The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-12-04
FARMER AND PLANTER.
THE NEW FARM.
Something About the Farm UNDERLYING
thatwhich is Cultivated.


Something About the Farm Underlying
thatwhich is Cultivated.
Please let it be said to the plowman
that the most earnest prayer and fullest
trust ever known is the work of the
''earth mover" the plowman, who pre-
pares the soil for crops, and waits the
results, and while waiting cultivates
the growing crop; the cultivating is
easily and successfully done where the
first work was thoroughly and sys-
tematically performed in the new agri-
cultural style, namely, deeper and bet
ter blowing before planting. Surely
answer will then come to that earnest
prayer-good blowing.
The best wheat land in all the older
farming communities is just few inches
below the worn and tired surface. More
wheat per acre will be produced on what
is now called WORKOUT soil than has
ever yet been produced. When the new
agriculture is fully inaugurated, the
new virgin soil now waiting the deep
tiller is called by the earth-mover to
yield her hidden wealth, then twenty
five to fifty bushels will be produced
per acre where less than one-half that
amount is now produced. Other than
blowing alone is necessary.
Grass, especially clover, should be
grown at short intervals on wheat land.
Glover should remain not less than two
years, thus resting and enriching the
deep-plowed grain land. Corn first
after deep fall blowing is a good crop
where rotation of crops are grown on
the same farm, as many very success
full farmers closely practice. Where
wheat is grown after wheat the best re-
suit may be expected, where clover
with ripe seed upon it is turned deeply
under little time before seeding, not
to be turned again until the wheat crop
is gathered, and then turn up the clover
seed with little more virgin soil, put in
the second wheat crop and your land
will be in clover from the seed plowed
under the previous year. Thus alter
mating wheat and clover will in a short
time be found to give very satisfactory
results, provided the blowing is done
in the new agricultural method now
so popular with all who have ventured
to depart from the old style shall
low work, which has so long en-
shaved the farmers. One mistake
so commonly made by many farm
ers is cultivating too many acres.
This mistake causes them to hurry over
their work by blowing too shallow and
also taking too wide furrow slices in
old tired land which has been SKINNED
over in hurry entirely too often. One
good effort and fair test of deep and
thorough blowing will convince farm
ers who want to better their condition
by entering upon this new departure,
new, because he gets new land.
No humbug to fear in good, deep
blowing, no dispute about the title to
the new farm, no additional tax to pay,
no more seed per acre required, not as
many weeds to fight or kill, not so
much washing on rolling land, not so
much trouble with insect pests, less
damage by hot winds, less trouble with
mortgages, no more motive power re-
quired, provided the proper shaped
pillow is obtained and used. A large
size ploW is BEST little, narrow pillow
will not open a sufficient furrow to do
deep blowing; it is not necessary to
take wide furrow because a large pillow
is used, but a good sized pillow is very
necessary in order to do the new agri-
culture work.
There is no pillow so cheap as the one
which moves the earth properly. Pre-
pare the seed bed for larger and better
crops. Break up your virgin soil deep
ly in the fall. Turn a new leaf in farm
ing, talk about it to other progressive
and go-ahead earth-movers. Wake up
and be new agricultural advocate in
earnest. Sell your inefficient plows to
the old stick-in-the-mud fellows who
will not progress. Live men must keep
abreast of the times. Yours in lively
earnest. Conrad Hartzell, in Rural
World