Troup County GaArchives News.....MR. TRUITT'S NEW SYSTEM OF FARMING  November 3, 1901
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Savannah Morning  News November 3, 1901
                       MR. TRUITT'S NEW SYSTEM OF FARMING 
                                3 NOVEMBER 1901
     Mr. George W. Truitt, the great cotton grower of Troup, will run his farms
next year on an entirely different plan from heretofore. He has been a great
believer in cotton and has made a great reputation in producing it, but says,
that for farmers of the South to succeed, new ways and means must be resorted
to. He has a twenty-five mule farm, haf of which will be let to tenants, and
each tenant, instead of as heretofore paying rent in cotton, will be required to
pay 200 bushels of corn and 50 gallons of ribbon cane syrup, and not but 10
acres in cotton will be allowed to the mule. His own farming will be run on the
same rule, 10 acres to the mule, and the remainder in corn, wheat, ribbon cane,
oats, potatoes, etc. Mr. Truitt  has been experimenting on beef on the cattle
line and says he never intends to allow his herd any more to drop below a
hundred. His corn that he will receive as rent will be used to fatten his cattle
and hogs on, and his cotton seed will be used as fertilizers, thus doing away
with the buying of guano. Mr. Truitt says he believes this is the only salvation
of the Southern farmer and that if they will adopt this plan money will as
plentiful here through the spring and summer from the sale of cattle as it is in
the fall from the sale of cotton.

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