The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-11-14

ihdh' ID between these two items.
would Ike TO know where the profits
are IN cotton. Now lei u see If I can
advise something better. | am only
gong to talk from experience. II
'hree-hor>e farmer and in a poor a
SECTION as Wake county affords. |
mai al Of my supplies al home and
some TO spare OF everything in the way
OF eatab,es. | will give a list Of what
! produce. When / layed by NV cot
ton crop last year. % acres. | had
sown 80 bushels of the white winter
oats | cut at harvest this year ? 800
pounds after wintering my sheep and
paSturlng my cattle on them until
about the first of March. and YOU
ought to have seen the milk and but
ter we GO. | make about one hun
dred barrels of corn and plant as many
pea hills as do corn hills 4 acres in
sweet potatoes ! III Irish potatoes %
acres in wheat, not very good IS in
corn, land new aud very rough l acre
IN Spanish chufa, geo bushels TO the
acre, very good | acre in cabbage,
outside of kitchen garden. have sold
cabbage up to this time $225 worth,
and collected the money for the same.
The 200 bushels of chufas is surely
worth for hog food 300 bushels OF corn.
say $500. How is cabbage and chufas
for high? Cabbage and chufas is no
more trouble to cultivate per acre than
cotton, only it takes more manure for
cabbage "a acres in cotton. II bales az
81 cents, 1862. Look at it. Think of
1T, and learn wisdom enough TO keep
from planting cotton to get out of
debt at II cents lost on every pound
you make. just as soon as all of the
farmers get to making all of their sup.
plies at home, and from one to five
bales of cotton to the horse. | will
guarantee them as much money for
the cotton that they then make as
their crop now brings, for it is
just as reasonable for the farmer
to get 25 cents a pound for cotton
as it is for the merchant to get one
hundred per cent. on his goods by sell
ing them on account and take mortga
ges on every thing a man has got and
for a little Baltimore pork. All adopt
my plan. No man can afford to buy
guano to enrich his land with for in
two years it will cost him mere per
acre than the land will sell for per
acre. Besides the $3.50 loss per acre
on making cotton now, norman can af-
ford to plant pure land in any crop
without manuring it and how can we
manage this. 1t can't be done as cheap
any other way as by stock and | think
sheep the best. with cattle enough to
consume all the rough food you get off
the farms. Some will ask the question.
how can sheep food be raised to winter
sheep enough to make a quantity of
manure to n a three horse farm
with your cattle, horses and hogs?
Well, | will tell You how | do. as
have said in this article. Ny cotton
patches with some rested land besides
is as pretty a pasture in oats and rye
sown i August as yer you saw in
May. That shall pasture now until
about the 18th of March. On the first
of April, thirty acres will feed a.
least the 80 sheep | pen at night now.
Brother farmers, take my advice.
Let your circumstances be as they
may, and you will be better off the
first year you try it. Be sure to read
all the agricultural works you can
get,a they have beer a blessing to me.
| liked to have forgotten to put
down the worth of my 4 acres ofsweet
potatoes, 500 bushels at 40 cents per
bushel $500. Oats threShed at 400
bushels and have no trouble to sell
them at So cents. per bushci. | could
have sold as many more at my barn
door for 1920. That is right nice. |
only had to knock down the stalk cut
and house the oats expense all told
$40. | want it understood that | have
been reading the best Agricultural
works hat l could get for the last %
years have been taking the advice of
the am Now a little about Econo-
my i think this ought to put far
mers to thinking as some of them
seem not to think before they act.
See some young men wearing a suit
Of clothes costing ID or 90 dollars.
ready made though with a sewing
machine in the house that cost $15.:
While mine | wear look as well, and
are aS fine tbouoh made AFT homo Nv