The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-21
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BETTER Farming.
Relatively speaking. small farms pay
better than large ones. acre per acre,
says the Southern Farm Gazette. The
agricultural prosperity of the south VIII
be greater when the farms average a
smaller acreage. II is an exception when
we find a man that can cultivate and
manage a very large farm as we'll as A
small one. 1t requires no mean order
of executive ability to cultivate a thou
sand-acre farm with hired labor and to
make a good profit on the crops after
expenses are paid. and at the same time
manage the farm so that its fertAity Is
maintained. OF course, we cannot call
any one a good farmer who rObs the soil
of its fertility year by year paying back
notnlng. GOOD farming means raising
crops tnat net a fair profit after expenses
are paid, and at least maintaining The
fertility of the land.
But the best order Of farming is not
only TO maintain fertility but TO Increase
IT year bv year. How is this to be done2
on small farms where a good deal of
stock Is kept, stable manure may mate
rally aid. But for large areas of land,
we must assuredly depend on a wise
rotation and diversity Of crops, and upon
turning under green crops for fertilizins
purposes, growing the ciovers and other
ieguminous plants. Very frequently IL
VIII be necessary 20 supply some arti-
specially rich In mineral matters, where
the soil is lacking in this kind of fer
ulity. heterogeneous fertilizers are the
most costly TO buy, and as the cloVers,
peas, beans. vetches and such like legu-
minous plants draw nitrogen largely from
the atmosphere, the supply of needed nj
trogenous fertility can be secured cheaper
by growing such class of plants as enum-
Grated, even If the plant growth above
ground is moved for forage, the roots
themselves will still suffice to enrich the
soil by the wealth of nitrogen which
they possess.
priety, refer to T. b. Terry of Ohio, one
of the brightest and most entertaining
contributors of the American agricultural
press, who long years ago purchased
very poor farm, which he has gradually
brought up, year by year, to a very high
state of fertility without the aid of either
stable manure or commercial fertilizers;
his success has been entirely due to
wise system of rotation of crops in which
clover has played a conspicuous part all
along. What Terry has done others can
do. But to do IT as well as he, requires not
only brains, but properly educated brains.
He has accomplished what he has by COM
bining scientific knowledge with common
will not gain success. Science and prac-
tice must go hand in hand-dovetail with
each other. Science tells us how thing
can be done, and practical application OF
these principles prove theory true. The
professional chemist can tell us at least
the approximate composition of plants and
SOILS IN lnelF several component paris
show what plants exhaust the soil, and In
what proportions-here his work is done.
and the farmer must needs prove by
practice what science has revealed. Terry
has followed closely the teachings OF
science as applied to agriculture in soils
and plants and tillage and drainage, ana
made big money by iarnlng ana at Ine
same time made poor farm rich without
the aid OF barnyard manure or CONNER
cial fertilizers Others have done the
same thing. Can you do IT. This IS the
mr. q GnlNH
is a way to do Il, sure and certain the
directions are clear and fun, First mas.
test, and if the work Is correctly per-
formed the result will be success-such
success as brings good financial gaiHs from
crops grown and marketed; success that
converts poor farm into rich farm.
The Munson system-Grape trellising,
according to the Munson system mas
experiment station this year that Prof.
Waugh unhesltatingly recommends II
for adoption In general vineyarding.
According to this system, posts stand six
feet out of the ground. At the top a
cross piece two feet long Is nailed, and
al each end Of this a wire Is run. A
third wire Is run through the middles OF
the posts eight inches below these two,
so that the three wires set in sort or
broad shape, nearly six feet from the
ground This great hight is an essen
tial feature of the system and should
not be modified On this trellis the grape
grown wild in the woods, TINS furnishes
a shade for the fruit. AT the same time
the fruit Is so far above ground as 70 DC
safe from the intense reflection rays or
the sun which caused more damage N
Oklahoma vineyards this year IMAM All
other causes combined. The terllis also
has many other advantages ana only a
few disadvantages Friend.
Planting Fruit Trees.--If you own a
piece of land, even If II does not contain
a.r. MIA "a nDFfinn
TO fruit In a small orchard II is good
plan to alternate apple and peach trees.
In this way you can plant trees mnq lil
closer together as the peach trees VIII
have died before the apple trees are large
enough to interfere with them. Apple
trees should not be planted nearer than
two rods of each other, If they are, the
mistake will be noticed before they are
half grown. Plums, Apricots and cher
ries may be planted twenty feet apart and
it will be a long time before they crowd
each other Standard pears should have
five feet more room each way. Dwarfed
fruit trees are condemned by some fruit
growers as bearing early and dying early.
They may be profitably planted in new
country where fruit is scarce and land
and cultivate II thoroughly. Plant small
fruits for the first five years between the
rows, especially where the tract is small
and land Is dear
"A Little Farm Well Tilled."-If any
tendency is more marked than another
in latter day agriculture II Is Tor the
farmer to confine his operations to a re-
stricted number Of acres. No man who 1
reads or thinks or observes can fail to
see that the best profits made in these
DAYS grow out OF concentration of cut
ture on reduced areas. There are a larger
number of people now whose profits per
acre are running up into the hundreds
of dollars, but these people are in every
case operating on contracted acreage. The |
hop grower in New York, the fruit grower
IN California. the celery grower. the pota-
to grower and small fruit grower in many
other parts of the country, are examples |
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