Cataloged • OLLECnOM DLxwE LNiVERSiTY UBRARY FURMAN^S ■NHOW*HE^CDLTIYATED^HIS*LAND^ PRACTICAL PODsTS F0RFAE:MERS, C0NDEX5ED FROAI HIS PL'BLISHED IXTER"S^EWS, LETTERS, AND SPEECHES, A^'ITH ADDITIONAL NOTES FROM PRIVATE COJrVT:R5ATION5 & PAPERS. ?ik\\ TALK FOR FAI|:JERS, THAT WILL AID%EM TO Make a Bale of Cotton per Acre on Poor Land, ^COTTON* OATS* PEASN- ^1 ■ 'IP I SKETCH OF FURMAN'S LIFE, PRESS NOTICES OF HIS DEATH Edited by HUGH H. COLQUITT, PUBLISHED AND PRESENTED BY OURllffAN FARM IMPROVEMENT CO. M ATLANTA, GA. yJi Jas. P. Harrison »fc Co., Printers, Atlanta, Ga. E. W. Marsh, (of Moore, Marsh & Co.,) Pres't. W. C, Grasty, Jr., Vice President L. J. Hill, Treas., (Pres't Gate City Nat. Bank,) Prop. N, A. Pratt, Chem. and Mining Eng'r. Hugh H. Colquitt, General Manager. J. M. Patton, Secretary. Jos. F. Allison, Superintendent. FURMAN FARM IMPROVEMENT GO. FERTi li2;e;r works, This Company control the sole right to manufacture and sell Farish Furnian's Formula, The great Georgia Farmer's Chemical Compost for Cotton, as improved by the late IFA.K-ISH C iFXJRiMlA.lNr, President of this Company at the time of his death. None Genuine Unless Branded BUFFALO BONE GUANO, '>T, « njRM:A.]V's FORMixji^ A, " a.3j:m:oj^i^tei>. a com' plete Fertilizer for Cotton and Wheat. Or, "FTJUMi^lVS rOItnytXJI^^ " IT Oil o None genuine unless branded "FURMAN'S FORMULA." o Primus Jones, the great Southwestern Georgia farmer, the first-bale man, says "Furman's Formula" will stop rust in cotton — it will stand drought bet- ter than any fertilizer. Agents for Furmans Seed, Duncan s Mammoth Prolific^ Zellner's Improved Seed, For information, address FURMAN FARM IMPROVEMENT CO., 40 MARIETTA STREET, ATLANTA, GA. PARISH C. FURMAN. A high-souled man dwelt close to Nature's heart, And bade her secrets to his ken unclose, Making the arid hillsides 'neath his touch To thrill with life and "blossom like the rose "V^'hen once the nigdard, ill-tilled fields Gave grudging answer from their barren plains, Flashing with strength from his electric will, They fill the land with fruits and fleece and grains ! M. R. a PREFACE. Mr. Furman's system of fertilizing is based on the idea that different plants reqmre each a fertilizer suited to its particular wants, just as different animals require dif- ferent food. He believed he had definitely determined and perfected a fertilizer for cotton. He was experimenting with formulae for oats and corn. Mr. Furman followed the system so successfully used by George Yille, the great French scientific agriculturist. In France the experiments were made on wheat. Hear what Mr. Furman said : I had been very much impressed with the idea of the French agriculturist, George Ville, as illustrated by him in his experiments at Yincennes, to-wit, that land is only the vehicle for making any crop. In pursuance of this idea, in order to give its correctness a thorough test, he took sand and burnt it, so as to destroy all foreign matter ; then took: water and distilled it, so thai should be chemically pure; took next the wheat plant and subjected it to careful analysis — root, stem, leaf and grain — thereby ascertaining its constituent elements • then he took his sand, scattered it on a plank floor, and planted wheat in it ; took his distilled water, and dissolved in it every thing that his analysis showed him that his wheat required ; watered the wheat with it carefully and regalarly, and harvested from it at the rate of exceeding forty bushels of wheat per acre, ** This seemed to my mind a complete demonstration of the truth of his theory as to grain. Cotton being the crop of our section, I determined to make an experi- ment upon the same line on cotton," Mr. Furman took the very careful and elaborate analysis of the cotton plant furnished by Prof. H. C. "White, chemist for the State of Georgia, and made an ex- periment, extending through four years, and, in his own language, the result is stated as follows: "Near home upon the scrubby pine lands of Middle Georgia, I myself, by the use of a perfect cotton manure, have in four years raised the produc- tion of sixty acres of land from eight bales of cotton to seventy bales of cotton and five hundred bushels of oats, and the increased value of the land alone will more than pay for every dollar's worth of manure used upon it during the period, leaving the crops— the cost of working which under the intensive system was very small — almost clear profit, proving incontestably that the results from scientific agriculture in the Old World are not more certain and satisfactory than with us on this side of the Atlantic, for correct principles are universal in their application and results." The compost heap, with the addition of chemicals, had been urged by the Depart- ment of Agriculture of the State of Georgia for years, and Mr. Furman's farming perfected past formulae and gave a mighty impetus to the saving of home materials, and to the use of chem'cals. He claimed no originality for his system of cultiva- tion, but he follov/ed mainly in the footsteps of another distinguished Georgia farmer, Hon. David Dickson, of Hancock county. This little book aims to give Mr. Furman's plan of farming in words so plain that any farmer who reads it can do as Mr, Furman did. I have freely used his speeches delivered before the Georgia State Agricultural Society, and at Auburn before the Alabama Agricultural College. I have had the aid of his family in pre- paring the pamphlet. I have taken extracts from his letters to the Ho^ne and Farm and from interviews with him published in the Atlanta Constitution, Georgia Truck, Farmer, Selma Times, and Troy (Ala.) Enquirer, but in doing so I have followed the method he had marked out before his death and put the matter into shape for plain people. He did his work well— honor him for it. He was great enough to tell the world how he did it— give him the glory. Farmer, read the book, follow his plan and the result on your own land will prove to you that Farish Furman was the foremost farmer of his time, and your barns, filled with golden grain and your fields white with cotton, will testify that though he be dead he yet lives. HUGH H. COLQUITT. FuRMAN's Farming. FURMAN'S COTTON COMPOST. To prepare the compost I select a piece of ground convenient to my lots, so as to avoid unnecessary hauling of my heavy manure, taking care that it is not in a low spot, where water might collect and sepe the heap, and having cleaned it carefully, scatter my stable manure evenly over it, never allowing it to be more than three inches thick, when the manure is well scattered. If it is dry I sprinkle water over it, and this is some thing that must by no means he omitted. Water, and a plenty of it, is a necessity in a properly regulated compost heap, where decomposition and chemical re- actions are valuable and essential. Each layer, both manure and cotton seed should be thoroughly wetted as it is laid down, as otherwise one dry layer running through your heap may give you cotton seed that will come up and give great' trouble, especially if the crop is planted with selected seed. THB COMPOST HEAP. The compost heap shoald not be built more than five feet high. Keep the edges as nearly perpendicular as possible, and finish it off on the top with a covering of rich top dirt from three to six inches thick. The heap should stand after completion at least six weeks before using it, and if it could be so arranged that at the end of six weeks it could be cut perpendicularly down, mixed thor- oughly and allowed to stand a month longer, it would improve the compost. I make such quanti ies of it that I have not time to do this, but as a rule, the more compost is mixed ani manipulated the better it si. THE FOSISULA FOE THE COMPOST. Take twenty-five (25) bushels well rot- ted stable manure or well rotted organic matter, as leaves, muck or rich top earth ; scatter it about three inches thick upon a piece of ground situated so that water will not stand on it, but shed off in every direction. The twenty-five (25)bushe s will weigh about 750 pounds; then take 250 pounds of "Farish Fur- man's Formula," or Chemicals for Com- post, and scatter evenly on the surface. Take next twenty-five (25) bushels of green cotton seed and distribute evenly on the surface, and wet them thoroughly; they will weigh 750 pounds. Take again 250 pounds * 'Farish Furman's Formula," or Chemicals for Compost, and spread over the seed. We now have 2,000 pounds, or one ton. We then go back to the stable manure, or muck, or rich earth, and pile up in this way as high as we can go — keeping above proportion — then cover with six inches of rich top earth from fence corners, and leave at least six weeks. When ready to haul to the field, cut with a spade or pick-ax, square down, and mix as thoroughly as possible. Now we have twenty-fl7e (25) bushels of manure, weighing 750 pounds, and 250 pounds of "Farish Furman's Formula," or Chemicals for Cojnpost, and twent3^-five bushels of cotton seed, weighing 750 pounds; then pat 2-50 pounds more of "Farish Furman's For- mula," or Chemicals for Compost, and we have the perfect compost. You per- ceive the weight is 2,000 pounds, value, at cash cost : 750 pounds cotton seed, 25 bushels, 10 cents per bushel.... $ 2 50 4: Furman Farm Improvement Company. 500 pounds "Farish Furman's For- mula," or Chemicals for Com- post, $26.00 per ton.., $ 6 50 750 pounds manure, or muck, or rotted leaves (nominal), 25 bush- els, say allow for hauling 1 00 Total 2,000 pounds, or one ton per- fect compost $10 00 One (l)ton of the chemicals makes four (4) tons compost.. This mixture makes practically a per- fect manure for cotton and a splendid application for corn. Our farmers do not appreciate cotton seed. That comes nearer to being a perfect fertilizer than any one thing in the world, and yet over 100,000 bushels were sold at my depot for a trifle and hauled away. " With his cotton seed and stable ma- nure saved and composted with decayed become rich if he wants to, and double the value of his land in three yeq,rs." Farish Furman's Formula," sold only by Furman's Farm Improve- ment Company. "HOW MUan GOMPOST SIOtJLIl USED TO^^HE ACBET •'It is hard to use too much. In Prance the average is 20,000 pounds to the acre. A Georgia farmer will hardly average 100 pounds to the acre. I will average 10,000 pounds next year. Nothing pays so well." Note.— 2,000 pounds of compost is recom- mended for general -ase. Auy farmer can risk this, and the cost is not greater than 200 pounds of commercial fertilizers. Is decomposed vegetable matter, and very valuable. It should be drained, if too wet, and compounded with land plaster six weeks before using. It is as good as top soil for compost. It should be in compost six weeks before using. "I have received many inquiries as to the necessity or expediency of mixing the compost under shelter. A mo- ment's reflection will convince any one that, where so much water is used in the manufacture of a compost, the addi- tion of all that may fall upon tlie heap as rain, for a space of "two or three months, can do no possible harm. I never think of putting any shelter over my heaps. On the contrary, I have no- ticed that those that were built just along the eaves of my stable, so that the heap caught and retained all the rain from the roof, decomposed more thor- oughly and satisfactorily than any other No one need be uneasy about making such a compost heap as I have described in the open air. As decomposition takes place, there are in the heap itself, in the chemicals composing every alternate layer, materials that will fix and prevent the escape of any valuable gas that may be generated. Note.— The compost heap can be made in the field on which it is proposed to apply it. I have changed the position of my cotton rows four inches to the right j every year, so that the compost v/ould I be thrown into new strips every year, j In this way I have fertilized mji whole j field, instead of enriching the same rows I year after year. I shall hereafter broad- j cast it. I Note.— Mr, Furman's explanation of why ; he should in future broadcast the compos was that he had in four years made the land rich enough to warrant the change. PU^TIN& OUT THE COMPOST. I have received a great many inqui- ries as to the best plan for putting out compost, I have found that for appli- cation in the drill, the quickest and most satisfactory way was to get negro boys> furnish them with half-bushel baskets made from white oak splits, make them take the manure directly from the wag- on, keeping it just ahead of them all the time, and scattering it evenly in the drill. They require instruction at first, but learn very readily, and six boys, costing for labor, thirty cents each per day, will distribute the manure in drills as rapidly as two wagons, hauling a quarter or half a mile from the heap to the field, will bring the material. For b-oadcasting I find nothing equal to the "Kemp Manure-Spreader." It also has- a drilling attachment, but it drills only two rows at a time, and cannot be used whefe the rows are more than four feet wide, and for drill application I prefer the boys, as above stated. I'urman Farm Improvement Company. 