 IUO 105 105 1 25 1 5n 37 ...... 100 100 Houston.. ... 110 90 150 76 100 121\ 100 125 100 110 90 100 76 25 tOo 150 100 l Oll ...... ...... ...... 40 ...... luO ..... lOu 90 100 1 15 1 5u 76 ...... 82 9a 
 
~ 
::0 
i 
 
f lr\\'in ..................... ... ... ...... ...... ...... ............ ...... ..... . . ... , ,....................... ...... ............ .. ............... . ........... . ...... ...... .. .................... ............ .................. 
 
Lee.......... . 11 7 97 110 Lowndes 105 IOU 107 
 
50 87 90 80 100 1% 
 
75 00 
 
82 100 75 105 ............ 
 
90 100 
 
1077~ 
 
~2 60 
 
6t 100 00 100 
 
87 35 
 
115 100 100 100 ...... 00 100 ...... 95 ...... 
 
10 2ll 
 
25 50 
 
100 100 
 
75 100 
 
90 100 
 
!(9)-5~ 
 
95 I 15 I 60 125 00 I 0\1 1 15 25 
 
87 77 100 20 ............ 
 
Ci) 
~ 
 
.Macon . ..'.::: 108 81 125 70 88 116 92 lOS 98 til 88 87 80 VS 94 1 ~0 lOO 100 100 100 125 22 SO 100 100 100 90 U(i 1 201 50 a3 10 00 9G ::0 
 
li.Hrion. .. .. .. 110 100 125 80 95 110 100 110 100 UO ~U 100 75 25 75 80 110 1011 ...... .. ... ...... 90 100 100 00 1110 110 110 I 15 l t O 6 ...... !CO IUO Ci) 
 
Miller......... 110 97 117 77 95 115 100 107 ............ 9l St 70 17 100 57 !lO 105 ...... ...... ...... 75 lW 110 90 97 110 87 I 07 I aO 87 .... .. 82 95 t;: 
 
