The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-06-20
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on the same land with corn has been
somewhat surprising. In every in
stance where the peas were grown on
the same land at the same time the
Weld of corn was increased three
| bushels per acre. There is now suf-
| ficient time to plant peas although the
corn may be up several inches. One
peck OF peas will be SUFFICIENT to sow
| to an acre as the vines will be longer
and pods larger where thinly seeded
than the usual bushel per acre Some
of the readers of the Agriculturist may
! differ with US on this point. but we
ask them TO test the correctness by ex-
perimentation this season. The farmer
who has a ten-acre corn field and will
plant a peck of peas to each acre will
realize a benefit or gain of thirty BUSH
| els of corn from that plat, and have
about ten bushels of peas with two
| tons of peavines per acre.
The bacteria that will be found on
the roots of the peas will add at least
| IS worth of nitrogen per acre. Why
a farmer should neglect to plant peas
with his corn with such profits and
facts as these Is something beyond
our apprehension. The vines sheltering
the ground has much to do in bringing
about such happy results. Don't neg
lect to try this combination crop
Key in Southern Agricultural.
Success ON The Farm,
/ Young men who start out in life with
the intention of devoting their whole
| time and attention to farming have
advantages superior to those of men
In any other line OF work. The same
careful planning backed up by hard
work that is necessary to make any
business succeed will make a paying
business OF the farm A recent issue
of Hoard's Dairyman contained a good
illustration of the excellent chances
for success possessed by the boy who
decides to stick to the farm" The
experience mentioned In the article,
which is reproduced below. could
doubtless be duplicated in other States
than wisconsin.
A farmer residing in wisconsin had
two sons. He was q well-to-do, pro-
gressive man, and gave them both a
good High School education and urged
them both to stay on the farm. He
offered to send them to the Agricultur-
al College. The eldest took up with
his. fathers idea, and commenced at
once. by all that lay in him. to make
a well posted. scientific farmer of him
self. The other boy said, II want no
farming in mine" He could get $40
| a month. cierking in a store in a neigh
larger, broader. more dignified life of a
| well educated farmer, to make a soft
handed counter jumper of himself. He
was susceptible, and the town girls
would like him good deal better If he
vas clerk than they would II he was
| a farmer.
Time went on and worked out the
logic of the situation, for both these
young men. The oldest boy is today
drawing a salary of I'll 400 n wear and
his expenses as manager OF fine dairy
farm, of 400 acres with 100 cows. His
| prospects are growing brighter and
! broader every day, whether he works
| for someone else or concludes to go to
| farming for himself.
The youngest son is still n clerk, now
getting 800 a year and paying his owr
/ more than when he first began this
| work three years ago. The sharp con.
| trast OF his own and his brothers for.
| time and prospects has broken in upoT
his soft handed conceit and vanity 8
| little. A short time since while he wa.
visiting his parental home he reproach
ed his father for not compelling him
to take the same course the elder
| brother did. All the kings oxen how.
ever could not have held him back
for he could get $40 a month in !
| store and have no dirty work to do J."
| Young men stand at the small END
of the pyramid. 1t is hard to calcuIat,
| the breadth of the farther end, or tn,
base. from that standpoint and so some
| OF them prefer to stay at the small enc
all through life. The same princin1,
| applies on the farm. Every farm bo,
has the chance TO choose whether h,
Will make first -class Intelligent far.
mer OF himself or one Of heaother kind
-Opelika Post.