5 HUMUS. In order to compost suitably for a proper system of intsnsive farming,, you must have humus, and this can only be obtained from a proper mixture of ani- mal and vegetable matter. Just think, gentlemen, of the millions of dollars that are annually lost to the farmers through- out the South, as the result of laziness and carelessness in a failure to pen our cattle at night. Give me a good pile of lot manure and cotton seed and the chemicals as I may need them, and I will guarantee to make a manure that will ! pay anywhere from one to five hundred j per cent, on its cost in increased produc- I tion of crops alone, leaving out of view i the immense and permanent increase in , the value of the lands upon which it has j been applied, j I have received many inquiries as to how it is possible to manufacture so i much stable manure as my formula re- ! quires on a small farm. This is an in- | quiry the force of which I appreciate, ! for in the boiation of the question, how j to ma'ke on (ibunda'-i! fuppin of stalle, barn- yard and hor/ie-niLi'i': manure, is to be ; found the key to the future prosperity j of Southern agriculture. "With our hot { climate, biuming sun, and parching i winds, continuing uninterruptedly for j six months or more, we have adopted, ! from necessity, a shallow surface system j of culture, and the result has been that | within the last twenty-five years the i cultivated lands of the South have been I largely drained of that supply of decom- 230sed organic or vegetable matter known as humus, which, while it has no chem- ical value, or very little, is yet absolute- ly essential in order for remunerative returns from any soil. There are only two ways in which this wasted material can be restored — by the use of a properly regulated compost, or by natural process, allowing the land to lie out and become covered with grass and reeds, which is, at best, a very slow, ■uncertain and unsatisfactory proceed- ing ; or butter, to plant in small grain and follow the grain with, a croi? of peas, manuring the peas with a chem- ical manure and allowing them to die on the surface, to be turned under in Janu- ary, but never turned under green in our climate. Eestoring the humus to the soi through the growth of the oat followed by the pea, is a plan, that as a natural one, is unsurpassed. Now, to secure an almost unlimited supply of the valuable and essential ma- terial, all that any farmer who has within his reach the pine-strau: of the South has to do, is to keep his stable, barn-yard, cow-lot and hog-pens always thoroughly littered with the straw, moving it out in heaps as soon as it be- comes saturated with animal manure, and re-littering at once, say once a month. Be sure to keep all your cattle up at night. I am satisned that a well-fed cow will make from her droppings at night alone $2o worth of manure in the course of a year. Don't be satisfied, though, with what you can get from your lots and stables : remember that humus is decayed organic matter, and that leaves and muck are a tine form of it. Gather all the decaying vegetable matter from the ditches and fence cor- ners on your place, and add them to your piles that are accumulating ready for your winter composting. Go into the ponds and branches in your vicinity and gather the mud or muck, haul it up. mix it with a little land plaster, let it dry and add it to your heap. In short, turn your attention to accumula- ting humus; make up your mind that you udll have it ; gather it together day after day, and week after week, and at the end of the year you will find your- self wondering where it all came from. The true plan is to save all the lot and stable manure under shelter that you can. Rake out your fence corners and ditches, and gather all the muck and humus or decayed vegetable matter that is rotting uselessly around your prem- ises, and then compost them with chem- icals in quantities and proportions to suit the requirements of the crop you expect to grow. And above all else, save your cotton seed for composting. Cotton seed comes nearer being, with- in inself, a perfect fertilizer than any other one thing known to the farmer the world over. Buy "Furman's Formula,'' the perfect chemicals to mix with your cotton seed — prepared only by 'Turman Farm Improvement Company." 6 Furman Farm Improvement Company, HOW MUCH COMPOST TO USE. Make up your compost, and don't be afraid to use it. I applied this year five thousand pounds to the acre. George Ville, the celebrated European authori- ty, says that in France and Germany twenty thousand pounds to the acre is the rule for the application of compost. In Ohio we are told that the compost raised on a farm of fifty-five acres from ten head of horses and thirty head of cattle, in the space of cne year, was val- ued by the State chemist, after careful analysis, at twenty-six hundred and sixty dollars, and this was applied broad cast at the rate c/f forty th ousand pounds to the acre, with the result of a clear profit of three hundred dollars per acre. This compost was made with muck and lot manure without the addition of any chemicals. With proper chemicals the result would have been much greater. In the case of the growth of the cotton crop, the presence of humus disseminat- ed generally through the land is of course of great value, but cotton is a tap- root plant, and in order to the success- ful and remunerative cultivation of all tap-root plants, we must manure in the drill, and my experience has taught me that to manure cotton heavily in the drill with chemical manure alone is dangerous, but if those chemicals are mixed thoroughly with decomposed hu- mus in the presence of chloride of sodi um that the danger, which is that of firing at time of drought, is reduced to a minimum. In fact, my experience with my compost, applied immediately in the drill under the c9tton, at the rate, for the purpose of experiment, of five tons to the acre, has satisfied me that instead of teadiog to "burn the cotton up" it GOTTOM IN PREPARATION - FERTILISING FLANTING-CULTITATION. While the compost heap was in course of construction during the second year of my experiment — the first year being an experimental test, without manure, to determine the productiveness of the land — my plows were at work preparing the land for the reception of the com- post. The plows used for the purpose absolutely kept it green and flourishin when unmanured crops and those ma- nured with chemicals alone were parch- ed and yellow. "Parish Purmans Formula," made by Furman Farm Improvement Company, is Mr. Furman's last and best opinion as to the best chemi- cals to use. FROM PRIKUSW. JONBS, FOR YEARS THE FIRST BALE MAN OF GEOR&IA. Newtojt, Baker County, Ga., October 9th, 1883. Gentlemen — As a practical farmer, I have tried many of the leading fertil- izers, and I have no hesitancy in saying that "Furman's Formula" "is the best fertilizer I have ever used. It is undoubtedly a preventative to rust in cotton. I think Mr. Furman's entire system most excellent, and I con- sider his death almost an irreparable loss to the farming interests of the State. My experience satisfies me fully that ''Furman's Formula" and Furman's method of farming are the things for the lands of this State. In s6me details I vary from him, but in the general plan I agree with him. Yours truly, (Signed) Primus W. Jones. GoLDsviLLE, Laurens Co., S. C. Ifr. H. H. Colquitt, Atlanta, Ga. : Dear Sir— The "Buffalo Bone Guano," or Furman's Formula, ammoniated, T tried side by side with six other brands of fertilizers on cotton, I consider it. twenty-five per cent, a head of any of the others from the time the cotton started to grow until it was gathered, and the yield was twenty-five per cent, greater. The "Furman Formula" for the compost is splendid. I want more this year, but can't tell how much until after Christrr.as. Yours truly, J. S. Blalock. Mr. Blalock is the best farmer in Lau- rens county, South CaroliRdi THE DRILL. were upon the pattern of the ordinary seven-inch turn shovel, made, however, so as to be longer than the ordinary shovel, to give the plow penetrating power. These were attached to the Haiman stock, an iron foot-stock man- ufactured in Atlanta, combining strength, adaptability and lightness. With these the ground was thoroughly broken as follows : First , a ten-inch Fforman Farm Improvement Company. T shovel furrow was rnn in at intervals of three and a half feet, and the turn-plow furrow thrown upon this shovel furrow from each side until the ground was thoroughly broken with a water-furrow in each middle, throwing the ground up into broad beds three and a half feet •wide. This was allowed to stand until just before planting time, when the water-furrow was opened with a ten- inch ordinar}^ shovel, the compost placed in the hill and immediately listed ■upon, that is to say, covered with a fur- row from each side, thrown upon it with a turn-shovel. This was allowed to stand until ready to plant ; then two more furrows with the turn-shovel were thrown upon this list, one from each side, and the cotton planted at once in the fresh dirt, and immediately over the center of the list made by the four furrows, with a Dow-Law cotton planter, using two bushels of seed per acre. The time of planting was from the 1st to the 12th of May. It will be perceived that my planting was a late one, as it always is, and as I regard this as an im- portant point in cotton culture, I will give my reasons for it later. As soon as convenient, after the cot- ton was planted, the bed was completed by breaking out the middle with a straight shovel, leaving the cotton on a broad, flat bed, with a water-furrow in the middle. When the cotton came up and the third leaf began to show, a small sweep, sixteen inches wide, was run close up to it on each side, and it was chopped out two stalks to the hill, a hoe's width, or eight inches apart. After standing this way for several days, a larger sweep (twenty inches) was ran round with one wing slightly turned so as to throw a little dirt to the cotton, and the hoes came round again, cutting out every other hill and putting the crop to a stand, or one stalk to the_ hiil, sixteen inches apart. From this time nothing was used ex- cept the sweep, running over the crop as often as any tendency to form a crust on top showed itself, and plowing as shallow as possible. Just before laying by, the hoes were sent over once more to destroy any bunches' of grass that might thicken a crop of seed to give trouble to next season's farming. The yield from the crop, manured and cultivated as stated, was twelve bales of cotton, averaging four hundred and seventy pounds. Note.— Mr. Furman's first year mth fertili- zers. Remember that Furman's chem- icals can only be had properly pre- j pared by Furman Farm Improve- ment Company. CHOP OF THIS YEAH. The experiment made this year by Mr. Furman as set forth in the following pages, was one that required nerve and skill. The cotton did not come up for over two weeks after planting, and had very little rain from the beginning. It stood the July drought splendidly, and when I saw it in August it v/asthe finest six acres of cotton I ever saw. It was the universal opinion of good judges that the yield would be at least eighteen (IS) bales. Tiie drought continued through August. The caterpillars also visited it. Only the b ittom crop matured, and yet the yield was one bale to the acre. The yield on the 65 acres was about one bale to the acre, the cotton in the drill producing about the same, though it had only 4,000 pounds compost to the acre. The cotton in the drill was planted earlier than the cotton in the check. Mr. Furman was absent from home much of the time and he thought the cotton in the drill was very much injured by the cultivation. There can be no question that with or- dinary seasons he would have made one hundred bales of cotton on the 65 acres. I am fortified in this view by the opin- ions of many good farmers who saw the crop at various stages of its growth. Mr. John Cobb, of Americus, Ga., a model farmer and a man of sound j udg- ment, said in my presence, during the session of the State Agricultural Society, that he thought the crop was good for 100 bales or more. Mr. Cobb had just seen the crop. Captain T, F. Newell, of Milledge- ville, a large and successful planter, said he never saw six acres of such cotton; that it was the perfecLion of the cotton plant. Duncan's Mammoth Prolificseed were used on the six acres. He com- menced planting on the 23d of April and finished planting about the middle of 8 Fur man Farm Improvement Company, May. The cotton in the check was planted last. The following is an ex- tract from a letter from him dated April 21st: SCOTTSBORO, Ga. H.H. Chlquitt, Esq., Atlanta, Ga.: Dear Hugh: — Your letter has just reached me. I never go to town now, and only get the mail about once a week. I have been absent so much more than usual that my crop has gotten behind, and I am compelled to give it the closest attention to catch up. I will begin planting Monday, 23d, and will get through probably in two weeks. Until I finish planting I cannot leave. Yours truly, F. C. FURMAN. COTTON IN SHE CHECK. Some confusion has arisen from the the interview with Mr. H. W. Grady, published in the Atlanta Co -stitution^ that Mr. Furman never hoed his cotton, as it will be seen from the above extract from ''Home and FarirC^ letter that he did hoe his cotton when planted in the drills but in his ideal method oi planting cotton^ which was in the cheeky one stalk four feet apart each way, he did not use the hoe. In breaking your land do not use a plow that will turn the soil over, but turn it on edge. COTTON IN THE CHECK. ONE ETALK FOUR FEET EACH WAY. No Hoe Used— The Ideal System. This system will not do on poor land and Mr. Furman did not advise it ex- cept on good land or on land brought up as his was, after four years fertilizing and cultivation. — Ed. Cotton is a sun-plant and needs room ioi its roots; when cramped to 12 or 15 inches it cannot attain its perfect growth. My aim is to put the plants in four- foot squares and average 75 to 150 bolls to the plant. This will give me a pound of seed cotton to the plant, or 3 bales to the acre. HOW THIS IS DONE. The land (6) sis acres was first broken with a two-horse Syracuse plow-the land so broken as to turn it on edge, not turn it over from the bottom — then broad- tast with six thousand (6,000) pounds of compost, and this turned in with a big vQrn shovel, then harrowed with a Thomas smoothing harrow, then laid off 4x4 with an 8-inch straight shovel and drilled one way with "Buffalo Lone Guano" or " Furman' s Formula, am- — -Cniated," j,5C^ ] ounds to the acre. Listc'i r■^ that, that is covered '^n ^ rrow on each side with a jOQoiQi' )low, en checked off by runnin^, n straight ::hovel across the f ur- rowti, icur feet between the furrows, ;ust marking the ^ lac : -"o >lan-^ the seed at the Intersection of the furrows four feet apart each v>ay. List then opened by driving or " socking in " a two-inch bull tongue as deep as it could go, so as to thoroughlj^ mix the soil and the fertil- izer, and at the same time forming a fine bed for the rootlets. The seed ten to fifteen (10 to 15) to the check, then drop- ped where the furrows meet, and lightly covered by raking a little earth on with the hoe and pressed on with the foot or flat side of the hoe. Soon after planting run a 12-inch straight shovel through the middle loth ways. As soon as the cotton gets up enough to show the best stalks thin to one or two stalks to the check hy hand. When the cotton gets up pretty well, and the grass begins to come, use a 20 to 22-inch Dickson sweep. About the usual time for plowing run an 8-inch straight shovel at right angles across the furrows made by the sweep, then apply 250 pounds "Buffalo Bone Guano" or " Furman's Formula, ammoniated," dropped on both sides of the plants in this furrow, th*»n follow this at once with two f I! . - i between the rows where th: fertilizer is applied with 20 or 22-inch Dickson sweep, splitting the middles Ik3- twee:. the i arrows and covering the fer- tili:.