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SOUTHERN STANDARD-Mc-MINNVILLE, TENNESSEE. SATURDAY -MAY 17, IS90. 4' Viola, May 10, 1890. To the Standard: I hope the young farmers who read the Standakd will not fail to read Mr. Bonner's communication in this issue. The farmer who, in this ad vanced age fails to value knowledge will die with a corresponding lack of property. If he can't bo induced to stretch his head, you may bet your bottom dollar he will never stretch his purse. S. McRamsey. Book Farming. Cor. Country Gentleman. I regret very much to find that our farmers of the South read agricul tural works so very little. I was in conversation a day or so ago with a very nice hard-working young farm er of our community, and told him of some new thing in the agricultural world, and he seemed surprised, and was almost ready to say it was not so when I told him. I supposed he did not read agricultural journals, lie said, "No, I am opposed to book farming." Now this prejudice has grown deep, and is very injurious to any section. It sets a bad example for the rising generation. To bring about a change in this state of things, I feel that the older men should try all mild means to in duce their sons and neighbors to read such writ tags as those of Mr. Terry, and many others of. the successful farmers who write for your paper,and create an interest, and try to get them to follow their examples. But let tis see what "book-farming" is. It is nothing more or less than the suc cesses and failures of men who have studied and tried experiments on va rious subjects, and in various ways to point how we can best utilize our la bor. Many failures have occurred by such experiments, and they should be as beneficial to us as the success of others. They should teach us to keep off the breakers, just, as the mariner does who guides the ship on the sea, and carries his vessel safe to shore. I hold that science and knowledge have been the cause of all the success ful improvements, both in agricul ture and in every other pursuit. Books have been published by which the truths of science and knowledge have been shown to the world, and any of us can avail ourselves of the information given us by others. Book-farming is not any more to be laughed at than book-law, book preaching, book-preaching, or book doctoring, for they are all the results of 6tudy and experience, and only the written, instead of the oral experi ence which we hear our brother farm ers giving every day. I told this young farmer, of whom I spoke above, that Mr. Terry sowed twelve acres of clover seed before ordinary breakfast time. He laughed and said ten acres was a good day's work. But when I told him how he sowed them, he said, "oh, that is nothing." Now that is very much like flic sleight-of-hand tricks which we wonder at, and which when ex plained we see the simplicity of. Books are the greatest source of infor mation we have, and without them we would soon retrograde rapidly. have very often advised young men to subscribe for your paper, and made the offer of paying for it if.after a year's reading, they would say that they had not derived four times the benefit of the investment; but as yet have never had one to demand the payment, as they all appear pleased who subscribe for it. I was forcibly reminded of the great improvement in this part of the country in wheat raising, a few years ago, by a conversation with a gentle man who graduated at Mt. Airy near Philadelphia, and came here to take charge of a large farm. Having learned the necessity of turning land and making grass, instead of killing it. he began by sowing largely of clover. ."When the time for turning under his clover in the fall arrived he began in August with some large two-horse plows, and then subsoiling it. as it was heavy clay land. He had gone but a few rounds, when an old farmer who had been living in the neighborhood came by. lie ac costed this young man and in severe language, told him he was working against God: that God when he made the earth put it right side up, 'and now you, a fool, are putting it wrong side up." The young man made no reply, but asked him to come in the spring and see his wheat crop, and to tell him who had the best crop. In June following the work of harvesting wheat was going on, and the same old farmer came along, when he stopped and " walked into the field, examined the wheat, and declared it to be four times as good as his, which had been plowed with the old fashioned scooter, and n clover turned under. Still he clung to his former doctrine for sever al years, that the world was made right side up. Finally, a son of the old man married a daughter of this young man. After the marriage, his father said to him that years before he had told this young man he was a fool to work against God ; "but, my son, by sowing clover and using the turning plow, I have increased my wheat crop four-fold ; go and do as your father-in-law says on the farm." Now, we see daily examples like this. The men who read, make improvements, get good tools, etc., and the others, eventually seeing the benefits, adopt them, but lose many years of hard work, which might have been very well utilizd if they had only read and found out the great benefits before. The want of information causes our farmers many millions of dollars loss, which they might save and grow rich, if they only would change their ways. The excessive rains this spring have cost our farmers hun dreds and thousands of acres of land for wheat, which if tiled and drained would have been worth millions to them. A piece of land which is well drained this year, that will make 50 or GO bushels per acre, adjoins some equally as good, which, for want of drainage will not make one bushel per acre, and still the owner of the drained land is laughed at by the owner of the wet land, merely be cause he found the way of drying his and and enhancing its fertility, by reading an agricultural paper. A few months ago I heard one of the neigh bors of this man say he would not let a man put pipes in his land to dry it, as ho would need the water in sum mer. An examination of the two fields adjoining each other today, shows the great contrast derived only by the beneficial effects of "book farming." It is time for our people to abandon such ideas-and change their tactics Let us all strive to encourage the eir culation and reading of agricultural journals, and I have no doubt brighter