The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-13
THE FARM AND THE GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST To HOUSE
WIFE AND AGRICULTURIsT.

Talk About Some October Work.
Peas for Hay-Where Buds Are
GrOwn-COrn Fodder for Horses.
for HOgs-DairyinE I'm the south.
The storing of Humus.
Good. saturating rains in the first
week of October may usually be count
ed a real blessing 10 the Southern
farmer and gardener. A dry Septem-
Der is we'll enough and the cotton farm
er is averse to a rainy October. The
average farmer wants a good deal OF
dry weather from September the first
to November the first.
But q good wetting Of the soil be-
tween September goth and October 10th
suit the general interest very nicely
on the principle of the greatest good
TO the greatest number II allows the
farmer to prepare the soil for grain
whether a part of one or all of bar
ley, rye. oats and wheat the initial
letters of which spell brow
brow or forehead of another year of
farming or gardening effort,
The trucker and suecefsful farmer
must lay the foundation OF another
years work in the fall. This is true.
a great deal can be done between now
and December goth to make the work
of 1908 a greater success than it might
be in farm, garden or orchard if the
appropriate work of laying the foun-
dalton in the fall is neglected. 1t is
a great help to the average farmer to
have plenty of oats next spring to re-
plenish the bins of stock food usually
running very low along in April If
not earlier. October sown oats is a
very sure thing to do this with usual
ly.
And then there are patches of rye
and barley that are very nice to have
to supply a green bite to each animal
on the place from the little pig up to
the biggest horse or mule.
There are also vetch, lucerne bur
and crimson clover any or all of which
can be sown alone or all together dur
ing this month but the earlier the bet
ter. We rarely have cold enough to
check the growth of these hardy plants
before the first of January as a rule.
1t seems now that there is a fair
prospect of awakening the farmers of
the South to recognition of the splen-
did opportunities presented them of
elevating their farming to a higher
plane than it has occupied in many
years. They are beginning to realize
how woefully they have neglected that
important money-making feature of
progressive husbandry in such as coun-
try as ours, viz; cattle swine and
sheep raising. Dairy-farming too is ex-
ercising the minds of many people all
over the southern country The dis
ordered condition of labor is having
the happy effect. of directing the
thoughts of many to that feature of
husbandry known as pastoral farm
ing" where one man, at most, two,
can do all the labor necessary in man
aging the cattle. etc, that browse upon
a square mile or more of wood and
field. the increase of which brings d
profit far greater than that derived
from cotton whether that return is s
bales to the plow or - to the pillow. Out
in the West firm of brothers for
some years have netted $4,000 to $40, 600
from the stock that the two alone at
tend to without any hired labor
After a man has once made a good
start in cattle raising ii is wonderful
how the increase is compounded"
from year to year. A single COW in six
or seven years Is converted into a
herd, to be numbered in the hundreds
In the South much of this increase is
the result of grazing in the winter time
which is not the case in the Northwest,
where money is made raising stock
The South is to be a great stock-rais-
ing country before another twenty-five
years are joined TO the past. Bound to
be. Inevitable. Just as much so as for
water to run down-hill