.Mitchell... ........................... ............ ...... ...... .................. .............................. .....; ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ..... ...... ...... ...... ...... ... ............ ............ 
: : . . . . . . . 1 ~~r:;~~ ~~-~ ~~-~ ~.~~ :~ ~.o ..~~-~ -~~ ..~.~-~ ...~.~..~~-~ ...~~ ...:.~ ...~.~ ~~ ... ..~~-~ :::::: ..~~-~ ..~.~ ..~~ -~~~ ...:.~ ~.~ ~ ... ..... ..~~-o ..~~ ..~ .~.': ..~.~~ ~..~.~ ~..~ :~.~-~ ..~.~ ...:.~ ...~.~ 
Itandolph... 110 100 150 25 75 120 100 110 125 110 uo ...... 75 60 100 50 110 100 100 110 ...... 20 ...... 125 75 125 150 95 1 10 1 45 100 ...... 95 100 
 
~~~~~:::::: .:.~ ..~~ .:.~.~1 .~ ..~ .~~ ..~.~ -~~-~ ..~..~ ..~~ ..~ ..~ ..~.~ -~~~ ..~.~ ..~~ ..~ ..:~ ..~~ :::: ..~.~ ..~ -~~..~1...~.~ ..~.~ .. ~ ~.~ ~ ~.~ ~-~ ~.~1 ~.~ :~ Schley. ...... 
Stewart...... Sumter....... Taylor........ 
 
!lO 100 110 75 100 125 11 0 160 100 75 00 ...... 60 20 100 40 110 IOU .... .. .. .... ...... 25 25 .. .... ...... 100 110 IOU I 20 I 50 26 ...... 75 80 
 
.........1.0.0. 11005~ 
 
100 105 
 
125 ...... 12. 5 70, 
 
t1U0~0 
 
1110 115 
 
100 95 
 
LUO JOt 
 
125...... 115 62 
 
100 90 
 
7~ 85 
 
............ 8~ ~? 
 
100 ..... . ...... ...... 100 70 100 100 
 
.... ..... ...... 105 ...... .... .. 
 
...9.01.1..0..~. 
 
.. .... 105 
 
.... ...... 
 
100 ...... g;; 95 
 
100 I 40 1 10 101J 1 20 1 6(1 
 
50 110 
 
2~ 
7~ 
 
93 
 
100 92 110 50 9a 10~ 100 105 100 70 100 100 $7 N2 95 70 197 107 ............ ..... 100 5a 100 100 100 127 95 I 15 l 4 ~ 4oo ...... 97 100 
 
:.7 .. 1.. ... ... ... ... 
 
,......., 
01 0 
t......l 
 
 S~ Weilbceotxc.r.............1.0..1.,.1..0.0..,1..l.5.1....2.0.1....9.0.1....1.2..0.,.1..1.0. 11.1..5..1....... 
 
Worth.. ...... 112 105 117 17 90 ll2 96 105 110 
 
Jo38u\9iloolw\Silool61, Avcrage.1iJ2.798:'4Ji64"""97 Ul Oo loii 
 
v~o vv' 
 
,  , 
 
EAS'l.' GEORGIA. 
 
, ..,, , , ... , vuo 
 
vv, vv,. . ., . ,    , uu, uvo ., 
 
~ 
0\ 
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Bulloch .... .. 110 98 106 S1 SOill6 11 5 ll7 .... . ...... 93 66 81 85 100 64 111 116 100 102 100 100 20 101 70 100 105 SS t 101 85 25 10 66 96 
 
Burke......... 112 100 136 45 so 112 117 120 105 100 100 50 72 27 95 60 100 105 100 100 105 60 60 120 77 70 81 100 1 (10 1 15 120 106 60 00 
 
Dodge.... ... 12.'; 100 180 160 100 100 ...... 180 ...... ...... 66 80 75 25 100 100 80 100 ...... ...... ... ... 50 100 125 50 100 150 100 I SO 1 50 60 60 75 SO 
 
Emauel. ... JlO .. ... . 120 SO 90 120 100 120 ... ... ... ... 90 75 25 2.'; 100 80 100 110 100 100 ...... 100 25 100 75 100 ...... 1001 00 I 25 70 50 76 90 
 
Gln.scock ... 92 9~ 117 80 86 92 S7 92 70 67 90 87 98 25 100 83 100 87 .... .. ..... . 75 90 50 100 100 87 97 981 25 I 52 65 ...... 87 90 
 
Jefferson .... 100 90 150 tOO 75 1t;O 150 150 100 tOO 110 75 7.5 25 100 40 110 100 ...... ...... ...... 100 tOO 12o 00 90 75 90 I 151 35 !nO 50 75 100 
 
Johnson .... . Lnurens ...... 
 
110 110 
 
90 1 ~0 
85 120 
 
50 100 ~o 50 
 
111o0o 
 
110 95 
 
1o1o0 
 
90 100 
 
1s0o0 
 
90 100 IOO 90 100 so 
 
10 100 20 100 
 
60 100 110 ...... .... .. ..... 60 110 11 0 100 11 0 100 
 
60 so 
 
4o0o 
 
105 
9.~ 
 
95 54 
 
100 90 1001 In I 75 120 ...... 100 100 
85 no 85 1 20 1 so oo 5n so 100 
 
l\{'tgomcry.. 110 90 125 7S 70 115 115 12l ..... ...... 75 88 70 22 100 28 10~ ! CO 110 125 100 38 50 105 76 88 87 100 1 1~ 1 40 75 88 8~ 82 
 
Pnlaskl ...... 107 105 137 100 125 135 811 12l 105 100 SO 7~ 95 Sa 82 IOO 105. .... ...... ..... . ..... 30 42 100 80 90 90 100 1 10 I 60 00 80 78 95 Richmond.. 115 107 120 78 80 117 100 120 95 75 82 62 7S 21i 102 ..... 100 I tO. .. .. ....... ...... 96 GO 130 95 87 56 ll fJ 1 10 I 80 112 78 85 100 Screven ...... 110 100 137 77 98 112 106 108 100 110 95 110 95 42 sr, 70 112 112 87 100  so 65 ! 00 80 100 60 so l 00 l 25 5 ...... 100 100 Tntnnll...... . 105 100 llO 90 80 12' 120 12~ ...... ...... SO 50 90 70 100 ZO 120' 12~ ..... 110 ..... 25 20 120 75 80 105 100 l 1n 1 40 120 90 50 100 
 
cU::l 
"d "d l"' 
 
Telfair........ 105 100 13 82 95 1 0~ 77 102 ... ... ... ... ~2 100 90 20 100 611 102 105 ... .. .. .... ...... 50 25 105 llli 92 116 100 1 121 30 80 100 
 
no Twig~;s. ...... 105 101 1171 87 92 112 106 1151101 92 93 76 57 12 99 91 !Oi 9S ...... 95 ...... 8~ 87 100,75 90 Jroij 1001 15 1 40 100 76 
 
Waslnngton 100 100 
 
75 too 110 90 105 1uo 75 too 90 90 15 1r o 100 too 100 .... . ..... . ..... 76 60 110 too tot too teo 1 20 1 so 90 2'> 
 
Wilk.inBon ... 117 98 132,100 92 105 110 107 105 70 90 85 90 35 102 45 112 100 100 100 100 06 26,100 I OO 102 110 1001 211 50 17 10 
sa --ro Average... 10s 97 128 8s 10s 105 lls 82 83is; s; 8o 21 9s 1Q.i 10s -;o 10s 9G 69 .6 fit 10s 78.6 !i2 %.7 97 i16li40 7ii 57 
 
95 95 98 .. ... . 9<' 95 9~ tOO 
s2 !i3 
 
at'::l 
zt'l ~ 
l"' 
 
SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. 
 
~ 
 
oo Appling...... 110 99 110 S5 90~00 125 ..... ...... 95 83 95 76 
 
tO 125 125 100 100 ...... 75 90 125 90 100 100100125 ! 50 t2511oo---s3olo 
 
::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: :::: ::: :::: ::: ::: ::: :: : :: :: ::: : : : ::: ::: : : : ::: : : ::::: ::: ::::::: ::: ::::::: :: . Bryan......... ...... ...... ...... ..... ...... ..... ...... ..... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ..... .. ... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... 
 
