St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-10-22
FARMER AND PLANTER.
KEEP THE PL0ws BUSY.
Keep the Plovs Busy md Thereby
Save In Fertilizers and In
crease Your Crops.

After such q drencEing IN July and
August as we have had, the probabili-
ties are in favor of dry fail, and this
will be favorable to thorough prepare
ton for next years crops. We do not
think that you could spend the same
money, time and energy i'll way that
will pay you as certain and as large
profits in the future as the time neces-
sary to break your land IL to Is inches
deep. AS we have often said, the clay
will be in better condition for this
breaking in the fall Of the year than
in the spring of the year.
We wish to say right here, for fear
soma may be misled, that this deep
blowing does not have to be repeated
on the same and every year, but II
once we'll and thoroughly done, will
answer for several years and in many
cases for all time to come. This is es-
pecially true of the subsoil, and the
fact that this thorough breaking has
once been done will make it easy to
plow deep in subsequent years without
the use OF the subsoil plow.
Again we desire to emphasize the fact
that the benefit to be derived from this
kind of breaking does not END in one
year or in several years. 1t is a per
manent, perpetual improvement to the
soil, and constitutes the foundation up
on which almost every kind Of i'm
D. ovement may be made. 5s=.rla
We are fully aware that the chief
difficulty with many of you in doing
this kind of work is found in the fact
that you have so large part OF your
farm planted in cotton, and that the
cotton is in the way of the pillow. Not
only is this true, but the gathering OF
the cotton absorbs all of the time and
energy of the farm hands, SO that you
are in the habit of giving this cotton
gathering the preference over all 9th
er work, and you do not at once see
how you can spare either the time or
the money necessary to do this work
as it ought to be done, but we think
upon fair trial that you will be con-
WINGED that a good team Or double
team, il necessary, kept steadily at this
WORK will be the best money you ever
spent upon your farm.
This applies to any and all classes of
farmers. To the large farmers, the
medium farmers, the small farmers,
and The renter, and it applies particu-
larly to the landlord who does not per-
sona3iy farm, but rents out all Of his
land. It would pay many Of these men
very we'll to furnish the teams and the
hand1, and break the land at their own
expense, while the tenants or the rent
ers are gathering the crops. Their lands
thus treated would begin to improve
ana constantly appreciate in value and
productivesness, and would rent for
more in the future. AS they are going
on now their land is constantly grow
ing less productive and being washed
ard worn and made less valuable every
year, but to a man who owns the farm
he works and works the farm he owns,
this il the matter Of highest import
ance. There is nothing whatever that
will gay him SO vol for his time and
expense. This wo11, should De begun
at on:,e. and every suitable day from
now Until Christmas the plows should
be kept busy. 1t does not matter what
crops you expect to put upon the land
this fall and next spring, this prepare
tory work should not be neglected. You
buy fertilizers that you may increase
your crop. You use more mules that
you May cultivate larger area. You
hire and pay and feed more hands TO
cultivate this larger crop. Now you
can get the same crops alta greatly re-
duced cost by using some Of the
none, that you are going to pay out
for these purposes in doing this deep
blowing this fall. When you have
done this blowing as it should be, you
will rot need so much fertilizer, and
will not need SO many mules, you will
not need SO many hands. You can
raise a larger crop on a less area and
at greater profit. F..
Now after thinking carefully over
these facts you will see that the deep,
thorolgh preparation of your lands, in
stead of being an expensive operation,
is really a paying operation. 1t will
bring back the money put in it, and
profit on the money, more certainly
than will the purchase Of fertilizers. 1t
will render your work easier, and make
your crop more certain than all the
labor you can put on the land next
year without it. @ .ts-=ss,
BY thus breaking your land you will
stop the washing and hold the water
that calls this winter ready for next
use. In this way you will
rende. the making of your next years
crop almost a certainty. THOUSANDS
Of experiments along this line show
that such a dry spell as we had this
year Sid not materially injure the
crops oa land thus prepared, in very
many case with nothing but a turn
row between the crop. On land thus
deeply plowed the crop is as good as
it we'll could be, while the crop across
the turn-row on the land not thus
broken is burned up by little drought.
Southern Cultivator.
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