Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-12-10
How 20 get Rich and 20 Make your
Farm Rich.

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Give us something practical on the
management, feeding and fattening
of hogs, cattle, sheep, etc."
Well, we propose in this article, to
tell you how poor man, on u poor
farm got rich himself, and, In the
meantime, made his poor farm rich |;
and now the samething can be done
In almost any given locality.
Our neighbor, N, in Kentucky,
owned a farm of 150 or POO acres, la
cultivation. 1t was situated on the
divide. between what was called the
rich blue grass and the poor oak
lands, considerably broken and COM
paratively poor. He raised suilici-
ency of all kinds of stock, grains,
and grasses for home uses. His speci-
alities, however, were tobacco and
hogs. The variety of tobacco grown
by our neighbor, was u cinnamon col
ored wrapper leaf, distinguished for
its size and the fineness of its stem
and fibre. 1t was mostly used for
muking" fine cut, }" and was then and
still Is known the world over, as ana
son County Tobacco"
The extraordinary care with which
he managed and handled his crop
of tobacco, made him famous as u to.
bacco grower, and lie could always
sell for u cent more per pound than
his neighbors. But We do not propose
to tell you about his system of hog
feeding and rotating. He generally
sold from one to two hundred of the
fattest hogs in the county, each fall
and at the highest figures. He al
ways had field of clover, on which
he grazed his hogs throughout the
Summer, and which we will for con.
venience, call No. /. No 2. is field
of Rye. When the rye became
thoroughly ripe and straw fallen
he would take his hogs from the clover
and turn them into the rye field. No
3 is field of corn intended to be fed
down to his hogs. BY the time the
corn was sufficiently matured for feed.
ing purposes, the rye was pretty well
used up, and the hogs already fat
enough for market.
In this condition they are removed
to the cornficld to take on what Mis-.
sourians call "big f,t," and they did
it etiectually. a little before they
finish the cornfield he would SOW il
down in rye, at the rate of bushe
and half of seed to the acre. The
roofing of the hogs and the rains
were all that was needed to cover the
seed sufficiently, aud the hogs were
removed and sold before any serious
damage was done to the young rye
This was intended for No. 2 of tho
following year Thus it was that Mr.
N. raised better hogs and solt
them for better price than any mar
in his section, and thus he gradually J
grew rich.
But now about making his pooi
farm rich. Let us look again at the
rye field, NO2. fed down to the hogs
That was No 3 last year, and had ol
it before being sown in rye a heavy
coat of corn stalks all trampled dowI
and mangled by the hogs, so that i
would rot easily. And all the drop
pings Of $50 hogs have fed upon it
and which Is said to be the very bes
animal manure. In addition to this
1t has the straw of the heavy crop o
rye, In the best possible condition fo
rotting, together with the super-adde,
dropping of another large herd o
hogs.
In the meantime, the rye left upoi
the ground hassprungup up, and furnish
rs u magnificent winter pasture for hi
calves, colts and other loose stock
which is of great value. In tn
spring, in good season, this was al
turned under, and the field, whicl
we will call No. 9. planted in corr
for his crib next winter. In this wa,
our friend rotated from field to ficl,
year after year, got rich himself AM
made his farm rich In the meantime
In all this we have something emi
nently practical, which commend
itseifto the common sense of ever,
farmer. The system involves no eX
ira labor or expense, and its result
are infallibly certain. If Mr.. NJ
gradually grew rich by it, when tn
gross price of pork ranged from tw
and half cents, what would ii d
for you at the high prices had for tina
article during the several years past
- Western and South Stock Journal
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