~g:~t~~: : : 
 
~:::: 
 
........ .. ..................... . .... ....... . .... . ............ ................ .. 
 
Clinch........[ 110 105 IO l 88 88 87 80 88 ...... ...... 95 95 75 6G 83 5h 1 0~ 107 88 9& ..... 87 9C 102 91> 100 105 92 l 101 30 lOG 8~ 100 100 
 
t'l "d Q. 
r 
 
Coffee........ 110 10.'\ 11 5 77 68 105 101 t On ...... ...... 90 tOO 9o 34 70 22 10~ 10? 92 7r. ...... 75 75 110 tlO 10 107 85 1 10 1 40 too 80 100 ...... 
 
F.chols....... . 110 110 120 25 100 110 1J U 112 ...... ...... 90 100 SO 80 25 2 , 12~ 100 100 100 ...... 100 75 1110 100 10<1 80 75 1 20 1 25 100 100 70 80 
 
Eftlughnm... 100 100 150 90 100 JOO 100 100 .. ........... ..................... ............ 125 100 ... .. ..... . ...... .. .... .... .. 121) 150 lOIJ 75 1001 15 ...... ............. .. ....... . 
 
~l~~ ':]l :~ m"~ :~ :]1 ':0~ ':r- :~ =  ~ I ~ r ;0 r- ~~ ':':  ~, ;0= ':~0 ; ;~r :0 ;~o;  ~ ~, Irl . ;'r: 1iOlo3 7s Oo lOs 97 lo5 -:::-:- 908i Sa55 7132114loii929o 8666 lo7ool10o9R871171sii969o76 &s 
 
RECAPITULATION. 
 
~W6t~~ \~ N >rtb Ga.... 113.7 100 
 
6 
 
o 110 104.6 110 114 108 S9.5 70.6 8640.7 111 32 100 100 100 I 
 
98 72 66 99 91 
 
Mlddle Ga. 114 96.5 
~> WLW'lll r ::;, W.Ga.... 112.7 98.4 123 
 
64 
 
11S.6 91 111 
 
10~ 121 122 105.5 84.5 99 109 108 86 91 
 
72 90 
 
79 76 
 
27 91.6 i 9.6 lOR 98 100 31 99 67 106 10 1 93 
 
9 1118.6 78.7 9 L go il4 
 
61 47 
 
l 04 101 
 
88 
8~ 
 
.6.29..86. 
 
98 10o 
 
E st Ga ...... 108 S7 12S 83 88 108 105 ll8  82 
 
 ....... s no E.Ga..... 
 
103 ll7 73 90 108 97 10:! 
 
- - - - - - - - - - - - ----- - - - - - - - - - - -  - - - 
 
88 89 80 so 27 98 59 104 105 99 1O;l 96 69.6 61 10S 78.6 ~M.7 90 81 88 55 99 82 114 106 92 ) ... ... . 86 66 107 96 100 93 
 -~----- 
 
96 1.1~ 1.88 U5. 7 67.7 74. n 92.11 
 
n 95 '. 141.42 62 ss 85 97 
 
ntMl .d 
 
P a 98 
 
87 1.171. 36 96 90 76 95 
 
For State. ll2.5 98 125 65 S4 115.5 102.7 118.5 110 100 88 77.880.5 82.6 101 54 106 103 95 96 !103.8 70.8 58.9 103 se 8694.394.51.181.88 84 5876.7 g6 
 
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE-GEORGIA. 
 
[52] 
 
T ABLE No. 2. 
Synopsis of Weather R eports /?'Om J anua?'Y 1st to Ap 1il 30th, 1882. 
NORTH GE ORGI A . 
 
J ANUARY. FEBRUARY. 
 
MARCH. 
 
.APRIL. 
 
STATIONS. 
 
Tempera Rain- 1'<mpera Ran- Tempera- Rnln Tnnpera Rain- 
~ fa/J. _!!!!!:.._ fa/J. ~I fall- ~ fall. 
 
a,; 
 
.;s; 
 
.;as 
 
.;ss 
 
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c 
g 
 
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:.- 
 
Gainesville .. ....... ....... ... 66'22 4'.6 Moe y Creek (Leo) ...... ...... 6n 15 44.5 
 
7~-4~~ 
 
228~ 
 
79 71! 
 
an 22 
 
50. 2 I .I 
 
69.. ~~-'5i 
 
18 H 
 
78 sa 8129 
 
5 4 65.5 
 
Mt. Airy ......................... G-1 l 9 48.8110 8R 19 68 28 48.5 12.60 11 78 :.J,' 54.4 
 
45..5~5~ 4 2~ 
 
1- 3~ 9 
 
Si 771~ 
 
4~ 64., 5162.2 40 ti2.0 
 
2.20 11 8.58 15 3.1110 
 
RabnnGnp..... .. .. . ........:6 7 !5 4~.411.461 9 711545.8 8.35 7812550.9 5.6fl fj80 1060.1 8.90 6 
 
Rome . ............................ 6>2247.o 8.U020 7129 49.0 7. 10 91!S23357.0 2 . 45 8 ISS4365 .0 8.62 S 
 
w m iol79 W U l~ J4.2 Means.. ......... ... ........... Go 
 
7i 
 
8.79 
 
"j2 5z.i 5.5s 9 7s :j3 62.{j 3,8; 9 
 
MIDDLE GEORGIA. 
 
.Athens.. ......... .. ............... . 68 27 H .o 
Atlllllta.... .............. . ......... 74 22 47.6 
 
7.64 2016G,32 . .';1.1 4.92 1511.::10 .;2 2 
 
9 .2i ll418 ~. 40. liM. i s .91 11 so.3; n7.G 
 
a.22 
3.68 
 
1~1~180o1~; 
 
44 48 
 
6li. o 
64.4 
 
2. 78 2.92 
 
1l 8 
 
Carrollton... . .................. 6li<046.4 LnGrllllge.......... ... .. ........ .. 7821oa . 
 
~.IU 4 6~ 
 
l o~7764:'! 21H01506.. 75 
 
6.70 9.:!1 
 
87184233:iH678.4j 
 
4 .20 8.60 
 
9 -743 fi6 6 68~4667 6 
 
1.90 5 .30 
 
7 7 
 
Macon.............................. 72 2.5 54 5 8.76 9 74 32\ii7 ro Oxford............................. 742447.:l8.6f 1\733152.1 
 
r, 19  5183 14562 .5 7.30 7.823557.6 
 
7. 26 3.76 
 
4 . . .............. 564006.58 3.!!0 4 
 
Thomson .......... .............. - ~~~~~~~1 ~55.2 ~_:l...:r~~~-5.85 i~~6n.6 ~~~ 
 
Means... .. ............ .......... 722349.6 4 771L7830~ 6 7. 231 91.33659 .0 5. 21-85 4666.1 8 62 7 
 
SOUTHWE T GEORGIA. 
 
. . !_rg:~~~~::::::::::::::::::::::::: :~,~~i~~:.~ ~.:~.~ 5 ~-~ s.~ 56:~ .~.::.~ --~ ~~ ~-~ 6.~:.~ .~.:~.~ --~ ~ 6.~ ~-~:.~ .~.:~.~ --~ 
 
Cuthbe'rt ........... .................. ...: .... ........ ... .. ... ..... ....... .. 834866 . 1 2.75 5~5672.G 2.71 6 
 
Nashville ................... ...... 79 132 i~6.U 1 .80 8 18 R7 54.0 3.10 4 78 sa 64.0 0.70 ~ ~5 60 69. 0 4.~~ 8 
 
n  ;;s --; 21!51.5 5 -3:86 6 80 85 65 70:5 2.42 64.8 iO 8.iii Thomasville.................. ... 79124!59.5 )leans......... .................. 
 
2.1o 
 
8 80 ~ 69.4 
79,33 ~ 
 
3.7a 
 
8 82 86 65.3 
 
2.24 
 
8 87 58 70. 6 
 
2 .9o 10 
 
EAST GEORGIA. 
 
t~~::~e::.-.-:::::::.-:::::::...... 
l:lwalo sboro . ..................... 
 
, 
 
~~.~ 
 
~~-~ ~~. ~ 
:.::_ ....:.::._ 
 
~.-:~-.-=-~:1:10:1~7~~~~--~~M0:.~8'\- 
 
~-:~.~ \ -~ 
3.62 _! 
 
~..-~.~:~:~:~~:-:~:...:.~:~.-:~.-..-=-~:~:-::-~~~8~:~:~:~:~::~.::g:'i::t::::.:~:.: 
 