- r. ^^ hen Wo. c .tton gets about knee- hiz}x us - 1 xBch sweep, running at right an-l-s with I ' plowing, put in this row 250 T-oun • Buffalo Bone Guano, ' or ' 'Furman ~ I- or:-- nl- , ammoniated, ' ' with cotton seed meal on both sides of the plant; follow this at once with a20-iuch Fur man Farm Imp lovcment Compaiiy. 9 sweep, covering the fertilizer. Tiie cul- tivation following is done a 20-inch sweep. Plant from 10th to 2 Jth of May, avoids July drought, cotton grows so rapidly it soon shades the ground and keeps down the grass. WHY HE PLANTED LATE. It will be perceived that my planting "was a late one, as it always is ; and, as I regard this as an important point in cotton culture, I will give my reasons for it now. Cotton is a peculiar plant. If it ever stops growing from am-- cause, from drought or "tlie^wise, it will never take on any in>jre fruit un the old stalk, but puts out new twigs, upon which its new fruit must grow. One of the peculiarities of our South- ern climate is that almost evjry year we have a drought of greater or less du- ration in July, frequently accompanied by intense heat and parching winds. Cotton planted early, say from the 5th to the 20th of April, has progressed in growth and fruitage by July to a point where the bottom crop, or bolls on the lower limbs, have begun to mature, and therefore have gotten so large that the plant cannot cast them off, but must retain and mature them. Just at this time the drought comes on, the ground parches up, the plant begins to suffer and shed its fruit, for instinct teaches it that it is fatal to its prospects for a full yield to stop growing, and it will cast off all its fruit to avoid this danger. First it sheds its upper or youngest fruit, then the middle crop goes ; but, with a continuance of the drought, when it undertakes next to rid itself of the bottom crop, it finds it is too far ad- vanced, and in despair the plant stops growing, and throws all its remaining vitality into a supreme effort to mature the bottom bolls. Then the drought is broken, the August rains begin, the plant begins to grow once more, puts out new shoots, which in time become loaded with fruit, only to encourage the farmer's hopes of a good crop, to be certainly blighted by a frost that never allows it to reach its full maturity, and the farmer exclaims, "Oh, if 1 had only been able to plant a week earlier I should have made a splendid crop," when the truth that if he had planted j two weeks later he could have largely i avoided the injurious effects of the ! drought. Cotton planted in May is never I sufficiently advanced be injurea j i^ermanently by a July drought. I growth is retarded, but not stopped. It throws off all its superfluous fruit, but* continues to grow slowly, and when the August rains come it quickly becomes covered with fruit and rewards the labor ! of the husbandman with three full I crops — bottom, middle and top. I In this State (Georgia) there is no re- I port of an extraordinary production of ; cotton on any crop planted earlier than j May. Mr. Warthen, of AVashington j county, a county adjoining the one i from which I write, who kas made the j largest production from one acre of 1 cotton ever reported, to-wit, fi-ve bales, I planted his acre on May 13th, and I am i satistied that early planting will never give a full crop of cotton. HOEINa-EEASON FOB NOT HOEINa COTTON. "I never touch it with a hoe. The growth of cotton comes from thespread- iug filaments that reach out from the root and feed it. If these are destroyed the growth stoi)S till they are restored. I am satisfied three hoeings lost me eighteen days of growth, or six days each. I run a shallow plow along the cotton row*, and never go deep enough to cut the roots. But these are mere ffe- iaVs in which men may differ. The mala thing is the intensive system of manur- ing, and the husbanding all the drop* pings and wastage of the farm for com- post. I can take any one hundred acres of land in Georgia and,at a nominal cost^ can bring its production from a sixth of a bale to three bales per acre, in five years. Any mak can do it." ARE YOU ENLAESING YOUR WORS f Yes; but slowly. The difficulty with us all is that we try to farm too much land. I am good for $3,000 with two mules and sixty-five acres. Next year I'll beat this. In the meantime, I am "bring- ing up" twenty-five new acres; I never want over one hundred acres. These 1 will cultivate with three mules, and I'll make two hundred and fifty bales of cot- ton on them, besides all the corn and oats I need. 10 Furman I'arm Improvement Company. flATS. tJse a good sulky tarn plow — one tliat ean be set accurately and relied upon to turn the land a given depth, whether it fee soft or hard. Harrow your land. Plant oats after the first frost or freeze. Broad- cast four bushels of oats and (50) fifty bushels of green cotton seed (or half this quantity of cotton seed and 200 pounds to 500 pounds of "Golden Grain Gu- ano") or "Furman's Formula for Oats," at the same time plow in together. The oats will come up and then "stool," cov- ering the whole face of the land. When the time for the oata to head arrives they will be ready, and you will not have to turn in your stock and your neighbors' stock, to graze them down to prevent them from maturing too soon. The first frost or freeze is usually as cold as any weather we have during the winter, and it is generally followed by some mild pleasant weather, during which the oats should be planted. The object of this late planting is first that you are able to get the green cotton seed to fertilize with; second, that it prevents the cotton ^eed from coming up, to the injury of your land, third, that it p events your oats from being "winter-killed." Oats plant- ed early in our semi-tropical climate find the ground warm and the days hot, and they immediately come up, having a small root, and soon a big exposure; this renders thera liable to be winter- killed. If planted as above directed, the oats find the ground cold and the nights cool, and the plant is thus put on notice and at once adapts itself to the surround- ings ; it makes a big root, comes up pre- pared for the weather, and "stools" and covers the ground; it does not grow- much, but lives during the cold weather, and when the spring arrives it shoots up rapidly. The decomposition of the green cot- ton seed under ground with the oats generates heat, and this tends to prevent "winter-killing." For every bushel of cotron seed used as a fertilizer, the farmer can rely on the yield of an additional bushel of oats. After careful experiments in the field, we have made an oat formula, that is nearly perfect ; it is made by the analy- sis of the oat plant. (Mr. Furman experimented this year by adding to it soluble suica, to remedy the trouble of "lodging," hoping to strengthen the stalk, but he stated that it was a failure). ""Furmans Farm Improvement Company has the sole right to make Buffalo Bone Guano" or Furman's Formula Am- monified, GOLDEN GBAIN GUANO OR FURMAN'S FORMULA FOR OATS.— Re- member it : keep a crop on the ground ; it prevents washing-, it protects the land from the laot sun. Nature manures from the top in tropical and semi-tropical climates. He never plows cotton after it is a foot^tall, except with a sweep; a scoot- er or turning plow cuts roots, which makes the plant throw off the fruit and go to weed. Better have grass and roots to the cotton than cheap crop of plants and no fruit. His rule is to break deep and plow shallow. COTTOH AFTER OATS. If another crop is desired on the same land, as soon as your oats are cut lay off your land in rows seven feet wide as follows : Take a turn-plow and bar off each way, leaving a ridge from four to six inches wide in the middle unbroken. Break this out with two shovel furrows, l>ut frjm five Hundred to a thousand pounds to the acre of "Furman's Form- ula, ammoniated," in the bottom of this furrow, and cover with a little dirt to prevent the fertilizer coming in direct contact with your seed, with a scooter furrow from the side, then sow your seed by hand, using ple-aty, from three to four bushels per acre, and cover with Furrnan Farm Improvement Coynpany. li a harrow or forked plow. You will get a stand in a few days. The stubble in the ground will prevent washing until it rots. The moisture in the stubble seeking an outlet will be drawn to the cotton. Your cotton at that season (almost the first of June) will grow very rapidly, then break out the middle of the rows. Now, when you give your cotton the last sweeping, drill peas in the middle of each row {speckled peas are here recommended) and apply with them about one hundred pounds of chemicals (suited to the pea cropl to the acre. Your peas will grow oif rapidly, and will, in their turn, prevent washing ; they will not interfere with the opening or pick- ing of your cotton, an 1 will protect the lower bo"' Is against dirt, and will give you a magnificent coat of humus a? a manure for your land. This meth- od makes three crops a yenr and the product of the cotton will not be materi- ally decreased. Time of planting, last- of May to 1st of June. A>'OTHER ACCOUNT. But to return : after the oat^ are cut the stubble will hold it. If another crop is desired on the same land, plant cotton in six (6) feet rows, using a ton of "Fur- man's Formula, ammouiated."' On the land of the six feet rows leave eight- inches of stubble on the line of each ro"^ I of cotton, breaking from it on either side with a turning plow— one furrow, thes break out the middle or eight inch stub^ bie with a scooter, breaking about two- thirds of it the first furrow and going deep and taking the remainder with the-- I second furrow. Plant five bushels of I cotton seed by hand to the acre as usual- I and when tlie cotton is knee-high plo^' j out the middle and plant peas, Mr, ' Furman reeards this a- the best way tc? ' U'^e a hillside, and is assured that it'will prevent v,"ashing. restore the land, anc* . pay well if persisted in for several years 7ALUE-H0W PLANTED AND CUL- TIVATED. Mr. Furman valued peas very highly, a^d he called them the natural clover of the South. He called attention to the fact that the pea-plant had marked sim- ilarities to the cotton plant, and that he regarded the pea crop as the best means of supplying humus or vegetable matter. He recommended that they should be left to die on the ground before turning them under, for reasons fully given un- der the head of Green Soiling. T\'hen planted between cotton rows, or between stalks of corn, he used the sjjecJded pea, but when he planted for a luxuriant pea crop for supplying humus or vegetable lii'^tter he recommended the clay pea. Many plant the speckled pea broadcast; he planted the clay pea in drills. On this subject he said : "My object is to secure the largest am'unt of vegetable matter. The, clay pea produces a ranker grrwth than the speckled, and the drilling plan enables you to fertilize and cultivate the pea crop. My plan is as follows : Start three single turn pi " ws nearly abreast, one after the other Let them break the ground thoroughly, going round in a circle and never stopping until the cen- i tre of the field is reached. Follow the j third plow by a negro boy with a sack of I chemicals— a pea fertilizer — (something- j on the order of the Ash Element, a cheap I preparation suited to the requirements 1 of the pea-planty apply one hundred j pounds to the acre. Follow him by a j second boy with a sack of peas in tht I same row. drilling the peas, Thus, a-i ; one operation, practically, the ground i> j broken and fertilized, tlie peas plantec.. ' and covered — a great saving in labor. The peas will come up in drills 18 inches apart. "\^'hen the grass appears run s 16-inch sweep between the drills, one furrow to the center of the field, com- 1 mencing at some point on the side or I corner of the field, and running roun. It cannot be turned over possibly by any plow or number of horses. This ma?5- by spring will be a loamy mould of S'?