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Suggestions From Arkansas.

see in the March number Of the
CutiUdt0r all inquiry for d machine
that will cut cotton and corn stalks.
There are several kinds made, and all
| have seen dogOod work. am using
one made in Illinois, that will cut all
stalks or weeds, when the ground is
dry enough to pillow. Amy of the ag-
ricultural manufacturers up North can
furnish them. They are easily con
structe;i, aud any good country black.
smith All make one by using Il round
log, the length wanted, and driving in
iron pins upon which knives AN br
b0lled. / have been using one for
three years and / am satisfied it is
worth all I paid for it.
The Southern farmers is much be-
hind the aye in the use Of lab~or-Saving
tools. The Northern farmers make
mules and horses do much Of their
work, such work as the Southern far
mer generally does by hand. One OF
the improved implements is a large
pillow that cum turn four acres each day
with three horses, and do much better
work than cail be done with one or
two horse pIows. l hear Of a machine
called the screw pulveriZer-that is
said puiverizcs twenty acres of lauls
each day, and does it better than can
be done with the pillow. / also see
from the certificates sent out Ivy the
manufacturers that a good many of
them were sold in Georgia, and |
think if the farmers who are using
them would give the public their opin-
ion of them it would he of service.
The Southern farmers must use more
horse and less man power, If they
would succeed.
What is the value of cotton seed, is
Low being discussed in the papers. II
the experiments made in Canada and
at the \. and NJ. College Of MISSISSIPPI
ri are correct, then more money can
be made from the seed of Il bale OF cot
ton than the lint nov brings, and the
best of it is that the farmer can make
the money during the winter months.
The experiments were in feeding
! boiled cotton seed to cattle. aud the
trial proved that fat could he put Oh
cattle ut Il cost of two cents per pound
during the winter months, Will" in
the North To do the same thing with
grain would cost about ten cents per
pound. This thing, if correctly re-
ported, will make the Cotton States
the best cattle andStock country in the
Union. For instance, suppose Il farm
er who makes ten bales of cotton
weighing five hundred pounds each,
will purchase in the fall ten steers that
average eight hundred pounds, which
can he purchased for about $lG.OO.
The seed from each lrle Of cotton,
with plenty of hay. will feed the cat
tie seventy-iive days, and put on about
three hundred and sevcnty-fivc pounds
of fat, making the steers weigh on the
first of March LIS pounds. worth now
five cents per pound, or $751; -. And
| suppose the manure is worth as much
us the cost Of the hay, which leaves a
net profit Of S42.75 Ortlle seed. If the
seed is fed to young cattle and they be
put to grass and gruzed during the
summer it will pay yer a larger prof
it. 1t is said that the oil from each
ton of seed is worth about thirteen
dollars, so if the oil al lie extracted
and the cake fed, then there will he
about six dollars more profit on the
seed. This certainly would he better
than putting the seed on the land rs a
manure-fur the cattle would make as
much manure as the seed would sup
ply. =,
There is no reason why the small
farmers of the South cannot make
stock raising profitable, certainly
much more so than seven cent cotton.
l see an article in the March number
of the Cuttirator stating that 'stock
raising is good for the health and NOR
als,' and what the writer says IS the
naked truth. 1t hrightens up Il
man, gives him good, honest food to
eat ; and he docs not Eat us i CORE
spondert of the NCw York Sun says of
the cotton planter, "Tlat he eats the
coarsest food ever consumed by civil
lied man." The "all cotton" dwarfs Il
mans intellect, while to raise live
stock and grain improves him. Try it,
brotler..farmers of Georgia., and see if
the world is not brighter TO you.
j. III. MOORE,
South Tr1H. 1.EuUS0s.