The Delta independent., 1893-09-13
THE AGRICULTURAL WORLD
SOME POINTERS ON AGRICULTURE
WORTH READING.
Something About Specially and Gem
eral Farming-Lice and Ticks on
Sheep-The Necessnry Silo-Stack-
Ing Grain-POinters.

For years past there has been a great
deal said and written about specially
and general farming. and more espe-
cially during the last few years Of dis
coneent among the farmers, says writ
er in the Ohio Farmer. The difference
between specially aud general farming
is not great if the advocates Of both
systems will put the same construction
on the word specially. Whatever the
word may mean, | do not think its ad-
vocates use it to convey the idea that
man. 20 be 4 specialist, must conhne MS
Efforts to only one crop or only one par
ticular branch of agriculture. and yet
the advocates OF general farming seem
determined that specialist must con-
fire himself.
II to be a specially farmer means that
man must contine all his efforts TO
One branch of agriculture. such as rlis-
lug nothing but wheat, corn, oats. pota-
toes. hogs. horses. sheep. cattle or any
ether particular thing. then the less
specially farming we have the better.
Our brcthcrn in the South tried special
ty farming, the specially being cotton,
and it proved a curse to them, not only
as individual farmers. but as people.
| But special farming don't mean any
thing of the kind; if it does, l have
never seen a modern specially farmer,
nor have | ever read line advocating
such methods from the most enthusias-
| tic specialist. | believe | voice the SEN
timents OF all specialists when | con-
/ strue it to mean system. special
system, or in other words a special ro-
/ tatiOn or combination Thus man
/ may have one or more crops. All his
D efforts and energies are ccnt"rcd On
/ that crop: it is the primary object
/ This crop may be potatoes. He may
and does raise clover, wheat and corn.
yet he raises them only that they may
I be the means of holding or Increasing
the fertility in his soil and stimulating
1t to its best efforts produce potatoes.
/ While he may raise other crops, they
are only the means through which he
expects TO gain certain ends in view.
Our specially is butter, yet we raise
( wheat because it is the best way TO get
our ground back to clover. for hay, and
to increase the fertility in our land.
! We raise corn because ii is the founda-
. ton of dairy feed We raise potatoes
because they bring the money which to
buy bran and linseed meal We keep n
few hogs and a good mary chickens. 10
eat our skim milk: yet all our efforts
are to make all the butter we can. Ey-
erythinG grown by this system or rota-
ton, excepting hogs and chickens, goes
into the mouths of our cows. They are
orr machines for converting our farm
products into cash Butter is our money
crop and our specially.
So a man might and l think every
farmer should. make some branch Of
agriculture a specialty I believe Sle
man that will take up some special sys-
TEN OF farming or stock raising and
study his business, and follow it inteili-
gently. is the man who will succeed 1t
is an admitted fact that there is no
money in general farming to-day. yet
We see men, and read statements daily
of men, who are making money by spe-
cialty farming. not by growing one
thing, but by some special system.