~~~ 
 
Means .. ........ .. .. ............. 16 21 5~ 0 3.00 10 76 29 -7 I 3 ~ I 5 3~ 59 .0 4.64 5 85 4 68 .6 2.55 ~ 
 
SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. 
 
Brun~vick .. .. .. ....... ........ 1~0 28 60.0 1.78 4 7b 3660 o o.Jo 1 85 45 65 . 0 2.61 5 88 58 69.0 3.92 8 
 
Vnlthourviile................... 80 ~0 58 .4 0 93 3 78 :1658.4 O.b5 4 
 
1.96 58~ 51 69 .3 2 .!5 7 
 
' la-o 2-9 - -5.9-2 s-1-s ----- - :t_~l~ 2.28 Means........................... 
 
59 2 
 
87 1;9 .2 0.83 2 93 446~.1 
- - --- 
 
6 87 65 69 . 1 3 .48 T 
 
M elllls for State. ............... 7228 52 .1 6.02,10i6 a! 54 .8 5.14 G64 89,60.5 4 . 14 681 49 67 .3 3.31 8 
 
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SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT- 1 8 82. 
 
31 
 
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON LA.BOR-SAVING IMPLE. MENTS. 
AuGUSTA, GA ., May 6lh, 1882. 
Hon. J. T. Hen-lerson, Commissioner of Agriculture, Atlanta, Ga.: 
Your Committee, adpointed in respon e to the resolution adopted by the Con vention of the Georgia State .Agricultural Society, held in this city in February last, respectfully beg leave to report: 
The Committee was organized May 1st, and proceeded to examine such implements and machinery as were avail abie. This was continued for three days, du ring which a number of superior labor-saving machines and implements, including pulverizers, seed Rowers, harvester~, mowers, binders, cultivators, engines, etc., were examined. Snch as could be practically tested were operated in the field in the presence of the Committee. 
o far as practicable, therefore, the C mmi ttee di scharged the duties for which it was orgaJized, but the numb er brou ght nn<ler our obaervation was so small compared to the multitude on the market, th at it has be~n deemed improper to attempt to individaalize tho~e which seem ed to poBBess superior merit. 
Umle1 the circumstances, we could not do m re than as~ ure the farmers of Georgia of the great advantages to be derived from the use of labor-saving implements and machinery, and urge them to adopt those suited to their soil, crops and means, after a most careful investiga.tion of the merits of tbe different individuals in the classes needed. Some members of the Committee have in use on their farms a variety of the most modern of such machines, including plows, pulverizers, pl11nters, seed sowers, harvesters, mowera and engines, which have given entire satisf11ction, and have become as indispensable in their. farming operations as the scooter plow and the scythe were to our fath ers. 
All who own Iandi on which improved implements can be succe sfully used are urged to purchase them after a thorough inquiry into the merits of the various candidates for their patronage. 
We further suygest that as far as practicable, the Secretary of the State Agricultural Society endeavor to secure, at each sesion of the Convention, a practical test of such improved implements and machinery as may be available. in order that the delegates to the Conventions may observe, for themPelves, the mPrits of the differdnt machine. and report the results of their observations to their clubs when they return to their homeP. We suggest that he invite manufacturers and flealers to co-operate with th e Society in thiReffort to afford it~ members an opportunity of seeing the various implements in practical operation during thesessions of the Conventions. Such exhibitions will enure to the mutual advantage of both farruers and dealera, and prove far more satisfactory than any report which an examining committee could make. 
We desire to thank you, sir, for the compliment implied in our appointment 
 
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE--GEORGIA. 
 
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by you for the discharge of a duty of such importance to the farmers of Georgia, 
 
and regret that ur labor has not resul ted in more pointed and practical con- 
 
clusions. 
 
We desire also to thank the local dealers in implements and machinery for the 
 
valuable aEsistance rendered the Committee, by cheerfully exhibiting their goods, 
 
both at their plaees of business, and, practically, in the field. 
 
J. B. C Allll'BELL, CJhail"rnan 
 
FRED. LrrrLE, 
 
w. GEORGE 
 
URL, 
 
F. E . EVE, 
w. B. CAJ.>ERS, 
 
J 8. NEWMAN. 
 
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SUPPLEMENTAL CROP REPORT--1881. 
 
33 
 
REPORTS BY THE CHEMIST. 
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, ATHENS, GA., March 14th, 1882, 
Hon. J. T. Henderson, C'om1nissioner of Agriculture, Atlanta, Ga: 
DEAR SIR-In my gPne ral report of last ReaRon, made to you May 26th, 18811 and embodied in circular No. 18 of th e Depa rtment, the following occurred: 
''Allhough field experiment is not strictly in the line of my official duties, I have been prompted by your hberality and the generous assi tance of a colleague to es~ay, on a small ~ca le, a special experiment of this character. 
"Nitrogen (or Ammonia) is the most costly ingredient of commercial fertilizers. It can be purchased and applied in several diRtinct form-as Nitrates (of Soda or PotaBh), t!ulphatc of Ammonia, Dried Blood, Cotton Seed Meal, etc. The question as to which of theHe form s is the m'Ost economical and be~t suited for agricultural purpoFes, is certainl)' a very important one, involving as it does the whole quetion (about which very little is Qt present known) of the form in which plants prder to take their necesRa ry nitrogen. During two or three years paRt, a series of experiments have b~en conducted at several agricultural stations in the North to teat the question, so far as corn, potatoes and a few other crops are concerned. The results have been reported to and ngg relzated bv Prof. W. 0. Atwater, of Middletown, Uonn., (to whom I aw indebted for many valuable suggestions in this connection). These experiments are being repeated the pre~~ent season. So far as I have been able to ascertain, not one single experiment of this nature bas ever been made upon cotton. M ore, therefore, for the purpose of inaugurating experimentation of this kind and of calling attention to its importance, than with the hope that a single experiment could furnish complete and infallable information, I have instituted a te<t on a small scale for this season. My colleague, Gen. Wm. M. Browne, Professor of A<>riculture of:tbe University, bas generously co-operated with me and granted the uae of about an acre and a quarter of land of the experimental farm, with labor, ell'. 1 necessary [or cultivation. Upon this cotton bas been planted under so me twenty-six (26) different conditions as to the nitrogen supply. With great liberality you furni@hed me with the fertili&ing materials. The experiment is now well under way, a good stand of plants being already ob 
tained. At the conclusion o[ the experiment I si.Jall report to you the full details of materials used, resu lts obtained, etc." 
I have now the honor to present the detailed results of the experiment re ferred to. 
OBJECT OF THE EXPERIMENT. 
The object for which this experiment was instituted was to determine (or, at Iee.st, to throw some light upon) the following problems: 
1. Does colton acquire the nitrogen necesary for its healthful growth and per fect fruiting in whole or in part from the atmosphere, or in whole or in part from the soil? 
E. ~ERION COUL1Etl 
 
 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE-GEORGIA. 
 
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2. If the necessary nitrogen is obtained, in whole or in part, from the soil, in which of the following forms does cotton prefer that its nitrogen should be sup plied, viz: Nitrates, ammonia salts, organic nitrogen of animal origin, or organic nitrogen of vegetable origin? (these being the only nitrogen compounds available commercially). 
3. To what extent, if at all, is it necessary or prudent to apply nitrogenous manures in the culture of cotton? 
4. Does the use of nitrogenou~ manures in cotton cultnrl' pay, con~irlered from a monetary standpoint? 
It canndt be denied that these questions are very momentous, consitlllring the immense importance of the cotton crop to this State, and the large amount of money annually expended (gene rally, and-because of our ignorance in the matter-neces arily without discrimination) for the nitrogenous fertilizers employed in its culture. 
Without entertain i ng for a m0ment the idea that one single experiment, no matter bow carefully conducted, could solve tbeFe problemP1 it was thought that intelligent work in this direction could not be too speedily b<gun , even if the beginning was necessarily U(JOn a small scale: H ence the. modest experiment. 
 
CONDITIONS OF THE EXPERIMENT. 
The following conditions were necessarily attendant upon the proper conduct of the experiment: 
1. The use of a piece of land suitably located, homogeneous, poor, and of which th e composition and previous history were known. 
2. The application of snch fertilizers only whose composition~ were actually known. 
3. The knowledge of the kinds and quantitieM of materials necessary to produce an ordinary, a\erage crop of cotton. 
 
