The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-07-13
SS-RAISlNG.
The Foundation stone of All Profitable
Agriculture.

The Foundation stone Of All Profitable
Agriculture.
There are but few States i'm the Union
that are not thinking and talking more
of rotation of crops to-day than they
are of speciality farming. and this will
grow upon the minds of thinking men
rs the years roll by and the necessity is
forced upon them of making the most
and the best of their farms and of their
means. The profits in farming to-day
are too often on the wrong side of the
cash account. that is TO say they are
losses. and every expedient has to be
resorted TO, TO change it to the other
side. The Rural Ford has advocated
the use of brains on the farm until it is
almost ashamed of its repetition, but
the situation demands it; farmers must
rearrange their methods and systems,
get out of the old ruts and into the
new, and adapt themselves TO their
work in such a way as to be able to
meet the circumstances surrounding
them.
Corn is good crop and at times
paying one. but because it is so it does
not follow that it should be the one and
only crop cultivated, especially for an
indefinite series of years, upon the
same soil. Wheat is a good crop and
paying one but like all others it will
in process of time exhaust the food in
the soil essential TO its success. 1t will
--as well as any other crop often re-
peated. attract, feed and harbor insect
pests inimical to its full development.
Tobacco is good and profitable crop
but exhaustive to the soil and requiring |
cultivation from the plant |
ing of the seed bed to the housing of |
the crop and skilled help ever after. So |
with MANY other crops incident TO our |
Western farming, they are good and |
profitable, too, under favorable circum-
and conditions, but their ever
lasting repetition is inimical to success
and TO be avoided.
The Orange County Farmer makes
q good point in the following on grass
lit matters not how widely |
farmers may differ in judgment con-
corning the relative value and profits
Of raising different farm crops, all will
agree TO the Importance of raising
standard crops of grass in preference
TO all others, as the foundation of all
profitable farming. Therefore, it is not
a matter of surprise when a farm be-
comes run down from overpasturage,
Or deficiency in hay, that the first out
cry should be for more grass. This is
the great cry now among farmers
and he is rated the best
farmer who cuts the greatest number ,
Of tons of hay, and keeps a CORE
spending number of cattle to the hun 1,
dred acres throughout the year without
the aid of foreign supplies. Grain
raising and pasturing may be pade D
profitable for time without
q rotation of crops, but the time is GER
tain to come when grain-farming needs
TO be alternated with grass. The use
Of special fertilizers, however literally
they are applied, will not prevent, al
though il may delay the entire impov-
erishment of the soil for time, but
the result is always the same
in the end. That the destruc-'
ton of the fertility Of the farm is SC
CELEBRATED just IN proportion to the
weight and substance Of the crops re-
moved from the SOIL and the speed
with which is ID affected, is now adj +
mitted by all, and its fertility is ex-
tended in proportion to the good judy
ment NJ the farmer engaged in Gull
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