The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-31

the experiment stations and the agri-
cultural press to promote good farm
ing, the majority of farmers, even in
SO great an agricultural State as
Ohio, are still living on the deposit
in their soil, and that deposit is not
as great as it was fifty years ago.
Hence it is not capable of carrying
so much stock as it once did. One
who rides through Northern Ohio
and Indiana can easily see one of
the causes of the state of affairs mem
toned by Director Horne in the over
paStured fields and the lack of a short
rotation and abundant legume crops.
he methods that gave reasonable sue
cess on virgin soil and cheap land
are not suited to q soil that has been
depleted by long tillage, and which
through various causes has advanced
in value. Long pasurage is for wide
areas and cheap land, but in a dense
ly settled country short crop rotations
and an entire abandonment of the
pasturing of the cultivated fields with
a shorter rotation and legume crops
for forage and soil improvement, and
to some extent at least the soiling
system, must be adopted in place of
the extended paSturing of the land.
The silo must invade districts where
it is still unknown, and the crops that
feed the stock and the soil. too, must
take the place of areas year after
-
must take the place of the old-time
hap-hazard cultivator of the soil in
the Middle States. just as the inten-
sive farmer must take the place of
the old-time planter in the cotton
country The various agencies that
tend toward good farming must take
on a new life. The college, the Farm
ers' Institutes and the agricultural
press must continue to hammer away
at the great unleavened mass of poor
farmers who make the averages or
the statisticians. There is no doubt
that in Ohio and many other States
there are thousands of farmers who
fare making far greater crops and
keeping far more stock on the lands
they till than they formerly did. But
the great mass of poor farmers, who
are making smaller crops and Keeping
less stock than their lands did fifty
years ago are the ones who make the
averages seem so low. We believe
that the leaven of good farming is
working all over the land, and that
| there is no reason to feel discouraged,
Tut that colleges, stations and farm
papers should keep right on, and
above all, that the young people in
the rural schools should be educated
to some knowledge og agriculture, for
it is to the young that we must look
for the future, and if the schools
would but get the boys and girls in
terested in the great book of nature
all around them, the future farmers
would be more and more student
farmers Train the children Alright
and the men will come out al right.
Give the boys an idea Of the value
of impoved methods and they will
never be satisfied with the old. The
hope of the land is in the young men
and women. Let us, then, get them
trained Alright from the start.
Notes From a Carolina Garden.
July 12.-The abundant rains which
we commonly have in July and August
have come almost daily since the first
of the month. and sometimes in reg
uIar deluge. The garden which was
perfectly clean the last of June, is
getting very grassy in some places.
| With the appearance of the Giant
sweet corn on the table all hands
voted that they did not want any
more Bantam. But the Bantam is
by no means to be despised, for it is
the first extra early corn we have ever
found to be of any value in the
South / believe that in an average
season we can get it ready for use
here by the 10th of June. 1t was
planted later than usual this year and
still, in spite of the intense drought,
it gave us corn to eat the last week
in June. But our Giant is superb.
Il
and with a sweetness unsurpassed.
Today we gathered the first ripe figs.
The early crop is scanty but the later
ones will be very abundant The
early figs are set in the late fall. and
| if not killed by the winter they swell
out and ripen. This sprint. though
an abundance of them swelled at first,
they soon dropped, showing that the
winter had hurt them some. But the
fig sets fruit just as fast as it grows,
! and the trees are covered with green
! figs that will be coming in from Au-
| gust until frost. But these later hgS
never attain the size of the early ones.
| 1 gathered some Brunswick today
which were as large as a good sized
J Bartlett pear. The later ones Will be
| about the size of Seckels. The bush
| lima beans came in about week ago.
Henderson's and Woods are the only
| kinds worth growing here. The large
lima, either of the climbing or dwarf
sorts seldom bears eonugh to make
| it's culture pay The small lima, or
Sewee class, are the only ones worth
growing in the Souh. and as they are
far better than the large limas we
have no reason to regret it. Black
Eye peas are now ready for table use
These are the best table peas of the
cow pea family, and we always have
q few planted early in the garden and
store the ripe ones for winter, for
we consider them far superior to the
white navy bean.
The Rock Ford muckmelons are
now about ready for use. Cucumbers
are in such abundance that they are
going to seed and ripening for lack
of use. The Cumberland is good
cucumber, but will neXer be a popular
one to sell fresh. but cut small for
pickles it will take the place of the
Gherl<in. Fordhoolx is the most beau
tiful cucumber / have ever grown, and
it keeps green much longer than the
ordinary strain of White Spine. To-
matoes are in their glory and we have
not yet found a superior to Success,
but one of my men told me this morn
ing that there is a volunteer plant in
the far corner of the garden, which
he says beats everything else. l have
not been to see it yet, but will notice
it when it is dry enough to allow one
to walk on the land. Notwithstanding
the most Industrious catching of the
potato BEETLES and the destruction of
their eggs on tht elephants, there
have some young Matched out. In
sects keep one moving nowadays II he
is to have anything left for his own
use.
Grapes are beginning to show signs
of ripening. The June bugs have not
arrived and if thew do not come we