The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., August 06, 1910, Page 552, Image 12

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PERMANENT PASTURES FOR THE SOUTH.
V.—Pastures are at the Very Foundation of Economical Soil
Building and General Prosperi ty—Why Do We Expect Grass
To Grow Under Conditions Where Other Crops Would Not?
By A. L. French.
AS I HAVE traveled over our
country the thought has come
to me many a time that our
people are not considering pastures
as a business crop at all but simply
as a convenience
—a place to turn
the cow, a place
where the horses
can roll and rest
Sundays. Now, if
there is one aim
I have in writing
these articles on
pastures, it is to
bring out the fact
a. l. french. that pastures can
be made a “money crop” in the
South, taking rank with our other
great money crops. And grass should
be given more consideration by the
soil-loving farmer of the South than
any other crop.
You say that is a pretty strong
statement. I realize fully how strong
a statement it is. But, my friends,
soil building is, next to education,
the greatest need of our time here
in the South. The writer is firmly
convinced that the great army of
Southern farmers will not become
soil Dunaers until tney Decome live
stock breeders and feeders. You say.
"How about legumes and commercial
fertilizers?” I doubt not soil build
ing can be accomplished rapidly by
the use of these agencies, but the
trouble is, not more than one in ten
of our farmers will continue to use
the legumes year after year—unless
some use other than fertilizer can be
made of the plants—because of the
cost of seed and use of land. With
first-class live stock on the farm the
farmer can make a "money crop” of
his legumes selling the feed value
to his animals and retaining the
plant food and humus values to build
up his soil. By this means he gets
his soil improvement out of his leg
umes for less than nothing, as the
food value of the legume hay is
generally twice the cost of growing
the crop.
Now to get back to the point: Live
stock production is absolutely de
pendent as yet on pastures. Pasture
is the cheapest stock feed, by far,
that we have at our command to-day
as the cost of harvesting is next to
nothing. So, if the rejuvenation of
the great mass of the soils of the
South is the second greatest prob
lem before us farmers to-day, if this
soil building must come through a
• Tnilf*h m a»*a 1 ...» . m i»_ . «
iitc niui r\,
and if this live stock busineBB 1h de
pendent on pastures, we must con
cede pastures to be at the bottom
of the great soil building revolution
k that is coming to our land. Hence,
as a crop the pasture must rank first
among them all in the mind of the
farmer who loves his soil and Is de-,
termined to deal fairly with this gift I
T want you to think seriously orf
this matter, my friends, and the morel
you ponder on it the more you will
be impressed with the truth of what
I have told you.
We love our country, are Jealous
for her. We don’t want her to rank
second to anybody’s country, and her
progress is (T am sure you will all
concede this when you have studied
the matter as some men have
studied it) hampered to an unmeas
urable degree from the lack—which
is almost universal—of good soil
binding, soil-building and economical
stock-feeding pastures. And these
pastures, as T have said in a pre
vious paper, are obtainable and
practical over almost the entire area
of the South. We simply have to
adopt the pasture plants adapted to
each section and give the pasture
good, honest treatment such as we
would render to any other highly
prized crop.
Keep your pastures clean as you
do your corn fields when you are
striving for maximum crops. Right
here I am going to tell a tale on
North Carolina farmers that they will
be ashamed to have me tell, T am
sure, because it is the honest truth.
T rode last week over 800 miles
through the best part of the State
and from the car window I saw
thousands of acres of good corn
fields clean as a whistle. Cotton
and tobacco crops were clean, but
not a clean pasture did 1 see along
the entire route. You wouldn’t at
tempt to grow corn or cotton in a
brush lot, my people, why will you
insist on growing pasture grasses
under such unfavorable conditions?
Why?
Hew to Keep Cider Sweet.
Please tell me what chemical
will keep apple cider soft and
fresh. L. R. H.
Gaston Co., N. C.
(Answer by Prof. W. F. Massey.)
There are chemicals that will keep
the cider, but they will make it un
wholesome to drink. If you want
Rood sweet cider, you should filter
it carefully and put in a porcelain
preservinR kettle and heat to ISO
deRrees, but do not let it boll. Skim
off all that rises to the surface and
then put it, while hot. Into fruit Jars
that have been well scalded. Set the
jar on a wet cloth while flllinR to
prevent craekinR, and fill perfectly
full and then seal at once tiRht
Cider can be kept in a fine shape by
fllterlnR it throuRh charcoal broken
fine after it has started to ferment.
