The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-05-23

hay. Ten hogs averaging POO pounds
will yield POGO pounds of pork, This
at 6 cents per pound would bring
one hundred and twenty-five dollars
and If a farmer will figure he will
see the immeuse prOtitsin this alone.
Mr.. Smith said he was now cutting
more than a ton to the acre and
selling it readily for fifteen dollars
per ton; had sold any for less,
To prepare ground for planting, he
said, was one Of the main points to
look after; said it had cost hum a
thousand dollars or more TO learn
to prepare his ground and plant it
right. The ground, said he, should
be broke thoroughly with a disc or
turning plow, as deep as four to six
mules could pull it, and follow with
a sub-soil pillow. He broke his
ground lG inches deep and then run
harrows and ~pulverizers over it till
he had a bank of dust at least three
inches deep. The ground, he said,
should be thoroughly cultivated aud
prepared for two or three months
before planting and after ii rains on
this ground that has been thorough
~ prepared he then run a harrow
over the ground to scratch up loose
dirt for the little seed to fall on then
narrowed thoroughly both ways to
cover seed. Twenty to twenty-five
pounds of seed was sufficient To an
acre; said il he was sowing to sim.
ply NOW without ever grazing it did
not matter if You sowed thirty
pounds to the acre; when IL grew
thick the stems were smaller and
easier cured. If he intended graz
ing it he would rather 10 was timer
then the stalks would crow larger
and consequently stand tramping
and grazing better. Mr.. Smith said
he preferred TO have his land ready
and plant after the first rain in Sep
TENDER or early in October. He had
frequently sown in March. but pre-
fered 10 SOY in the fall. Alfalfa, he
said, was one of the tenderest of
plants when it first come up, but
there was no end to the life OF IL If,
after each cutting You would run a
disc pillow over il and break up the
crust which kept the land from
cracking open so wide and by this
discing keep the plant healthy. He
said Ii looked like running the alf-
alta to disc il, but was the life OF il.
r.. O. Thompson and Son, of Zoz-
sitand, Mich, and Il. r. Foster, OF
Allegan, Mich, both make and sell
a machine for planting alfalfa seed,
and he advises the purchase Of this
machine which costs very little. j,
advised rollingthe ground after
sewing the seed as this made IL firm
for the young tender plants when
first rome up, We all greatly
enjoyed Mr.. Smiths speech and /
endeavOred TO write IL plainly
knowing there are lots of farmers in
Ellis county contemplating planting
this fall who could not possibly be
here 10 hear him.
H. +. Singleton, Of Collin county,
addressed US On hogs. He is
one of the most successful hog /
In Texas; said he felt at
home in Ellis county. There were (,
men present to whom he
had sold hogs; said ii was very ex-
pensive meat raised on corn alone; 1
must grow grasses and grain to
thrifty healthy hogs and said
he agreed with all Mr.. Smith had
said about alfalfa. Wheat fields
were very fine to Craze hogs on,
also oats though wheat was best
from the fact il was not liable to
get killed by frost. The farmer, /
said he, II he will manage right a
and ought 70 have green grazing for
his hogs the year round, and Texas,
he said, beat any country on earth
for forage crops for hogs the year
round and bad more different kinds
of forage plants than any other
country. Get some good stock of
no matter whether they are
registered or not, then improve
them. Push the pigs from the start
and wean them at two months old,
raise two litters Of pigs from one
SOW a year. Up north where the
bulk II the pork that supplies the
world is raised, he said they only
raised II litter a year and lost -
per cent Of them. Here in Texas
he said losses would not amount
to over , per cent. Since the pack
cries have come 10 Fort Worth he
predicted hundreds of farmers would