The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-01-14
TIMELY FARM TOPICS.

@~S$ O0pP4CACAb SO0E 6OOdCCO buu
cotton drops by growing all home
supplies. Peas for table, for stock
and as land improvers, also timothy
and orchard grasses. Lands that you
have
TURNED OUT TO BROOM SAGE
try one more time by breaking to
the depth of fifteen inches with q
coulter CLOSE and fine as soon as you
can get TO it. Then SOW to peas,
turning the peas in with one horse
turn plow and then harrow.
The old lady said when there is
plenty of corn made there is plenty
of every thing else; where corn is
scarce everything is scarce. She
was about right. The foundation of
success il in having enough home
supplies.
Anything poorly fed will show it
in the returns they make. Ny land
that gets the best feed and in great
est quantity gives the best clear
profit and holds a reserve profit after
it has made the delivery.
North Carolina lands are capable
of producing
THIRTY BUSHELS OF WHEAT
per acre. But some farmers say
that land does not produce as in old
times. Why SOP A Mr.. Hiatt said
10 me that he sowed twelve bushels
of wheat and the following year
threshed out six hundred bushels.
Fifty bushels to the acre and that
was a year of much complaint of
poor wheat crops! An old gentle
man said TO me to-day that a man
came and bought u tract of poor land
and he himself said he was sorry
that the man had come TO starve so
near him. But he made thirty bush
els of wheat per acre and now has
one of tho finest farms N all that
section. Cow peas was this mans
manure crop.
Again, l thoroughly agree with
many of your writer's for THE Pro
GREssIvE Farmer in the fact that
land properly oulti waited does not get
tired and worn out as an old horse
Deepen the root bed and put it in
proper shape for the chemical action
of light and heat and oOld. Feed
the plants from above as we'll as
from below.
BUYING WESTERN MEAT AND FEED.
Anosher mistake is shis: Let
some one make a great success in
any line of business; the rush Of
others make what is called an over
production-oot5on and tobacco, for
instance. Now we are eating beef
steak from the market at fifteen
cents per pound and pork steak the
same. In my boy days we sold beet
at three and four cents per pound,
and such a thing as eating Western
meat was not known here. BSled
hay was q curiosity. We have fine
grass lands, good climate to grow
stock.
When a man is in rut he con-
tinues until it is too late TO pull out,
or rather he is fearful it may be
worse for him. The safe man grows
all his surplus at home, much or
little, if he makes farming u success.
Wnen hay, corn, wheat and oats are
plentiful it so easy to have fresh
beef, pork and fowls; then the vege-
ta ole garden full OF variety of all
kinds of ia Die supplies-then home
Is something worth the name. Chick
ems and eggs that sold in my boy
days at six and eight cents are now
selling at,twent ty. five cents and hens
at thirty-five cents. And yet some
people cry hard times. When man
makes his own hard TIRES, why
complain of the government making
hard timesP Home surplus make
up much of home comfotrs.
MARKET FOR VEGETABLES.
When our vegetable growers learn
to grow such vegetables as may be
shipped on quick time, they need not
be afraid TO grow in large quantities.
No one need complain that he has no
market. The celery used in our
town, for instance, much of it prob
ably comes over five hundred miles.
Kraut will bear shipping a thousand
miles potatoes hundreds of miles,
roast ng ear4 and some others will
bear shipping. Salads of the tender