The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1904-09-23
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Che Farm and Grove.
II. E. sTOcKBRIDGE, Ph. D., Editor.
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IL if'S 20 ~ S"o9"N" Slp"ihE uS
an agtlcull ufal industry, Is probably
greater To-Day than ever before. The
crop plaliCed oy actuhI farmers Is
greater Chls year than during any
previous year Several large stock
growing INDUSTRIES nave recently
oeeh started, ana others are cohteln-
plated wiich VIII phse Ihelr opera
IlouS very largely on the use OF chssa-
va ~ ts leeu-stuu.
ne me- lnE Oh tile South Eastern
otocKlil'l Association 1t JACKSON
Flil', iaSt March developed several
points having important bearing on
,iIlS matter III was reported by
laIEe 'oCal leeuer ana butcher that
by actual test o. many hundreds OF
common naive steers he nad luuhd
'il4' t'e average per cent OF aress' Il
Hrlgi't VI florlua lea cattle was W ["
90 when Is ABOVE tle average OF the
|nirago STOCK yards
IL was reported by cafelul pfactl-
cal ieeuef tiiat IN Ieeuiug cassaVa 10
'oRa' III comparison WIN corn an
acre Oh Iahu Ie'i' ana produced. elght
,lutS as much meat as the same
lanu, OF goou quallIy' coulu uu-Mnth
?ial.teu III corn, ny hctual ieeulng
nc toH"u tliaU Vie i"uu Eielu'hS ~
pusiielA ol corn pIouuceu IN "assaVa
me l'HulliS equiv aleilI vi lou bushels
~ c"rn' lnele nave long oeeh ru-
IIiors tllaI Cne Cfrica%o packers We're
Planning 10 engage Ill the car pusl-
ness on large Scale Ill floTlna
mat tneN are keeping posted as to
c'i'al' IONS mere ana are at leaS'
using aeVeioplhehCst 10 theif own au-
vantage so Iaf as possible, wac
SHOWN AT tle JacksoiNliie meeting.
armour lloHtnly 'raut llst was pro-
uuceu' On Wlllcii Gile "IIracIlVe MUS
ira, ION On the tlIle page "Heu 10 ad-
NerIlSe Iie CHARACTER anu quail'S Oh
Chlc"So peel, Was u Tcprouuclion ol
cut iio',i ou .tti 10 =" ,r, t''e rioiiua
eApei 'llIeh0 S'"' i,ti' nv Vi tSI'i"i
was IL common tloflua range COW,
laCUeheu Oh cassaVa' ne original
Illustration was maze from a phOto
Oh peei from Uills c7rc"ss' 'akell py
myself anu now III my PoSS ssl2h'
llilhk ol IL armour Wileu he ue-
lies TO auEertlse ms lineage pro-
uuctS'pS using an l'uHtiat ION 81 We
pesC cut Oh peel ne can llilu' zorro"
Wl'llouI creuil a p'lo o2faPhIc repre-"
quo ION rom coii'i''oh Fi"Il"a ann
MAJ lea oo uaSs OH c"SSaN"'
Ihese afr .l'ohg !l'e reasons when
nave lilaoe tlIe agricultural p"Sltl"il
VI casa" s.i"l'seL 4y 'll"5l ever. r ln'
proiltaDie prices oilIreu 10 IIle laf-
nleiS' by Ile sIarcIl lacloFles' lor
tI1eiF crops anu Clle 'aC' 'llaI 1t Is
now possible 10 secure Ile return Oh
llle factory waste Ill Ciie l3rill VI
very SATISFACTORY ieeu, ltnu I'D lur-
lhef strengthen tle position. me
present very superior CROP ana Int
proDapliitE Il,aI Tue prices no" pau
Ior IT. VIII maze cass"Na Hlue'I more
pfolltabie 10 Jhe FARMER 'liail COTTON
even at the liSll prices ni COTTON Is
aho'lIer important encouraging lac
CoI, IL.
These Iac's All HaNe EIFa' weight
TN creating u most laNoraplt interest
among Farmers SensraI'N; ne re-
sun seems apparent IN u decided ue-
sire III different localities 10 secure
the location OF factories where 'he
tull agricultural dement's Wout4 De
aVallaDle over d RADIUS OF q" mics;
S"cn factories Wili hh9 every IN
Tor location ana Lhe COOP
GRAFTON OF tile iaflil"Ls 10 Ihe extent
OF Supplying al 'he fd" lilateflal Clle
factories can use Is certain. oucll
lheaha new INDEPENDENT
ana prosperous agrleultuie'
DEEP PLoWlNG'
with tht beginning OF l"ll ploW-
ing the ola question OF ueep versus
shallow plowing again demands At
tentloh. a lew polilts are "orth |
,
ANY farmer VIII adlhit CIar ueep
SOIL Is better IMAM Il shailo" one
ct many sucl FARMERS VIII express
unquallhed obJectiOhs TO ueep pow
ing. IheN aullllt that deeper pow
ing means deeper soil IN the END
and is therefore, ultimately an al
vantage The objection Is Dased
upon the supposed eNll electS T ol lLle
process whlle unGef way me oD-
lection is not TO the deep SOL, OF 10
the final results OF deep ploWlhg' put
to the dangers to crops grown on tlle
deep plowed Land lmmedlateiy AFTER
the increase in the.depth OF ploWinS. |
The reason for this danger lies IN the
faulty practice of the method. SOL
which has been ploWed Tor several
years to a fixed depth Is vltaiized
only to that depth. The soil below
this depth Is dead, ana requires mix
ing with air before 1t VIII become
1t therefore follows,
that if much of this dead SOL is
brought up and laid ON top OF the
surface soil the productlVeness ol the
soil is temporarily injured.
The remedy is to so gradually IN
crease the depth of the furrow that
the dead soil from the bottom OF the1
furrow is only mixed with the sur,
face soil i'll comparatively small
quantities at each blowing: II TINS
process is continued, say with an m
crease of one inch in depth yearly
in a comparatively short. time u Ter