The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., April 23, 1910, Page 312, Image 12

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® PLOWHANDLE TALKS. B |
DON’T DO THE MI LES’ WORK. |
How One Farmer Has Found it ITof
itable to Take the Easier Way.
Messrs. Editors: When I began
farming for myself the first change
from my early boyhood customs was
a mowing machine, which, as imper
fect as it was. would do with one
hand and two horses the work of ten
men. Next was the horse rake, which
is no doubt tbe greatest labor-saver
of all the farm machines.
The two-horse cultivator was much
abused by many people, but when I
could cultivate from eight to ten
acres a day with one I kept it going.
In those days the common saying was
that riding plows were a "God-send
to the lame and lazy”; but that did
not keep me from buying a turning
. plow on wheels with a seat. I have
one I have used twenty-three years—
two wheels—no landside to break
in the land in short turns. Besides
two men, wheels, and points, the ex
tras for wear have not been 50 cents
a year for breaking sixty acres.
Three and one-half acres in a Janu
ary day for three mules and one man
X VUII UUf iMUVl •
The hand corn planter that I use
chiefly for replanting field seeds Is a
great saver of labor that a great
many farmers have not caught on to.
I find the Acme smoothing harrow
such an Improvement over the old
drag that I still hold to it. I ex
pectod the di3k harrow would solve
the problem for all ditches and
drains in my cultivated fields. With
fore truck, It has done so. When
such a thing as the brush puller you
advertise can be had, nothing but ig
norance of its merits will cause any
* farmer to be without one when he Is
troubled with small sprouts of any
kind In his field. The disk plow is a
great destroyer of vines and small
bushes and for certain lands and
crops is the equal, or superior, of
the moldboard plow’.
The two-horse corn planter and the
weeder take the early horrors from
thq. corn crop. So after the sulky
breaking plow and harrow the ten
disk drill and the binder make a
wheat crop easy. No sane man.
properly educated, will do anything
he can make a mule or horse do.
Of course, no readers of your pa
per now use a dash churn or a wind
lass with one bucket to draw water.
W. K. GIBBS.
Some Hints About Cotton Growing.
Messrs. Editors: My experience
with cotton the past teu years has
been on ridge land in thiB, Neshoba
County, Mississippi, which is a sandy
soil, with a clay subsoil, ranking
from ordinary to fair.
a We cannot have an iron-clad rule
in cottou culture every year, but
there are some rules we must use
every year. The best variety for
each farmer is the cotton that will
give him the largest yield of lint
per acre. J,et him experiment und
find out this fact by trying plots of
different varieties. Usually the me
dium boll sorts, such as Toole’s Early
Prolific, give the largest per cent of
lint.
The seed should he selected from
a breeding patch of the very best
staike. You must know the true, or
rather pure-bred stalks and then get
your seed from them. Do not use
top bolls or bolls at the ends of limbs.
Planting should be done when you
have a perfectly prepared seed bed,
and the weather will permit. Better
delay planting fifteen days and liave
yenr land properly prepared.
Cultivation should be rapid and
shallow, principally with harrows and
heel sweeps.
C. C. ROBERTS.
(The variety you should select is
not necessarily the one tlmt will give
the highest per cent of lint, hut al
ways the one that will give the larg
est total returns in lint and seed.
Editor.)
$130 AND TEN BUSHELS SEED
(JOHN.
This is What, a Mississippi Corn Club
Boy Made on an Acre of Land.
Messrs. Editors: Ross Low horn,
of near Verona, this county, one of
the corn club boys, sold last week SG
bushels of pure Mosby seed corn,
which brought him $172 in cash.
This boy only raised 73 bushels on his
prize acre, and the other \\a- raised
on different ground, but all pure seed.
Of the 73 bushels. La whom sold G3
at $2 each and won a ton dollar
prize in the contest last fall. This
gives him $13G in cash and ten
bushels of his prize seed left, which
he refuses to 6ell at $2 nor bushel, as
he and his father will use same for
seed on the farm this year.
The reader will readily see that
this boy has in money and it« equiv
alent, $156 from this acre of corn
This is the way we are trying to
educate the boys of Lee County, Mis
sissippi. We have others ‘filing the
pure seed at $2 per bushed, hut none
so successful as younc Law born. Rut
what has been clone may be done
again.
E. P. CLAYTON,
Benefit* of the Stock Law.
Our friend. Mr. B F. Keith, of
Wilmington, N. C.. is one of the most
active and persistent advocates of a
stock law, and urges its adoption
both from the standpoint of the
farmer and from that of the forest
preserver. In a recent newspaper
article Mr. Keith says: "There is no
record where once the stock law is
adopted, of where the people are
willing to go hack. On the other
hand, you will find some of the
strongest advocates of the State-wide
stock law to-day were u few years
ago equally as strong against It, but
after having tried It they admit it la
the lack of trying it that Veeps
anyone from favoring it. They claim
t It nw re I ua *V>r.ar>nw m I « a AI 1 _ _
better cattle by having Improved
stock. It saves timber and labor in
fencing the farms as well as pro
duces an extra supply of barnyard
manure to Improve the farms.
All over the South there are thou
sands of acres of the most fertile
soil, now valueless, which by proper
drainage could be converted Into
fields of unBurpapsed productivity.
