The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-10
Profitable Farming in the south.

Six years ago l came from Illinois to
Jackson. Miss. more on account Of my
health than anything else, says a writer
in the American Agriculturist. pur-
chased farm of go acres. one mile west
Of the city. Part of it had been in cult
walton over sixty years. and part of it
had been cleared about four years. I re-
moved the old house and built a new s
roomed, two-story cottage, also a stock
barn, put good fence around the place
and divided the land in suitable fields
as follows: 80 acres in pasture so acres
pillow land, 20 acres in orchard and 10 acres
in grass, and the remainder in timber.
brought with me from Illinois my herd
OF thoroughbred Poland-China hogs.
thoroughbred Polled Angus bull and two
heifers, also three head of fine Jersey
COWS (Which l lost from climatic fever,
an English Shire stallion and three graded
mares. l have increased my stock by
/ buying and raising. l have now Is horses
40 mich cows, 10 Polled Angus cattle and
raise about 100 hogs yearly. The pigs l
sell for breeding purposes. I get s., So
and up to SIS head, and raise two filters
a year.
The milk is mostly made into butter.
which sells in the city from . to 80 cents
pound. l also sell the buttermilk for
on the farm, and the surplus is sold. 1
have reduced the acreage of cotton from
80 acres the first year to . acres last year.
l plant thirty acres of corn, also SOW
peas and can cut about so tons of hay. /
sell about 20 tons at S., and feed the bal
anee. I raise about two acres of sweet
potatoes, which are mostly fed to hogs:
I also raise two crops common potatoes.
getting 81 per bushel in the city. OF early
and late vegetables, / plant about three
acres.
Profits: realize about $500 from hogs.
besides our own home supply of pork and
lard. The cows bring nearly $500 in but
ter, milk and calves, besides home supply;
horses, including stallion, $500 and in
| creases. Hay brings $50 vegetables, po-
tatoes, etc, SiCO, cotton and seed last year,
! $2gl total amount of profits, $3.50. Corn
and oats are fed TO the stock on the farm.
| Our orchard is just coming into bearing.
| A good crop pays about $500. This year
| there was a failure, owing to a late
| freeze.
Under the present management my land
is improving each year. | can keep doutle
| the number of stock on the pasture land,
| and raise more than twice as much grain
| and hay as at first. The manure is all
saved and applied to crops. Besides the
| grain and hay fed to stock, there are
about Is tons of cottonseed meal fed TO
cows and applied to crops. This land
was purchased six years ago for sl5 per
acre, and to-day is worth $50.
For help l have had to depend on the
| colored laborers of this country; and
many times l am down in bed for a month
at n time, and this not rarely in the busiest
time OF the year. My help on the. farm
costs SIS per month. They boerdh them
selves. House help is IS per month. keep
one hand by the year. one nine months
and other help by the day. My help on
farm and in the house costs about $500
year This, / think, will serve as a fair
sample Of what management and diversi-
| fed farming will do in the south.