68 HOW TO PLANT. 



PROFITABLE FARMING. 



Some suggestions whereby farming may be rendered 

 more profitable than many find it, will not be out of 

 place in this book. 



Take a hundred farms in Georgia, for instance, as 

 you come to them, and probably not over one or two 

 in this number can show a true type of any kind of In- 

 dian corn, or a true and distinct seed of any other crop. 

 No one will deny that this is as it should not be. Let 

 each farmer or planter see to it, that he grows a pure and 

 distinct type of corn, fix it and establish it in peculiar 

 characteristics, so that everybody will know " Jones' Lit- 

 tle Red Cob, All Corn," or " Jordon Johnson's Large 

 Cob, Pure White Bread corn." Then, when a demand 

 for seed arises, he has it, and can realize a paying price 

 for it, and there is always a demand for pure seed of all 

 kinds. I have found it more difficult, in my seed busi- 

 ness, to find a pure, well-developed variety of seed corn 

 of Southern growth, than anyone might imagine. Do 

 not try to plant some of Messrs. A, B, C, D, and E's corn ; 

 stick to your own, and select it, and bring it to, and keep 

 it a pure type, and better than anybody else's, and Messrs. 

 A, B, C, I), and E will have to come to you for seed. 



These lemarks concerning corn, apply as well to any 

 other grain, or to any other crop. Take potatoes, for 

 instance ; very few farmers can show a strictly pure tuber, 

 or a pure root of the Yellow Sugar Yam. I never knew 

 the farmer who had a pure, early, prolific and good staple 

 variety of cotton, but he could find ready sale for the seed 

 at fancy prices. It is not well to plant many varieties of 

 any one crop. Take not more than three, at the most ; 

 and these should be, one early and one late. They are 

 then not apt to become mixed. Two types of corn (yel- 

 low and white, for instance), tasseling, silking and ma- 