luture will dawn on us in the way of better crops and better farming. W. II. Boxner. Bushes and Weeds on the Farm. Cor. Country Gentleman. It seems a very strange thing that our farmers should allow so many bushes, shrubs, and weeds to be growing along public highways and in other conspicuous places on their farms. "What a bad effect it has on the appearance of a man's farm ! So small an expense would be required in removing them all ! Can it be that some farmers want their farms to revert to wilds? They all the time receive no profit from them, but they have to pay taxes on them. cannot see why it is that fanners sometimes increase the acreage of their land. They do not see the ex tent of land which might, with large profits, be brought under control, and produce more on a small area with less labor, and without extra taxes and cost. Farmers are careless, and try to do a great deal without doing it wen If they had only considered it in time, they woald have been the first to exclaim against, the folly of re framing from doing a thing which could be done so easily, and which was of so much importance. All will agree with me when 1 say that if the highway is simply mowed every year clear up to the fence, no weeds will grow there as a genera thing, but good grass, on the other hand, will take their place, and cause as beneficial a supply as any part of the farm. Every one know too well for me to express it, that weds and bushes cannot live where they are regularly mowed every year. Every one who has any sense of propriety will be struck with the folly'of so mowing a field that when the central part is cut for harvest, streak will .be left along the fence which is not mowed. Let me say to every farmer who has not mown u to his fences fully this year, or who has bushes and coarse weeds growing along them, which are the conse' quence of that space not having been mown in years back, to do so this year : mow every one of those weeds and bushes, and do not fail to do this every year, and in a few years he will have no bushes along his fences. and every inch of his farm will pay and look better. At the time of haying i3 the proper season of the year to cut these coarse weeds and bushes, and if cut every year at this time they are sure to be killed. All the larger bushes and shrubs are generally destroyed by being cut at this time, though very persistent in growth if cut at . any other time of the year ; mowing them now generully kills or reduces their vitality to the lowest point. Cutting these bushes at this time of the year, and then if they start up at all, through some dry weeds or bush es on their stubs, setting fire to them when the new sprouts have made their appearance, has generally ample effect to destroy them. In this Way, with small labor, the farm will be freed of its Inconveniences, and the cleared fields and woodlands will stand seperate and in their prop er places. J. F. Worcester, N. Y. Horse-Breeding-Heavy and Light. Cor. Country Gentleman. In common with many others, 1 had supposed the horse breeding booms, both heavy and lightweights, had reach d its largest development some time ago; but the demand thii spring for horses of all classes and prices paid for them go to show that the supply is not equal to the demand and that the market for good horses is not likely to be glutted for some ears. It is still the heavy weights and the dappled greys that bring the best prices, though the owner of a good, sound stylish driver, can hardly go a mile and not be importuned to sell ; in fact, it is nearly impossible to ieep a really good horse in the coun try, so loud is the call to meet the city demand. Perhaps one of the greatest obsta cles the breeder of horses for fast, ight and hard work, have to con tend against in prarie Illinois, is the state of the roads at certain seasons of the year which prevent that measure of exercise, training and driving, ah solutely essential for the horses, pair or single, that are to command a good price. With the draft horse the case is different; little more has to be done after he has been trimmed and halter-broken, than to stuff him with grass, hay and grain until he is three years old, when having acquired the weight and condition oi a good ex port steer, and costing no more, he is sold for from two and a half to three times as much per pound, live weight. Buyers reproach Illinois farmers and feeders because they do not get on as much fat and flesh as those engaged in the same business in Ohio and In diana, but the losses from azoturia have been so many that stabling and stall feeding are not practiced as zeal ously as formerly. As for the winter ing of work horses, it is found by ex perience, that if they are not stabled and get only such food as a stalk field, a winter pasture and a hay stack to run to, afford through the cold season, when put to the plow, and fed the usual rations of corn and oats, they gain right along, while grain fed and stabled horses fall away under the pressure of moderate work and a ris ing temperature. What It Costs Must be carefully considered by the great majority of people, in buying even necessities of life. Hood's Sar saparilla commends itself with specia force to the great middle classes, be cause it combines positive economy with great medicinal power. It is the only medicine of which can be said "100 Doses One Dollar," and a bottle taken according to directions will average to last a month. It is a great mistake to set up our own standards of right and wrong. and judge people accordingly ; to measure the enjoyment of others by our own ; to expect uniformity of opinion in this world ; to look for judgment and experience in youht ; to expect to be able to understand everything. John II. Inman, of New York, has bought the entire issue of the new Georgia bonds, $1,900,000, at par with 3 J per cent, interest. Sunken eyes, a pallid complexion and disfiguring eruptions, indicate that there is something wrong with in. Expel the lurking foe to health by purifying the blood with Ayer'i Sarsaparilla. Cures Erysipelas, Ecze ma Salt Rheum, Pimples and Blotch es. Sumter County, ua., is scourged with millions of fleas, from the at tacks of which small animals and chickens are said to be dying by hnn dreds. The flea is of the Mexican variety, brought here by the hun dreds of Texas and Mexican horses scattered over the country of late years. 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