The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-02-09
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TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE PLAHTER, ST0cxMAHAH0 TRUCK eROwEs.

were privileged to box upon them
But to attain TO his very profitable
and pleasant state of affairs it will bA
necessary to change our methods en-.
tirely. The brush will have to have to
be cut and burned, gullies filed with
brush, grass sown, fields enlarged and
shaped up, fences built; il a word, our
farmers will have to GO to working
twelve instead Of six months Of the
year. Silos wilt have to be built, into
which the thousands OF tons Of corn.
| stalks that are now wasted can be cut
and one of the very best feeds for live.
stock produced in abundance. Our
farm lands in a few years would be
worth, instead of from So to $50 per
acre, $20to $40. Wouldnt,this pay for
| the extra eXertion and push necessary
/ to accomplish these things?
The profit or ,oss in the growing Of
, livestock will depend almost entirely
on the sort of the animals you begin
with and.1the treatment you give. them.
Don't be content to have a single mean
animal on your farm; let&everyone be
of the very, best=of its kind, for in the
: handling of this sort cnly does any,
profit lie. All the meat-lfoducing ami
mails should be low, broad and blocky,
, kind ard gentle as possible, and they
must be given food in quantities suf-
icient to produce this blockiness. It is
absolutely impossible to grow livestock
at a profit without the production On
the farm of large quantities of the best
! nutritious foods. Go to any stock-pro-
ducing country or section and you will
find a prosperous people, intelligent,
law-abiding, with fine homes, churches
and schools, and all those things that
60 to make for good citizenship.
A plant which, like clover, is utilized
for pasture or hay, even If cut twice
in a season, once for hay and ono for
seed, still leaves in the roots, which
amount to several thousand pounds per
acre, a large amount of fertility, and
at the SAME time leaves the sol; in a
better mechanical condition than be-
fore. It is unnecessary to tell any
farmer who knows anything about
clover, that this is a fact, for it will
only be necessary TO plow a single
furtow ,thropghsits to- see how, friable
and porous the soil is, and how much
easier pulveriZed than one which bas
had a naked falAow 8hroughathe winter,
but which has been cultivated forfseE-<
eral years without a rotation. We have
been slow learning many of these facts,
and many farmers have refused to be.
lieve them, but all who read III e1-
cellent agricultural papers and whO
keep in touch with their State expert.
ment stations through the bulletins
sent put know these facts, and facts
of the greatest Importance to tillers
of the soil. A wise German of my ac-
q%uaintance sent me a paper about the
effect of legumes on the soil, in which
he made the statement that for every
soil, no matter what its climate or
mechanical condition, there could be
found some legume that would aid the
farmer in maintaining fertility and in
creasing the yield Of his creps.
In large sections. of the South the
cowpea is the plant for this purpose,
and the ones who have used it most
persistently are the prosperous and
wealthy farmers. In other parts OF
the Union the different varieties OF
clover will do the same work. and OH
certain soils the mammoth clover IS
worth very much more than the
medium. Some farmers who have fol-
lowed the growing of beans for market
have learned that by the means Of them
they have increased the yield of future
wheat crops enough to more thar pay
for the growing of the crop of beans
In the northern parts of the country
the Canada field pea takes the place
of the cowpea, as. it is perfectly hardy
and can be sown just about as soon as
the ground can be worked, n even
if the mercury drops to zero aIter
the peas are sown they viii not be IN
jured, but as soon as warm weather
comes will grow.-Waldo f. Brown, In
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