The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-12-18


at1Ie WINE Oh gaod cover viii not
equire much time nor much grain TO
iuish them IF ia good shape
Market gardeners make compost
heaps and know their value, but
farmers have not experimental along
this line as much as they should: BY
composing in all stable and barn
ward manure can be put in more
available shape and be applied to bet
ter advantage directly to the crop
than it can be in ordinary form. A
good way to build compost heap is
to lay a foundation of thick sods,
making the base of such length and
width as seems desirable. Put down
sods say to the depth OF six inches,
then cover them with layer OF ma
nure half as deep. Continue with
alternate layers until the pile is five
or six feet deep. Then finish with q
| basin in the center and pour water
! into this until the entire mass is well
soaked. Fermentation will soon take
place and assist in the decay OF or
| ganic matter. After few weeks cut
| The pile down from one end with q
sharp spade and throw it over, and
repeat the operation at least once be-
fore using. A few months will suffice
to give fine mass of rich compost.
The best time to build a compost heap
is, of course, in early autumn. Cut
this out and paste it in that scrap
book, SO you can refer to it then.
Steady progress along every line of
work can not fail to lead to a success
full end. If you are growing an ami
NAL for beef, mutton or pork, and 1t
is making little gain every day and
never falling back at all, you may be
pretty sure that it is making good use
of it's food, and 30 is going to feed of
at profit. If you are in the dairy
business, and so handle your COWS
that they give good, rich mess OF
milk for 10 months OF the year, not
Stacking down every once in while
to half mess, nor going dry entirely
for three or six months, the chances
are that they will pay for their keep.
II you are growing grain and keep up
systematic rotation that includes
some method of continually restoring
to the soil at least as much fertility as
the previous crop has denuded it of,
you will probably find that one year
with another grain growing pays.
These are simply business methods,
They imply the laying out OF def
mite course and following it consis-
; tently. Every thing upon the farm
must be made to go, cautiously and
steadily, to be sure, but all the time.
On the farm thing that is not well
done will never pay for having done
It at all. This is true.
There are good reasons why the
general farmer may now expect tC
make more money out of beef cattle
in the near future than he has been
able to during recent years. 1t is Q
settled fact that the population in tht
United States has for some time beer
increasing more rapidly than the cat
2 tie supply. For a long time we were
r growing every year more head Of cat
: tie per each one thousand OF pOpula
] ton and of course, that led up TO the
t point of over-productiOn. Now the
! Number is steadily falling back, anC
: there is not much probability that We
q 4hall see a repetition of the pas
l course OF events. To be sure, when
ever better prices seem assured 1T vii
I stimulate production, but 1T will b'
the production of better beeves on thu
q scale Of work that can be pursued BY
q the farmer who makes cattle growing
only one of the items of u varied bust
p ness. The territory available for thu
range cattle business is practicallI
, all occupied, so that there can not b'
much extension of the business il
I that direction. This makes the op
a portunity for the farmer to stock VI
. with improved cattle, with the Ger
J, tainty that he will not again ruI
! against the demOralizing competition
{ of the range too such an extent as t
: knock his feet from under him. Tn
: man who does not avail himself o
, the present opportunity to lay tn
i, foundation for thoroughly gOoC
small herd hardly deserves to attain
success. The indications point g
: clearly to a fair profit in growing
good beef that we feel we can not urg
!, our readers to strongly to get int
line. Those who have gone who'll.
. out of cattle with the past year o
! two, under the impression that tn
bottom had wholly fallen out of tn
: business, are by this time seeing thu
y error of their judgment.