The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-01-26
FARMER AND PLANTER
DIVERSIFIED FARMING.
The Farmers of the South are Beginning
to See Where the Profit Lies.

The Farmers of tho South are Beginning
to See Where the Profit Lies.
So much has. time and again, been
'aid upon the subject, that to say more
would seem to be superfuous.' 1t is by
''line upon line, precept upon precept,"
that lasting impressions are made
Already the farmers of the south are
practicing diversified farming to a
much greater extent than ever before,
and it is to the constant urging and ex-
horting and coaxing of the agricultur.
al press. more than to anything else,
that the credit is due. Those farmers
who are diversifying their farming
most, we find are the most prosperous.
Those who have no bacon. nor lard
Tor molasses to buy. do not feel
the grinding pressure of lowa
price cotton anything like as
much as those who have to buy
these things. The farmers who,
while supplying their own wants with
the above-named necessaries, have also
raised a surplus to sell (as they almost
invariably dowhen they diversity, can
now snap their fingers in the pallid face
of King Cotton, and tell him to keep on
declining until death releases him from
the environments of earth, for aught
they care
Farming, from business standpoint,
is simple thing. 1t simply means to
make more than you spend, in order to
be successful. If you raise all, or nearly
all that you and your family eat, you
surely will not have to buy much in the
way of groceries. If, while you are
fattening two hogs for your own larder,
you just put in two more to consume
your overplus of grain, Stops. etc, you
will be long on pork, and able to lay
by few dollars for nucleus. II you
look well after your little herd of cat
tie, you will have one or two beef
steers TO sell in the fall, and this will
be an addition to your little hoard.
The same may be said of potatoes
raise surplus to sell. Raise lots of
turnips, too. Have something to take
10 town to sell whenever you go.
An acre or two in broom corn will
not cost much labor to cultivate, and
will pay well for the time you spend
on it. II you live in locality where
you have few acres of moist bottom
land, plant patch of ribbon cane,
and make supply of the incest
homemade strip you ever ate.
On a two-acre patch of cane you
should make from 100 to $50 gall
Ions of Zero. tsirup from which no
sugar is talxen.) You can readily sell
all you have over your own home sup
ply, for from sixty cents to seventy
five cents per gallon, which viii give
You good profit on its cost.
This is the sort of farming that will
keep ''all hands pleased who. follow
it up. Our forcfathers farmed after
this style, and were, as rule, as hap
py as lords. In our time, the southern
farmer has strayed away from the land
marks of true husbandry, lurcd by the,
at one time high price of single
product. To-day he is suffering in the
flesh for his folly; but he is repcnting
and coming around to the correct or
thcdox doctrine. Then let us rejoice
and be thankful for his future hopeful
outlook, and continue 70 be pleased,
and strive to disseminate the true Cos
pei of diversified agriculture till all
the farmers of The south have been
converted.-Texas, Farm and Ranch.