The Nevada picayune., 1885-03-26

patch to feed them till October after which they can be fed on corn till ready to kill.
 l have not particle of doubt but that raising hogs will pay the farmer double what he can make raising cotton.
 That raising stock and grain pays better than cotton is evidenc- ed by the fact that tho grain farm CT can pay his hand twenty dol lars a month and board; while the cotton planter only pays ten or twelve dollars.
 Shcrc is another advantage to the small farmer in raising stock he can always make enough ma nure for five or ten acres of land which he can put in cotton and corn the cotton to be gathered by the children, which is about clear prof it.
 The fattening of beef cattle for winter market is another @Gurce of i profit. For instance when man can get plenty of cotton seed and has raised lot of pea vine hay, he can have sheds for ten or twelve steers, which he can feed from the first of December to the first of February at a cost of about six dollars per head and they will pay a profit at the present price of beef of about thirty dollars on each steer. This will give the farmer $500 for three months work, fully as much as he can make by one years work iu the cotton field.
 l sec it stated that the state of Georgia nas paid for bacon within the last ten years more than one hundred million dollars.
 An this could have been raised at home and the people would have been that much richer than now. This is a shame and it brings a bad name to fair faud, aud places the farmers of that state and all cotton states in position of Well, brother farmer fill the blank yourself; l cannot.
 l am we'll aware that when a man has no money, y,.he. cannot en- tirely quit cotton and raise stock 1 but the small land owner can grad ually work into it, if he will get few hogs, cattle and eheep, and care well for them. It is no troub- le tor any farmer in the south to raise his own meat, if he will only make up his mind that he will try to do 1t.
 There is one way in which the large plantations can be protitabIy used with very little labor. Take as an examples farm of 400 acres of cleared land; then get screw pulverizer, that with six good horses will blow or pulverize twen- ty acres of land each day. Sow POO acres in fall oats, aud next spring plant the other 200 in peas when the oats are ripe cut enough to feed stock on, and turn hogs on the balance, by the time they have eaten the oats, the peas will be ready to turn on which will keep the hogs fat and growing till ready to kill. If the farmer has money he can buy the hogs to be fed, even pigs fed in th;s way will make large hogs'by December.
 As to the profits that can be made by this style of farming. it will differ, with different men. But I will give your readers the possibilities of the experiment, or what can be done, when all things are favorable.
 One man, with plenty of teams and a screw pulverizer can put in 200 acres in oats, whe and bar Icy. Then he can commence in January to blow for peas, and by the middle of April he can be ready to plant 900 acres of peas. With a two horse corn planter he can plant the POO acres in peas in twenty days. Then with four hands with walking cultivators, he can blow the peas over three times in thirty days, if the fields are dj- vided so he can pnt in some very early peas he can turn hogs on them by 1st of July or as soon as they have finished the oats. By this means he can raise and fatten 500 hogs. The prof. on each hog should be about S7 or S5,G00 for the labors of one man during the vaar onH fotrr ,,,ac for t-,;,,, ,y,