The Forrest City times., 1905-07-14
AND PLANTER.
1.-THE IDEAL FARM.
|. a,sed Upon Keeping Cattle and Thereby Adding '" t1e Fertility of the Soil.

1 Ii is with great plea9dtC . luat | ,aast Inf being one of many of your .n,orested readers l enjoy so much .o,r very many valuable pieces in re- card 10 farming. especially those in re- Gard to hay crops, deep blowing. and ..o,,r argument against all-cotton prac- ,;oe I am deeply interested in the .dyoncement of the southern farmer, .nd he can not but fail in planting .u cotton and thereby be forced Co ,,v all he eats and food for his stock. N;re-tenths of the farmers are twelve months behind financially. When they hogin their farm in the spring they o,sn their liens. I wonder if the farm orc ever counted the cost of preparing. nlanting. cultivating. gathering and marketing say ten acres of cotton. If tbey would sit down and count the oast everything attached to this ten ocres they would find it took more TO raise cotton than some claim. The farmer needs to raise his own stock food and some to sell: his own meat and bread and for his hands. plant not over eight acres to the mule in cot.en and prepare and fertilize it uau Now what the southern farmer needs is more cows. He should have at least three to five cows to every horse farm ne has, thereby securing his own fertilizer, which is far better than aif the guano he can buy and al much less cost. The farmer does not prepare his land we'll enough. We often hear farmers say: 'I can not make wheat and oats, and there is no use farmer would select good land for grain and prepare it as well as he does for cotton and fertilize as well. you krow his results would be quite diff ferent The majority of the farmers go in the fall and select their poorest land for grain. and land that is too rough to work in cotton, and then complain because they can not make grain; why, they should not expect to make any
 Mr Editor, I have a place of 284 acres of good clay land. the major DOT tion of which is above the average T. is considered 3 fine grain place with good pastures. I have been thinking for some time and planning how [ could keep at least 20 or 9 head Of cows, so that I might ba able to fer tilize say 1j acres well Then in five years I could fertilize . acres. then start over again. I propose. If possi- ble. to undertake this plan. Plant 8 or 10 acres ln cotton, and acres in corn to the mule and put a lot in grain. Now l know I can not get this land enriched at once, but if I follow the plan above every acre 1 have in grain, sow to peas and manure as above stated. in tsn years 1 will have an ideal farm. We farmers in this section are endeayoring 10 start up a cheese factory. This will allow me to keep l5 or more milk cows without cost, for with milk at ten cents Der T gallon. COW giving two gallons a day r for ten months will pay for the COW and feed in one year. Then MT Ed itor. you see I will have the cows and Increase, and also the dropping3 for one year with but little cost. am en- deayoring to plan not for to-day. but for years to come A farm built up With farm-yard manure is far better than one with chemicals which hardly last until the crop is made The plot Of land well applied with droppings from COWS does good for years to come, as We well know. Should I supply myself with say l5 or 20 head of cows, then prepare and manure well lew acres and plant alfalfa. cane and SOW let of peas. the cost of feed Ing these COWS will be reduced to a minimum. l assert farmer cal raise hlS feed. or most of his feed and feed nS cows at cost of not over five cents day. What say yOu2 Should hls COW make two gallons of milk per day at ten cents per gallon. would then realize a profit of 15 cents per uay Der COW, or s450 per month. which S45 above feed for ten months. what We southern farmers need is more cows. more peas. grain, more
 iNNu, lulS Dy ud'lhS tusoe we VIII most assuredly have richer lands. | was deeply interested in your edi- ~tial in last issue on Agricultural huueatlon." It voices my sentiments exactly We all know the majority U, 'he farmers of to-day receive their eaueation in the common schools, and 'aat being the case. they should be ,aushc agriculture. How many Of our tanners know anything of the nature 7, tne soil they work Cor. Southern gCultiyator.