The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-22

had in this line. Early last spring made a dairy talk in a Missouri town located in a rough hilly country. During the lecture I noticed that I had some close listeners. Up to this time there had never been pound of cream shipped from this town. In about three months after this happened to be back in the same town. and on inquiring learned that a cream gathering station had been established in the town and that more than a thou sands pounds of cream per week was being shipped. went over to the cream station and soon after a farmer drove up with a load of cream. He recognized me at once and said: "The best days work I ever did was to go over to the court house that day to hear you talk. You put me to thinking. 1 have a rough farm, that I had been making nothing on except a bare living, so I thought I could do no worse by taking your ad- vice and going into the dairy business. gathered up nine cows and cared for and milked them and I tell you I am sur prised at the results and will never farm my hilly land again. All I will do Is to scratch 1t enough to keep it in clover and grasses I am so well pleased that l am going to keep on until I buy thirty cows" This experience is only what any farmer can do with hilly lands if he will only have enough confidence In himself and the business to go at 1t.
 We have built creameries in Missouri until every farmer in the state can have market for every pound of cream he can produce. We need and should have a large central creamery on our line be- tween Memphis and Birmingham and there is idle money enough in the country to build 1t, and farmers enough to SUD- port it. But these people are going to do exactly as the people in Missouri haye done. Wait for somebody from the north to come and do these things. These men come down here and get the cream of the country. So let us dispose of our rough lands by getting them set to pas tures put on stock and grow our grains and feeds on our best lands that are not so easily washed or hard to manage and on lands where we can use economy by the use of good farm implements
 Preparation of Soil for Wheat.
 I do not think that I could serve oui readers in the treatment of this subject any better than to give them the plan practiced by the very best wheat growers of the country and the old saying, If you need advice, go to the man who has been successful" So if we want to know how to prepare our soils for big crops of wheat, let us see how the farmer who is growing big crops prepares his soil While in Canada last week, I was very much impressed with the manner in which
 
 they were preparing their soils for sowing to fall grain, the summer following turn ing under stubble or blowing under fields of clover. had never seen. as pretty and as perfect blowing anywhere as these Canadians were doing Their blows are different from ours. longer beams. cut narrower furrows but khey lay every fur row perfectly straight and right to the place. If the weeds and grass are very rank they put on a chain to weight them A.. under. Now here Is an important point in the preparation of soil for wheat, to turn under all vegetation and trash so deep that 1t will not in the least interfere with the top working of the soil. So deep as not to be reached and pulled to sur face by the harrow I also noticed that these Canadian farmers put on a disc harrow right behind the blow and roller right behind the harrow. This causes quicker decomposition of the great amount of green matter turned under and also transforms fl into plant food much quick CT, so that the sowing of the grain need not be delayed. Before this land is blow ed it is covered so thick with barnyard manure that the blow cannot turn it all under and enough is left for a top dress ing for the young plants.
 l regard this as the most perfect sys- tenn of soil preparation for grain that I ever saw. I have been often told that
 
 England and I suppose these farmers of Canada have adopted the methods of the mother country. But no doubt some read CT Is ready to ask where do these farmers get this great amount of manure? Nearly every one of these best farmers are dairy men or have dairy farms and make tAIs manure nearly all on their farms Of course. unlike us, they keep all their towns cleaned up and get good quan- tity of manure from this source. The more 1 see of wheat growing the more convinced am I that to make wheat growing a success it must be carried on in connection WAa dairying or with gen. eral stock growing Now when these farmers get through preparing their soils, what nice job. it is to take seed drill and put in the grain. Every grain is placed just where wanted. In the great wheat growing states which I have just visited New York, Maryland. Pennsylva- nia, Ohio. Michigan. Indiana and Illinois. the practices in the preparation of soil for wheat is nearly the same that of Canada. I will state here that there are only a few sections of Canada where fall or winter wheat is grown. In the states named they use a great amount of top dressing to meet the requirements of the wheat plant. Glover is largely used for turning under and each year the COW pea finds its way farther north. Lime is used for a top dressing. In Maryland clover is kept in or the land all the time. on seeding lasting almost in- definitely. The first crop of clover is cut for hay and the second crop seed and all are turned under. The land may he sowed to wheat in the fall or corn in the spring If sown to wheat the clover will come up In the wheat and make a crop after the wheat Is harvested If left until spring and planted to corn the corn is taken off in early fall and the land sown to fall wheat. The next spring the clover seed which have lain dormant in the soil will come I'D again fin the wheat While talking with a very intelligent farmer a few sdays ago who is large wheat grower nf Pennsvlvana. he said :'I cannot grow paying crops of wheat without using great quantities of stable manure and can get this manure in no cheaper than no stock pays me SO well as dairy cows. Dairy cows not only keen me and the family but they keep my wheat fields fer tiized.
 Somewhat Different.
 From the Chicago News
 'I suppose that old chap with the long white whiskers over there is one of your old settlers. isn't hep said the grocery drummer
 q reckon he's what yew might call old resident" rejoined the village mer- chant, 'but he ain't no old settler. He's been a-owin' me for nigh on to thirty 9