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Our Progressive Farmer Boys
A BOY WHO MAKES GOOD WAGES.
$2.58 a Day for His Work With a
Team Last Year—Expects to Do
Better This Year.
Messrs. Editors: I have been read
ing your paper for almost two years.
I never miss a copy, and think it a
good paper. Could not do without
it for I know it has been a great
help to me.
I like farming better than any
other way of making a living. Am
living on just a small farm; have
only 80 acres of land; about 25 in
very good cultivation. Never did
work or want to work so very much
until I began to read The Progressive
Farmer and Gazette.
In 1908 with just one horse,
worked only 86 days on the farm,
and averaged $1.75 per day, while
in 1909, with two mules and some
better tools worked 130 days, mak
ing $2.58 per day, and in 1910 I
expect to do some better still.
uoiion ana earn are cne crops ior
1910, and this fall I mean to sow
crimson clover on some few acres,
which will be well drained. The
land is loose, loamy, hickory-ridge
land, of warm nature, all level. What
coulfi I grow on this land for best
profits? The land has no clay foun- i
datlon. ]
I would like to grow stock, and i
mean to as soon as I quit crawling '
and go to walking. i
Just about how two old gentlemen i
scolded me when I told them how I
was going to harrow my cotton:
They began to laugh and say: “You
will scratch up all of your cotton.
It won’t do, for I tried it once with
the front tooth in and I ruined my
stand of cotton, and you know going
crossways is worse, and don’t you do
it, for it will not do.”
Well, I never said anything, for
my field was one mile away. So,
after I had gone over about three
acres one of them walked over to
see about what was going on—I
guess, to see if I should need more
seed. He began to look at the
work and was compelled to say, “it
was all right.” He tried some of his
and spoke for the harrow just as soon
as T was thronsrh with It
I have harrowed cotton four times
and had half a dozen stands left, so
I know it won’t do to listen alto
gether to the old folks.
J. M. M.
Springville, Miss.
Editorial Comment.—Here is a
good lesson for those boys who are
dissatisfied with farming to study
carefully. It shows the value of
study, the help an extra horse and
good implements were to this boy,
and also that a boy can make better
wages farming than he can in some
of the lines of work for which boys
leave the farm. With more experi
ence, education and capital, the
young man who engages in other
lines of work will make more money,
but this boy’s experience shows that
the same truth holds good when ap
plied to farming.
In 1909 this boy worked 130 days
and made $2.58 a day, or $335.40.
How many boys working in other
lines have done better? He did not
work half the year and yet he made
$335. His next endeavor should be
to arrange crops that will give him
work at least ten months, or 260
days, in the year. More live stock,
especially dairy cows, would do this
for him.
We commend this splendid letter
to the careful consideration of all
our young friends In The Progressive
Farmer and Gazette family.
A Boy Who Wants Information.
Messrs. Editors: I am a farmer
boy of southern Louisiana, and a
member of the boys’ corn club, and
I am not scared to say that further
information would help me to a great
extent.
I want to know the way to culti
vate to the best advantage, for the
greatest yield, time for cultivation,
etc., and will be very thankful for
all the help you can give in addition
to this. The soil is sandy, hilly.
H. V. TILLEY.
DeRidder, La.
Editorial Answer: We advise our
young friend to read the articles re
cently appearing in The Progressive
Farmer and Gazette on “How to
Double the Corn Yield,” and also
the one by Prof. Duggar in the issue
of May 7th on the early cultivation
of corn.
In answering your question how
to cultivate we would say: Keep
the grass and weeds down, but cul
tivate as shallow as you can and do
;hat. Keep the surface nearly level,
vith just a little ridge next the
:orn, and cultivate often enough to
teep down the grass and weeds and
;o prevent a crust forming on top.
rhe top two inches of soil should be
ilways loose. This is what is called
i dust mulch, which prevents moist
ire escaping from the soil into the
ilr, and saves it for the use of the
corn plants. Cultivate aB soon as
you can after each rain.
If one horse is used we like, after
the harrow and weeder are laid aside
because the corn is too large, to
use a ‘‘Gee-Whis,” ‘‘Diverse,” or
‘‘Planet Jr.,” cultivator. Write your
own Experiment Station, Baton
Rouge, 1*., and the U. S. Department
of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.,
for all bulletins they have on corn
culture and any other special sub
ject you are interested in.