GEORGIA CANE REED FOR RALE
Produces a eyrup which many pr**l*r w
that made of IxniUlana cane makes fifty per
cent, more than sorvhum r.*-*t substitute
for boll weevil cotton The food it produce*
f>aya the coat of railing a *ure crop any year
Price—1 bu., 16.00; V, bu.. *2.60; 1 p<<-k. li.fcj; 1
ic*l.. ll.OO.f. e. b. Raymond, Min*. Add ret*.
Jaaaamlna Syrup Farm
w CAI'VI-", Wki.ih.
JACKSON. i t MISSISSIPPI
SEED IRISH POT A TOES
ImjU Out Mountain Fall lri*h Potato K. «1 f? 60
o«*r buihet In 2H bu»h«*l rack* for July delivery
RIVER VIEW TRUCK FARM. Vlck.bury, MU
TRIUMPH COTTON HEED. $1.00 PER RVSHEL
J. U MARTIN. Prop ,
Martin Stock Farm, ilazlchurit, Mi*».
COW 51i
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lug MiltiM • ion m if
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1 HICKORf SEED C'J 1 7‘fr..u . on *.
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N. L. Willet Seed
Company
Augusta, v. Georgia
Largest sellers in t he South of Plant
i> g Cotton Seed. Get prices on Cow
peas, Velvet and Soy Beans, and all
Fo:age Seed*. Get Weekly Current
Price-list.
MEXICAN JUNE CORN FOR SALE
Carefully Selected Seed at ft.75 per l uihel.
f. o b. Waddlll. Address.
M W. Newman. - - Waddill, La
BUNCH TAM AND YELLOW JERSEY POTATO SUPS
II.S'1 a thousand, or oeer .'■.OO'1 a‘ 11.25, delivered
to any express office in I'nltod 8t*trs. Guaranteed
pure, T. It. BARBER, Amot. Miss.
FOH SALE
Genuine Tennessee h’ed Cob Corn
fl SO per bushel, f, o b.
Memphis, Tcnn.
Tucker-Monby Seed Co.
*4 So. Front St., Memphis, Tcnn.
Peas and Sorghum Seed.
STOCK PEAS. WHIPPOORWILL**,
BLACKS and CLAYS. Alao EARLY
AMBER and ORANGE SORGIft'M
SEED for sale. W rite us for pries*.
ASA W. ALLEN CO„ Tupelo. Mias.
Simpkins ^
r The Best
To Whom ft May Concern:
Ha 1.1. IN A. La.. February If. ION).
I planted errra different varietle* of cotton n<*.|
laat year tn onler to find wit, for future plariti#*'
thr Neef kind of c< t ton to tm>w on the plantation’
in »plt* of the boll weevil. I had the cotton
weighed In the H-d. and found Iwtter r<*uit«
from th* Simpkln* than any of the other* ^||
were \ I noted between March ZM and April ;!d, on
about the name kind of aotl, and received the
attention. F-ach variety had boll weevil* m th*
plant* from early epring till fr«»*t killed th* rdant
in the fall The flr»t bloom* and the la*t hlr>«n* I
u*. or had rrp«nrted to me by the foreman, wgre
on the Nimpkin* cotton. That ran ewaily )*> ^
counted for : Th* Simoktn* cotton ha* ordy «v<rt
joint*. Ie*» foliage than any of the varied** )
planted, and while a rapid grower dor* not mak*
a targe b»i*h. e\en on our very tw*t land* I Bn.
be*itatingly recommend my planter friend* to try
| the Simpkin*. and get their own *mi>erieri-». « |
did. / intend planting the entire crop nf gop
ocre* in .S'onpkin* fkl* peer, if the tpring i* f»vt*
, able for cotton growing and I can get th* •*«*).
Very truly.
W i\ CAMPHFt I. Hre* and Hu* Mgr.
1 tad in* Planting Company.
P. S My Simpkin* made J.S3(l pound* Mxvl oW
j ton per acre on three fourth* of a eland
6ET THE 6EMU1NE.
You want pure fflnyllw /Vuiltr" ruttn*
*e*d. and *bould buy only f nen th* originator la
package* pvt up and brand wl Ig Kim with k» Keel
i 1 cttcrwl Trademark and Stgnaiure. which guar,
aider their purity |Wware of Imitation*, for they
will be on the market telling y*ti they an* th*
• ” Simpkin*.- *r-l " Ju*l a* g*»«l ae Simp kin# wtQ
chip you. ' l it tnelel <*n the ur at in a. which am
j only edit by me or n.» duly a '.keritnl agent*.
W. A. tUMPAlKa.
I Rai ga .it. K, C Or gtnatgy
Improved Cotton Seed
We have on hand a limited amount of the standard va
rieties that we list for immediate shipment:
Truitt’s Premium Prolific Uig-Ik>l! fl.00 |>«r bu»hel
Christopher's Prolific liig-Holl. r.uu ** "
King’s Improved . 100 ** "
Johnson's Prolific Big-Boll ... .... ......... 1 VO ’* "
Johnson’s Prolific90-D*y............. . J.j0 ** ••
Johnson’s Prolific Big-Boll Cluster (selected* .. .". 2 Vo "
Brood*ell’s Double Jointed . 1 SO " •• ijj
Mail ns yotir order to-day, before the supply ig exhausted.
E. L. Johnson Seed & Plant Company
P. 0. Box 417 UGEAKGE. G».
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