- eral inches thickness; it will mulch ci,. ground all vrinter, and turned undtr if the spr'ng, will make the soil loose, a tract moisture, allow the air to penetrate the earth more freely and become t j chemical laboratory for the fcrmatior- ! of plant food in binary compoundji frore 12 Fiirman Farm Improvement Company, the monoforms. "Turn under by plow- ing across rows." Mr. Furman stated that while under ordinary circumstances he would never allow stock to be turned in on his land, %hen the peas were at the proper stage, stock could be turned in on them with impunity, as the vines, etc., would serve :as a spongy carpet to protect the land from packing. He also called attention to the fact that enough peas would be saved by planting as above, in the drill, to pay for the fertilizer used. A FBJtTILISSE FOa EVEEY OEOP. A HARROW A NECESSITY. Mr. Furman was frequently asked if 3ie manured every crop. His invariable answer was : "Yes; feed your land and your land will feed you. Use a special fertilizer to suit the requirements of •each crop." He was frequently asRad about using a harrow; his reply was : *'I would not farm without a harrow. Would you cultivate a garden without a rake ? A plant will not grow among liard clods." &REEN SOILINS-. Green soiling will do at the North, but farmers at the South had better let it iSiXone. It has \3een stated that I object to the mse of vegetable matter from g*^ss, peas, etc., as a natural means of fertil- izing on soils. This statement is emi- nently wrong. I do object to what is technically known as green soiling in this climate and in our freestone soils. My experience and observation lead me to think that heavy masses of pea-vines, e impregnated with lime. I have never iiad an opportunity of trying the expe- riment on lime lands, but think that the result there might not be injurious. The reaaan that has suggested itself to miy mind for this result is this : that in ■our climare where there are no freezes that penetrate any depth into the ground to aerate the soil, if you turn under, say a heavy coating of grass after oats •or wheat while still green, the earth Earned on top largely excludes the oxy- •gen of the air and the mass of vegetable matter under our autumn sun, begin- ning a rapid decomposition, and failing to receive the oxygen to render that de- composition healthy and perfect, runs into putrefaction, resulting in an acid re-action and the formation of large quantities of the vegetable acids whioh are absorbed by the soil, in a manner poisoning it and rendering it unproduc- tive. This is my theory, sustained by my own experience and that of several of my neighbors. My experience has clearly demonstrated to me that it is best to Iqt the peas, gras?, etc., die on the ground and turn under when dead. These questions, however, are easily settled in each individual case by indi- vidual experiment. The use of vegetable matter, whether as rixuck, stable manure, lot scraping?, or crops grown on the land and turned under dead — for I insist upon the use of vegetable mat'er in each and every one of these forms — is one of the most im- portant features in my system, for these, combined with the perfect chemicals, make the perfect plant-food. ANOTHEE STATEMENT AS TO GREEN SOILING. " I notice one point in your plan that is altogether novel and entirely at va- riance with the accepted plan of pro- cedure in green fertilizing. The famil- iar plan is to turn under the green growth of pea^, clover, weeds or grass. You say let it lie on the ground and rot until spring, and then turn under the mould. Why is this?" "Oh, I know that I am in the teeth of all the agricultural journals and of ordinary practice. But I am none the less convinced of my position, be- cause supported by experience and chemical reasoning. Of course the green vegetable matter must be rotted before it is of value in the soil. Now, I maintain that it is better to rot it in the air on the surface than under ground without adequate action of the atmos- phere. Decomposition is like combus- tion: it requires the free action of air to go on perfectly. The abundance of ox- ygen is as necessary to the one process as to the other. In our hot climate, with heavy rains, when vegetable mat- ter is turned under ground and the air excluded, a rapid decomposition ineri- I'urman Farm Improve^ncjit Company. 1 13 tably results. This quickly runs into putrefaction, and an acid reaction re- suits in the evolution of water heavily loaded with vegetable acids. These are absorbed by the soil and poison it. * By poisoning it, I mean rendering its plant nourishment insolube and unavailable." " Is not this a verv startling theory? Have yoti any tangible ground to base it upon ?" Yes, by frequent experiments, and by observation as well. 1 have noticed articularly the experience of a neigh- or. Four years ago he had go 'ten eight acres of ground up to stich a high { state of ctiltivation that he made forty bnshels of wheat to the acre, or a total of 820 bushels upon the ground. After the wheat was cut, the rich so 1 threw up a tremendous growth of weeds. They were over waist high, and exceed- ingly rank. Acting upon the common plan, he turned under the growth to en- rich further the soil. The effect was wonderful. The next year he put the land in oats and it did not make the seeds sown. The oats were stunted and unhealthy looking. Since then he has treated the land well and continued to fertilize it. Yet this year,. the fourth since he turned under the grass, he made only tweaty bushels of wheat upon it. Evidently he poisoned the ground, and rendered the plant-food in it unavail- able by the acid reaction of the un- natural decomposition of the grass and., weeds." " Would not there be a difference in; such a formation of acids in lime lands and in the sandy land of your neigh- bor'* unfortunate experiment ? Would, not the free lime absorb these acidSj.. supplying the very thing needed ?" "Probably the deleterious effect, might not be so great in the lime lands,, but there could be no advantageous re- { suits, for the acid and lime combinatioEi woula be insoluble and unavailable as; plant food. But such a process, if kepfe up several years, would certainly neutral- ize all the free lime, and work a decided injury sooner or later. By all means let the humus be formed in the open air^ and turn it under in the spring. This is the natural process cf supplying the earth with vegetable matter. It is going on all the time in the woods, and makes the mould that every one knows to be valuable as an assistant to any vegetable growth. It is the process by which in the cycles of years the bald rock, that first was separated from the water in creation, was converted into a habitable earth." Great care shonld be taken in using this most valuable material. Many farmers have complained of stalks of cotton being killed by it, and in some cases Furman's system has been abused on account of it. Unless properly and carefully mixed bad results will follow, and Mr. Furman stated in one of his "Home and Farm" letters, and also in his interview with the "'Georgia Truck- Farmer," that so important did he re- gard the necessity of its accurate and thorough manipulation by machinery, to the sticcess of his system, that he had aided in organizing the company of which he was president at the time of his death. The company now bears his name, and pays a royalty to his family for his formula. -No other company can furnish Lis complete formulae. Don't be deceived by others offering to sell mate- rials to make his brands. The "Furman Farm Improvement Company" alone furnishes his en' ire system and his im- proved fertilizers. Every sack is branded " Furmaii's Formula^ This company use only the purest and best materials, and sell these perfect fertilizers at the lowest cash figures. Ask your merchant for these fertilizers. We shi-ll ptit them in your reach, if pos- sible, and if you will write to us we will see to it that yoic get them. Furman Farm ImproYement Co.. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, « « 9 « " Just here I think it proper that I ' should call the attention of my brother farmers to one very important fact, and that is the great value, in the use of the chemicals, of a thorough, fine division or comminution of the materials. This principle is thoroughly understood and appreciated by the medical world in the application of mineral medicine to tbe animal economy. For example, it is well known that calomel, reduced to an im- palpable powder, reciuires but one-tenth in weight to produce a given effect as the same medicine before ground, or when in the ordinary coarse, grainy condition. This same rule in the application of mineral manures to the vegetable world holds equally good, and for this reason I recommend the mixing of the chemicals before they come into the hands of the farmers with properly arranged ma- chinery. I have had great trouble my- self in mixing my chemicals, and have never succeeded in this portion of my work as I would have desired. ^Kealizing this, I made arrangement tllis year to have the chemicals mixed by machinery in Atlanta, and I have found it a very decided improvement on the old way." Any farmer can safely use 2,000 pounds compost, it does not cost more than 200 pounds commercial fertilizers — 500 pounds of "Furman's Formula" chemicals for compost will make 2,000 pounds compost. 14 Fur man Farm Improvement Company, FURMAN FARM IMPROVEMENT COMPANY. This company was organized in Octo- ;&er, 1883, by Mr. Hugh H. Colquitt, Pro- fessor N. A. Pratt and Mr. W. C. Grasty. Mr. Farish Furman became a director in I>ecember, and was elected president. Through Mr. Furman's efforts, aided by Messrs. Colquitt and Grasty, over 40 •ml the leading merchants in Georgia. Ala- b-ama and South Carolina became stock- holders. It is a home company, operated with home capital. The original name #f the company was "Southern Mining mnd Farm Improvement Company." ;Soon after Mr. Furman's death, the Jiame of the company was changed la his honor, to "Furman's Farm Im- ^ovement Company." The large facto- xj of the company is located at East Point, connected by telephone with the office in Atlanta. The company is readjr for business. ITS OFFICERS ARE : E. W. Marsh, ('of Moore, Marsh and Company,) President. W. C. Grasty, Jr., Vice-President. L. J. Hill, (President Gate City Na- tional Bank, ) Treasurer. Prof. N. A. Pratt, Chemical and Mining Engineer. Hugh H. Colquitt, General Mana- ager. J. M. Patton, Secretary. Joseph F. Allison, Superintendent. READ THE PRESS NOTICES. Atlanta Constitution. COMPANY. The quickest building ever done in ■Georgia, in our knowledge, is recorded ill the erection of the factory for tiie Funuan Farm Improvement 'Company, 3t^t East Point. Tills company organized last year with heavy capital and put tijeir fertilizers, specially prepared under Mr. Furman's supervision, on the market for the first time. It was knovvn that they were very successful, but never until this season approaclied, and the demand began to Opev, did the company appreciate the re- markable demand this one season's re- ^rd had created. It then became necessary to build a large factory in the shortest possible Hme. The compa' y broke grouud for the new factory on September 29:h. The building was finished on November 15th, «r in just 46 days. It occupies over one fchousand feet of railroad iront, covers nearly an ; ere of ground. Over 100,000 feet of lumber was user!, and yet the car- ptnters' work, including the heavy tim- bers necessary to support the acid cham- bers, was done in twenty-five days. The materials for the building were bought from the firms named in the advertise" ment on tbe first j^age of The Constituiion after close figuring was done with ail the leading firms in the various lines. The company offers for sale excellent fertilizers, made after Mr. Furman's f irmulse. They have been tested for sev- eral years on Furman's farm, where thejr produced the most wonderful results. Last sea'^on when first generally int o- duced they gave the highest satisfaction. The compa y is a home institution — haa strong men of high character in its make up, and deserves the hearty patronage of our people. to the farmers of the south. "Farish Furman's Formula" is pre- pared only by the "Southern Mining and Farm Improvement Company," H. H. Colquitt, General Manager, Atlanta, Ga. Mr Colquitt's company guarantees the grade of the goods, and agrees to sell at what I know to be bottom prices, and E have authorized them to sell these goods with my name and brand to prevent any impositions to the injury of the planter and my own hurt. F. C. Furman. The above letter was written by Mr. Furman last season, and in order to ia- ^ sure the perfect preparation of tka Furman Farm Improvement Company. 15 '^Formula," he united with the compa- ny and became its president. The com- pany, in his honor, changed the name to ^ Furman Farm Improvement Com- pany," His farai'y get a royalty on the fertilizers we make, and we alone have the information for making "Furman's Formula" as perfected by him. [From, the Atlanta Constitution, Mav 20, 1883. AN IMPOHTANT ENTHEPEISE. A FACTORY FOR WOEKI^G FUF.MAy'S FOP.M- ULA — KEEPI^JG OUR MONEY AT HOME. Late last season Mr. H. H. Colqnitt offered for sa e a fertilizer made up after the formula established by ilr. Furman' Mr. Furman himself wrote out the formula and .superintended itsmanufac- - ' rliaa 1,000 tons were sold and muck more ordered Appreciating the demand fui rh's fer- tilizer, Mr. Furman, Mr. Colquitt, j-Ir. Gra.-ty and a few other gentlemen deter- niinc'd to establish a factory for working up this formula. Thc-y as.^ociated with them Dr. X. A. Prau. whom we have commended in these columns a5 having done more for the m^.neral development of the So .til than any other man within its borders. The enterpri^ - - under way, and enough capit:^ :i sub- scribed to make it an a.-;u: . - . _ : u s The plan of the company is to furui-li the chemicals commuted in the pre.^v u- tion and manner as directed by :\If Fur- man and under his control. .=o that the larni vt " u^ ^:>uy it and compost it with his '! .seed and stable manure, and - ri^'Oi fertilizer tor cofion at ie-:.