The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1904-10-21

cIenSt 10 Elhihh anu pldiAAa anu NiA-
fefent things pertaining 20 agricul-
ture. We are willing to travel the old
beaten path that does not require
much work or much thought. We sta,
at home, take life easy. go to rest
with the chickens and rise with thcmI
but we have not the ambition or The
aspiration or desire to profit by these
things by which We are surrounded
"He who makes two blades OF grlss
grow where but one grew before Isl
a benefactor OF the human race
Many men can raise two crops togelh-
er. but It is useless TO do that II one
be weeds. What we need 10 know is
what the ground needs TO make it
grow and how 10 secure the best re-
suits II does not take any more la
Dor to produce 80 Than It does 20
bushels Of corn per acre after the
ground is prepared, II you only know
how,
Wen. now. the diversity of crops
There are many things adaptable To
our Kentucky climate. One Of the
Of the best crops you can raise is
Cow Peas, which have come 10 us
from the Southern States Red cloy
crit is true Of late years We have
been unable to explain why 1t is
knee high the last OF June aud
dead the first Of September but it
Is a re.uyeuatpr Of the soil. It not
only makes the ground rich but pays
rs wei ~ anything else
The prettiest rotation isaluyer, and
corn aad Wheat Put your land IN
clover and when you have got your
grazing out Of It. plow II up and put
IL in corn and the next fall IN whell
and The next spring IN clover again
and you have had to pillow the
ground but once that is one Of tue
things which destroys The land i
see you raise a little corn which is
destructive of land You leave your
land plowed In ridges luil OF mr
rows In the winter umo ior every
rain to wash the suil away, Now y
sou can fluid some crop which viii
FURNISH feed and protect your land
at thOslmc timc y1u VIII hud that
the land win be improved ana IN
much better shape. Our country pc3-
pie down our way have quit rails
ms com. It used TO be a great thing
10 raise com. but il washed our land
all away In tie fall OF the year
Sc SOW barley the roots OF which
hold the land together and in Tho
spring the land Is better and The
fertility Of the soil Is umulpaired.
There are great many other
thinss We should think OF as we 80
along In this life business Of ours
How many country people raise ga
lor back hogs, hogs that you have 70
lie Knots in their tails to Keep them
ron breaking through your fences.
Go around the Courthouse and there
zee the product OF one blooded SOW.
this year See wat it is possible 70 do
oy The expenditure Of few dol
lars. That man gets back the money
ae paid for her and muie profit than
ne eould make on an the razor back
hogs in the country
| A thoroughbred Shorthom COW Won
sat any more than any other cow
but when you come 10 sell her you
pocket-book viii be twice as fun a,
II you had sold common COW Anc
the same way through all the thing
pertaining 10 agriculture
Do you ever think Of the par o
The women aud chi ldren In tho lit
Of the farm2. OF how much that i
best that ia brought into the ooun
Try comes there through the efforts o
The women in the raising Of poultry
Thousands of dollars come into thi
county tur ponltry alone tell yo
II II it was not for the women tn
,ountry would be In a bad shap
anyhow.
Try and appreciate your impOrtant
in the economy Of today To an
preciate The fact that you are II
bone and sinew, yea the back ben
4 our whole social and clnmercli
fabric aud that upon you more tho
} any other people rests This grei
{ structure that We have reared arour
+ us.
! Find some way BY which YOU ca
c set together and find out ever
II thing you can from each Other Il
+ he day is coming and has indc,
/, already come in many parts OF Ia
j. country when the farmers have s
y 90 stand together shoulder to shor
& der or else 80 down 10 be ground
h The dust by the wheels OF monopoly
l. Col. Scott then related how Z
1t Continental Tobacco Co had. by co
o. trolling the market dictated I
D price OF tobacco to the tobacco Ia
ri ers In his section and how the far
r ers had organized ana now one m
II sells all their tobacco for them a
III they are enabled TO get fair pr
rs for 1t, and then proceeded with
1T following logical argument in IA,
I'd of organization.
L Lay aside the idea that every III
re is Independent and is going to /
I'd his own row. In this advanced st,
is Of society, and the conditions exi
We ing today ate very different FIR
on those OF hundred Years ago,
TO are bound to stand together or
of fall. Take your choice which you
at have. know 1t is hard for us to
nd to realization of these thinl
ST. Hard to render up what a man
rd lleyes to be his own personality
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