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ocij.cn da ah AND BETTER
SEEDS.
Messrs. Editors: I am doing vari
ous things this year to increase my
next year s crop. I have added over
one dozen head of cattle and hogs to
what stock I had. I am saving and
applying several times as much ma
nure as I usually did. I also sowed
cowpeas in all my corn land and got
a very heavy growth of vines. These
I am turning and shall continue to
turn as much lamd as possible this
fall. On that already turned I have
secured a fine stand of rye and crim
son clover. This is now making a
fine growth and will soon have the
surface completely covered. I shall
* also continue to sow rye on the land
turned up to December 1st.
My brother and I are exchanging
work in order to subsoil a large part
of our farms. I know from exten
sive experience this alone will give
a handsome increase in our corn
yield. In my corn-breeding field of
3 acres we have been subsoiling while
turning in fall and sowing in rye.
This has been done 4 years. The
first year I got an average of 60
bushels of corn per acre; last year,
66 bushels per acre; this year I
used 16 2-horse loads of manure and
1,000 pounds of 10-2-2 fertilizer per
acre and got 121% bushels of shell
ed corn per acre.
I am also making special improve
ment in my corn, cotton and potato
seed, and expect this to help me
greatly in making larger yields next
year. I go over my breeding plot of
\ cotton and pick enough choice bolls
from Ideal stalks to plant my next
fear's crop. I am selecting my po
L fato seed from hills free from blight
■ Vnnd scab and from those that bear
^ the largest yields of uniform tubers.
' 1 am also selecting my seed corn
from my detasseled breeding field
t made 121% bushels per acre.
i besides doing the above I atn read
g over 20 good agricultural pa
K^rs and getting many things from
them to help me. Professor Massey
said two years ago that I was likely
to reach 10 j bushels of-corn per
acre,—I am now working towards
160 bushels per acre. I must give
you more credit than anyone for
what success I have already made
farming. W. C. CROOK. >
Huron, Tenn.
A PROGRESSIVE PLAN OF ACTION
Messrs. Editors: The fall Is the
only time the Beed-bed can be prop
erly prepared. Especially is this
true where there is much vegetation
to be decomposed, so as to get best
results from fertilizers and to culti
vate nicely and easily. Am prepar
ing to break cotton and corn land
six inches deep (one inch deeper
than ever before) turning under all
velvet beans and peavlnes, stalks
and grass.
I am fencing my farm In three
equal plots, to carry out a 3-year ro
tation. Hope to realize a nice divi
dend on time and money invested In
fencing by grazing pens, peanuts, vel
t vet beans, etc., and also get a nice
lot of high-grade manure spread free.
Will sow rye and clover for a cover
crop, which will either be grazed or
turned under next spring.
Fertilizer factory Is running 2 4
hours a day, 365 days a year, manu
facturing all feed grown into “cow
ano,” etc., and is being saved like
gold-dust. The only difficulty Is that
, --stock and feed are limited. However,
this is a trouble that can partially,
at least, be overcome In the near
future. Wherever this manure Is
used I expect something to be doing.
All seed for next year’s crops are
’ feing carefully selected from stalks
that come up to my idea of what a 1
perfect plant should be. While this i
requires time, it pays well if proper- E
ly done. I
Live stock are also being improv
ed by breeding to pure-bred males.
Have secured several registered ani
mals, and as these come into service
will dispose of my grades. This plan 1
requires time, but it is better than £
not to get them at all, which would 1
have been the case if 1 had waited to 1
get all pure-bred at once. Last, but 1
not least, I am giving closer atten- 1
tion to the little things that come up ^
every day, such as ditching the bot
toms, terracing the hills and keeping
them clear of weeds and briers. Also
to use better business methods. As a '
rule, we farmers do not give this the 1
attention and study it deserves. Am J
going to reverse my plan and work 1
my brains more (what little I have) 1
and rest my muscles some.
W. B. KYZAR. !
Goshen, Ala. 1
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THE PLOWING SEASON.
Messrs. Editors: I will start this
week to break land, with a good,
substantial one-horse plow with two
good horses. This land was broken
last year with one horse, then it was
fresh land. My idea is to go down in
the earth gradually, year by year,
and manure and make soil out of the
earth as 1 go. Three years ago I
bought this land, and then the field
adjoining this, woodland as it was
then, produced two or two and one
half bales of cotton to five acres. By
using the above method three years,
it will now make a bale of cotton or
2 5 or 30 bushels of corn to the acre.
Last week I gathered peavine hay,
corn, cotton and dug a few potatoes
to feed to hogs (I cook the potatoes;
they make a fine feed for hogs).
I have a red clay spot in my field
that has no soil to it. It is so hard
I can’t get a plow to go down in it. I
have hauled lot manure and rotten
pine straw on it, but don’t seem to
help it. This fall just as soon as the
little cotton gets ofT, I think I will
take dynamite and tear it up about
3 or 4 feet deep and put lot manure
on it again, and see if that won’t help
it. What land I don’t get broken this
fall I will break through the winter,
but not so deep.
J. ED. KAISER.
Lexington, S. C.
Editorial Comment.—It is better,
no doubt, to plow with two horses to
a one-horse plow than to use only
one horse, but we believe it will pay
Mr. Kaiser, another season, to get a
two-horse plow. It is hard to do
good work with poor tools, and we
have never seen a one-horse plow
which seemed to us to be made for
real plowing. As for cooking the
'Otatoes for hog feeding, we doubt if
t is a paying proposition. Nearly
11 the experiments indicate that it
3 not.
A. BETTER FARMING PROGRAM.
Messrs. Editors: I raised at home
vheat, oats, peas, rye and a few crim
on clover seed for planting this fall
.nd next year. Planted 30 bushels
teas this year, feeding the peavine
tay to live stock and putting the ma
ture on oats and for corn next year,
lave about one acre sowed in crim
on clover and rye and about five
icres sowed to rye to turn next
pring. I am preparing my oat land
tetter. Break with two-horse plow,
tarrowing and fertilizing better.
Disking my land for wheat, and will
ertilize and drill with Gantt drill. I
tm trying to clear my land of rock
vhere I sow small grain, turning
itubble land 6 to 8 inches deep for
lotton next year. Will put from 400
o 600 pounds of a high-grade guano
ter acre. I have selected cotton from
he best stalks to get seed enough to
ilant my crop next year. I have
•aised and gathered enough corn to
:eed my hogs and horses and for
aread. I have hogs enough to kill—to
make meat for my family of ten. I
liave kept weeds from seeding on a
portion of my land this year, and will
dig or blow up some stumps and rock
this fall and winter and build a dam
across gullies and hollows.
Carlton, Ga. L. C. KING.
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soiling.—Professor Fletcher.
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It Pays to Sow Oats.
Messrs. Editors: Please continue
urging the farmers to diversify, fer
tilize, and raise their supplies at
home, and then all of the cotton
they can. Then they will thereby al
ways get a good price for cotton and
seed.
Last year ought to open their eyes.
Cottonseed in the past has averaged
the planter about 2 0c. a bushel; now
it is 50c. I do not believe it will pay
to raise wheat, but I know it will
pay to raise oats. The red is the
best, and early in January is the time
to sow. CICERO W. STEPHENS.
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