The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-04-19
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Homestead.
Triangular LANDS" in Flowing.
When blowing land for the summer
crops much time may be saved, simply
by laying off the Glands" or turns into
triangles, having but three corners, in
stead of four or five, as is often done.
A good deal of time is consumed in
turning the team back to the work
when blowing. and the fewer angles
there are in land the more time will
be saved from turning. Three corners
are the fewest practicable, except when
listing or making narrow beds. More
than three angles are unnecessary, for
a field of any form may be laid off this
way.
When fields have bad depressions
and gulleys, caused by washouts, it
is we'll, and, in fact, essential, to
start the beds for the lands upon the
low places, thus filing them up with
the pillow, and finishing off on the
higher knobs. This will tend to level
down the field and stop future wash
outs along the old course. II any
washouts have become very bad they
should first be filed with turf from
woodland that is full of roots and
fbres, and then the pillow should throw
over the dirt, as above. The farmer
must use every scheme available to
prevent fields from washing, for it is a
great saver of the crops, fertilizers,
time, patience and money.
The Occasional Dairyman.
The occasional dairyman is usually
the unsuccessful dairyman. He
changes with the times and goes into
dairying just when things in the dairy
world have strong upward tendency
and when prices of good dairy COWS
are rising. He has to meet numerous
obstacles that the man that is per-
ennial dairy lyman never has to consider.
For instance, when COWS are in de-
mand he finds it hard to get good
ones at any price and the best ones
cannot be bought. He must sustain
two losses at the outstart. First, he
has to pay more than the animals are
really worth, as is always the case in
boom times with &ny Kind of animals,
and second, he has to be satisfied with
very ordinary stock, the profits with
which are doubtful.
His first impulse is to grade up, be-
cause he finds it so difficult to buy the
kind of COWS he wants, and he there.
fore enters on course that will re.
quire years for results. By the time
he has developed some really good
cows the market begins to fall. He
begins to put out large quantity OF
dairy products just at the time that
the market is beginning to feel the re.
suit of the stimulation of high prices
on production, and he helps to in.
crease the supplies on a weak market
He is generally in debt, as he has been
building for years on the future out
look and he finds the returns toe
meagre to equal his present needs and
obligations. He continues for few
years, and is then compelled either by
the sheriff or circumstances to put NJ
his stock at public sale.
By this time prices of COWS hav,
, followed the prices of COW product
! and have sharply declined. He SELL
) out, therefore, on weak market, ant
COWS, wagons, cans and everything
else 90 at small percentage of thei
/ cost or real value. As he bought hi
> first COWS at more than their rea
| value, he now sells out his stock a
. less than their real value. Heis thu
i q loser at both ends of the game. TIL
: occasional dairyman cannot be q sue
, cess as long as conditions on tn
' market remain as at present-subjec
to wide degrees of expansion and con
t traction. II prices and demand eve
: reach the point where they renal
& stable indefinitely, the occasions
d dairyman may win, once in awhile
= But for the present it is the man ths
carries on his business year after year
through prosperity and adversely. tbs
really reaps the fruits of dairy effort
9 Farm, Field and Preside.