The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-07-23
FARMER AND PLANTER.
HOW TO DO IT.
The Way to Successfully Manage q One
Hundred Acre Farm.

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to some products than others. Tom
age one hundred acre farm success
fully and profitably is not very easy
matter. Good, sound Judgment is abso-
lutely necessary In order to manage
successfully. The residence should be
so arranged and built as to give health,
comfort and plenty of convenience, and
pleasant and enjoyable to the inhabit-
ants A good smoke-house is very i'm |
portant. A good cistern should be in
the yard, and a good well near
the lot, for all purposes. The
barn should be built substantially. |
and have plenty of convenience and
comfort, and plenty of room for corn
and stock, and storage for all the hay
and fodder. A granary, a cotton seed
house, harness-house and wagon shed
should all be built, with plenty of sheds
and weather breaks for all the stock. A
good chicken house should he built, in
order to raise all the fowls OF every kind
that would be profitable for home con-
sumption, and TO sell as much Of the
same as is not needed at home, If there
be any.
To firm successfully, man should
have plenty of good farming imple-
ments, of all kinds that Is needed on the
farm; the stock on the farm should
consist of two good mules, suffi-
cient to pull a riding cultivator;
two good brood mares, which should,
If possible, raise colts every year.
which colts, of course, should be
disposed of to the best advantage, so as
not to have the pasture or farm over
stocked. Iwould say mules. for general
farm use or for sale, can be raised on
the farm. These two mares should be
of as good quality IS possible, for gen.
eral family use. If the owner deems 1t
necessary 10 raise horse colts 10 replace
the stock on the farm, In case they need
replacing, raise them.
There should be four good mich cows.
If it is absolutely necessary, keeps bull
Raise, II possible, four calves every year.
Tho farmer should dispose of his year
lipgs to the best advantage, at the
most suitable time, for the greatest
profit. More of our beef consumed
at home, and less sent abroad, would
be advisable. l would say that there
should be hogs raised, to make
plenty of meat and lard for home use,
and some to SELL Sell meat and lard
instead of buying, which is possible in
this country. Where hogs have to be
kept up most of the time, it would be
advisable to raise Berkshire, or some
other good stock of hogs.
The one hundred acre farm should be
divided as follows for the different pur
poses: Twenty acres for pasture. II
there is any timber land, take it fol
pasture. There should be a good tanl
of water in it. If it has good prairie
grass, let it stand; If not, set ont Der
snuda grass, which makes an excellent
pasture for all kinds of stock.
The pasture should be on one side O
the residence and the farm on thu
other. To make it handy, TIL
pasture fence should be connected
to the lots and yard fence
Ten acres should be planted |,
oats, sowed and plowed In, and thel
narrowed well. Sow the LIST of Feb
ruary. Have the grain land fenced, s
it can be pastured when the grain
taken of. Plant thirty acres In corn
break the land well before planting
have the rows three to three and a hal
feet apart. When up, pillow and thin t
three and one-half feet in the drill, on
stalk in place. Corn should be plant
cd the last week in February, or tn
first or second week in March. 1t d.
peuds on the weather and seasons abor
planting anything. Plant in fla
ridge or lust above level. Plow thre
or four times with a cultivator. TIL
richer the land, the thicker the corr
the poorer the land, the thinner I'll
corn. There should be as much fodds
and tops saved as possible, without il
Jury to the corn. AS soon as the cor
will do to gather, it should be gathere
and cribbed. The corn land is no
ready for pasture.
There should be five acres planted
millet. Break the land twice; sow Il
seed, and harrow in we'll; it makes e.
cellent feed for cows and horses an
mules. Millet should be sowed in Apr
There should be twenty acres plantt
broken, in order that it may be cult
waited with ease and produce WEI
Either fiat-break early, or ridge wit
three burrows when the time comes
plant; ridge the land if it has been fla
broken; if ridged, harrow down SO
to work WELL Plant from the 10th
April to the LIST of May. The rows,
pillow ont well, with cultivator, shou
he from three to three and one-ha
feet apart. When well up, pillow wi
cultivator and hoe it once or twit
thin it on good land eighte'
to twenty-four inches apart
the drill; on poor land ten
twelve inches apart; pillow it three
five times with a cultivator, with TO
plows one every time. The size OF t
plows should suit the work. After t
first blowing sweeps are the best !
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