The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-18
Living Well on a ao-Aora Farm.

q oJ-acre farm:
Aou ask the best way to cultivate 50 |
acre farm. would plant, say, ) acres in |
cotton, . acres in corn, ) acres in wheat, /
acres In oats, acres in clover and grass, !
acres in fruits and vegetables.
Now, in order to run this farm, 1 should |
want 10 keep not less than four mich COWS,
10 head Of sheep, 10 head of goats, 1 sow
and offspring 2 good, strong brood mares.
plenty OF poultry. and bees enough to sup
ply the family in honey, and last, but not
least, q fab pond
In one short piece cannot write specially
OF all these things. but as my farm, as above
laid of, is out of the old channel l will give
some reasons for it In the first place,
wish to state what think is the trus kew to
southern agriculture: Animal life and veg
etable life must 90 together and in natural
proportions. The prime object of farming
Is to make living, not merely to keep soul
and body together. but to live upon the
good things which God in his wisdom has
provided in the great storehouse of nature
for us to subsist upon. So if we undertake to
till the earth without due regard to va
rlety, both in the animal and vegetable
kingdoms, our farming is unnatural and we
do ourselves great injury, both in physi-
cal and moral sense, and treat our creator
as having made many things in vain. Ask
our southern farmer what he works so hard
In the blazing sun for, and he answers, ITO
make living" One more question and
we stall him: What does ito make living''
mean: How many farmers could give US
al fal1 go sa:r
most vital of all questions, pertaining to
our businessa After much study give the
following answer:
To make living means TO appropriate to
our use the blessings of nature in their
natural order and proportions, in the given
climate IN which we live, growing a money
crop, or surplus. to exchange with those of
other climates for foreign necessities.
Now. the great trouble in all our southern
farming has been-our system is an IN
natural one! We have made all our figures
to find the dollar, and none to learn how to
live and have, consequently missed both.
My little 30-acre farm Il mean 80 acres in
cultivation is intended to correct this IN
natural system, and show that every farmer
who is able to own 50 or 100 acres ought to
live like king, and be substantially indie
pendent of all the world, though he lives 80
miles from market Four mica COWS, be
side their increase, 2 horses, besides other
animals, will mako, if properly fed and
stabbed, an enormous. amount of good ma
nure during twelve months, and this can be
doubled-yea, quadrupled, by supplying
the lot and stalls, hog pens, ETC., with good
bedding Of some coarse vegetable matter,
woods earth, muck, etc.
The first work of the farmer, and bis
work ever after, is TO mako manure, and the
COW is his guano factory. With few dol
lars worth of chemicals he can manure his
five acres H. cotton and his five acres in corn
heavily in the drill, with rich com post far
better than guano, and can easily make a
heavy bale Of cotton and from so to so
bushels of corn to the acre On low lands,
by this plan, go to 100 BIZ shells of corn can
be easily made to the acre. After the corn
and cotton are MANFRED in the drill, fully
three-fourths of the years manure will be
left to spread broadcast on the 10 acres to
be sown in wheat and oats, reserving
enough for the garden This broadcast
manuring with few ext ra sacks of phos-
phate will bring the wheat crop up to 20 or
50 bushels per acre, and tho oats to SO or rs.
i neglected in the a 1ove to allow the five
acres in clover and grass its share of the
compost, but there will oon be enough for
all, besides, by continuing this plan, and
rotating the crops, fhe land will soon be
made rich enough TO bring the finest OF
clover and grasses; five acres Of which
moved and stored away, togeth or with al
abundance of straw and fodder corn,
which can be grown on por-
ton of the wheat and oat stnbble, nd
made into silage and fodder. will be amply
sufficient to feed all st oc1, so far as ruff
ness" is concerned, and the balance of feed
necessary for winter will come from wheat
bran, cotton seed, ground oats and the root
crop from portion Of the five acres set
apart for fruits and vegetables This is to
be supplemented by fall and spring grazing,
soiling, and good BERN uda grass pasture,
the latter not included in the so acres, but
indispensable in the sout hsrn states for sum-
mer grazing. The COW is not only tho
farmers guano factory, but she is more, she
is the backbone Of tina farm. The surplus
milk from my four COWS will almost raise
the calves and pigs, while tina surplus butter
will buy all tAe needed farm implements,
pays for all repairs, etc, one year with an
other, including the purchase of wagon
and buggy occasionally. Feed her we'll |
and treat her kindly, and she will fesd you
and your farm, help to supply your tabls |
with pork and beef, furnish lard for your
biscuit, and make everything which comes
to table savory and wholes ome--in word, |
the COW is king! Talk about king cotton
the cow is king, or is destined to bs in the
near future, while cotton will take its place
in the secondary rank, as an effect or a pro-
duct of king cow.
take two brood mares for this little
farm, because under the present state of
things in the south ths brood mare is to be
encouraged; she can and will stop tina great
leak which the Kentucky and Tennessee
mule has kicked out of our financial bot
tom. The mares can do all tho farm work
and recsive good treat ment, besides her
of blooded colts or mules will edd |
no little to the in come of our little farm.
Farming in South Florida.