The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-07-15
Agriculture.

No farmer would think of paying
too high a rental for his neighbours
field, but how many are tilling their
own land at loss? Not one-half of
of them know just what they are
doing they keep no accounts of re-
ceipts and expenses. Every field
must bring profit, or farming will
not pay.
five were to spend half the mon
ey in making shelters for our
manure piles that we have been
wont to lay out for commercial fer
tilizers, we should not only be the
richer for the saving, but the gamer
in having that which is of more
value. Nor do we realize fully what
things come under the head OF
manures; but, then, there is so much
we might do that we do not.
The wild cherry will grow more
rapidly than the walnut, and is
freer from insects and borers. 1t
ranks next to mahogany in value,
and is certainly in the class with
walnut. 1t grows to great size and
height, and the young trees are
transplanted without much diff
ficulty. This timber question should
be study for every farmer.
When Germany and the rest of
Europe get 20 liking our Indian
corn as we'll as we do, we shall have
to raise more, and that is all there is
about it, for now we seem to be able
to take care of all the corn we pro-
duce, sending but about five per
cent. of it abroad in any one year.
Farmers are not grumbling at the
fact that the agricultural expert
ment stations are costing each one
of them about % cents year; these
useful institutions are expanding
more than a million dollars an
nually.
Tobacco exhausts the land rapidly
but increased fertilization should
be equal to the emergency and keeI
the land vigorous for continuou:
succession Of productions.
There are not many farms or
which windmills will not repay
their cost, and those who have then
wonder how they ever got along
without them. They water the
stock, grind the feed, irrigate the
garden, and can be harnessed to fol
many minor uses.
Without forethought you can no
expect the best results from you
seasons work. Each field of tht
farm has some especial use TO
which 1t is best fitted the coming
year. Consider the soil, the pas
rotation and the needs of the pro
posed crop, and then you can q
ahead with safety.
Truly no man is so careless in hi
business as the farmer. Profits e
to the winds when the stock stand
for a day in the rough elements
they go to the bitches as the rain
soak through the manure piles; the!
go to the rubbish pile when the SUI
and the rain makes havoc with tn,
neglected wagons and implements
they go into the mud when cattl
tramp the uncut fodder under foot
they verify Ego to the devil" whel
the loaflng or drinking farmer let
l his fences go to rack and the cor
ners grow up with briars. In ad
dition, what he might have had
is but loss to a farmer or any man
Though he be never the possessOr o
them, he may truly lose knowledge
contentment, earthly peace ant
heaven.
We often yet see farmers VIII
have not left the old ruts. Thei
. unkept, Improbable patches the
b still call gardens; they run dee
burrows in the corn rows, and d
more harm than good they raise n
b berries or other luXuries for tn
table at home; their children g
a about wholly unattractive, learnin
0 little, caring nothing; they produc
little, have little, grumble always
fortunately this condition of thing
is giving way year by year.