Then have a cork to fit the bunR of
a barrel, and throuRh this run a wire
on the end of which is a wad of cot
ton filled with flowers of sulphur.
Put a Rallon or two of the cider into
a clean barrel and set fire to the
cotton with the sulphur and at once
stick It into the bunRhoIe. It will
burn till the air 1b filled with the
sulphur fumes. Then aRitate the bar
rel well to shake the cider all around
it. Fill up full and bunR tiRht. ThlB
will prevent the further fermenta
tion and the cider will have a Rood
bead on it. But as to its wholesome
ness as a drink I will not offer an
opinion. T had rather use the un
fermented article sterilized by heat
and kept In close Jars.
k _
V
k Tile Christian Standard Lowered.
There are many ways In which the
United States falls to come up to
jthe standard of the Christian nation.
jOf course there Is a reason for this
"failure.
Those who profess to be followers
of the meek and lowly Nazarene are
the ones who, by their practice, set
the standard of right and wrong.
The churches are howling against
the sale of whiskey—we believe they
should—but at the same time they
are carrying through the columns of
their papers advertisements of pat
ent medicines, which are Just as In
jurious to the morals of the human
family as whiskey.
The preacher criticises members
for dishonesty, urges them to be
honest with everybody—and be
should—but as soon as the meeting
is over he goes down and takes sub
scriptions for a religious paper in
which appears advertisements of
fraudulent concerns, quack proposi
tions, and get-rich-quick schemes.
We trust that every reader of the
Farmers’ Union News will look over
his religious paper, mark the got
rich-quick schemes, the curing of
women diseases, men diseases, the
hair balm, the perfume and other
such ads, and write the paper, tell
ing them: ’’Please cut out such ad
vertisements or stop sending the
paper into my home."
If every reader of the Farmers'
Union News will do this it will have
a most wholesome effect, and cause
many of the religious papers to cut
out all such advertisements. Farm
ers' Union News, Union City, Oa
Our advertisers are guaranteed,
f,-. —-—
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MANuracnTiutD By
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OUR LAND EXCHANGE
Firm* Wanted or Offered For Sale or Rent
In thia department are ahall pub'lah offering*
of all land wanted or offered for aalr or for
rrnL We do not extend mir general adrertls
In* guarantee to th»a department, because
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before buying, but no man la permit’ed to 0f.
fer land far aale In thia department until he
haa first ahown ua aattafactory ref>rrncee aa
to h>meaty and financial rsepooaib Illy.
FARM BARGAINS
BLOUNT COUNTY, ALABAMA.offers ap-elal
inducement* to thrifty termers who W'|t locale on
her farms Good lands, nght price*, nearby mar
ket a. mod schools and * law abdlrg c-Uamahip
I *pt>»*l t** the farmer seeking a parmanent hctn*.
| Write fer full Information to Blount County Realty
Co-. Or, eon la. Alabama.
DELTA FARM whT*Mi»wK1iiwuiF*ni
fo* kale, brat In the world, far
only ra.no per acre, caah and nut terms Wl*
take your ohj farm aa a 1-art pay For tart leu tars
write W. T. FITTS, lndianuta. Mississippi
THE MARKETS.
NEW ORLEANS COTTON.
Quotation* baaed oa cotton eold on *pot
term*.
Low ordinary.—..... II & te
Ordinary........ It H
Good ordinary.. 13 e-lfl
Low middling—. 14 H
Middling- 14 It
Good middling..—. is ta
Middling fair... II <a
fair. it t-te
MEMPHIS COTTON.
Good ordinary__ II ta
Low middling- 14 ’■>
Middling-II 1*
Good middling.—._ l& s
GRAIN. FEEDSTUFF'S, ETC.
CORN IN BULK Par Buihel—No. t white
TWirntl; No. t mixed AHto.; No. t yellow 7t*t73.
BRAN-PerCwv-dl.il
OATH—Per Bu»hri- No. y while. 4AH«UT;
0.: No. I mixed. J4«t<4Vk
HAY—Per Ton. in iialee—No. I tH SO. No l
Bi 00; cboloe. Bt 00
CORN MEAL bbl.-tt S to B 40
FIX)UR. bard wheat. Kanaaa patent—dd » to
S&&3.