ACTUAL CONDITIONS OBSERVED. 
1. The experiment was conducted on a piece of land at the Univer~ity farm, kindy furnished for the purpose by my colleague, Prof. Wm. M. Browne, who al~o, attended in person to the cultivation, gatht:ring and final estimate of the crop. I quote his deecripti~n as furnished me. 
"The plat selected for the expPriment had been cleared in the winter of 1880 of a stunted growth df oak (black-jack) and pine, and had n ot been cultivated for over 25 years. The soil which was uniform and homo,..eneoua, was upland aud level, consisting of a clayey loam with but little vegetable matter; was of a red color, dry, rather heavy and well drained. The soil was 4 inches in depth and the the subsoil was a stiff clay." 
An llnalysis of the soil of this section of the experimental farm had previously been made by my self; without giving tbe details of the analy~is I may state that but small traces of vegetable matter were present and that the soil was emphatically poor. 
2. The fertilizers used were furnished mainly by thE! Commissioner of Agriculture, and were as follows : 
Acid phosphate, containing, by actual analysis, 10.4 per cent. available phos- 
 
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85 
 
phoric acid; muriate of potash, containing 48 per cent. potn~b. nitrate of soda, 
containin~ 16 per cent. nitrogl' n; su l phate of ammo ni a, containi,ng 20.8 per cent. 
 
nitrogen; dried blood, containing 11.1 pPr cent. nitrogen. and co~ton seed me~>l, 
 
con1ainin~ 635 per cent. nitrogen. 
 
' 
 
3. Of the materia ls necessary to produce a crop of cotton, the three which are 
 
alone generally consid ered necesRa ry to apply as fertiliz ers are prosphonc acid 
 
(wh ich is always accompanied with a. ufficient quantity of lime), potash and ni- 
 
trogen. The analysis of the cotton plant shows that, to produce a crop of 300 
 
pounds lint cotton per acre, there would be required, in all, 26 pounds of phos phoric acid, 48 pounds of pota~h, and 50 pound ~ nitrogen. Calling this amount 
 
of each of these PUbFtitutes a "full ration" of each, this ''full ration" of phosphoric 
 
acid would be furnished by 250 pounds of the acid phosphate mentioned above, the 
 
full ration of potash by 100 pounds of the muriate of potMh, and the fnll ration of nitrogen by 312~ po~1nds of nitrate ef soda, 240 poonds sulphate of ammonia, 
 
450 pounds dried blood, or 787t poundR cotton seed mea1. 
 
DETAILS OF THE EXPERIMENT. 
 
1. Regarding culture, I quote from Gen. Browne: "The seed used were of the Ram eses variety, planted with a Dow L aw cotton planter at the rate of one bushel per acre, in Ia t week of April (29th) and covered with a board. Hoed three , tim es and plowed and swept three times. Kept perfectly clean and soil well stirred. The various fertilizers were applied by a distributor, guaged with perfect accuracy, in the centre fnrrow of each cotton bed, lightly intermingled with the soil and covered with a shallow list. T he cold, dry weather a\ planting time, and the intense heat with protracted drought in J uly and August, were very unfavorable for the rrop. The stand of cotton was very imperfect from the first cause, and the yi eld was largely diminish ed by the second ." 
2. The piece of ground , 1-h acre, devoted to the experiment, was laid off in 26 
plats, each containing -hi acres. Each plat containing 4 rows, each row 124~ feet 
long, and the rows 3~ feet apart. The plats were numbered from 1 to 26. 3. Plats numbered I, 5, 16, 21, and 26 were unmanured. No.2 manured with a 
full rati on of nitrogen alone, in the form of nitrate of soda; No. 3 with a full ration of phosphoric acid alone; No. 4 with potash alone; No.6 was manured with full ration each of nitrogen (as nitrate) and prosphoric acid ; No. 7 with nitrogen an d pot88h; and No. 8 with pbo~phoric acid and pota~h . The fir t 8 plats, therefore, were designed to test the action of full rations ofpho~phoric acid, potash and nitrogen (a nitrate) alone and combined in pairs. 
4. In order to determine the action and estimate the relative values of the different nitrog~ n com p ound, it was nece~sary to apply with each of them the full rati ons of ph osphoric acid and potash, so that the crop should suffer no detriment from the lack if these food~, and in orde r that any differences in yio;l d might be influenced by the nitrogen supply alone. A mixture of acid phophate and muriate ofpotaAh, was, thereforP, used upo n the other plats with different kinds anti proportions of nitrogenous fertiliz ers, as follows: 
To plats 9, 10, and 11, nitrate of soda, in proportions of!,-!, and full ration of niirogen. 
To plats 13, 14 and 15, sulphate of ammonia, in proportions of !, f, and iull 
ration of nitrogen. 
 
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To plats 17, 18 and 19, dried blood in proportions oft, 1, and full ration of ni- 
trogen. 
To plate 23, 24 and 25, cotton seed meal, in proportions oft, 1, and full ration 
of nitrogen, 
The following table exhibits in condensed form the foregoing statements: 
 
:; 
" " " 0. 
 
.8 " ~ 0 
 
FERTILIZERS. 
 
.; 
e0n 
'0 
~ 
 
~ 
 
.!i 
.c 
 
p0., 
 
r>. 
.pIcS., 
 
~ 0 ~ 
 
a 
s 0 ~ ~s < 
 
" e 
z " " " z 
-1 - - - - - - - - - - 
 
~ -- 
 
u 
l 
-- 
 
2 
;:;; -- 
 
- 
 
.::: 
-r>; . e-n 
 
- 
 
.g,; iii 
] 
~ 
 
1 No manure ............................ .. 
 
2 .................. ......... .................... 3M 
 
~ " 
""~ 
~ 
CJ. 
s ~ 
0 
0 
 
~ 
 
r>. 
 
~ 
 
~ 
 
u 
 
"r>. ;; 
 
"~ ' "r>. 
 
s0" 
-<-l 
 
-- 
 
~ 
~ -" 
 
- 
 
3     ...... ...... 10 ........ . .   10 
 
250 
 
4 ....................................... ......... ............ ......... 4 ......... ............ 
 
IOO 
 
-- s No ma.oure................ ... ............ ..................... ......... ......... ... ..................... ............ 
 
6 ........................... .. ................ ...  M IO 
 
2M 
 
1 ................................................ . 2M 
 
4 ..................... 
 
6M 
 
8 ... ............... ............. ............ ...... ...... ...... 10 
 
4 ..................... 
 
'4 
 
362M 4M 350 
 
9 '""'""""""""""""""""""""" 4 I-6 IO 
 
IB I-6 454 I -6 
 
10 ...................... ........... ..... ........... 
 