-5 tj, ' " O^e cost of a full com- mercial th - also, to make a full ammonia:L-.i .ei Liiizer hy the addition of cotton sef-d meal and 'all ehe that is needed, Each of these plans they will or^'u- to tli'v fai-mer. The C''i:nuany lias =ecured three iron pyrire nrine-, out of which they will make its own sulphuric acid, and their works will V,e under the supervision of Dr. Pritt, wlio put up the acid works both here and at Xa-shville. This gives pei feet assurance that the work will be W'-d done. Arrangements have been made _fur cotton seed meal, and every- thing in the fertilizers except the phos- pliates will be taken out of Georgia soil. Other things being ecpial. every ton of homeuuade ferdlizer purchased in place of a foreign article is jttst so much better for the State. It is projxDsed, we believe, by the com- pany, to extend its field of operation and Fnlirge its capital somewhat by offering to take one stockholder in each town in Georgia, and thus interesting at least one merchant in the sale of the new formula. The Constitution has no Jnterest in the enterprise beyond what I it has in every scheme that looks to the I benefit of the State. Every factory j built by Dr. Pratt has an unequivocal succe.s5, and his plan, backed by the "Furman Formula," and preparing the acid phosphate and kainit for compost- ing, promises not only to be profitable, but of great advanta'ge to Georgia in stimulating composting and in keeping our monev at home. [From the Chronicle and Constitutionalist.] FUPvMAN'S LATEST PEOJECT. There .seems not to be the slightest doubt, but rather cumulative testimony of the highest character, that Hon. Far- ish Furman has practically demonstra' ted that, by his intensive system of agri- culture, the poorest land in the South can be made as productive as the alluvi- um of the IMis.-issippi or the Valley of the yile. As a specimen of what h^'s culture has accomplished, we are told th.Ht on .some acrus of what ws once barren Georgia upland. I'.rr, Furman, in spite of drought, expects confidently to make twenty ba'es of cotton I Liebig attributed niuch of the decadence of the Roman Empire to the bui.ding of tlie Great Sewers of the eat >ital citv, whereby the ferti izingiuaterial, th it should have gO';e back to tlie land from v.-Ineh it wra taken, washed into the Tiber and was lost forever. Ivlr. Furrnan deiuo^ustratcs that modern chemistry has provided a method for re-establishing worn out or i.^xhausteel soils, and that no p'ace on the earth's surface has advantages suj^erior or equal to the South in the productirn or manufacture of the material trsed in recreating the impoverished tields of the country. Having demonstrated the ex- cellence of intensive farming, lie has gone farther, and, in co-ju notion with Mr. H. H Co'quitt and others, proposes a plan v.diereby another n:ining and manufacturing industry shall be added toother enterpri.ses of a similar impoit in the South. Fnle-s all demonstration be fiction, Mr. Furman. has .solved the greatest ag- ricidtural ditfieti'ty of the age, especiary as it applies to the S^juth, by producing a manure that is thoroughly adapted to the planters' wants, and that not on^y compels unprecedented crop yields, but leaves the soil infinitely richer and better than it ever was in any .stage of its existence since the foundation of the world. His next step, and not less important, is to deliver this people from the bond- age of alien fertilizer manufacttirers, and keep at home the surplus wealth that is only too often sent abroad for imperfect and even dangerous material Mr. Fui'" man claims — and his experiments would seem to demonstrate the claim beyond cavil— that he has hit upon the peVfect formtila for cotton. His engrossing idea now is to have the South manufacture 16 Furman Farm Improvement Company, her own fertilizers, and, to that end, and as an incident to it, develop her mines of pyrites from which the acid necessary shall be drawn. It is the ambition of Mr, Furman, as ■we understand it, not only to show the South how to comprehend and apply a perfect fertilizer, but that this fertilizer shall be essentially a Southern product a long way better, cheaper and more fructifying than the material that has made millionaires of so many Northern people and paupers of so many Southern farmers. Mr. Furman, as we view it, has fulfilled all the conditions of being considered such a public benefactor. He only needs to be sustained by Southern farmers and merchants to an extent that will not only pro '^e beneficial to them, "but to this section, which provenly con- tains, according to Prof. Pratt and other experts, all the necessary raw material for a complete restoration of the soil, its permaneT;t fertility and the saving of millions of money that annually go out of the South's pockets to the vast enrich- ment of strangers andthe disastrous leech- ing of our people. If Mr. Furman and Mr. Colquitt can stop that drain of mon- ey and turn it upon our own cities and fields, they are worthy of the highest honors any na'ion could bestow upon its worthiest citizens. They feel assured of success, and we see no reason to doubt their highest anticipation. If Furman can make a fertilizer that performs miracles on poor land, there is no reason to question his ability to apply intensive finance to intensive agriculture. [From the Georgia Truck-Farmer, Fort Val- ley, Georgia.] rUEMAN'S rOEMULA AS COM- POUNDED BY THE SOUTHERN MINING AND FABM IM- PROVEMENT COMPANY. AN INTERESTING TALK WITH MR. FURMAN. The Ti-uck-Farmer office was honored en Friday last by a visit from Hon. Par- ish C. Furman, the man with whom ©riginated the celebrated formula which is now so extensively and profitably used in all the cotton growing States. Mr. Furman is president of the South- ern Mining and Farm Improvement Company, of Atlanta, and was accom- panied by Mr. W. C. Grasty, treasurer of the same, and we have seldom had a Tisit from two more pleasant and agree- able gentlemen. Mr. Furman is travel- ing ovpr Georgia in the interest of his company. When asked about the aims and ob- jects of his company, Mr. Furman said : "The Southern Mining and Farm Im- provement Company" is an enterprise to tee located at Atlanta, Ga,, the object ci which is, first, the production of stancl- ard chemicals for fertiliztng purposes ct superior grade from Georgia pyrites and Carolina phosphate rock at bottom prices. Second, the manufacture from these chemicals. First, of the chemical constituents of Furman 's formula to be offered the farmers in the best possible condition for use in composting with muck and home-made manure; that is to say, thoroughly mixed and finely divided or comminuted by suitable machinery, making the same materials much more available as plant food, and therefore more valuable to the farmer than if mixed on the farm with the hoe and spade. Second. The preparation . of special manures for each variety of crops grown in the South. As, for instance, a special manure for cotton, ouf for corn, one for oats and one to suit the requirements of the truck farmer. Some agricultural journals have taken the position that it is clieap r and better for the farmer to purchase the chemical ingredients of Furman's formula sepa- rately and mix them at home hims If, but this is a mistake. In the iirst place, there is danger of his not getting first- class material ; in the second place it is impossible upon a farm to thoroughly mix and comminute the materials as can be done by proper machinery at the fac- tory. ' To give an idea of the increased value produced by fine comminution or divi- sion of the particles, take an illustration from the animal economy : Calomel reduced to an impalpable powder produces with the same weight ten times as great an effect upon the hu- man being as the same substance in a coarse powder. So it is with chemical manures in their relation to an effect upon the vegetable world. The finer the subdivision and the more thorough the mixture, the more immediate and sustained will be the ef- fect. The efficacy of the formula is in- creased at l6ast twenty-five per cent, by this means. The intention of the directors and in- corporators is that this is to be essential- ly a farmers' company, the capital stock is one million dollars, in shares of a par value of ten dollars each; it is intended that this stock shall be scattered among the farmers of Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina, with the idea of secur- ing in every investor a friend and cus- tomer, whose interest it will be to build up the company in which he has in- vested. The enterprise so far has been received with marked favor, and there is ever an eagerness shown to invest on the part of every one who has been ap- proached on the subject. The idea of the originators is that its success will do more to encourage prac- tical co-operation among the farmers by giving them a community of interest than any ether enterprise ever stated Furritaji Farm Improvement Company. n at the South. The intention is to sell j el' se for cash, thereby c-nco -ira-rir g ca:^h ; purchase on the part of the farmer, and j discouraging the ruinous credit on time system thatls sapping the vitality of the eountry. The motto will be quick sales and small profits — which motto will, it is be- lieved, insure generous dividends for the stockholders— kte|.ii;:g all our nio:iev at home. Of the demand for i' - ^■ there is no dotibt. Some of ; - were mauufacuired and pat in.:..- ket as a test, in Februarv and Z\larch ar Atlanta, by Mr. H. H, Cob nr.", bv au- thority of Mr. Furman, ; ' liy for cash. Mr. Colqni : - ..^a prepared and received o].,.:; i.ji hun- dreds of tons he was u::;able to furnish. The issue of the enterprise will be most beneiicial from every -landpoinr: it will furnish the farmer a standard ar- ticle of chemicals, ar a rate it is beneved lower than ever oriered before, and as some of these chemicals v.dll be prepared peculiai'ly with a view to comp>:>-f'i:g under Mr. Furman'- plan- and prinred directions that will accompany each sale. It is hoped and believed that a wonderfttl stimulu* will be given the saving and proLba-.T-oa o: b jme-made manures, withoiu ca_-e a;:ention to which no system of agriculture can per- manently endure and prosper. For in- simice. the manure from one cow care- ful y saved, and mixed with litter, etc., which should be placed under the cow at night in a p.en in which the c j'v sh.nild be coniined. "is worth not le— ilian rifty dollars a year, and in a failure by lazi- ness? and carelessness on the part of Geor- gia farmers to pen their cattle ae night on the proper litter of pine straw leaves, etc., there is a clear loss of millions of dollars a year. From the Mac'on Dailv Telesraph.! FAEMEE FUBMAN'S FOSKULA. We are hxed in the faith that our farmers should plant less land, and work what they plant by better processt-s, and that every pound of manure saved and tised on the farm adds to the material wealth of Georgia. We trust that Farm- er Furman"s formula may prove an uni- versal success, and because we so wish it we cannot adopt the hysterical -tyle of writing of it until it has fairly stood the test of time. We are pleased to know that it is to be presented to the farmers of Georgia in such a shape as should induce them lo give it a thorough trial, A company has been formed "to prepare the clieni- icals to be used in this formula at At- lanta. Georgia. This companv embr:.ces among others W. C. Grasty, Eso,, a gentleman of cool judgment' and busi- ness esperienc-^, and Dr. Pratt, a clu.un- ist, whose fame is not coniined to Geor- gia, The company has eng tred the products of mines ftirnishing the best of copper pyrites, from which fo manufac- ture sulphuric acid. The phcvsphates will be obtained in South Carolina, and the kainit must be imported from Ger- many. FUEHAN'S TASIC. WOXDEEFUL WOEK OX A SCRUB FaRM — Growing erom Eight Balies or Cotton ox Sixty Acres to Okb HuyDKEP Bales, and How the In- crease WAS MADE — Formula for Feeding the Earth — Startling Figures. Si'teial L j the Atlanta Constitution. Atlanta, Ga., Sepi ember 30. I suppose there are fc>v re.id; r-^ of T'.t Omstiiution who do not remem ber Farish Furman. He was a bright and brainy Senator in 1S76, and led the capital campaign against Atlanta — was meuiiorjed for Congress — and I ' ^ - eemed him as one of the b>_ - and most capable of our yo /.jliticians. A few years ago he quit politics and went to farmingr I heard diat he had set- tled on a thin piece of land with ]xx)r prospects, and, in common with many of his friends, thought he had dropped out of affairs. At the last Agricultural Convention j he electrified the older farmers of the 1 State with the details of the most as- toundini; five years' farming ever done I in a Southern State, and is to day more ; talked about in the State than it he had served in Con^re^s twenty years. ! I have heard tlie record of his wonder- I ful work several times within the past ; few montas, and tlie comment with j which it is usually greeted is. "I don't believe it." I simply say that I have I the authority ci a: least t.bree excellent I gentlemen for the truth of the following I main points; Furinan started with sixty acres of the vl'T-v poiuest land in Middle Georgia , rive years ago. The first year he made ' eight bales of cotton on the sixty acres, or less than one bale to eight acres. ' This shows that it was the poorest of scrub land. The second year he put ^iXi pounds of compost to tlie acre, and made twelve bales of cotton where he made eight before. The third year he used LOCK) potinds of compost to the acre, increasing the vield on the sixtv acres to twentv-three bales. The fourth year he used 2,000 pounds 1 of compost to the acre, and increased I his crop to forty-seven bales on the i sixty acres, I The hfth year he iised4,O0Q pounds oi compost to"^ the acre, and his crops certainly above eighty bales to the sixty acres and may reach one hundred bales. He has done all this work with two 18 Fur man Farm Improvement Company. plows, and eighteen days extra plowing. His official and detailed statement shows that the total expenses were $2,300, and his net profits $2,725 — a fine record on a two-horse farm. In addition, the land that was worth $5 an acre five years ago is now worth $100 an acre. So with two mules this year he has raised at least 80 bales of cotton, 1,000 bushels of oats and 400 bushels of corn. From the Charlotte Observer. 