Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-25
DIVERSIFIED AGR
rURE,
Dairy Farming, Hogs and Tobacco Grow
ing 60 Together.

mers the importance of raising other
products in connection with tobacco
culture. This was the old sy-em
that gave the Clarksvile district lis
great reputation for fine touacco 1t
is utterly impossible to keep a good
farm aud raise fine tobacco without
plenty OF clover and stock to sustain
the fertility of the soil. Farmers
have gotten out of this system TO &c
cOmadate themselves to the share
practice, are willing to put up with
$l5 or $50 an acre yield from the
share croper, rather than be bothered
with stock or risk paying hire, adopt.
ing the convenience of commercial
fertilizers altogether, aud they are
growing poorer every year their
lands less productive and the quality
of the tobacco deterioratipg. 1t is
only the few who do their own wo k
or hire their labor, looking after it,
and keep their farms well clover2d
and well supplied with live stock
that are prospecting. Sheep are ne
elected on account of dogs. Hogs
die with the cholera, and cattle are
too cheap to pay for feed. We
insist that the COW of ill
others is the poor mans and thrifty
farmers animal. We have said that
good cow will yield $50 Ia year net
in butter, and this is low estimate.
Besides this, each COW will raise a
calf worth $5, and hog worth $40
from the buttermilk and dloppiugs,
and make $40 worth of manure.
Hogs following after dairy cows
never have the cholera, and good
cows with good management will
yield from $50 to $100 a year. Try
and see. We know from experience,
but want to submit other testimony,
that of F. G. Smart, writing in the
McMinnville Southern Standard.
Mr.. Smart says to the editor of
the Standard: 81 attended the
Farmers Institute at McMinnville,
last Monday, and the subject for con-
sidelation, what kind Of stock will
pay the best on the farm, and at the
same time restore the fertility of the
soil q was discussed at considerable
length, the members finally agreeing
none at all except enough merely to
supply the necessities, viz, pair of
horses to do the work, a COW 70 fur.
pish milk and butter, and hogs
enough to ful Dish bacon and lard
81 concluded that wss fact, that
the farm lands of this county were
forever rendered useless, as l think
it all impossibility to restore them
to that fertility necessary to make
farming pay by the use of CONNER
cial fertilizers ami at the same time
make the crops pay the cC-t of fert,l-
iZation and labor. ] mean by farm
iug the raising and selling of crops
of of the land.
"W hat man in the county who
calls himself a farmer who hasn't
from fifty to 200 acres of land? If
this land is rich, so much the better,
but if it will not sprout peas, get a
machine (for the dairy COW is ma
chine for making it rich) and 60 to
work on it.
II had dairy of only ten cows for
two years, aud while some of them
are good ones, there are some very in
ferior ones among them. The gross
earniugs for these cows for 1920 were
$50 and some cents each, and for 1S9 [
TO date $48.S0 for butter alone. The
sweet and sour milk as a feed for
pigs aud calves, in fact any growing
stock, is of no small importance, and
the manure from each COW is equal
to $40 worth of any fertilizer that can
be bought. Now you ask what it
costs to keep these cows? With the
aid of corn ensilage, that cost lel'
than 50 per ton to raise and harvest,
l feed them at y cents per day each
in winter, which lasts about five
months. The other seven months
they do on pasture alone, although l
believe it pays to feed a little in ST M
mer. Igive below the average earn
iugs and expenses per COW:
CREDIT.
g o-3el"l'rq3 yearil bU, '.............. i3,El
ST. nmoI ~ al cot per "a OHM. 4E1
Mh lu 1000
IOldl -
DEBIT.
Cost o Leep'ay mo3,hs al II ce1'7
Cost o els' zee (eu lLOdtns,t a..,..... t,tl
Pas emo rs, Si.CO pc! Ioll I........ 7GD
IOl1'
p oft one COW u 1Iou,h3............SI)n .
"In the above l say nothing about
tIo on1f nc kn eIy x1,o,