The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-02-05

the man using tho reaper and binder,
even if the latter has to sustain
heavy freight Rates and several COM
mission fees.
The man who puts four to six fur
rows in his cotton row with a bull
tongue pillow cannot compete with
one using a c%ultivatOr. They must
lay aside prejudice and adopt any
new methods or machine that will
save the dollars.
It is true that some of these i'm
proved implements are costly, but
they should be considered as are
Otner investments.
A manure spreader may cost one
hundred dollars, or more, but ii 1t
does the work of four men and does
it better, then it is a paying invest
ment, if a man has any considerable
amount to spread.
There is another improved ma
chine that he can we'll introduce,
and that is improved stock. Not
simply stock with a long pedigree,
but animals of individual merit as
we'll. A purebred Poland China eats
no more, and really not Is much, as
the native scrub. In a certain sense
we must regard our live stock as
valuable machines for converting
the raw material, our hay, corn, oats,
cotton seed meal, ETC., into the
finished products of pork, beef, milk
and butter, wool and work.
Of course if the hog is to be turned
loose with the injunction to ''root
pig or die - then the ''razor back" is
the hog to use.
If the COW is to make her living in
some waste corner, fenced off as her
prison, or turned in the road to pick
up what she can and forage on neigh
boris crops, then a Jersey Dr. a Short
horn would not be desirable, as they
would soon perish. But if the farmer
intends to plant crops in rotation for
his stock, and will have a good pas
ture with some of the best land de-
voted to it, then he can expect good
suits from his fine stock; otherwise
he will be woefully disappointed.
The crops feed the stock, and the
stock in turn feed the crops. Poor
crops, poor stock; poor stock, poor
crops and so it goes in a circle. Pre-
pare a good permanent pasture, and
in addition practice a system of soil
ing to make up for any shortage.
Use the silo and cut up all of the
ensilage as it goes into the silo, as
more a be stored in the same space,
and it will keep better and is ready
to feed when taken out.
Instead of putting the corn and
fodder in the old way, cut your corn
about one week later than you would
pull the fodder, or after the corn
goes into the glazed state. In max
ing slower you save not only the ear,
but the fodder, stalk and all. The
ear constitutes about So per cent. of
the feed value of the whole plant
and the stalk, fodder and shuck the
other As per cent. Last but nOtleast.
the North Carolina farmer is too
much inclined to have his smoke
house over in Illinois instead of in
North Carolina, and the same can be
said of the farmers of the South gen
orally. If the hog is to be raised
and fattened on cora, then the I'LL
nOis farmer can beat him at the
business and sell him his meat
cheaper than he can raise it. But
the hog is an OmnivOrOus animal and
will eat any and everything on the
farm-the waste around the house,
barn and dairy. And they do we'll
on sweet potatoes, peas, peanuts,
chufas, rape, sorghum, pearl millet,
clover, and in fact most anything
that any other animal will eat.
Only a few of the points wherein
the Southern farm could make i'm
prOvement have been mentioned as
it does not pay to tell any one too
many of their faults at time.
B. I.
ABOUT FARM PAPERS.