1 FTJEMAN'S PAEMINGIN OAEOLINA. A good deal has been said in our col- umns lately about the extensive system of farming pursued by Mr. Farish Fur- man, of Georgia, and on a trip to Cabar- rus county the first part of this week this writer saw a practical demonstra- tion of its wonderful results. Mr. Ervin Harris, a young farmer of Poplar Tent, became interested in the accounts of Furman's intensive system and con- cluded to try it. He selected an acre of ground which he plan ted in cotton after Furman's plan. He put on this acre of ground 1,200 pounds of compost. The early season was bad and the cotton did not get a good stand, but, this fact to the ^contrary notwithstanding, he will make fully three bales from this one acre. The cotton is neck high to a man and there are from fifty to seventy five bolls to the stalk. Mr. Harris never hoed the cot- ton, but ran a plow through to cultivate it. He is so well pleased with the result that next year he will, he says, cultivate as much land as his means will allow under this intensive system. It is sim- ply wonderful, and with these practical results before their eyes, it will not be long until all our farmers are pursuing Furman's method. EXTBAOTS PROM ME. TUEMAN'S SPEECH. The only other question left for con- sideration, and one with which I am fre- quently confronted, is: "Granted that it can do all this, does it pay?" "Is it not too expensive for general adoption?" "Is it within the means of the average Southern farmer?" To answer these queries I will draw again upon my own experience and give you the figures cov- eringnny five years' experiment on sixty acres of land. Five years ago I selected sixty acres of the poorest land in middle Georgia, fi ve acres being red clay, twenty-five sandy surface with clay subsoil near the sur- face, and about one-half or thirty being sandy piney woods land without any clay within several feet of the surface. I cultivated this carefully the first year without manure, and made on it eight bales of cotton. The second year I ap- plied 500 pounds of compost per acre, consisting of «ix bushels cotton seed, six bushely stable and lot manure, and one hundred and forty pounds chemical, costing two dollars per acre, making the cost of manure used on the sixty acres $190. The crop was twelve bale^otton, averaging 470 pounds and bringing $47 per bale — giving four bales of cotton in- crease, or in money $188, and leaving a profit on its use, after paying for the ma- nure, of $68, or about 60 per cent. The third year I doubled the manure, using one thousand pounds pver acre, costing on the sixty acres, in the aggregate, $240 and the crop nearly doubled, rising to 23 bales and giving an increase of 15 bales, worth $675, with a profit from the use of the manure of $435, or nearly two hun- dred per cent, on the money invested in man ure. The fourth year I doubled the application again, with an aggregate cost of $480, and this time the crop was a lit- tle over doubled, being for this year 47 bales; the increase over the firsi year be- ing 39 bales, worth $7,755, leaving a prof- it of $1,275, or nearly 300 per cent, on the investment. The fifth of last year I again doubled the manure, using 4,000 pounds to the acre, costing altogether $960, and the crop harvested was 70 bales cotton and 500 bushels oa s— five acres of the land having been planted first in oats and afterwards in cotton, with a yield of 500 bushels oats and IV^ bales of cotton. Putting the oats at 60 cents per bushel, the money value of this crop waf $3,450, leaving a profit on investment in manure of $2,490, or a percentage of profit of nearly 260 per cent. You will observe that the percentage of profit was not quite so great this year as last, but the return in money was gaeater, as there was twice as m uch in- vested, but the profit in the use of the manure in increased production repre- sents only one branch of the profit. While I was increasing my crops and receiving heavy dividends, I was build- ing up my land. When I began, two hundred dollars would have been a large price for the sixty acres ; to-day I could sell it for fifty dollars an acre ; so that twenty-eight hundred dollars has been made by the increase in value of the land, but the manure used during the time only cost in the aggregate $1,800; so the enhanced value in the land pays for the manure and leaves a thousand dollars as profit. Aga'n, to make 70 bales of cotton and 500 bushels of oats, with the average production of Georgia or Alabama lands, will require at least 250 acres of land, and it will take at least eight mules and labor in proportion to cultivate it. I cultivated my crop with two mules, thus saving the 'investment of nine hundred dollars in that most un- desirable of all property, a mule, when run by cutfee as a freeman, saving the labor of a six-mule farm and the feed of six mules ; really, under the intensive system, I cultivate my sixty acres of land with less labor than a crop of sixty acres required mi^^x the old system. I Furman Farm Improvement Company. 19 plant lat«, and all good farmers know that means l&ss work, and my crop grows so rapidly that it, as it were, works itself and I soon have to lay it by, where- as under the bumble-bee cotton system, it is a hard fight all the year between the cotton and the grass, and the farmer is kept constantly digging to save his crop. Again, I am able to employ and secure the best and most eflfective labor. There are two ways of controlling men, one by ttie hope of reward, and the other by fear of punishment. I have found that by holding out inducement to my labor- ers of extra wages in the event that a certain fixed product is obtained, that the quality and efficiency of their work is greatly improved. Again, they rake a pride in the crop, and are as careful . and constant in their efforts to secure a maximum result as I myself. If then the intensive systera is so pre- ferable to the old or extensive, why, you will ask, is its adoption not more «.ni'versal? Remember that Rome vvas no' built in a day. It takes time to rev- olutionize the habits of thought and ac- tion into which a people have crystal- lized by the practice of three generations. But I note in the eagerness for tho •oiigh practical information as to the ne /.- sys- | tem that every day is becoming in -re extended and more earnest among our people, a golden bow of promise span- ning the horizon that overhangs the des- tinies of the new South. And I predict here to-day that we have already enter- ed upon an era of success and prosperi- ty, such as has never yet been recorded for any people in the annals of history. * * * * All the learned professions are crowd- ed to overflowing. We need no more professional men. The great crying ne- cessity of this country is intelligent, edu- cated agriculturists. Your native state has wisely opened up here within these academic halls an opportunity for you, by embracing which you may educate and prepare fourself peculiarly as a farmer. Seize upon the opportunity; make scientifiCj intelligent agriculture your study and delight, and my word for it, you wili never regret your choice, for it will bring yoti fame and wealth, and what is better than eithc, contentment. Do not be satisfied to be a mere tiller of the s^l ; study, originate, make your agriculture what it is — a scientific profession. Above all study nature; commune with her from early morn till dewy eve. Strive to learn her laws and follow them, for in so doing lies the secret of success in any department of life's labor, wheth- er in science, the arts or agricultare. Sea ch ever after the truth — not that truth which justifies you or your pet theories to yourself, but seek truth for truth's sake and when you have found it follow its lead. Nature is always true, and if you can find out what nature wants you v.-ill never make a mistake. Nature's laws like nature's God are fixed, eternal, unchangeable, and the success of that man is assure i, who conforms ac- curately to their requirements. If any of you can but ascertain the natural laws applicable to and control- ling any biancti of agriculture and them by follow ng them carefully and coa- scientioiisiy can succeed in building a ! system that will cause two blades ©f grass, two stalks of grain, two ears of corn, or two boUsof cotton to spring and grow where but one grew before, thea indeed is your mission on earth not a fruitless one, though men may fail t® erect in your honor monuments of mar- ble or of bronze, and though none maf attempt to perpetuate your memory- embalmed in glowing canvas, or carved upon the chiseled stone — you will leave an impress behind yon that time cannot efface, and that will last long after the bronze or marble shall have crumbled into dust. The good that yoti have done will not die with you— it will live on — it will but broaden and deepen with the growth of time, and its influence will only cease to be exerted for the benefit of suffering humanity when time itsell shall haye lapsed into eternity. ASK YOUR MERCHANT FOR BEHTLTS UUIVERSAL PLOW, BR1MIY, OR WRITE TO US FOR ILLUSTRATED PRICE LIST. We can furnish any part you want of any we evei made. BKINLY, MILES & HARDY CO., Sole Miaxi-afacb-ULrers, I-ioiiis-ville, Bly- (MENTION THIS PAMPHLET.) ■' ■» Atlanta Home Insurance Co. A GEORGIA INSTITUTION, SEEKING HOME PATRONAGE, MANAGED BY STRONG AND WEALTHY HOME FINANCIERS, AND MEANT TO KEEP INSURANCE PROFITS AT HOME. Capital Stock - - - $200,000 }■ Authorized - - - $500,000 STOCK DIFFUSED IN THE LEADING CITIES AND TOWNS OF THE STATE. Business Confined to the State. The Most Liberal Policies Issued. Only the Best Business Sought. A Company Conservative and Solvent. liOBEUT J. LO WHY, I>res. - - - IIXJUT, Bee. DIRECTORS: SAM'L M. 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It ef:fCtu:-ily prevents the gin frcm cutting . r n;;pping the lint, it grea ly incriases the qual- ity and quantity the lint, giving it a silky, soft apiearance. and causes the cotton to cias-s from one to six grades highe'- than it would uncle:; u. It renders the ginning and ba'.ing pn^cess much more healthy and pleasant, and con- verts dirty storn"! cot^TP. whick seldom pays for ti-.e rickins- and ginning' iiito erood. merchantable cotton. It proves in.dispensable if once used, and a^s it is simple ia construction, the whole machine driven bv one belt, only two bear- in -s to oil. no wav tngetit out of order, will last for y ears, all work- in? fiartsbeins of iron and can be ran bv horse, steam or water povr- er, arid oper?ted by a boy. The additional power required to run the Cleaner in count ction with the gin is non-iinal. De^cTiption oi Cleaner.— A— Con- trolling Valve. B--Shndand Dirt IMscharge Flue. D— The Whipper Chamber in which the cotton is^freed from the sand, dirt, loose trash and all gummv locks torn top'eces and thoroughlv mixed. E— f-eedinr Flue. F— Cotton Discharge Flue. O— Pand and Dirt Boxes. The ^ hole rdachine driven by one belt— only two bearings to oil— no way to gee it out of order, and will last for vears, all working part5 being of iron. Local agents wanted in all unoccupied territorv. For farther information call upon onr loo w. agects, or apply to us for terms, prices, etc. CliAKKE SEED-COTTOX CLEAXER M'F G CO., 69"^; E. ALABAMA Street, ATLANTA, GA. THE FAMOUS WHITE SULPHUR SPRIHGl — ON THE— SUWANBE RIVER, IN HA.MILTON COUNTY, FLORIDA. Eight Miles from Welbom, Twelve Miles from Lake City, ontlie P. C & W. Sailway> — AND - EIGHTEEN MILES FROM JASPER, ON THE S. F & W. RAILWAY, WHERE HACKS CAN BE HAJ) AT ALL TIMES. The White Sulphur Spring is the finest Mineral Spring in the South, its waters flo'wing at the rate of t^-entv thousand gallons per minute from solid rock. The temperature is 72 degrees Fahrenheit the year round. The bath pool is 20x30 feet, on a gradual descent from two to eight ieet deep at low water, making it one of the finest plunge baths in America. Its waters cure Rheumatism in all its forms, Kidney and Bladder Afiections. Scrofula and all Skin Diseases, Nervous E xh austion, and Female Complaints. In fact, it is \he place for all invalids m search of quiet, rest, and health. Bath in Summer and Winter. Ample accommodations have been made for two hundred guests. A Public Hall, Bowling Alley and Croquet Grotinds have been arranged for sport and pleasure. Pot fiirth« Information apply to WIGHT & POWELL, WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, FLORIDA- THE GLOBE COTTON PLANTER. THE BEST FOR FARM: USE. PAYS DOUBLE ITS PRICE IN ONE SEASON. THE GLOBE PLANTER HAS JUST TAKEN THE FIRST FIVE ? PREMIUM MEDALS AS THE BEST COTTON PLANTER, THE BEST COTTON AND CORN PLANTER, THE BEST COTTON SEED DRILL, THE BEST COTTON SEED DROPPER, THE BEST FERTILIZER DISTRIBUTOR, AT THE LOUISVILLE EX- POSITION, OVER A FIELD OF COMPETITORS. THE GLOBE HAS NEVER BEEN BEATP:N. ITS RECORD— After eleven days test in the field again'it twentv-nine competitors at Atlanta Cotton Exposition, it was unanimously awarded first grand medal and special certificate. At Little Rock, Ark., State Fair a com- mittee of practical planters awarded GLOBE PLANTE R first prize over all others. A committee of Cotton Planters' Associao tion, after exhaustive tests in the field, pr«>- nounced the GLOBE 'superior to any Planter we have ever seen.' The Committee on Agricultural Implements Southern Exposition, Louisville, Ky., say : "On account of the great variety of work it performs, its simple and substantial construc- tion, enabling the most unskilled labor to ase it, together with its low price, the committee has unanimously awarded the above five med- als." What the Farmers of Seven States Say About the "Globe." J. T.Collins. Macon Station, Ala.