MISSISSIPPI, LOUISIANA, AND
ALABAMA LIVE STOCK.
BEEVE8
Cboloe-- to 5
Fair to good-j «, «
Oxen - Fat-..... | 404
Oxen—Common to fair_—. IH to SH
OOWS AND HEIFERS—
Cboloa. .... IH 10 «H
Fair to good. jh to SH
Old poor oowa. per bead_t? 00 to 10 00
BULLS AND STAGS—
Bulla-IH 40 3t,
Stage ..............._ IH to SH
YEARLINGS
Cboloe. ISO to BOO lbs. per lb.,. SH to «V»
Choice ISO to 360 pounds. SH to 4H
Common, to fair. 3 to |t«
CALVES—
Cboloe. 100 to 100 lbs., per lb.. 4 to &H
Fair to good, per bead.|e 00 to 8-00
MILK COWS—
Cbploe....ISO 00 to 40.00
Fair to good. 18 00 to lb 00
SPRING ERS
Choioe..4*0 00 to 30 00
Common to (air.. 1x 00 to ihoo
HOGS—
Corn fed. per lb.... 7H to 8H
Corn fed pigs 86 to IK lbs., per lb. 7H to hh
Mast fed. per lb. ....___... e to 7H
SHEEP—
Good fat sbeep. per lb... 4 to 8
Common to fair, per bead.tl.00 to 1.00
RICE.
CLEAN-PER POUND.
Honduras.... *H to 5H
straights.. 8 to 3H
screenings. IH to IH
No I. actual sales at. - IH to 8
Japan, head. I to 3
straights . IH to IH
screenings... IH to IH
No. 8. actual sales at. SH to SH
ROUGH.
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NKW YORK MARK FTTH.
Wheat No. 2. red. new, rash. $1
10 >4. Com, No. 2. mixed. The
Oats, No. 2 while. 50 »^r.
Southern new potatoes, per bbl.
60c. it 11.37. Sweets, N (\, per bbl..
It.50 .1 5; red $3.50 o 4.50; yams.
H 'I 4 50. Onions, red. 75r . <t $1 12
per basket; while, ft 12 | 37. C* b
I>»Ke. per bbl.. Balt . 50 w 60c Caul
iflower. per bbl., $2 50R 5. Carrots,
per bbl. |1 1.60, Beets, 11 1 2 per
100 bunches. Cucumbers. 20 <r 60c.
per basket for Va ; per bbl . 60c. (f>
$1. Kggplant. per box, $2.25 for
Norfolk. Green corn, 76c.Q $1.60
per crate. Lima beaus, $3 it 4 per
potato basket; flat. 11.60it 2.60. Let
tuce, per basket, 20 it 6Or Peppers,
Norfolk, per crate. 7f»c u |i 25. N.
C. Pens. 76c. (I $1.25 per basket.
String beans. $1 Rl 25 per basket.
Squash. white, per bbl , 11 if 2; yel
low, $i<>{ i.4o. Turnips. 76c. if 1 for
rutabagas per bbl., and 11.60 if 2 for
white. Tomatoes, N. C.. per carrier,
75c. (1 |1.37.
Apples per bbl. $1,80 0 3 Its to vn
rlety and quality, with an average of
$-’. Pears. $10 8.60 per bbl for l,e
Conte. Hell, $1.500 2.80; Clapp's
b atorlte, $2.50 03.50. Peaches, 50c.
fit $1.50 per carrier; per basket. 35
fd 50c. Plums, 50 0 75c, per carrier
per basket, 85 0 50c. Plums. 50©
75c. per carrier. Cherries. 300 00c.
per K-Tt>. basket. Grapes, $1.50©
2.50 per carrier. Currants. 90 11c.
per carrier. Blackberries, per <|t., 6
0 9c. Raspberries. 4 0 sc. per pint
Huckleberries, 6 0 lie per qt. Musk
melons, $1,250 1.75 per crate of 36,
N. C.; N. c. Jumbos. $2 0 2.25 Wt
termelons, $15 0 30 per 100.
Butter, creamery specials, 28 % (ft
28 % c.; factory, 22 0 23V&C.
Western fresh gathered eggs, 21
©2 5c.
Oil Is cheaper than inachlu »ry.