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Mr. Ray Camp, of Walton county, never used out two sacks of guano in his life, and makes bigger crops than any of his neighbors.Mr. A. T. Lane, a prominent farmer of Bib county, says he raises corn for 20 cents per bushel, and that it will not pay a farmer to haul it twenty miles if given to him.If no catastrophy overtekes the wheat crop we will have one of the best harvests this year since the war. We never saw the fields looking better. Oats are very unpromising.Farmers have about finished planting upland corn and are now putting in fertilizers. A few have planted cotton, but we fear they are most too previous.Winterville will sell about twelve hundred tons of guano. Parties on the proposed line of the Athens Western are buying their guano at Jug Tavern., Thus, inch by inch, Athens is losing the planters’ trade.The song of the plowman is heard in the land, trom early morn to dewy eve.The fruit crop, if no frost arrives in the next few days, will be, to say the least, immense.a FFARPtJ! RUNAWAY.
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Athens Banner Watchman
Athens, Georgia, US
Tue, Apr 08, 1884
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