— "Great- ly superior to any other. I use four." W. H. McDaniel Forest City, Ark.— '-The best for both cotton and corn 1 ever used." P. S. Burney, Madison, Ga.— " It does better work than any machine I ever saw." C. L. Walmsley, Natchitoches, La.—*' We have no hesitation in saying it is the best implement we have ever seen." C. H. Smith, Greenville Miss. — " I have used twelve of your Plante-s, using them side by side with four other Planters, and they are superior in every respect to all others." C. T. Lawrence, Scotland Neck, N. C.~"I had another planter but laid it aside for yours, and now use the " GLOBE " on both my farms." James P. Perkin, Fort Mott, S. C— " The GLOBE is better than the Dow Law or any other Planter I ever saw." We could back these certificates of the farmers of seven states with scores of ethers. SPECIAL.— To meet the demand for the GLOBE PLANTER we have made a smaller siie, known as No. 2. Our No. i., while better than ever, is reduced forty-three pounds in weight, and Vo. 2. weighs less than one hundred pounds. The Planter is improved in many respects. Buy the best and save money. THE GLOBE PLANTER will pay for itself twice over in en« season. Used by the Best Farmers. Address THE GLOBE PLANTER M'FG. CO., Send for circular and mention this paper. 236 Marietta Street, Atlanta, Ga. FRUIT RECORDER «0 AND Cottage Gartaer. 20- page monthly; $1.00 per year; specimen free. It speaks for itself. Liberal Terms to Club Agents. 40-Page TREE, PLANT, FLOWER and SEED CATALOGUE Free to All. Address ^5^^ PURDY, Palmyra, N. Y. Instructor. Telle how to grow suc- cessfully. Scores of llJustralions. Sent postpaid, for 25 cents in stamps. For particulars see catalogue. lEST and FIRMEST of the large productive and hardy Red Raspberries. DUNCAN'S MAMMOTH PROLBFIC COTTON. YIELD. 6,S90 POUNDS PER ACRE. Tliis cut represents the actual, size of a boll of DUNCAN'S MAMMOTh PROLIFIC COTTON DALLAS, GA. I'urman Farm hnprovement Company, FARISH FURMAN. Parish Furman was born in Baldwin county, Georgia, in July, 1846. His mother was a daughter of iFarish Carter, in his days the largest slave owner and wealthiest man in Georgia, at one time awning over two thousand slaves. His maternal grandmother was Miss Eliza McDonald, a sister of Charles J. McDon- ald, who was at one time Governor of the State, and one of its most prominent statesmen. Mr. Furman's father was Dr. J. H. Furman, of South Carolina, a son of the Rev. Samuel Furman, and grandson of Dr. Richard Furman, of Charleston, an eloquent Baptist minister, after whom the Furman University in Greenville, S. C, is named. Farish Furman entered the Southern army in 1.864, and 'served as a private until the close of tlie war. He then matriculated at the Sout h Carolina Uni- versity, at Columbia, and then took the degree of A. B. In 1868 he went to Macon, Ga., and began the study of law. In March, 1869, he was married to Miss E. F. LeConte, eldest daughter of Dr. Joseph LeConte, the celebrated scientist, now professor of geology in the University of California, under whose tutelage he was graduated in chemistry-— Dr. LeConte being at that time a professor in the South Carolina University. He was admitted to the bar in July, 1869, and at once moved to the old homestead near Milledgeville, and open- ed a law-office in the town. In 1873 he was appointed, by the Governor, Judge of the County Court of Baldwin county, and held the office until 1877, when he was elected to the State Senate, and was largely instrumental in calling a State convention to form a new Constitution. Wiien the convention was called, he was sent to it as the champion of Milledge- ville up|on the question of the restora- tion of the capitol, which in the days of reconstruction had been removed to At- lanta, The convention having remitted this question to the people, he took the stump and canvassed a considerable por- tion of the State on it. In 1879 h3 was appointed, by the Governor, State's At- torney in his judicial circuit; and hav- ing been defeated' in the contest for the sui'cession to this office before the legis- lature (this being Iiis first and only de- teat ), he retired in disgust from politics and turned his attention to his landed interests, fortunately for the agricul- tural interest of the State. However valuable may have been Mr. Furman's services in politics, his services in agri- culture have far surpassed them. The above was published in the Home and Farm and we supplement with an addiiional notice from the same paper: The announcement of the death of Farish Furman will be received throughout the South with fee'ings of deep regret. Among the Southern far- mers his death will be felt as a personal loss. As yet a young man, full of ener- gy, active and ^-areful in h's hivestiga- tions, successful to an unusual desrree in his exp riments, he had, though a law- yer in the active pursuit of his profes- sion, come to be perhaps the^most influ- ential teacher, in a practical way, of all who give any thought to agricultural topics. The readers of Home and Farm are able to appreciate fully the value of the labors of Mr. Furman. His formula for making a fertilizer on the farm, for util- izing what formerly had been throwa away, has now been tried by thousands, and, when followed carefully, with uni- forml}'- gratifyinar results. His methods have, in fact, inaugurated a revolution in agriculture in the South, the full ef- fects of which we are now beginning to realize. Mr. Furman did not propose a rad'cal departure; there was no effect on his part to overthrow any precon- ceived opinions or to combat any h<^re- ' sies. He simply applied knowledge which elsewhere was valuable to the farm. He used the materials which are within the reach of all. He reasoned about his work ; he was observant, care- ful and painstaking; he was logical and exact. The results, as we say, can not yet be estimated. He has done a good work for his people ; a better w-rk can no man do. He has earned his rest, and, though he departs at an untimely hour, though he puts down his imple- ments of labor just when he seem^'d best abla to handle them, though now the world seemed least able to do without him, we know his work was done. Of every faithful worker, of every man who does earnestly and conscientiously what day by day is given him to do, it may be said, as once said a great preacher, "He is immortal until his work is fin- ished." i'urman I^ar^n Improveynent Cotfipafiy, 25 PARISH FURMAN. A Ma^t of Geeat Peo3iixe>-ce I^- Gzok- GiA CrT*Dowx i^' His Youth. [From tfcie Augusia Chroiiicle.] About two months ago Judge Farish Purman called at the^ Chromde office while passing through Augusta, This was The first and only tinie the writer ever beheld him. Though thirty-seven years of age. he did not look anything like it. and the high, bright 'hopes beaming in his whole countenance and | giving tone to every look and syllable, ; made^^him appear still more youthiul. ; He had become famous^ a'practical planter, and by precept and example had done more perhaps than any man of his years to fire the whole agriculture South with emulation of his own re- markable career. It is said that the formula he had given to the world was not original. Granted ; but he had the signal credit of not only popularizing it, but demonstrating substantially that the poorest land in the South can be made to produce crops equaling and often surpassing those fertilized by na- ture and unworn by culture. He was a splendid type of the younger g-eneration 01 men, who are to buildup this section, and make it the most productive on the i earth. It is to his credit that, finding \ that law and politics could not satisfy j his ambition, and that other men were i iipt to gain more local celebrity than 1 himself in such pursuits, he turned his acute intellect, his oratorical gifrs. his fondness fo'^ ^:)Osition. his discipline in research, to anouuei arena, with such success as to completely overshadow in far-pervading reputation the rivals of his iorr.ier p-^ie^^-iou. While liis mind ' was ■/ triumph of his : farm::. ■. ar:d the grander i plans lor dcver ;-:r.-;- a home industry in mining and fertiiizers. he bad 'not altogether suppressed the desire to shine as a legislato/. It seemed to us, from some casual words he dropped, that his vision looked beyond Jiis agricultural schemes, and that he expected laier on to make a victory in one domain the stepping stone to higlier preferment in another. But he little dreamed, as we did not, that instead of pushing from one distinction to another during a long life, he then dwelt under the shadow of death. He stood before us. the picture of robust, manly health and beauty, seemingly predestined to length of days, and yet,"'in about eight wet-ks, he was sleeping in the grave. It is straiiire that i so useful, so thorough, so excellent, so j strong, so admirable a young man should pass away, while so many thous- ands who merely cumber the earth and j scandalize it remain I '^'e are again | confronted with the crv of Lear over the body of Cordelia : "What ! Shall a rat, a cat. a dog have life, and thou no breath at all!" The voice of Faith, I however, comes still and soft and low t answer that, in all likelihood, thi^ noted Georgian had fulfilled his mis- sion ; that he had sowed the seed for an abundant harvest ; that it might not have been well for him to linger upon earth, and that God, who gave and took him, • doeth all things well.'' He has left behind him, to be the pride of wife, children and country, a noble record' haloed by an undying memory of youth. Other men will take up the' work that he has so marvelously begun, and bring it to grand conclusions : but none of them will have, we suspect, a fame so singularly ^ure. and long will it be be- fore Georgia forgets her worthy son. [Milledgeville Correspondence Atlanta Consti- tution.] DEATH OF HON. FARISH FURMAN. Judge Farish Furman died at 8:30 o'clock last night of malarial fever, fol- / lowed by congestion of the stomach. He came home from a business t"ip quite unwell, and the disease which caused his death soon made its appear- ance. He was in the hands or a devoted wife and able physician. Dr. W. H. Hall, and everything possible was done for him, hut without success. His remains were interred in the cemetery here to day. *A SKETCH OF jrDGE LIFE. Judge Fi:vi::a:i. v ; young man. i;jr over thirty--; . . . death, was one of tli^ bcst k:it;."-n men in the State. He was ■^orti in l^^r at Scotts- boio, Baldwin county, Georgia, and was a son of Dr. John H. Furman, of South Caroliija, and the grandson of the celebrated Dr. Eichard Fur- man, a Baptist divine, at cr vrhom Furman Finverjity, in Grc r ' vC., u'as named. His mother v:: rh- ter of Colonel Farish Carter, u ;^:rr:i:::ient citizen of this State, and after whom Car- tersviile was named. She was also the niece of that distinguished and honored son of Georgia, Gov^ernor Charles J. Mc- Donald. Judge Furman was educated at Ogle- thorpe Fniversity , the citadel at Charles- ton, and finished his education by grad- uating at the South Careiina Fniversity in 1S6S. He commenced ti e study of law soon after he left college, and in 1S70 was admitted to the bar in Macon, having studied law in the office of Nes- bit Jackson. He entered immediately upon the practice of his profession, and was appointed Judge of the County Court of Baldwin county in 1873, the duties of which office he discharged with great ability. He 'was too young to be an active par- ticipant in the first years of the war. But his datmtless spirit and brave heart carried hira, as young as he was, into the strife, and the last year of the war, he was a gallant private in Elliott's South Carolina brigade. Fnrman Farm Imp\ ^rovement Company. In politics he has always been a strong democrat. He was elected to the Senate in 1876, and has served one term in the Georgia Senate, and was a member of the constitutional conven- tion. He devoted much time to securing a call for the constitutional convention, withahopeof having the capital remov- ed back to Milledgeville, which city he represented. At last the convention was called and the question of the capital was submitted to the people. Judge Furman canvassed the State in behalf of. Milledgeville, and made speeches in perhaps fifty counties. At the close of his term in the Senate, Mr. Furman was a candidate for solicitor-general, but was defeated. He then devoted, himself to farming, bringing to that occupation a fine education, practical and scientific knowledge, and a determination to give it the same care and intelligence that men usually give to the professions. The result ^as wonderful. He took sixty acres of land that produced eight bales of cotton the first year he cultivated it, and byintehsive farming and the appli- cation of a compost that he called a per- fect cotton food, he raised the yield steadily until it had reached 80 bales from 60 the acres. He expected to make from the same ground this j'-ear 100 bales. The details of his plan and the results achieved were printed in a series of letters in the Constitution^ and created the greatest interest through- out the Cotton States. It is esti- mated that more than a million copies of the letters were printed in the State of Georgia, iu one way or another. They have started a revolution in the system of cotton planting, and the re- sults to which they are working can hardly be estimated. Mr. Furman dies with his experiments but half comple- ted, and his death is a loss to the State, and in one sense irreparable. [Planter's Journal, Vicksburg, Miss. Oct. 1883.] DEATH OF PARISH C. FURMAN, THE GREAT GEORGJA FARiVI£R-A MONU- MENT TO HIS MEMORY PROPOSED. It was a sad loss to the South when this great agriculturist died. He has probably done more for the