The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-22

and made fine. Of course, gardeners who have beds which they are prepared | to shade and water can SOW and STOW | cabbage, collard and tomato plants, and have them ready for planting their fali | gardens Everything should Ie In readi- ness for replowil.g and seeding as soon as the rains come, and as one extreme is ! likely to follow another we can reason ably expect and hope for good rains and for a good season for growing fine crops of fall vegetables. At any rate the mat | ter Is well worth making an extra enort for and then, too. everything that can De grown and saved for feed should be look ed after.
 Cucumber Pickle Factory Secured. Our readers will remember that last spring I distributed a good lot of cu- | cumber seed to be grown as an exper1- ment, to determine whether or not cu- cumber pickles could be grown here at a profit as to warrant the establish ment of factory for putting up the pickles. Among those who received seed for this purpose was MT. O. F. Bowman of Thorsby. MT. Bowman Is secretary and general business manager Of the Thorsby canning company. He distrio- uted the seed out among his tomato growers and the experiment has proven so satisfactory that Mir. Bowman called upon me last Saturday and authorized me to say to the public that he will buy and add to his canning factory all the machinery necessary for putting up cu- cumber pickles and will have everything in readiness for next seasons crops. Mir Bowman says that he fully believes Lat putting up cucumber pickles in the South will prove even a better paying investment than canning tomatoes. This is exactly what I fully predicted last winter and tried to impress on our peo- pie here, and I now repeat here what said in our meeting last winter, that the business of canning tomatoes and put ting up cucumber pickles must come South We have proven, and that too. in one of the worst seasons ever known in this section that cucumber pickles can be grown here at a profit
 MT. Bowman will be in position for contracting with farmers along the line of the Louisville and Nashville railroad for miles, both north and south of Thorsby. for both cucumbers and toma- toes next season. Our farmers should take this matter up this fall and asoer- tain how many acres of each they will plant. and prepare their lands this fall and winter so as to get their crops in early as 1t is the early crops that pay best. I will furnish through this paper all the instructions necessary for plant ing and growing these crops. Cucumbers are easily grown when the soil Is once prepared right for them, and as I have started this new industry I am very anxious to succeed and so am wiling to furnish all the information about soil, seed, when and how to plant, when and how to gather, and how to prevent in sects from destroying the crop. First make your contracts with the factory and then write for the information you may need for growing the crops.
 A late press dispatch states that fos-- ' egf .Af ir, efofo 1f servation, has been found in Erath coun- ty. Texas at the bottom of a four-foot limestone ledge and twelve feet below the surface. It is now in the possession of the president of the Farmers and Me- chanics' Bank. Fort Worth. Texas.
 
 Professor Cottrell of the Kansas Ex- pertinent Station says that rape sown in the summer. just after a good rain. comes up quickly. It can be pastured when a few inches high. and stands more pasturing and dry weather there after than any other plant, and grows till a hard frost comes. Light frost won't hurt it. Try some rape for pas turing pigs and sheep and report results next fall.
 Experiments at the Pennsylvania Sta tion demonstrate that as corn approach es maturity, the amount of nutrition 1t
 
 rapidly, the total yield of the digestible food by the matured crop being two or three times that of the same crop in the silk. and 36 per cent greater than when the ears become glazed.
 The day of a shrewd farmers reliance on a single crop seems as remote as that of the wooden-moleboard blow and as absurd. Indeed. the wise farmer sees from the lessons of the past the desira- bility of not attempting any longer to market all his eggs in one basket nor trust to making or breaking by reliance upon single crop; experience plainly points out the possibility of such a va riety that circumstances and seasons likely to make failure of one may yet give him an abundance of others, forti- flying him in a way that a generation ago was unknown.
 Present prospects favor returning profits in raising beef cattle. An ex- animation of market reports for long period of years show that we'll bred and well fed steers. weighing from 1900 to 1500 pounds alive. have always sold at a price that paid profit to the produc- CTS. Such meat Is better grade or quality. with an evener distribution of fat, than animals grown for two or three years on coarse food and then made fat on grain.
 If every farm owned a good farmer then every farmer would soon own a good farm.
 To eliminate uncertainties from agri- cultural pursuits. everything consumed on the farm should be produced on the farm.
 The cost of producing a bushel of grain daa a1x yield per acre increases This Is the keynote to profitable farming.
 Keeping cows too long on pasture not only injures the pasture but often causes the cows to shrink in milk It is not safe to defer feeding literally at the