IO 
 
4 ............ ......... 
 
22 ~ 
 
558~ 
 
JJ .... ..... ..................... . ..... .......... .. 
 
IO 
 
4 .................... 
 
26M 662M 
 
12 ''''"' ''"'''""" '' '"''"' " " ""''''' ............ JO 
'3 ............................................................ IO 
 
- 4 ............................... .. '4 
 
350 
 
3 -s 
 
17 I- S 430 
 
'4 ................................................ ............ IO 
 
6 2-5 
 
20 2-5 5to 
 
'5 ......................................................... .. IO 
 
9 3-5 
 
23 3-5 590 
 
16 No manure............... ......... ....... ......  .......................................  ............ 
 
'7 ................................................ ............ IO IS ........ ........................................ ............ IO '9 ............................................... ...... ...... IO 20 ................................................ ............ IO 
 
4 ............ ......... 
 
6 
 
4 
 
12 
 
4 
 
IB 
 
'4 
 
350 
 
20 
 
500 
 
26 
 
6so 
 
32 
 
300 
 
21 No manure................ ..... ....... ... . .......................... ... ......... ................................ . 
 
22 .... ........ . ............. ......... . ........... . ............ JO 
23 .............................................. ............ IO 
 
4 ... ......... ......... 4 ..................... 
 
350 6nM 
 
24 ......... ...... ................................ . :  .. IO 
2 5 ................................................ ........... o 
 
............ ......... "' 
 
35 
 
875 
 
4 ............ ......... 3 ' ~ 45M "37M 
 
26 No manure... ............ .... .. ....... ... .. ........................... ............ .......... .... .- .. ............ \ ...... ...._ 
 
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SUPPLEMENTAL CROP REPORT--1881. 
 
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REf::lULTS O F THE EXPERIMENT. 
 
I I]I The following  ahle Rhow~ the renlts obtaio~d : 
 
~ . IS!. 
 
d 
 
1d 
 
~tb 
 
IS! 
 
2d 
 
I 3d I +'h 
 
.... ptck1ng, piclcing, lpicking , picking, i Yield per : pickin g, picking, pickmg, picktng, Yield per 
 
0 A ug 
~ 3 
 
Sept. I4 
 
Oct. 4 
 
Oct. I2. 
 
acre. 
 
o A ug. Sept. 
 
I~ 30- 
 
If. 
 
Oct. 4 
 
I Oct. 
,., 
 
acre. 
 
:1: ~;~ ~;~ :; ~ :;~ : :: -;~ [ :;~ M: ~ :~ 
 
oz. 
 
I3 
 
: : :: I : : 10: 
 
: :: .:~ ::II: .: : ;: : : I:'::: 
 
 
6 
 
4 0 II 2 I4 2 2~ 2 
 
9 20) 4}2 17 3 
 
3 f 
 
8 3 
 
2 I 
 
6 3"'1 
 
II 
 
.4 I ' 
 
ro I8 9 '9 7 
 
1210 
IO 8 
 
8111 
'4 7 
 
II S 
 
9 745 
 
72 
 
14 
 
12 
 
5 2 
 
20 7 
 
III 
 
I 
' 9 
 
'3 
 
9 10 3 
 
5 2 
 
6 590 IO 2I 2 
 
7 3 
 
9 3 
 
9 4 
>O 11 
12 3 
 
8 
2! 7 
 
8II 
 
5 2 
 
10 68t 
 
8 " 14 5 
 
 2 1 2 
 
8 58o 6 530 
 
,.47~ 
 
Il 
 
10 l2 lJ 12 
 
13 
~ 6 
 
'4 3 
 
419 I 3 
 
6 ~s 12 
 
2 16 
 
5 6 I2 " 
 
l+l ;:: 887 9B5 
 
'5 
II 
I5 
 
13 9 
 
2j 6 8}'> 5 10  
 
5~ 26 1 
 
7 2 
 
2 I 
 
l 6o 
 
II 
 
CONCLU~IO~i:! DEDUCED FROM THE .RESULTS. 
The results of this experiment illu ~trate, in a inost striking manner, t he ex treme difficul y of ob taining t ruatwortby reaults in agricultural experiments a nd t he utter futility of attempting to draw relial!le conclu'li(l ns from a single experiment, no matter how carefully conducted. This e;x:periment was conducted with the utmost care and no time, trouble or expense waa spared. The land was selected with special uniformity in character, and was believed to be homogeneo us. And yet, tht> product p~r acre for apparently similar strips varied, with no man ure, from 180 to 289 pounds ; and with acid phosphate and muriate of potash, from 285 to 590 pountls. In strictnes~. therefore, the only proper conclusion that can be drawn from these results is that the ex peri ment sho uld be senral times repeated upon the ~arne land,and under the su.me conditions until the comparati ve action of fertilizers applied can be determined with certainty. This, with the generou s co-operation of Prof. Brown~>, I propoee shall be done. No better argument for the necessity of a soien tific experimental stat ion in Geo rgia, permanent in 1(1cation and endowment, could be presented than the results of th is first. experiment. 
I may be permitted, however, to indicate, even at the riak of error, a few "pparent conclu~ions, bearing upon th e objccs of the experiment, which may be roughly deduced from these tesul ts. These must be considered, however, merely as indicatiMB1 not as positive cone! usions, 
1. By supplying the plants with mineral food alo ne, it is possible to obtai n a good, anrage ,crop of cotton without the application of nitrogenous manures in- 
 
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the soil. Even when nitrogenous manures were employed, the! ration produced in all ca~es better general resultAthan the full mtion. 
Therefore, cotton is able to obtain rhe greater part, if not the wbole of its necessary nitrogen from the atmoRphere, without depending upon tbe ~oil . 
2. It is possible to increase the yield by the use o[ nitrogenous manures applied to the soil. The order of prefHence displayed by the plant for the materials used iR as follows : 
lat. Albumenoid nitrogen frora vegetable sources, as cotton seed meal; 2d . Albumenoiq nitrogen from animal source~, as dried blood; 3d. Sulphate of am 
monia; 4th. Nitrate of soda. 3. 'rhe excessive application of nitrogenous manure, eve n when accompanied 
with ample quantities of miner>tl plant-food, d9es not increase the yield, bot, on the contrary, appears to diminish it. AR a rule the nitrogenous matter applied in 
exces~ of it ration either diminished or added but a tri fle to the yield. Of course 
we have no means of knowing what proportion of even this it ration waq of value 
in increasing the yield over minern.l mattRr abone, or to what extent it might be advantagPously rliminish .-d , but, certainly, it represents the 1>iaxi1num quantity that the crop would stand or uee. This it ration would be repreeen tt>d by about 4 per cent. ammonia in a commercial fertilizer applied at the rate of 500pounds ppr acre. 
4. Tb t> followin g table exhibits the cost per acre of the man ureA applied to eacn 
plat anti the valne of thE' crop, ef!timating Reed cotton tt4 CPntR p Pr pound, as a.lso the loss or gain over n l manurE' and over mineral manure alone. The~ figures ~ pt>ak for themsPIVeA and need no comment: 
 
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SUPl-LEMENTAL CROP REPORT-1881, 
 
89 
 
Compared w i tk 
 
No. OF PLAT. 
 