Save Crimson Clover Seed.
Messrs. Editors: Being a mer
chant, as well as a farmer, I have
every reason to think that clover
seed will be very high this season.
I wish you to urge your readers to
save their seed. Unless it is done
ue too tare, rney can
be saved in this county (Vance), and
am sure this is no exception. I am
going to have mine saved by pulling
the heads by hand. I am not cer
tain but think this better than cut
ting the wee# and all, as the work
of separating is much greater in
the latter way. Clover seed will
sprout better sown in the little
phuck than they will cleaned, the
shuck being advantageous in hold
ing the moisture.
I guess you think it strange for
me to advocate the saving of seed,
my being a merchant, yet it is to my
interest to have all of this valuable
crop planted that I can, and it is for
the good of the producers that I
make this suggestion.
A. R. TARRY.
Woodworth, N. C.
I have heard much about the “old
field” school; but the best “old field”
school I have ever seen is a group
of farmers assembled in an old field
learning from a demonstrator how
to plow, how to enrich the soil, and
how to make 50 bushels of corn
grow where only 15 or 20 bushels
grew before—J. D. Eggleston.
FEED FOR DAIRY COWS.
You Cannot Feed “Richness” Into
Milk—A Feed Must Be Judged by
the Nutrients It Contains.
(1) Give the best formula for
grain mixtures for milk cow. I
use cottonseed meal and shorts.
Give the mixture that will give
the most milk for the least mon
ey. State relative cash value of
each feed, based on its milk
producing power, placing corn
meal at $1 per bushel. (2)
Which preparation will go most
ly to milk and which to butter?
(3) What is the value of a prep
aration known as “saccharine”?
(4) Which breed of cattle is
best for butter and which for a
larger quantity of milk?
C. W. H.
Editorial Answer: Feeds do not
have such a fixed or definite value as
to enable any one to state positively
their respective values in a ration.
If a feeding stuff contained just one
of the nutrients required, then a
value could be given with a little
more assurance, but as nearly all
feeds contain all the nutrients and
nnt nnlv vnrv qa tVi a? r nrnnAt*t5/\»ia
but also In tbelr digestibility, pay
ability, etc., it is simply impossible
to do as our correspondent asks.
In general terms and subject to
many exceptions and qualifications,
we may state that 100 pounds of
cottonseed meal is worth 175 pounds
of corn and that 100 pounds of
shorts or wheat middlings is worth
about 110 pounds of corn. There is
comparatively little difference in the
feeding value of shorts and bran,
but owing to its coarser and lighter
nature possibly the bran is superior
for the feeding of dairy cows, espe
cially when mixed with finer and
heavier substances like cottonseed
meal. These values might be en
tirely changed in certain combina
tions, according as a feed rich or poor
in protein was needed to balance the
ration.
(2) There is no such distinction in
feeds as those that “will go mostly to
mill” and others that go “to but
ter.” The percentage of butter fat is
only slightly, if at all, influenced by
the character of the feed. The qual
ity of giving rich or poor milk is an
individual and breed characteristic of
the cow. By giving more feed, or
certain feeds, the quantity of milk
may be influenced and therefore the
total quantity of butter fat; but the
percentage of butter fat or the qual
ity of the milk is not materially
changed, except that usually the
larger the flow of milk in any indi
vidual cow the lower the percentage
of butter fat
(3) We can not give the value of
any feeding stuff without the analy
sis. Feeding stuffs, like we presume
“saccharine” is, must bear a tag
showing its composition, in his State.
If our correspondent will give us the
analysis and palatability of this feed,
we may be able to find out the ma
terials out of which it is composed
and from these judge of its value.
Feeds, like fertilizers, must be
bought on the basis of the nutrients
they contain and these are stated on
the tags which the laws of most
States require to be put on each sack.
(4) For butter, the Jerseys are
probably as good as the best, and in
quantity of milk produced there is
none better than the Holstelns. Hol
stein give more milk on an average
than Jerseys, but some people prefer
the smaller quantity of Jersey milk
even for drinking, because of its bet
ter quality. When milk is sold or
dispensed by the quart or glass, re
gardless of its quality, and where a
milk containing a rather low per cent
of butter fat is desired the Holsteins
will be found preferable to Jerseys
in the quantity of milk produced.
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