cause of di- versified scientific farming than any other man that has lived in the Cotton States. His lecture on "Intensive Farm- ing," published in the Planters Journal for November, 1882, went further, at- tracted more attention, and we believe did more than any single essay of the kind ever delivered. His experiments in fertilization were peculiarly successful. His celebrated formula has saved to the country thous- ands of dollars that had been previously expended for more costly but no more efScient means of manuring. His ex- ample io cultivating a little farm of sixty-five acres of worn-oat land, so as to make a clear profit of over $3,000 a year, has, to a greater or less extent, been fol- lowed by many who w^ere half cultiva- ting many times that area with even a less profit. « We had all along oeen advocates of small farms and high culture, and when Mr. Furman furnished such a striking practical example of the advantage of this plan, we at once felt that we had found a powerful ally and a valued friend. So highly did we appreciate him that our columns during the past year have been full of his praise. Among other things tuat we said about him was the following: " The most famous man in the South to-day is faaKier F. C. Furman, of Mil- ledgeville, Gra. He has won his fame by the methods that Sir Isaac Newton and Lord Bacon won theirs — viz.: by natural discovery and inductive reasoning." At the time that paragraph was written there were perhaps some who thought we were allowing our praises to become extravagant, but when the history of the new South shall have been written we venture the assertion that its pages will bear us out to this extent at all events, that if he were not the most famous man of his day, he ought to have been. It is men like Furman that the South more sorely needs than those of any other type. Great lawyers are useful, great preachers are useful, great doctors are more useful, but great farmers are most useful. This is essentially a coun- try of farmers, and yet their methods are in a state of worse backwardness than those of any other craft or calling. Far- ish C. Furman was not only a great farmer, but a great teacher of farming. He was more fa — discoverer; hence his commanding usefulness. And now that he is no longer among the living and the w^orking, let us testify our appreciation of his life and his work by erecting a monument to mark his resting place. Let it be a tribute from the farmers of the Cotton States to the noblest farmer of them all. Let it show to the world that the man who "acts well his part" as a farmer shall have high honor paid to his memory by his brother farmers. Let a subscription lis^ at once be prepared and circulated in all our States. Th.e Planters' Journal will be one of a hundred to subscribe the first $5,000. [Atlanta Evening Journal.] DEATH OF HON. F. C. FURMAN. The many friends of this distinguished young Georgian in this city, and through- out the State, will receive the announce- ment of his death with deep sorrow. It was generally known that he has been prostrated with fever for a few weeks past, but it was hoped that he would re- cover up to yesterday. The death of this promisiog young Furman Farm Improvement Company. 2 man is peculiarly felt by a people whose eyes had so suddenly been turned upon him by his successful farming enter- prises, and his probable solution of the problem that is puzzling oar people. The remarkable feature in his life was the abandonment of a lucrative law practice and a most promising field of political preferment to devote his talent and energy to the practical demonstra- tion of Georgia's resources in the agri- cultural line. His name was already fa- miliar all over the South, and he was do- ing much to encourage the tillers of the soil, and bring that noble calling to a proper estimation in the minds of the Southern people* _ The death of Mr. l-'urman is a public calamity, and will be mourned all over the State. But the shadow grows darker when we think of the void created in his happy home, at Scottsboro, where a cle- voted wife and two bright little ones are left desolate. He was a tender, thought- ful husband and father, a true-hearted warm friend, a patriotic, public spirited citizen. Well may Georgia mourn when death claims such of he^ sons as Farish C. Furman. Charleston News and Courier. DEATH OF MR: F. C. FURMAN. Columbia special to the Sunday News, dated September 15th : "Farish C. Furman died at his resi- dence, near Milledgeville, Ga., last night, after three weeks' illness. He was the son of Dr. John H. Furman, of Sumter county, in this State, his mother being a daughter of Judge Farish Carter, of Georgia. He was born thirty-seven years ago. Farish Carter Furman at- tended the Citadel Academy during the ■war, and subsequently graduated with distinction at the South Carolina Uni- yersity. In 1869 he married a daughter of Prof. Jos. LeConte, of (Columbia, set- tling in Milledgeville, Ga. He practiced law, was county judge and was sent to the State Senate in 1876. He took a« active part in the Georgia capital cam- paign, but afterwards abandoned politics and devoted himself to the law and to farming. The results of his experiments in cotton culture have been published all over the United States and in several parts of Europe. He contributed to lead- ing agricultural journals and made many public addresses. At the time of his death he was engaged in raising a com- pany for the manufacture of stilphur from Georgia pyrites, and also of a spe- cial fertilizer or perfect cotton plant food. He had been quite successful in Alabama and Georgia, and had entered South Carolina on this mission, but on reaching Columbia he heard that the caterpillars had appeared in his crop, and hastened home apparently in the most robust health and full of enesgy a id enthusiasm, but on the next day he was taken ill with fever, from whicK disease he died last night. "Young, pure-minded, highly gifted, physically and mentally, full of energy and enthusiasm, he gave promise of the greatest usefulness in the field where the South most needs expansion. So often it is that the professions steal the bright- est intellects of the Sout'a from agricul- ture, that the death of Farish Furman is doubly to be deplored. Scientific agri- culture has lost one of its noblest exem- plars." [From the Atlanta Constitution, Nov. 24, '83.] The cotton convention in Vicksburg yesterday passed a resolution of respect to the memory of the late Hon. Farish Furman, the greatest farmer the South ever produced. YiCKSBUEG, November 2.3. — The sec- ond day's session of the iSTational Cotton Planters' Association of America was largely attended. THE MEMOKY OF FAEISH FUEMAN. A resolution of respect was passed ta the memory of the late Farish Furman, of Georgia, the most huccessful and fa- mous farmer in the South, and a mem- ber of this association, wtomade ninety bales of dtton on land previously pro- ducing eight by fertilizing and improved methods of culture. RESOLUTIONS ON THE DEATH OF HON. F. C. FURMAN. Passed by the board of directors of the "Southern Mining and Farm Improve- ment Company :" Wheeeas, Death has come among u& and taken away in the prime of his life and in the midst of his usefulness ouj: President, the Hon. Farish C. Furman, the foremost farmer, the skilled scientific agriculturist, be it Resolved, 1st. That in his death the State loses one of her most useful citi- zens, the cadse of agriculture its most eloquent advocate, and the country one of its brightest intellects. Resolved, 2d. That we, his associates in the great work he was doing, deeply de- plore his untimely taking off, and here- by express our affection for him and our admiration for tbe splendid qualitiesof his head and heart. He was thoroughly equipped in mental training, and his life was full of hope and promise. We loved him and we mourn his loss. Resolved, 3d. That this company have publis'-ed a sketch of his life and work for distribution among his friends and the stockholders of this company. Res'dved, -Ith. That in consideration of his arduous labors throughout this long hot summer, traveling and talldng al- most day and night to build up this companj^, that wo in honor of his mem- ory have determined to change the name of this organization to the "Fur- 2 8 Fvrman Farm Improvemejit Company, man Farm Improvement Company," and immediate steps will be taken to comply with legal requirements. Resolved 5th. That we tender our heart- 5elt sympathies to his bereaved family in their great affliction, and that a copy of these resolutions be forwarded to them. Resolved^ 6th. That these resolutionsbe "published in the Atlanta Constitution. E. W. Maesh, N. A. Pratt, W. C. Grasty, Jr., Jos. F. Allison, Hugh H. Colquitt, Board of Directors. FExtract from an eciitorial in " L'Abielle " (New Orleans) of March 31, 1883, entitled Science and Agriculture.— 31): Furman. * -] It is thus, that in a short time this self-made agriculturist has reached that safe and certain competency, w^hich knows no reverse, and w^hich laughs at the freaks of fortune. Would that every agriculturist might have constantly before his eyes the ex- ample of this intelligent mind, this noble character, this true model of the American citizen, this survivor of those grand generations which founded the Union, and have remained its purest glory. PARISH FURMAN. [Providence ( R. I.) Journal.] The Augusta, Ga., Chronicle publishes an excellent, because appreciative and plainly hearty, obituary notice of Judge Farish Furman, who had shown what energy and skill could do on and for the soil of Geca-gia. While commenting upon the charac- ter and abilities of Jtidge Furman, in their various p liases, it is as a farmer that he is held up to view as the noble exemplar of the younger generation of Southern men. This is significant. It speaks of a new spirit, a new am)ition, anew reward; and the Chronicle is en- titled to respect for the persistent and able maimer in which it has, despite the sneers of some of its home contem- poraries, held to the important duty of encouraging agriculture. This is the foundation of prosperity everywhere. If it is in manufacturing "England, what is it not in Georgia. [Columbia Register, Sept. 18th, 1883.] DEATH OF THE HON. PARISH CARTER FURMAN. This brilliant young Georgian died at Jiis residence near Milledgeville, Ga., on Friday night, of fever. Three weeks ago the deceased was in our city, where he impressed all who met him with his manly vigor and the generous enthu- siasm of his hopeful and ardent estimate of the great future awaiting the section of his birth and his unfeigned love. Mr, Furman was a member of the old and honorable Furman family of this State. He was the son of Dr. John H. Furman, of Sumter. His mother was a daughter of Judge Farish Carter, who was a leading man and one of the wealth- iest citizens of Georgia. The deceased was born near Milledge- ville in 1846. During the war he was a cadet of the South Carolina Military Academy, and subsequently pursued his studies in the South Carolina University with much distinction. In 1869 Mr. Furman married a daugh- ter of Prof. Joseph LeConte. He leaves behind him this wife and two daughters. Locating near Milledgeville, he entered on the practice of law", serving also as county Judge. He was elected as a State Senator in 1876, and canvassed the State for the removal of the capitol to Mil- ledgeville. He greatly distinguished himself in this canvass, though he failed to achieve success in a cause possibly a foregone conclusion from the beninning. Mr. Furman subsequently devoted himself to intensive farming. Selecting sixty acres of old field pine land near Milledgeville, with improved methods and manures, he raised the production of this farm from an eighth of a bale to over a bale to the acre. The great suc- cess of his plan of cultivation and fertil- ization became a matter of repute in all Georgia and Alabama, so that thousands of Georgia farmers adopted his formula ^ this season. When a great chieftain or statesman dies, we pay his memory common tributes of praise and rear costly monuments to commemorate his fame. How much more is due to him who blazes the pathway of that agricul- tural progress which shall give us anew earth under the same skies. This Farish Furman not ooiy had begun to do, but had already done, with such splendid success that Georgia planters will not fail to mark the spot that contains his mortal remains as that where sleeps one of Georgia's greatest sons, who devoted his distinguished talents in the day of strong young manhood to the exaltation of that calling which, above all others, carries in its palms both peace and plenty. A great light ha« gone out in the land, and we of Carolina deplore him as a noble scion of a race of good and truQ m^ii oj our ow^n soil. 101, 103 and 103 West Front Street, CINCINl^ATI, OHIO. Send for descriptive circular. 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We have m addition to the very latest and most improved scientifically constructed Hydropathic appliances, intro- duced, at a very great expense, the celebrated MoliereThermo-ElectricBath, Improved Turkish, Full- Electric, Russian, Roman, Electro- Vapor, and some twenty different kinds of Electric Water-Baths, which, for general elegance, privacy and superior Therapeutical results, far sur- pass all other baths ever known to the profession in this section. Also Swedish Movement by machinery, and manual or oration by trained manipulators, massage treatment, etc., and other useful remedies. Special attention given to the treatment of diseases peculiar to invalid ladies, Dyspepsia Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Diseases of the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, Eyes, Ears* Nose, Throat and Lungs. For particulars address O, ROBERTSON, M. I>., Atlanta, Georgia. B.F. 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