Cost Yield per acre per acre 
 
no 1na11u r e. 
 
Ga in. Loss. 
 
-;:------~------------1 -------- 
Unmanured plats ( 1, s, 16, 2 1, 26) average ... .............................. ...... .... .. $ 9 34 ....... ........... ......... 
 
Mineral manures (8, t:z, 17, 22) average. h-- $ 6 t:z 17 66 $ ~ :zo ............... 
 
2. Nitrate of soda alone ........... .. .. ...... . ~ -   12 so 8 8o ..... . . $ I3 04 
 
3 Acid phosphate alone .................. ........ ............. .. .. ........  
 
3 ~~ 20 03 
 
7 57  .  . 
 
4 llluriate of potash alone ..................................................... 3 oo 8 13 ... ...... .. 
 
4 I 
 
6. Nitrate of soda and acid phosphate . ................ ...... ....... 1 Nitrate of soda and Muriate of potash.. .......... ..................... 
 
15 62 
IS so 
 
23 88 ... ..... Io 50 .......... 
 
 o8 I3 34 
 
Compared 'lllit!t 
mineral 1/la nures, i. e., effect due to n itror enous manure alot:e. 
 
9 Nitrate of soda, ~ ration ......... .. ......... ............... ......... .. .... 
to. Nitrate of soda, % ration . . ................ ...... ..... ...... ............... 
n. Nitrate of soda, full ration .. ......... ... .. ...... ............... ...... ..... 
12. Sulphate of ammonia, Mration ..... ..... ............... ..... ............. 
14. Sulphate of ammonia, % ration . ............ ...... ............... ........ IS Sulphate of ammonia, full ration. ............ ............... .... ........ I8. Dried blood . r.) ration ... .................. ....... .................... ....... . 
Ig. Dried blood, % ration .......................... ...... ........ ............. 
20. Dried blood, full ration .............. .............._...... ......... 23. Cotton seed meal, }3 ration . ... ..... .... ....... .......... ... .... ..... ...... . 24. Cotton seed meal, %:ration . ......... ... .......... ... ...................... 25- Cotton seed meal, full ration ... .... ... ...... .. ..... ... .... ......... .. ....... 
 
ro 29 
 
Gain . Loss. 
27 28 s 45 ...... ......... 
 
14 45 23 22 . . ..... . . 
 
2 77 
 
t8 6:z 22 22 . ... . . .. . . 
 
1 94 
 
13 76 :zt 40 22 92 
 
2-4 og ...... .... 24 32 ........... . 28 6o  . 
 
1 21 
s 6:z s 86 
 
10 25 35 9 
14 37 .s 81 
~8 soi 
 
14 13 ... ............ 2 go . ........ I 28     
 
8 75 I t 37 14 00 
 
35 so 
39 44 
 
I6 go   1 
I2 59,............... 
I3 8o . .. ...... 
 
The above calculations are based upon the following prices for the manure used: Acid phosphate, $25.00 per ton; nitrate of soda, 4c. per lb.; muriate of pot!IBh 1 3c. per lb.; sulphate of t\mmonia, 7c. per lb.; dried blood, $55 per too : cotto n seed meal, $20 per ton . 
Incidentally the following points may be noted in connection with the results obtained: 
1. Acid phosphates are, clearly, excellent fertilizers [or cotton, even if used alone. 
2. Muriate of potash appeara to have been an unf<HLun \Le choice a,l a source of potash ; in every in stance its use was attended , not only with los, , bu t with positive detriment to the crop. It is very probable that sulphate of potash, or kainit, would have given much better result~. 
3. Nitrate of soda and sulphate of ammonia appear to be generally valueless as fertilizers for cotton. 
By way of an11wer to posaible criticism that, in but two instances in this ex- 
 
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periment was the crop manured for (300 lhs. lint) actually obt.ain rd, it may he t'xplained that, of course, only a portion of the fertilizers used was tak en up by the crop; the remaining portion is still in the soil, probably available for next season's crop. 
Finally, permit me to say that the results of thi~ experiment do not jn ~tif y this lengthy report, as I am well aware. I present it in this form, ho wever, aR an illustration of what I consider the proper manner of conducting an experiment and formulating results. Its perusal may canse others to become intere~ted in the que~ tiona involved and lead them lo experiment with a vie1v to their solution, in which case, I am convinced much good will be accomplished. 
Very respectfully, yours, H. C. WmTE, State Chemist. 
 
Hem. J. T. Henderson, CommiMioner of .Agriculture, .Atlanta, Ga.: 
DEAR Sm: 
I. I have carefully examined a. sample of "Cotton Butter Oil" submitted by you, and find that it contains nothing whatever deleterious to health, and nothing in its composition or properties that would unfit it for Pa.fe and whol esome use as an article of fo od. As I am now engag~d upon an investigation of the diet 
etic and other uses of Cotton Seed Oil, with a view to a mnre extended report 
hereafter, I confine myeelf at this time to thi ~ bri ef statement. II. I have have examined a s1mple of Foil, submitted throogh you by MPssrs. 
B. B. Screven and ,Tno. B. Mallard, of Waltbonrville, with a view to determine whether the character of the soil is such as would justify the draining of a pond of 1,000 acres, from which the sample was taken. 
The sample yielded on first exposure 73.25 per cent. moistore. On airdrying for twenty.four hours, the following reults were obtained: 
Moisture... ............ .. . . ............. .... . ... ... .. ........... .... . ......... . ... 42.30 Volatile, organic matter .. .. ....... .. ......... ....... ... ..... .. ... . ..... . .. . 44.75 Mineral matter.......... .. .. .... . ....................... . .... .. ........ .. ..... 12.95 
 
100.00 
The mineral matter consisted mainly of fine clay, with a Rmall proportion of sand. On examination, fair traces of phosphoric acid and potash were oblained. 
The soil is, in reality, a kighly carbonaceous muck or vegetable co mpound. It is decidedly acid in reaction. 
My opinion is that if the pond were thoroughly drained, and the reclaimed soil treated liberally with slaked lime, well distributed and turned in, a very fertile soil would be obtained. If good pulverulent or crushed marl is to be bad, it would be preferable to lime. The extent to which the fertility~would be permanent, depends much upon the character of the sobsoil. As this is, I take it, in part at east, clayey, I have no doubt indefiuite fertility might be readily maintained. 
The land should be thoroughly drained and well coltivated at first. ill. The specimen of mineral submitted through you by :M:r. W. C. Sheffield, Cedar Sprin;;, Early county, proves, on examination, to be an aggregated mass of quartz grains and carbonate of lime, containing a few spicules and small masses of phosphate of lime. 
 
