The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., February 19, 1910, Image 1

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A Farm and Home Weekly for the States of Mississippi,
Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee.
FOUNDED, 1895, BT DS. TAIT BUTLER. AT STARKVILLE. Miss!
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Volatile XV. No. 7. SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 19.1910. Weekly: $1 a Year.
A Sure foundation for Rural Prosperity—Good Live Stock, Weft Fed |
and then we hear
of farmers who are
getting rich raising cot
ton, but most farmers who
are raising cotton are not
getting rich. Indeed,
many of them arc not even
making a comfortable liv
\ ing, and the average in
i com* of the Cotton Belt
farmer is far below that
of the farmers who raise
wheat or com or hay or
feed stock.
The reason for this is
not far to seek: While
there are still all-corn or
all-wheat farmers in the
wheat and com sections,
they are the exceptions
and not the rule. With us
the practically all-cotton
farmer is the rule ; and no
single-c rop system of
agriculture has ever yet
brought general prosperi
ty to the men engaged in
it. The cotton and to
bacco farmers must learn
not to devote their whole
farms to these crops. Be
cause prices have been
high this season to go and
put every available acre
into these money crops
this year, and thus in all
probability bring about
• another year of low prices,
| is folly of the most egre
gious sort.
There are men who did
not get wages out of their
cof/on crop this year when
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it brought 14 or 15 cents.
Other men would have
made good profits if it
had only brought 10 cents.
To insure good crops each
year and continued pros
perity Southern farmers
must do two things : Grow
more live stock and raise
more feed crops. We
can’t keep the stock with- ,
out the feed, and to keep 1J
up the soil fertility to the I If
point of profitable pro- I ^
duction, we must have |t
more live stock. '
When it comes to feed- |1
ing crops, we all think of Ilf
com first, and there has H
never been, we believe, a H
greater interest in com f
growing in the South than H
at present. But we should H
not forget that the legumes Bi
are the cheapest and best H|
feeds for live stock and H|
the greatest profit to the B§
stock feeder can only come ||||
through their use. ||||
We wish we could make B
this a direct personal ||||
message to every reader-Bff
at this beginning of the | •
season: Don’t be run H|
wild by a single season’s ||||
high price for any crop,
and don’t forget that the BHj
surest path to prosperity ||||
leads through com fields Bl|
and hay fields and pas- Igl
ture fields where are |J .
grown the feed for flocks B|R
and herds. ||j||
INDEX TO THIS ISSUE.
Alfalfa In North Alabama. jgl
Designing and Decoruting the Farm Home. 124
Drainage and Y’egetablo Mutter. 130
Equipment for the Modern Farm. 122
$500 Mere u Year Farming; By Growing More Feet! Crops for Mar
ket . no
Four Yean*’ Experience With 8hoepr. 129
I How Consumption Can Be Cured in the Early Stages . lMHK
How to Recognize the Sun Jose Scale. IMHO
Osage Orange Hedges u Nuisance.1MHH
Permanent Pastures for the South.UMB
Raising and Curing for Sheep in Alabama. hH I
Short Talks About Fertilizers; Phosphoric Acid in Commercial Fertil
izers .
The Right Way to Use Fertilizers.***HI
The Value of a Pure Bred Boar and How to Cel Him.
Will the South Be Made the Dupe of the Packing Interests. HMH
“What’s the News?”.