The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1904-10-15
FARMER AND PLANTER.
KEEP THE PL0Ws BUSY.
Keep tine Plosya Busy and Thereby
Save in Fertilizers and In
crease Your Crops.

profits in the future as the time neces
sary TO break your land II to IS niche
deep As we have often said, the ella,
will be in better condition for Thu
breaking in the fall Of the year thai
in the spring of the year.
! We wish to say right here. for fea'
soma may be misled, that this deel
ploWing does not have to be repeated
| on she same and every year, but j
/ once well and thoroughly done, vii
answer for several years and IN many
cases for all time to come. This is es
pecially true of the subsoil, and thu
/ fact that this thorough breaking has
once been done will make it easy Il
pillow deep in subsequent years without
| the use OF the subsoil plow.
| Again we desire to emphasize the fac
| that the benefit to be derived from this
kind of breaking does not end in one
| year or in several years. It is per
| manent, perpetual improvement to the
soil, and constitutes the foundation up
or which almost every kind OF i'm
p. ovement may be made.
We are fully aware that the chief
difficulty with many of you in doing
this kind of work is found III the fact
that you have SO large a part OF your
farm planted in cotton, and that the
cotton is in the way of the pioW. Not
only is this true, but the gathering OF
n RI
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 a fair trial that You will be con-
WINGED that a. good team or double
team, if 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-
Iar1y to the landlord who does not per-
sonasiy farm. but rents out all of his
land 1t would pay many Of these men
very we'll to furnish the teams and the
banda, ard break the land at their Own
experse, 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
productiyesness, 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
and worn and made less valuable eFer.sT
year, but to man who owns the farm
he works and works the farm he owns.
this il the matter of highest import
anee. There is nothing whatever that
viii pay HIM so wal for lis time and
espense. This Worgi should be begun
at once and every suitable day fron'
now Until Christmas the plows should
be kept busy. 1t does not matter what
crops you expect to put upon the land
this f&ll and next spring, this prepare
buy fertilizers that you may increase
your srop. You use more mules that
you May cultivate a larger area You
hire and pay and feed more hands IL
cultivate this larger crop. Now you
can get the same crops at a greatly re-
ducad cost by using some of the
money that you are going to pay out
fer these purposes in doing this deep
plowiEg this fall. When you have
done this blowing as it should be, you
viii rot need SO much fertilizer, and
will not need SO many mules, you will
not need SO many hands. You can
raise q larger crop on a less area and
at a greater profit.
Now after thinking carefully over
these facts you will see that the deep,
thorough preparation of your lands, in
stead Of being an expensive operation,
is really a paying operation. It will
bring back the money put in it, and a
profit on the money, more certainly
than will the purchase Of fertilizers. It
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.
BY thus breaking your land you viii
stop the washing and hold the water
that falls this winter ready for next |
use. In this way you will |
render the making of your next years i
crop almost 3 certainty. THOUSANDS |
If experiments along this line show
nat such a dry spell as We had this
year Sid not materially injure the |
crops &c 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
t well could be, while the crop across
he tuen-row on the land not thus /
broken is burned up by little drought. I
Cultiyator.
GROWING SUGAR CANE.