The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-13

proved by manuring and judicious crop
ping. All manurial substances saved ana
applied In the best manner; much OF the
surplus crops fed to needed or marketable
stock, and not sent to market. unless, IN
deed, the price is much better than that
for the stock. Fed to stock on the land
much that is due the land will thus be
returned to it, Neither should the farm
be overburdened with stock; thus over
stocked and the stock sold of rs nearly
or quite as impovershing as raising and
selling grain. But there is a good, judi
cious mean that must be understood and
practiced. To great extent, for the want
of this understanding and practice in the
past, and still too much disregarded, is
to be aScribed the impoverished condi-
ton of so many farms.
If a farmer desires to raise good crops
of any kind whatsoever, he cannot expect
to do so on soil that is exhausted to any
great extent of any of the elements re-
quired by the crop or crops he proposes
to raise. Nor can he long take crops,
especially of the same kind, from any
soil, no matter how fertile without max
ing restitution in some way.
To make proper returns to the soil the
most judicious and practicable manner is
by raising stock in connection with grain
and grasses. By feeding out a large por-
ton of coarse food, roots, grasses, straw,
together with some grain, to animals much
is thus converted into material of more or
less fertilizing value, which should be
husbanded properly prepared and then re-
turned to the fields This. together with
juidicious system of rotation of crops.
WHICH, are dudpltu 10 the sui anu lOCdHANs
will serve to supply the material which
is required to promote the growth of each
kind of grain, and which will in time ac-
cumulate in the soil, so that when a given
crop is TO be grown there will be found a
sufficient supply of the required food for
1t, not only to make the body of the plant
but the well-flled grain as well And tru-
ly for much material is required
and much building up to accomplish the
plant ere 1t brings the comparatively
small yet golden grain. Hence feeding the
land is OF paramount consideration. The
old farmers short lesson to his sons on
farming is comprehensive and to the
point:
Take a walnut" said he, "and you
leave half of the whole in outside hull
and three-fourths of the inside hull out
of which the tree. after a time is able
to produce other nuts. And so with the
farm. 1t is a gross feeder, and must have
back much Of what ii produces though
1t be but the hulls, that it may be able to
give you the little yet precious mite of
golden grain"
And in like manner a great surplus of
crude stuff accumulates on the farm, and
it must be converted into food for plants
and in no way can this be so soon and
proftably done as by feeding to stock
In truth, this surplus on the farm natur-
ally requires the presence of animals
Hence, all such as are needed or that can
be kept prOfitably should be reared. And
so, in order to come fully up to the stan
dard of practical and successful farmer
one must keep some needful stock that
they may consume and convert material
into food for the farm, that the farm may
in turn consume and convert it into food
for plants, and so on ad inhnitum.