The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1886-04-17

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Eweekss Hand 10 the field in Wo-horse
wagon bed full, Aufficient for one acre,
IThi6l6st mas produced the finest and most
proitable crops in this sectien the past
two years. Men who maketh fertilizei
takea BARREL with them to the barn
when theY Yeures tobacco and sayeall the
ashes, and, also from the. house, BY
Spring they have ashes plenty. Two
Hnndred pounds of plastera cosls $Bl26,
one sack salt$1 90, and so lime islcheap,
50 the cost Of. these fertilizers IL small;
hAEfSt -sslEen tlls toheeeo D se1d 90a put the
money in your pocket and escape the
hard sharks and smiles of the CONNER
fcal fertilizer venders, with the request'to
cali and get asaew supply next year.
The planters who produce all their
own supplies of provisions, make their
own fertilizers, and plant one barn OF
tobacco to each good hand worked on the
farm, are laying by some money. Those
who live on mortgages usually hand their
checks over to the merchant, lift the old
mortgage and give new one at once to
buy hay for the hJrse and cow, while
this same hay is the easiest and most
profitable crop to the amount of labor
required to pfoduce ito any that have
ever produced. One of my neighbors
sold his hay crop at eighteen dollars per
ton at his barn; Others delivered in
'Asheyille at twenty dollars per ton;
while more than half the barns of tobacco
sold from this section brought less than
twenty dollars The thing most needed
in this section is more grass and more
hay, less stock, and better stock. i filed
my barn with haytlast year, fed ten head
of cattle, all sorts and fonf head of fhorses
till the first of March. About two-t thirds
of hay fed out; haaled the other one third
to Asheville at six loads and sold eleven
thousand and forty-ive pounds of hay
for one hundred and ten dollars and
forty FIVE cents Still there are men who
hold on to the calfIs tail and free range.
My orchard grass usually supports my
calves and colts from April 1st to Janu-
ary LIST. This is a rich mountain cove
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As quitesa number of persons will have
to keep that old SOW out of their neigh
boris field and in their own, suggestion
foundedaon ten years experience may
hell 6eme one; Weset q barrel in con-
Henient place to throw all the,dish wa
ter, scraps, peelings milk, &C. .sadd matter
and bran, or meal; let it ferment; then
carry bucket full to55 or hogs. night
and morning. Your hogs will keep in
good smooth order, and fatten easily in
the fall. Hogs treated this way on
clover grow very nicely. Sow more
clover and grass, use land PLASTER freely.
It is cheap; so lbs. per acre on clover and
grass pays well. Let commercial fertil-
izers alone. It is so nice and easy to
harness up and 60 to town and get load
of manure, and just sign a paper; and
then you can talk TO all your friends and
discuss the different brands, and how
well its doing under your tobacco. Did
you know that it cost you from one to
two cents per 10. of tobacco grown on
fertilizers? j. N. GREEN.