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FOR THE FARMING, STOCK-RAISING, DAIRYING, POULTRY AND OTHER INTERESTS OF THE SOUTHERN STATES. VOL. 8. NO. 2. __STARKVILLE, MISSISSIPPI, NOVEMBER K. 1902. ~ SO CENTS~aTeaT~ ! Mining orManufacturing | j There are two ways of thinking, of the farm. There are two ways of treating the farm. The oneway is to treat itasamine, from which successive cropsmav be quarried and shipped away without return ing anything to the soil. Great as is our live-stock industry this is yet the more common wav of doing in all ou^. richer and new er States. Some of the older States have learned by dear expe rience the ruin that comes from soil mining. Some have reform ed their practices, some have made their land a deser.t and have themselves abandoned their countryside to eke out an exis tence in the cities or to try soil robbing again in newer and more fertile region. The sure result of successful mining is exhaus tion of the stock and wealth. This is as true of agriculture as it was of the Comstock lode, most marvelous deposit of silver the world ever saw. That mine is silent and abandoned to-day The exhaustion of the mine is necessary. The exhaustion of the soil is an olrense against econ omics and unborn posterity. There are no farms this side the Missouri where the farmer can alYoid to neglect soil conser vation,soil improvement. There arc no soils too rich for corn, for grass, for alfalfa. Experimen ters with alfalfa have brought home to us with something of a shock and truth that our fields are very generaly deficient in fertility. We have been too long accustomed to think of our soils as inexhaustibly fertile. We have mined them and sold away the crops or we have fed to the stock in open yards from which little manure has been co lected and returned. Soil ex haustion is not merely near, soil deterioration is present. It pays to keep fields up to a high level of productiveness. Fortunately this is not oifti :ult w ith our pres ent knowledge of what plant food consists of, with our com mand of feeding stuffs,our knowl edge of the value of manures and our Deuer way's 01 distributing them. The knowledge of the pow er of the legume to tap thesub soil for potash and phosphoric acid, to draw down from heaven the nitrogen and store it away has added to our possible wealth an hundred fold. ‘ Rotation of ' ' crops, intelligent 'feeding of ani mals and application of manures will greatly increase it. Then the farm may be consid ered as a manufactory. The “raw material” garnered from the productive fields is worked into finished form by live stock. It is converted from a crude state into marketable products. The by-product of this process of manufacture—the manure—is conserved and returned to the field. It has been said that no /■ one can “eat his cake and have it too.” The stock farmer can come nearer performing this apparent imfossibilitv than any other man. The animal takes fat from his feed and leaves tertilitv. And this fertility properly saved and utilized means a continuation of productiveness for the fields. Fertile Gelds! What pleasent thougts cluster around them— the comfortable farm home, sur rounded by trees, orchards, good barns and stables and good siock, the mellow peal of the school house bell, the neat and prospe rous country villigc where want and squalor are unknown, the village church -all these things belong to the sane and rightly ordered agriculture where live stock is the cornerstone and soil conservation the first law. On the other hand, there is no more unfortunate country than that where the sin of the fathers is being visited on the children of the third and fourth generations. Tee wasted fields, the shrunken harvests, the fallen wjlls and fences, the delapidated homes, the barns in ruin, the church yards overgrown with weed and brier, tbe villagers darkly brood ing over what they once were, the young men gone afar and the maidens at home desolate, if every landowner could feel his responsibility in the guardian ship of that land, his duty toward his own and those who will come after him. agriculture would flourish mightily and wax great er as the years progress.—Ex. World’s Fair Notes. Frederic W. Taylor, chief of the Deprrtment of Agriculture, and acting chief of Horticulture, is making a tour of Southern State fairs and eastern cities in the interest of his departments, which wili have about thirty acres under roof and large out door areas devoted to various methods of farming and fruit growing. Twenty-three foreign govern ments and 34 states have taken favorable action upon the subject of making exhibits at the World’s Fair. It is announced from Washing ton that the gold dollars to be struck in commemoration of the Centennial Celebration of the Louisiana Purchase by a World's Fair at St. Louis in ld((4, will be ready in December of this year. Two designs will be used, one the head of Jefferson, who negotiated the great purchase, tne otner the head ot McKinlev who issued the proclamation of the World’s Fair. The number will be limited to 250,000. They will be placed on sale by the treasurer of the World’s Fair, the act of Congress which aathorized the issue permitting this to be done under the proper bond. They will be sold at a premium. • The construction of the Mines and Metallurgy building has be gun. This will stand in the southern part of the main group and will be 525 by 750 feet, cover ing nine acres. It- will cost $4'*s,O00 and the design is one of the most beautiful in the group ol many splendid exhibit palaces. Ceylon Planters are known as an enterprising body of men— the pull the “get there” stroke— and they cabled to