The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-01-19
FARMER AND PLANTER
LOOKING AHEAD.
Fault which the Southern Farmer
Would Do Well to Correct.


Would Do Well to Correct.
great fault with the southern farm
er is not looking ahead. Instead OF
driving his business he often waits for
his business to drive him. One conse-
quence of this habit is half-done work.
Not having looked ahead and made all
necessary preparations, he is driven by
the urgency of the case to do his work
in loose and hasty manner
How many Of us have sown our grain
as it ought to be2 Experience shows
that grain well sowed scarcely fails to
make a good crop. AS we can not Gull
tivate small grain after it is sowed, it
is the more important to prepare the
soil well before sowing. This Is impor-
tant, because these grains are disposed
to send down their roots very
deep into the subsoil in search OF
food and moisture. 1t is a very COM
mon error to suppose that wheat and
oats are very shallow rooted. To in
sure good crop and enable them to
stand the freezes of winter, we should
plow very deep. The clay subsoil
should be deeply and thoroughly bro
ken, and it is better to do this early in
the fall before the clay has become sat
uratcd with the water of the winter
rains But when we have failed to look
ahead and get all the plans ready, and
the manure ready, we are not apt to
pillow often enough or deep enough, or
manure enough.
Some claim that every time You run
a good harrow over the land, after thor
oughly breaking it, you will make an
additional bushel to the acre. | am
not prepared to prove or dis
prove this, but my experience in
clines me to believe it. Not long
since l was preparing piece of land
for barley. After blowing twice and
subsoiling, | ran heavy harrow over
it. | was very much disappointed in
the condition the harrow left it, but
after going over the same land with'the
same harrow in three different direc-
tions, | began to be very much pleased.
Most farmers do not take time to pre-
pare the land deep and fine for small
grain, and then think it strange that
they failed to get good crop, Now,
wish to ask every one to take time and
prepare one acre thoroughly for wheat,
and one for oats, and see if the increased
yield will not more than repay for the
work. Look ahead, and get ready for
! it In time
What | have said about sowing grain
is true about everything on the farm.
Prepare to keep your lot manure up out
of the weather; prepare to keep your
| stock well housed and clean.
If by any mishap you have failed to
raise enough provision for the past
year, now is the time to look ahead and
buy them cheap If you will need an
other mule, you can save very largely
by buying now. am aware that very
many are ready to say: 81 have not
the money" Well, the reason is, you
failed to look ahead and be ready. You
are not running your business, but let.
ting it run you. This will continue to
be the case until you begin to look
ahead and calculate more closely and
use wiser economy. Economy does not
consist in the smallness of the amount
spent, but IN the prudence or wis
dom used in spending it. One man
may spend very little and be very ex
travagant; another may spend a great
quantity of money and yet be very
economical. The economy consists in
the way it is spent. Look ahead, and
see what you will be able to do with
the very small amount most of us vii
have to use.
No better use can be made of the fal
and winter months than studying how
to make another crop without making
another debt The prudent mar
forseeth the evil and hideth himself
Prudence is often the highest kind o
sense.-Industrial American.