The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-28

the minister around and show him eer-
 tam things and he would soon join them
 me conversation then turned to the darkey, who said Look here, don't you
 kho" dat vice what you dun give ole
 hsrstef IS mighty bad vice " n.y. Nhal Is the matter?a You told hlm 10
 lay up some Of dem treasures in heben
 Don you know he'd neber see them no
 more! This Is the way with my farm
 CTS. It they ever put dollars worth or improvement on their lands they do l. st t.idsiagly, fefi rg that thes gre ne TT
 going to see ttal dollar anJ more
 Result Would Be Astonishing. what about the poor fellow who got ohiy seven and half bushels per acfs suppose he could be induced to get hi5 1 land set to clover and COW peas and pioW
 lhese under; then haul out and put lew Sason loads of well TO- ,d manure oa each acre and in addition use this s0 worth Of plant food per acre as top dfesslnBg He would be so astonished at the result that he would wonder why he
 had been asleep so long. This would slYe l twenty bushels of wheat. worth sA. in-
 stead or seven and a half bushels worth
 so'z5, difference Of s1475. This is no
 guess work, but very conservative es
 innate Let me mention some results
 that are being obtained alo 1s this line.
 Perhaps our readers will remember that
 made mention several days ago Of Yis- ''ing farmer in PennsylVanla io see him thrash his wheat in his barn, 1t being
 novel sight to me to see a great thrash
 CT at work in a barn. But I found a sep
 arator set in the aisle of the barn. with a little gasoline engine outside It might rain, it made no difference for the
 work was all inside. The farmer was very kind to show me his several varie- ties Of wheat and to inform me Of the
 merits of each He showed me one va riety which l regarded as vefy fine. He said: T shall not SOW any more of this variety because 1t only yields me thirty or thirty-fve bushels per acre. This
 statement nearly took my breath away, as thought of the Missouri farmer who
 was content with his seven bushel and half. l expect the Missouri farmer is
 the better contented of the two. for Where ignorance is bliss tis folly to be wise."
 Meeting in Plttsbure.
 few mornings ago I got up quite early at the hotel in Pittsburg. for I
 had learned of some good Ohio and other seed wheats being sold there. l started up the street to hunt the seed store where this wheat was sold I had not gone far when I saw ahead of me a large. fine looking gentleman, whom l
 sized up at once as one of those thrifty Pennsylvania farmers. I hurried my steps so that I would meet him at the
 corner, which I did. and asked him if he knew where the seed store was located.
 He replied that he did and that he was going right there He asked. Are you
 looking for wheat, too?" I had guessed right, for he was farmer and we had
 a very interesting talk on the wheat
 queAIon. He went on to say that his
 wheat crop had not turned out exactly to suit him, that he only made thirty
 six bushels per acre, and said that he had come up to see If the seed men had
 something better so that he could change seed. Now here was another farmer
 who was not satisfied with growing less
 than forty bushels of wheat per acre.
 This farmer Is doing what all farmers
 should do. He sets his standard high
 and works up to it.
 We can never get these great crops
 builded up, it will thu be an easy mat
 ter to keep 1t up to A high state of cul- tivation. Feeding soil Is like feeding an animal We take a poor hog and start in to fatten him. When he reaches a certain point then it is an easy matter
 to keep him gaining, and gaining on less feed than we commenced to give him The same is true of a poor. rundown
 farm. Clean 1t of brush and briars. give 1t a good grubbing. put on plant food and soon we will have a fertile farm producing paying crops
 Now I think that I have covered this subject of soil preparation for wheat pretty thoroughly, and have also shown l how our farmers may make money out of the wheat crop As stated, I think