Hongkong to ask World’s Fair Commissioner Barrett to hurry up and get to the island “Garden of Eden” with as little delay as possible, for they wanted to discuss de tails over their Tea House ex hibit. But Ceylon is to contrib ute to the World’s Fair in anoth er way. There has been shipped from that inland for the World’s Fair, eight elephants, and a numoer of bears, leopards, mon keys, elk and deer, including fine specimens of the hog deer, Cey lon elephants are not the largest, but they are the cleverest per formers. The whole collection will comprise 700 wild animals, CommissionerR.il. Henry of Mississippi has arranged to have included in the exhibit from that state ten volumes of letters of Governor William C.C. Claiborne. One volume deals entirely with the Louisiana Purchase while the others cover events prior to and following that famous transaction in which General Claiborne took such a prominent part. Much of the history which these letters contain has never been published. Copy of the design for the Arkansas World’s Fair button has been received. Fitzhugh Burton of Hot Springs originated it, winning the prize offered by the State Commission in a spirit ed contest. The design is'that of an apple, Arkansas being the home of the famous Arkansas oiacK appie. un tne apple are, the State House, a railroad train, section of a forest, samples of grains, melons, cotton and other products. The buttons will be sold throughout the state and the proceeds applied to the Arkansas World’s Fair exhibit fund. Intensified Farming. An acre well attended will re turn more than two acres indif ferently attended. This is true whether devoted to cereal, vege table or f'-uit. An intelligent cum prehension of what the grain, the plant or the food requires, and a knowdedge of what the soil contains, that the plant food be properly supplied, is the first requisite, and the second and not less important requisite is prop er tillage. The thrifty horticul turist who lives in his garden, feeding his plants, and constant ly on guard to route the vegeta ble’s enemy, whether germ, worm or weed, is the man that makes the single acre turn into his till as lartre net revenue a*; many indifferent farmers can secure from a hundred acres. The intelligent orchardist who knows the treatment nis trees need and the soil upon which they feed, and keeps a vigil over each fruit-bearer, when the fruit ing time comes can secure his product in perfection, and his re turns are larger by far than come from orchard or vineyard many times larger owned by those who permit weeds to associate with tree and vine, giving ne thought other than to expect fruits from weed and thistle patch. The new era of farming and fruit culture is particularly noticeable in the South, where attractive truck farms Hank -prosperous industrial centers, and well-kept and well-attended orchards yield their abundance of incomparable fruits, where thrifty farmers till less land, and do it better, and get greater re wards than wasting time over i«rge -areas.—Southern Farm j Magazine. \ Vv i Truck Dairy aa | Farm - . acres level land three miles from the growing manufacturing citv of Laurel; the best market for truck and dairy products in Mississippi. Land will make a bale of cotton per acre with some fertilizer. Will sell this well-improved place for $2500. L. F. EASLY, Laurel, Miss Wincy Farm Berkshires. •••••*.•••# On hand now a few litters as fine as I have ever bred, ready for prompt shipment. These pigs have typical heads, backs and hams and haye excellent bone, with unusual finish. Buyer should order before weather gets too warm to ship. tor Barred Plymouth Kocks at a bargain. Address, S- Q. HOLLINGSWORTH, - Coushatta, La. COW PEAS. Whippoorwill Peas.. 50 bn. Clays and Wonderfuls... I jp inu Mixed and Unknown. 1 oo bu'. Tenn. German Millet Seed.$1 50 bu. Dwarf Essex Rape.r,e tb Binder 1 wine. 12c lb. Red Top & Orange cane seed $1*40 bu. E& All in cotton bags 15c extra each, and terms NET CASH. . C. R. BAIRD & CO.) - Chattanooga, Tenn. For Sale-A Bargain. 240 acre Delta farm, 18 miles south of Greenville, Miss., ami 3 miles west of Wilrnot Station where we have both Y. & M. V. and Southern R. R\s. Convenient enough to the railroad can leave the place in the morning and go to Greenville and attend to business and get hack that evening or von can go in the evening and get back neat morning. There is two first class steam gins at Wilrnot also Post Office. There is 125 acres in fine state of cultiva tion which will make a bale of cotton per acre this year. (> good Houses, 5 pumps, good water, barns and sheds, fall supply of farm implements. 1 four horse wagon and gears, blacksmith outfit, <> eead fine young mules one 8 year old horse, larSe and work anywhere. Everything complete for one who wants this size farm. I Will state that this land is a< tine as any in the Delta and lies beautifully rnd is cheap at *50 an acre. 1 am engaged in other business and find I cannot give tho proper attention this property, so am willing to make a sacrifice of it. 1 will close it out for $7500.00 the entire outfit, one third cash and the balance in payments to sut purchaser. This I consider the best bargain in the Delta and the right man can make the deferred pay ments like paying rent. E. M. BAGGETT, BIRMINGHAM, ALA. Jerseys For Sale. BY Mississippi Experiment Station. To reduce the Station herd, we are offering for sale several choice yo.ing rcgisterek cows and heifers. Also five well bred young bulls. M >st of the above cows are with calf Prospects Polo; dam massey Polo, sire. Stake Pogis of Prospec. Full particulars sent on application. J. S, Moore, Agricultural College, Miss.