St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-02-11
FARMER AND PLANTER.
FOUNDATION FOR SUCCESS.
Adopt the New and Better
Methods:


sue on Laying Foundation for Sue
sess' was certainly timely, and the
opening sentence, 1.-The majority OF
farmers are farming by force OF habit
Or by surrounding circumstances can
not be too often or too forcibly i'm
pressed upon the attention of southern
farmers. While attending the fair at
Macon we had a gentleman to give US
his experience, which well illustrated
| the case in hand, and made a profound
| impression upon Us, and we take the
! liberty to repeat it to our readers, hop
upon some of them and assist some in
! making their plans for the new year.
This gentleman said:
Il was born and reared in Hancock
county. l owned a good farm, but
worked it along in the old shallow,
shocking style, went fox hunting ana
took an active interest in local poll
tics, so I got badly in debt. In fact, I
had to sell land, stock and everything
70 pay out. | came down to south
Georgia, near Dublin, and rented a
tWo-horse crop on halves-just like
any other tenant. A wealthy man
down there saw / was not afraid of
work and he made me a proposition
to oversee for him for wages and to
let ny two sons run crop on shares.
l stayed with him three years. He
started me into the method of deep
,,Jn hi T
began at once to make large crops
and to clear money each year. Last
fall + Thought of him 2l0 acres of land
and commenced on my own hook
again. | have 10S acres in cotton,
have ginned 81 bales ana will make
about 100. Have already ginned four
weighing 2,020 pounds; will make 80
and 40 bushels OF corn per acre. l
used GOO pounds of fertilizer upon
every acre cultivated; bought the in
gradients and did my own mixing;
broke every foot of land as deep as
g tWo-horse plow would go. 1 had Z
acres for hay. l broke this land with
a two-horse pillow and put 600 pounds
Of fertilizer broadcast am, planted in
peas and sorghum; have fed away
several loads; baled 125 bales and
have enough to bale that much more:
Under my cotton and corn | put 200
pounds Of guano in drill before plant
ing, and 200 on each side after the
crop comes up, and when l work it
the second time. | will clear any
where from $500 to $4,000 on this
years crop"
Now, this ought to make us think.
Here is a man past middle life, with
everything lost by following the "old
methods in vogue in over three
fourths of the south. But forced to
begin life again, he adopted new meth
DDS and his efforts are crowned with
abundant success. The question now
is, will We wait to be forced, or will
we voluntarily change to deep plow-
ing thorough cultivation and high ma
nuring? AL who read and think,
too,
Condemn the wrong, and yet the
wrong pursue
Now at the close Of 1904, and at the
beginning of 1905, let's quit all half
handed methods-all these spreading
out, scattering over" ways, and be-
gin Alright the only true and worthy
way of thoroughness in all our work.
And look forward to the only genuine
which must come from
well-tilled land and diversified crops
Thinking more of corn, grain and
stock and less OF cotton, and then we
won't be standing around waiting for
it to go to ten cents, as we see SO
many doing now.-G. F. Hunnicutt, in
Southern Cultivator.