The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-07-06

and keeping it in repairs. On n two
hundred acre farm il will take at least
seven good mules or horses to cultivate
it properly-0ne yoke of good oxen for
hauling, four good COWS, five b eeding
sows, and twenty sheep. That is ample
stock for such a sized farm, but it can
support more il deemed necessary. This
stock should be stabbed and penned OF
nights to save the manure. Ten good
hands are sufficient as laborers, provided
you have the most improved plow-and
if the farm is owned by an active, ener-
getic, progressive young man, hire your
hands for money wages, and manage the
whole Yourself. But should the own
be advanced in life, and incapable of
active superintendent, get the most
reliable hands you can secure, and farm
on share system, but keep an eye your
self to its whole details. This Is my system
being old and infirm--and | have sue.
ceeded as well as any, and | have hands
that have been in my employment for
four years. Now we will discuss the
advantages of diversified crops. In the
first place diversified crops afford the
advantage of rotation and without rota-
ting the crops it is impossible to keep up
the fertility of lands, r keep them from
washing or Outlying. Corn and wheat
draw more heavily from the land than
any crops we plant, or in other words,
they are the most ~exhausting crops,
unless it be sugar cane and sorghum
hence corn or wheat should never be
planted on any field but one year, when
it ought to be followed tor two years by
some other crops, say oats and cotton
let oats follow corn, and cotton follow
ten acres for truck farming can be
rotated after corn, but keep your lands
under rotation all the while, 50 as to
keep them from running down or wash
ing. Cotton is not exhausting to land
as much as corn or wheat, but the long,
clean culture it requires subjects it to
washing from rains even through the
winter months, for there is neither
grass or weeds left from the clean
culture it receives to tie the land
together and prevent its washing.
A prudent farmer keeps an eye
to the preservation and building up his
lands, and to do so he must adopt diver
siied crops and the rotating system.
Again, no farm can be made self sustain
ing and a success without raising all the
supplies needed on it. Your bread,
your meat, your milk and butter, your
vegetables and stock of all kind must be
the product of your farm. II you do
this, fifty acres in cotton will give you
more money of your own than 1000
acres in cotton, and no supplies raised
and how much more cheerful and pros
porous a farm looks, when we see on it,
growing, corn, wheat, oats, potatoes,
turnips, clover and grasses, a fine garden,
and fruit orchard, and to see fine horses,
colts, cows, calves. sheep, hogs and poul-
try of all kinds. Such looks like farm
ing, and what farming was intended to
be, and when you see such a farm, you
will ascertain that its owner is a free and
independent man, and lives in comfort,
and all around him lives contented, and
his cattle are all fat and sleek, thrift
and prosperity is all around him.. Such
is the only farmer that prospers, and
why, because he is the true farmer that
understands his business and farms ac-
cording to the rules of farming--hedon't
make farming a speculation, bat he
makes it a practical success, relying on
his farm for his support and income, and
all who will adopt and pursue such a
course will make farming prosperous
Farming must be diversifed--all cotton,
and no grain, g,asa, stock, poultry and
gardens neglected will break any farmer
that farms on such a system.