The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-05-24
handful of what each COW will eat
Therefore you waste nothing.

handful of what each COW viii eat
Therefore you waste nothing.
I know plenty of men (not farmers)
that raise more than enough feed to do
them, but have to buy every year just
because they throw shucks, fodder, oats,
and tops to the stock, and their feet
get more than their stomachs. Brother,
that is not farming. Remember there
is but one way to do thing. I shall
not forget to remind you that stock is
as particular about the time they eat
as you are. They should and must
have their feed regularly to the hour'
il they do well.
You know when you get up in the
morning you want your breakfast. and
at 10 o'clock your dinner, and if you
don't get it, you get mad. Stock is the
same way. Therefore feed regularly,
and they will grow and fatten regular
~ for you. II you have more stock
than you can feed well, it is better by
far to sell a part Of them than to allow
any to go hungry. Remember, when
you feed your stock you are feeding
yourself. Wait moment. What did
you feed those cattle in3 Down on the
ground, I reckon. No. That is not
farming.
have a good warm shelter planked
up all around, and each COW has her
stall, and she knows it. With her nice
clean box and halter, and in the rear
of the row of stalls, a 19 by inch
trough is sunk little below the level
Of the stall, which carries the urine to
the compost heap, and each cows stall
is dry and clean. For the calves of the
same age, q long 12 inch trough is made
against the wall, and they know their
place and wait their turn of feeding.
Brother, don't sell your sucking
calves to the butchers; it is Wasteful.
You had just as well cut your corn
down when in the silk.
Now, what have you been doing with
all of that manurel have seen some
men mot farmersl allow the manure to
accumulate over their lot and IN the
stable until you could hardly walk,
and when a rain came the branch be
low would be of q beautiful cherry
color. That is casting bread upon the
waters never to return.
gather up my manure every day
in the year. I have a pen built, just
below my stable and coWsheds, and
every morning the lot and surround
ings are cleared up and thrown into
this pen, and as the heap grows an
other pale is laid on and so on. Some
will say that is too much trouble, to
rake up every day, you had better be
ploWing.
lean make more corn, potatoes, oats,
wheat, ETC., in raking up my lot in one
hour than you can in blowing poor
land in half a day. Let's see about
that. You will hardly plow more than
one half acre and the land will bring
fifteen bushels to the acre, that will
give you seven and one half bushels. I
will take the other half acre and put
one shovelful of manure to the hill and
make fifteen bushels Of corn, and as
manure is good for from six to eight
years, you see make ninety bushels,
and you make only forty.five, and !
make corn, not nubbins.
The best way to bring up poor land
is to tend it in corn two years in sue,
cession. The first year lay of your
rows with turning ploW two burrows
in opposite directions. Then every
two feet drop your corn and put a
shovelful of manure on the corn. Cover
with same plow with two burrows, and
when the corn is just peeping through
the ground, harrow the beds down, that
give it one working. Then when the
corn is five or six inches high take a
long Golfer and go as close to it as you
can, right down in the clay. That ie
the same as subsoiling. Soft the season
is dry the moisture will come up, and
If wet the water will sink.
The next year do the same way, only
Let the rows go in between the last
year rows, and you will find by ploW.
ing and working the corn that you
will naturally drag and scatter the ma
nure from hill to hill. Then In the fall
of the second year turn your land and
SOW wheat or oats and clover and har
row in, which will give you uniform
broadcasting of the manure. This is
done where you have not the manure
to broadcast at the start.
II you will do this you will get two
fine crops of corn, q second crop Of
wheat or oats, ard the clover will also
pay from the start, besides making the
land better, Brother, you have ploWed