Nevada County picayune., 1891-10-01
WASTEFULNESS.

l~ demonstrated III numerous ways
 To begin with, we waste our land by allowing it to wash away for lack of proper drainage and proper cultiva- tiou Instead of planting the hill side in permanent pastures or or chards, we plant cotton and corn up- on them, and as often as otherwise run the rows in just such way as to wash great big gulics out in a few years. when we could with q little painstaking. have tcrraccd the ground SD as to have the land kept intact for an indefinite period. We also waste the land by the old pioneer style of starving it to death. No adequate measures are taken to pro- cure manure, and the natural accu- mutations about the farm are often allowed to waste without a thought or q care as to their value. 1 have seen tons of the finest kind of stable manure washed down the rocky hill sides of horse lots which could have easily been saved and added largely to the productiveness of the farm.
 On many farm great deal of fine grass is allowed to wither and go to waste, which, if cut at the proper time, would furnish an ample supply of hay for winter use. This is especially true of crab grass, one of the best Southern hay grasses there is.
 This mundane habitation of ours is full to oyerhowing of supplies of good things for all cur needs. These supplies are given to us in a crude or natural state, and require skill, ln- dustry and wisdom to be put into ayailale shape for the uses of man. Natures storehouses are full of all we need, but care and economy should be exercised by man in tap ping these sources of supply. EN- travagant wastefulncss is just as sure to be followed hy want as is sorrow to follow sin, whether practiced by all individual or natIOn. l was struck by reading the following par agraph from the Atlanta Constitu- ton the other day:
 "The long leaf pine belt of Geor- gia covers more than one-half of the counties of the State. Well man aged, it would yield, it is estimated, $50, 900 ,OOO year but it is being rccklessly destroyed by the turpen- tine farmers. It is claimed that 40 per cent of the pine now standing has been killed There are now in operation it is said, stills enough to sap the remainder of the timber in seven years, and all this for the price of - cents to S an acre, which gives S .OOO ,OOO for the destruction of forests, which in fifteen years of good husbandry would have yielded S150,- GOO, ,O0O in lumber and naval stores without diminuton of their own pro- ductiyencss.
 How often have all of us been i'm pressed with southern extravaganza in the clearing up of timber lands. Not long since l saw man engaged with a large crew of negro laborers, cutting down and burning hundreds ] of cords of the finest sort of upland hickory timber, 'just to get il out of the way" Much of this hickory would have made excellent carriage and buggy spokes and other parts of these vehicles, while all of it was the very finest kind of fuel The trou- ble in this case, however, as in hun dreds of similar cases, was the lack of transportation to market. Fircwood cannot be proiitably hauled very far on wagon, and railroad facilities are mcager in many of our best tim bered regions.
 Want of sufficient shelter on the farm is source of loss in many di. rcctions. Thousands of dollars are lost annually by allowing wagons, mowers, blows, etc., to stand expos ed to rain and sun. Similar losses are entailed for want of sufficient stock sheds m winter. Oftentimes much of the crop is lost for lack of a good roof over 1t after 1t is harvested.
 The neglect of fences is another prolific source of waste on the farm. Space forbids anything like full enumeration of the many unnecessa- ry leaks m the agricultural craft. They are to be found on every hand, in the fields, the forest and house hold. When we fully realize the trnth of Inc adage: "A nenny