St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1896-05-09

can only Be made TO - tAst, & WIN
teach them 70 adopt better methods
Our system Of farming h young,
compared to that Of older countries Of
the globe. There ers sbout three and
Q half million square miles in this
country that have besn brought m
der the plow In . short space of Time
and by the results therefrom demon.
strating that our system tends to de.
stroy rather than to build up our landsL
Nature II ever active behind tho farm.
er with the loblolly pine and other
timber subsoiling and shading the ex-
hausted soil, or we would have bar
rem waste TO bequsath to posterity.
The system Of soil depletion and spolia.
ton should be stopped.
Tho fact Il that II our farms were
managed - they ought to be, making
al the supplies needed ct home. tho
money would SO adjust itself that the
farmer would have less use for it.
He does not handle much Of It any
way under the present system, al
though there II moro demand UPON
him for It.
Our fathers who opened up the large
plantation of cotton, sugar cane and
rice. brought the hog and other indus
tries along with them, and were wiser
in this respect than their children.
They were moro Of . success In max.
ing money. and many Of them acquired
fortunes that their sons have disst-
pated in experimenting with cotton
and free labor.
Cotton il dear ct any price Il We have
to buy everything to make It with.
Whether the crop II large or small
the farmer who makes all he needs ON
his own farm, will not be in . condi-
ton Of want and suffering.
Chance, in Dixie Farmer.
Egypeiaa Cettoa.
The Industrial Record il inclined ia
think the advice given by the Chicago
Chronicle to the southern cotton
planters of the Mississippi and Brazoa
river regions, that they plant Egyptian
seed, thereby reducing the redundant
American crop, and getting higher.
priced product in its place, is eminent
" sound. Tho wonder is that it has
not been attempted in . large way be-
fore, for 1T least SOC, 900 bales of Egyp.
tian cotton find q market in Liverpool,
England, every year.
II there was the slightest likelihoo d
that its quantity. quality or price was
injuring or about to injure our south
ern cotton planter, there cold be no
objection to . duty. Indeed, there
would be none, we fancy, from any
large number of northern interests.
Our southern friends have not been,
heretofore. very direct participants in
the benefits of protection. owing to the
character of their great staple prod
ucts, and it is with no feeling of Sec
tional discrimination that this question
has been here discussed.
In giving the use to which Egyptian
cotton is devoted in this country, it
would, perhaps, be more correct to say
that its principal consumption had
been found in mixtures with the long
staplcd Texas and Mississippi valley
fbres, in the production of very fine
numbered yarns Peruvian cotton il
used almost altogether for wool mix
lures. The figures given regarding
the number Of bales imported are up
on . basis of 500 pounds to the hale.
the average size of the American pack
age. As matter Of fact. an Egyptian
bale weighs about seven hundred and
twenty-five pounds net.
Age Of Bees.
Mr.. A. /. Root, the veteran bee man
Of Ohio. says: 1.-THE age of bees, under
all circumstances, can best be de-
tcrmined by changing the color of the
bees by the introduction Of . queen
whose bees differ in color or marking
from those already in the hive. As
the new bees come on. the old bees
will go right ON spending their ener-
gies as before. When an Italian queen
is introduced to blacks, or vice versa,
the old bees, after heavy honey-flow,
will begin to disappear pretty fast in
six weeks. After the honey-hOw.
have seen black and hybrids in col.
ony for SIX months and more"
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