The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-10
PLANTER.
FOUNDATION FOR SUCCESS.
What Farmers Must Do to Insure
Permanent Success On
Their Farms.

IN INV AONSA w
liberately made out q plan to farm by
They do as their fathers did or a.
their neighbors do, or rs some sudder
impulse seizes them. This unfortunate
habit stands in the way Of all rea
progress. Everything is done more Oh
less temporarily. If we wish to b'
permanently prosperous we must
change our methods in this respect
We must plan for the future as vel
as for the present. 1t is perfectly
plain to every thinking mar thai
permanent prosperity in southern
farming must embrace cattle growing
We a not hope to have q rich soil
without the aid Of the cattle to fur
niSh a constant supply Of real manure.
Chemical fertilizers can not and will
not make a permanently rich soil. But
to succeed in the cattle business we
must go at it on a definite plan. We
must first make good pastures, then we
arrange to grow ample supplies OF
forage. Then get the hest breeds OF
cattle for the line we desire to follow,
whether it be dairying or b~eef-raising
II we plan well, in a few years we will
find that WI have Q profitable business.
IL we haSo & rundown farm and we
wish to bring it up to a high state OF
and work to that plan. We can not
build it up permanently with fertiliz-
ers. We must begin by controlling the
water and deepening the soil. We sup
plement this by growing peas, and
%clovers, and beans and such plants as
produce or procure their own supplies
of nitrogen. These must he wisely ro-
tated with crops of small grain and
grass. BY we'll planned work along
this line we can, in a few years, make
the poorest old farm a rich one.
If we desire to go into fruit growing
we must go at it with a we'll developed
plan. Suppose for illustration we take
this plan:
Plant pecans in row 100 feet apart,
then plant three rows of apples %
feet apart between them. This will
give us three rows of apples. Now
plant peaches between the apple rows
and between the apples and the pecans.
This will give us four rows of peach
trees. Plant the pecans 30 feet apart in
the rows, and the apples 20 feet and
the peaches 16 feet. Then plant rasp-
berries and strawberries between all
the rows. Any other small fruits may
be used. or some vegetables.
If this ground is thoroughly pre-
pared by deep breaking and high
manuring and the crops we'll cultivat-
ed, these small crops will pay ex-
penses the first year and make clear
money after that until the peaches
come in. Then the peaches will pay q
good profit until they die out. By this
time the apples will be bearing paying
crops and will continue to do so until
pecans will be large enough to call for
all the land. Some of all will be pay
ing at once.
We have written the above for sew
eral reasons. We are getting many
letters from young men saying they
are going back to the farm. They ask
for a great deal of information. This
will answer some of their questions.
The small fruits and berries will pay
all expenses and often 6 good profit
while the peach trees are getting ready
to bear a crop. There will be 50 peach
per acre. These average 81 per
tree for five years-$104 per acre. BY
his time the apple trees, thirty in
Number, will now be giving about two
bushels per tree, which at 81 would
be $50 more per acre. These would
increase up to five bushels and
IS per tree, or $3.50 per acre, and the
would be supplemcnting this at
In average of S. per tree, of $50 more,
5000 per acre. These are very
afe figures at from fifteen to twenty
ears. At twenty years the pecans
hould be giving ten bushels each. One
hundred bushels worth S. per bushel,
II $50 per tree, or $500 per acre. The
pples should now be giving at least
en- bushels per tree, or $500 per acre,
We would thus be getting an income
f $500 per acre.
You think these are large estimates.
Veil, so they are but they are not too
arge. We know of trees that are bear
az more than the amounts we have
OF course we have based these
CURES upon the idea that the trees are
iven the very best Of treatment. The
oil must be kept in s5ood condition
nd the trees well sprayed and the
-uit we'll handled.
Perhaps not many of u readers are
repaired for the figures On the apples.
hey are accustomed to think the
1uth is not an apple-growing section.
hat has been true and is get largely
'ue. But it is not because the climate
nd soil will not produce apples. The
w experiments made prove that it is
IMPLY because we have not made an
ltelligent effort to grow apples. The
nest apples in the world are grown in
)uthwest Missouri and Arkansas. If
roper varieties are selected and prop
attention given them We can grow
bod apples almost anywhere in the
ruth. {
Young men wake UP and think up
Id plan well and execute wisely and I
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