Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1901-08-30
FARMER ANDPLANTER
NEW AND BETTER METHODS.
Tho Southern CuItivator's Crusade
In Behalf of Progressive Meth
DDS in Farming.


The Cultvatcr struck out boldly for
new and better methods some two
years ago. The present management
believes in progress. We also believe
in progress. We also believe in safe
foundation upon which to build that
progress.
We believe that deep soil and
plenty of water are absolutely neces-
sary to certain success. Hence we
have plead for deep blowing as the
first step towards permanent pros
perity.
The only successful plan to get rid
of gullies and marshes, it to pillow
through the hard-pan and thus enable
the soil to absorb the rain water as
it falls.
The rainy seasons we have had have
triumphantly indicated our advice
along this line
Where the soil was broken deeply
in the fall aud followed by subsoil
| plCws, there has been no washing.
The levels, if there were any, have not
been broken. The old hills have held
the water that fell upon them. In
stead of being washed and leached
and made poorer and thinner by these
heavy and repeated rains, they have
been made richer. They IRE steadily
improving
Another result is that the hard
pan, being broken, the water sinks
away from the surface. These fields
are ready for the pillow and for plant
ing earlier in the spring. And they
arc so loose aid easily pulverized that
it is much easier to cultivate them.
Hence the crops are much earlier The
stands arc better and from every
point. the crops arc better.
Wheat and oats upon such fields
were less injured by cold, and have
made heavier yields of grain.
We are almost daily receiving let
ters from intelligent farmers from
every part of the south, saying we
are now convinced that subsoiling
pays.
We do not refer TO these because
we feel that we need any vindication
or care to take any credit. But we
wish our farmer friends to consider
the testimony Of their fellow farmers
and the evidence before their own
eyes, and try for themselves the good
that deep plowiDg brings.
Instead of costing more, it is actu-
ally the cheapest way to farm. You
spend little more in getting ready,
but save in after work.
| You can not use the best imple-
mcnts for cultivation unless you have
broken the soil deep and taken away
all stumps and rocks.
Good farm tools are cheaper than
living human labor. You can cut
grass cheaper than you can pull it..
A horse rake will get up hay cheaper
than fingers or hand rake. A self
binder will tie wheat cheaper than
hand binders can do it. A cotton or
corn planter will plant cheaper than
hands and hoes. Every good machine
on the farm increases the profit of
farming, because il decreases the ex-
pense. Hence all labor spent in pre-
pairing your farm for the use of i'm
proved machines is spent in the direc-
ton of real economy.
Deep blowing leads in this direction.
Through all the rains of this spring,
the land which rad been well sub
soiled has come with good crops. Be-
gin to get this lesson deep down in
your brain. And let nothing persuade
lou to fail TO subsoil your land this
fall. Now is the time to begin to get
ready for tins Important work. Do it
this summer and fall. You will not
need to sllbsoil the same fields every
season. After awhile you will not
need to subsoil any. because your soil
will get so deep that you will not need
to make more.
But begin, and begin at once.
Up north the freezes do this work
for them, but down south the pillow
must do it.
Subsoiling, narrowing sowing grain,
planting peas and growing cattle are
some of the reforms that will hasten
the great industrial revolution which
is now dawning upon our fair south
land Do not stand in the way and
hinder, but join the ranks of prog
ress and help Southern Cultiva.or.
AROIJT SIICAP CANE