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SUPPLEMENTAL CROP REPORT.-1881. 
 
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It tB in {act an indurated , sil icious mari con tai ning phoapnatic concretions in 
very s~ all pro~ortion. T he proportion of pho~phate of lime is a small fraction of 
1 per cent. No potash is present. The mineral is, in itself, of no special value 
Very respectfully, 
. H . c. W RITE, 
' S tate Chem ist. 
 
H on. J. T. I!enderson, Commissioner of .Agricultu1e, Atlanta, Ga .: 
D RAR S m - I have th e honor to present results of the exam in a tion of a sam ple of " Iv ory wheat," or " E gy ptian wheat," furn ished by you some days ~in ce: 
By way of compa rison, I includ e analyses of t hree sam ples of Georgia rai~erl whl'at, made a few mon t hs since upon samples obtained from the Depa rtment. 
N o. 1 is " R ed M ay" wh eat. No. 2 is " D allas " wh eat. No. 3 ia winter wheat, varie ty unknown. No.4 is the so-ca lh!d "Ivory whea t." 
 
ANALY:>E 
 
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
 
No. 1. 
 
No.2. 
 
No.8. 
 
No.4. 
 
I 1--- -1- -- --- -- - 
~r~~!'fii),(i:.".".'.'.'.'.".':.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.:.::::::.::::::::: 1~:~ ~~}~  J~:~g ll:~ 
 
Starch gum, sugar, etc .. . . .......... .......... ... .. . Fat .......... . ...... ..... .. .. .. . .......... ......... ... ............... Al bumcnoids.. ................. ....... .. ......... ................. Ash ... ............... ....... ..... . ....... ........................ ..... 
 
73.!l8 1.50 9.82 1.85 
 
I 71.52 I 60 10.76 
1.75 
 
71.21 
 
7U.29 
 
10.891  1.95 
 
~.8 7 
 
11.71 
 
1.55 
 
2.20 
 
1oo.oo J-1oo-:o;l -w;:;;o 100.00 
 
A. part ia l analyd is of the a.ih of each ha~ been mat.le wi th following resu lts : 
 
No. I. 
 
No. 2. 
 
No.3. 
 
No.4. 
 
- -- --- - - - -- - - - ---- -- -- -- - - -- - -  - -- - - 1 - - - - 
 
~~:shh.~~ic..~~~~. :::::::: :::::.-::::::::::::::: :.:::::::::.:..... 
Lime...... .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....... ........ .. ........ . ..... .. .. ...... 
 
43~5..s(z~ 
 
43~s.:n~s 
 
43~6:.8\98 
 
~44 - ~2~1 
 
- -- - - Other Mmcra1 Matter.......................... ... ............ 2l.ll 
 
19.97 
 
18.85 
 
23.73 
 
- -  - --- - -- - ---- -- - - --  -- - - - - - -- - -- - - 
 
100.00 
 
tOO.OO . 100.00 
 
100.00 
 
V ery rtl>'pec fully , 
H. c. WHITE, 
State Chemist. 
 
U NIVERSITY OF GEonor A, A THENS, GA., Ap ril 3, 188'l. 
AnalysiBof a sa m ple o[ " Mi ll o 1\!I ai ze '' for I he D epartmen t u[ A gricul ture : 
\Yater . .. ................ ...... . ........................... ... .... . .. ....... ... 12.80 Cnrde fibre. ... .. ... ... .... .............. .... ....................... .. ......... . 2.23 Fat.. ...... . ... . ... . ...... . .. . ..... ... .... ... ...... ... ... .. . 2.8:) 
larch, gnm, Allgar, etc ........... . ... . ... ... ... . ................ 71.66 
A lbl!m ennids . ...... . . .. .. . 1.................................. . . ... . 8.86 
A h.................... . ... . ..... . . . ..... ....... ......... .. ............. . 1.60 
 
ANALYSIS OF ASH, 
 
100.00 
 
P novhoric acid .... .............. ...................... . .. . ........... . 43.85 Potash ............. ... ................... .. .................._. ................. 30.08 
 
 3 2108 05732 5402 
 
h 
 
r. 
 
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE-GEORGIA. 
 
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Lime .................................................................... 8.45 Other mineral matter........................................................ 22.62 
 
100.00 
H. c. WRITE, 
State ChemiHt. 
Bon. J. T. Henderson, Commi88ioner of A griculture. Atlanta, Ga.: DEAR Sia-l have the honor to report the followi ng result.~: 
 
PROXJJIUTK ANALYSES. 
1. Illinois yellow corn. 2. IlliaoiHwhite corn. 8. GPorgia whi& (field) corn. 4. Swet>t potato (yellow yam variety). 
 
---------------------!-- _1.__ --~~~ __a:__,_--'-- 
 
water._... ...... ......... ...... ..... ...... .... ... .. ....... ... Jt.'lli 
 
14.10 
 
10 7ll 
 
61.71; 
 
Crndc fibre (iudigtiblo) ... .... :.... ............ .. ...... . . . 
 
4.>8 
 
a ~3 
 
2.1' 
 
1.0a 
 
.. . .:: ::.: : : :: . : .:..: .: : : Fat........ ........ ......................... ... ................... . 
 
7.11 
 
~~b~::ero::: ~:~~--~~~::: 
 
6~:~ 
 
4.66 
sg_~ 
 
6.43 
7g:~ 
 
0. 10 
~:~ 
 
,_.o_o _ Ash ~ ~    ........  ... _ _1._5_.; _ _ _1.30_ _ _1_.1_ 5 __ 
 
Jl)fl.OO 
 
lOIJ.O:.O:...._,__.::l.O::.O.:..:O.:.Oo._.c...........:.c0l0:..:..:.0::.0_:_ 
 
E-1timjj.ting nil and rc dy -formed fat a~ of rl)uble tlw value of a! arch and other carbo-h ydrates aa fat form er" , we hav., the following relative vain eR: 
 
_, Fat rormmg conti}ocnts.:......... ....... ........ .. ..... ... . Fltshforruin)" con tltocnt ......... ..... ... ..... ........... 
 
1. 
80.27 8.86 
 
I I 2. 
 
a. 
 
4. 
 
77.!2 1 8. 1 
 
8~.46 
8.R2 
 
29 .~~ 
l..l 
 
Very rcep~>ctfully, 
 
H. C. WmTE, 
 
Stale ChemiRt. 
 
NoTa.-Owin,g to the rcnioval of 1bc office whcr m the Dcpartm~nt work is being done, this report has heeo delayed.