The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-19
LIVE AT HOME AND
 KEEP OUT OF DEBT
The Salvation for the Alabama Farmer Cattle RaS-
 ing Can Be Made Profitable.

cents . bushel, and was used as fuel. because no other fuel was 90 economical
 But great as the change is In Iowa and Kansas, yet there b no great amount of distress simply because they are not one.crop States. Their farmers had short crops of corn. but large crops of wheat, oats, barley, lax, potatoes butter. eggs, wool and the like. They do not place all on one hazard. They diversity their crops, and their condition today shows the wisdom of their policy. If they cannot buy corn to feed to their animals. they have plenty of wheat on hand, and this Is as good food for stock d 1t is for men.
 The advantages of diversincation should be more widely appreciated in this State. where there are 90 many all.cotton farm srs. Farmers who will plant corn, wheat and potatoes, as we'll as cotton. are the men that no freaks of weather can upset or seriously disturb. This country as whole is not . one-crop country. and Ala bama should not be q one-crop State. It is all right to grow million bales Of cotton In year, provided we Srow at the same time enough corn, wheat and meat to supply the people of the State. But this is what we do not do. This is where we are deficient. This is why our farmers are not so prosperous as Iowa or kansas farmers. They hays . better cash crop. but they permit the people of Alabama to send all their surplus money to Kansas and Iowa for supplies that should be grown at home"
 Never were wiser words more ftly spoken and I wish every farmer in Ala bama would profit by the advice so freely and so generously offered, without money and without price. they are told again AA~s- f~ka tvr ,,do ing the one-crop idea and grow, at home everything that man or, animal can eat and they twill see at once what great change will come over their condition and over this whole section.
 A writer in a Western farming journal tells his own experience in farming which can be followed with profit by every farmer in Alabama. He says sfarming is the most indspandsnt life that man can live. A man can manage his work 50 as never to be crowded. While I was . farmer could always find plenty of work in the winter. as well as summer. had work shop and did all my own harness repairing, and l would make such things as was likely to need in the spring. such as doubletrees and singietrees and neckyokes. or In fact any harness repairing. and I would mako sleds .hay frames and field rollers. When the crop season came around I always tried to have everything done so would not have to stop to cut wood or do any such work. would always cut my summers wood in March. as I always had a hired hand and never could put in as long days in the field as some of my neighbors. I hardly ever went to the field before six in the morning and took two hours at noon and quit at six in the evening. could always keep my horses in good shape and never allow ed them to get poor. A man can keep horses in good shape on a, small amount of feed if 1t Is fed at about the same time every day and they are watered ac- cordingiy. think that three-fourths of the sickness among horses is caused by irregular feeding. For instance: 4 man will go to town and not get home until one or two o'clock in the day. He will then give his team all the water they want and then a little extra feed be- cause he thinks their hunger Is greater. My motto has always been to feed and water my team at feeding time and know that it paid me to do 30 because kept my horses fat.