The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-02-20
North and South axe once fairly de-

North and South are once fairly de-
velop we shall be able to rely upon
our own resources entirely for suffi-
cient supply for home consumption,
and shall possibly be able to add
another item to our exports.
Why do we not grow more beans?
That it is. profitable crop, under prop
er conditions, has been amply shown
by the success of the farmers in Cen
trail New York, who have been MAX
ing a speciality of it for many years
Although the crop can be grown
throughout almost our entire extent
of territory, yet " e imported last year
nearly $l,00O,000 worth. Under the
new tariff law the duty has been in
creased 10 per cent al valorem, which
should be an incentive to increased
home production. If the farmers
would put in enough land to make
good the deficiency in our home sup
ply, and to afford some slight surplus
also for export (SouIh America and
Mexico being large cOnsumers), il
would withdraw 0,00G acres from
other crops. This, IN time, would
have the effect of stimulating the
prices of other products, the supply
of which would be thus decreased.
We do not believe that the next
generation OF farmers will spend as
much for fences as the present one is
doing. The census of 1880 reported
the expense for fencing, in a single
year, at S7S, 00O, 900, a drain too heavy
to be long supported if any escape can
be found. In some States suitable
provisions have been made by what
are known as stock laws, by which
/ fhIlnfiEG lllinG GAlGnt n
compel each farmer to fence in his
own stock, instead of having to fence
out his neighbors'. THESE laws have
been generally opposed at first, but a.
SOON a. farmers became familiar with
their operation they have admitted
the many advantages derived there
from. The Agricultural Commits
siOners OF Georgia report that "since
the introduction of the stock laws,
and the stock kept at home, the cattle
have improved, the scrubs dimin-
it4ned, the cows give more milk, the
calves thrive better, the hogs are OF
better breeds, disputes among neigh.
bors over fences have ceased, croi {
are so per cent. larger, and greater
prosperity is noticed among all the
counties under its operation" Thi,
catalogue of benefits resulting woulC
seem to be sufficient to induce thu
adoption of similar laws elsewhere
One need not often go day
. Journey from home to find wornOu
: apple orchard. This orchard ha
! once yielded good fruit and been
! source of both pleasure and profit /
! its owner. Now it is neither, and
q rather a cumberer of the ground thai
= otherwise; and this is not because {
L oil hut from non laat n nd m . 10,
Upon this subject the good sOun
sense of a noted horticultArist is wort
repeating; ''4n my orchard" h
says, ''are trees Is years old, and 9
- healthy to-day as ever, They bei
y every year, u re-ult due to constaI
heavy manur.ng. Upon every acl
40 wagon loads of manure are naule
:. and spread upon the ground eac
u year, and the trees are thorough
!, mulched. AS tie trees increase i
= age they need heavier manuring an
mulchii g, in order to Keep up the V
tally requisite for the continued PR
;, duction of good fruit crops" IL
. successful grower of the larger fruit
y to-day is as careful and methOdical
. every detail OF practice as in the sna
fruit grower or the high class marke
gardener Apple-grOwing, right
followed, Is one of the most steadil
n productive of all our agricultural il
3 dustries. Only L would say to OIL
e begi ming planting on large seal
e TO avoid those regions whore tn;
r business is nOW SO largely followe
u that a distant or foreign market mu
n be relied upon to furnish all outlet f.
y the product. Select location with
, view to have a good home lHark'
l. ready by the tlme your are ready f.
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