The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-30
THE HAY CROP AS A MONEY
 MAKER.
By James E.. Timmons.

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 The Southern farmer has learned only within the last few years that there is money in small crops. He has been for-ed out of the all-cotton idea, in cer- tain localities, by the prevailing condi- tors. While the getting away from the cotton crop is not universal 1t is proving powerful in it's effect wherever the small crop has been tried. The farmer has been slow to take hold of innovations as to the methods of farming. though he usually bites like a sucker when the pat ent right man comes along. He is guard ed in his steps when new ideas are advo- cated on the farm, and it takes him some time to get into his noggfn the idea that he can make money out of pea vines. small grain crops, chickens eggs hogs and other truck. When he does realize how much ne can accomplish with all these or any one of them, he becomes 50 how he was ever such gump as to cling so long to all-cotton crops.
 In Alabama many of our farmers smaller ones especially-have taken up hay culture as an experiment. It was by accident or good luck that many of them discovered what they had in the way of a fruitful source of income, if properly worked. After few had proven and carried it on to success.
 Tn this article l wish to present some figures taken from farm that is culti- vated by a young man who is trying to
  bers County. at Milltown, Ala. lives MT. Jas. l.. Denney, man who was reared on q cotton farm. 1 will let him speak for himself From d recent number of The CulMvator I take the following:
 T will give you some idea of my farm ing-only one years experience on mak- ing hay q always make corn and cot ton) I have a tract of land. contents one and one-eight acres. which is red soil, with red clay, and lies level; clear of stumps and rocks; nothing in the way. 1t used to be very rocky. l suppose l have hauled over one hundred loads of flint rocks off of it and built rock ter race about it. For the past four or five years I have been making, with about twenty bushels of raw cottonseed and 200 pounds of potash acid. one bale of cotton per acre on it. Last year I used on this same ground, one and one-eighth acres, twenty loads of manure broadcasted on it as follows: Horse-lot. stable, cow-lot and Wood-pile manures. and twenty bush- els of raw cottonseed. broadcast Then sowed it in rye. seven-eighths of an acre and oats, three-fourths of an acre, and plowed it in with scooter and wing. And I made as follows: Eighteen bushels of rye and ten bushels of oats then turned right around and hauled out ten one horse loads of good pulverized stable manure and broadcasted 1t. this same ground, and then l sowed 1t in peas, corn and millet. as follows; Peas one ana one-half bushels: corn, one and ohe-halt gallons; millet seed, one and one-half gaiions-all equal to one and seven eighths bushels on one and one-eighth acras then plowed 1t in with a Dixie blow and then I raked it over nice with a Mccormick rake. whtch left 1t as nice as if 1t had been narrowed. l then rolled a log over it. dragged by one horse, "hlcn crushed what few clods were left ano mashed the ground smooth and level. We had very good seasons here which made me the finest patch of hay l ever saw. cut it the first week In october wltn a Mccormick m over I saved about nve tons of the finest hay VOL ever saw on thiW one and one-eighth acre plot l kept