The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-12

tween four and twelve inches from the surface. The roots of cofpeas were ueep- CT and interlocked across rows three three were only about two months old
 The root system of beets ana irish potatoes showed differences that inoi- cated that the beet might permit deep cultivation while the latter would not. Observations were also made. on tne ss root growth of trees. Photographs l' this bulletin give one a very ts v,v,o oS ,pea number of farm crops. n Growing Feed for Cattle on . Georgia Farm.
 After leaving college. four years ago, decided that must raise cattle and other stock if I kept up the fer. | tility of the land, or rather improVea
 We at once began buying the best | Jerseys that we could find and togetn- CT with the cattle We already naa we I thirty-five. In the meantime we mad built a dairy barn. dairy. and other | buildings on part of the farm that | This land was poor, having made up-- | on an average of 800 pounds or seed | cotton per acre.
 break the land intended for cultiva-
 ton the following spring running subsoil behind the first blow. and then ngPsyns na Sroadsass s oa and the then | breaking the land again and harrow | ing we had it in fine shape, we saved | every pound of manure both solid and
 liquid. applying 1t as fast to the land
 By spring we had several acres thus
 prepared: tThe manure not only from from | and horses as well)
 | We divide the land into three plots, one for corn for silage. one for cane
 'oT rhe Gi first snf iof a"S was % again broken and narrowed. and rows run off four feet | apart, 200 pounds of 10-2 fertilizer
 was placed in these rows, and mixed | of furrows. We bedded in the usual | way and planted seed about eighteen
 inches apart in drill.
 neighbor who had raised cotton and
 corn Cat the rate of ten acres cotton
 one acre corn) for more than guar
 ing 1t his duty to advise all young
 told me that 1t would not pay to put
 highly. that 1t would literally burn
 up. for he had tried it. I paid little attention to him but planted as stated
 me to get a tne stand: but other work | was so urgent the corn had oSbe left
 unthinned for some time, and when
 we went in to thin 1t we found 1t so
 green that we left two stalks in each We cultivated by using side culti-
 vator first time. following this by a
 giving it a shallow blowing the last
 From this plot we put up from
 eighteen to twenty-five tons of ensi-
 iage per acre; each stalk having two
 and some more of we'll filled ears
 It was said that an escaped convict
 for some days. but I can't say that this
 is true: but know t was very difa-
 cult for a man to go through the field
 there were so many stalks to the hill l that they Tapped the rows.
 My old friend, the neighbor. watch
 ed the field, and came to me when we
 were cutting the corn for silo,. and
 the kind of corn he had would not grow on his land. After we had harvested the corn w
 dn. the falD and sowed in wheat
 making very fine crop of wheat we
 could not determine the number oi
 bushels for we fed some of 1t to the
 stock before 1t was threshed.
 Plot number two we planted in amber cane, making about twenty tons per acre, following the same method
 of cultivation as for corn.
 cotton preparing the land and culti'
 th 9rop rsts as of Ts as fG hundred pounds of seed cotton pei acre, for which we received Is 1-I
 cents per pound of lint
 , Each of the above plots were sowr , in grain after the crop had been har'
 vested. The plot of cotton was fol , lowed by rye. though a little late, VI prepared the land a little better ant distributed very lightly a little ma nure. The crop was fine. Our silag, . gave out Gas we had bought small cattle) just as the rye was about eigh teen to twenty inches high and we be ? gan feeding. cutting with a mower a { we needed 1t. After we had fed all 0 the rye that weAeould spare> 0eavinI seed hulls. An accurate record wa kept of the feed and the amount o : milk weighed at each milking. On plot of the rye not quite sn acre } cows from one cutting. as long as fou
 tons of cotton seed bulls, and gaine
 in the output of milk and butter full