The Forrest City times., 1906-01-12
FARMER ANDPLANTER.
A MODEL TWO HORSE FARM.
A Practical Farmers Outline of His IdeaI For R Two-iforsc south
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i to manage a two-hofse farm, as tue i majority or our southern farmers must make their living from farms of this size" For many reasons We think the 1 two-horse farm the ideal one.
 First It gives you double team for wagoning, using two-Eorse blows, hSr- rowing, moving, etc.
 Second. It furnishes adequate horse power to till enough land, both to em- l ploy and to support well good aver age-sized family.
 Third. X two-horse farm is all that should be in cultivation upon lot of i land; the rest can be most profitably utilized in pastures, meadows, grain l lands and woodland.
 Now We will undertake to give our readers an outline of our ideal two l horse farm. in a clear. concise style, so that anyone can take it up and make 1t living reality, if they so desire.
 L As to Area-Wc would want 6o acres ef eultiYatable land
 2. System of Cropping We would di- vide this into three equal divisions Of 20 acres each. and would follow un- deyiatingly a three-year rotation of: Twenty acres in gTain, 20 acres in corn and 20 acres in cotton.
 ,. Tools-A two-horse wagon. nov CT and rake. Cutaway and an Acme harrow, good two-hOrse blow, cotton planter. corn droppef weeder. cotton chopper, two Planet jr eultivators, two small harrows and two common blow stocks.
 i. Fertiiizefs-Wou+d use four tons of guano and all ihe Barn-yard manure We could make.
 ,. Lab0r-TWo regular hands and some extra day-labor in planting and harvesting times.
 |. Az to Cattle, Hogs and Chickens We would start with two cows. st least. a boar anl two sows and 100 chickens. The cows, especially, wc would increase as rapidly as we could feed them and properly care for them, uniil We had the limit We could 90 managa
 !. Preparation and Culligaion--We will give some details as 10 how We would prepare for and cultivate our crops each year.
 The third in srain We would SOW half in wheat and half in cats Turn the land as deep IS you can with two horse blow and harrow twice with CutaWay and twice with Acme. The ten for wheat We would SOW broadcast and cut in with Cutaway harrow The ten acres for oats we would divide sowing five in October CT November in the drill, using the "open furroW meth cd. the other five sowing broadcast and narrowing in during February or March. If We could pay cash for it would use 200 pounds of guano per acre at least. and 400 pounds if we could afford il. This land we would sow in peas and sorghum when grain was cut. putting 15 acres in peas and , acres in peas and sorghum. If We were In south Georgia or near the gulf coast would use some velvet beans in stead of all peas
 The corn land would lreal; with two horse blow, and harrow at least twice Then lay off your rows. without bed- ding. four feet apart, putting 200 pounds guano in the drill and drop corn every IS inches with corn dropper Would run Weeder over this as soon as you saw any coming up. In five days or week, would run over it with a harrow. afterwards blowing it twice to the row. with your Planet, Jr. culti- vators. Would go over once with hoes and cut to three feet if land was thin. but if good would let it stand IS inches in the drill.
 The cotton land, I would break with two-horse blow and harrow twice or more. Then lay off rows three and a half or four feet wide, according to the strength of tue land, and drill in 200 pounds guano, and plant the see,., without bedding. Would start the weeder as soon as the cotton com menced coming up, and sooner if any crust formed. for If a crust forms grass and weeds will also appear In a week would run it over again, and blow it every week until laid by" with your small harrows first and then with your eultiyaters. We would never hoe but once. and not even then if We could keep tEe grass down without it. The hoeing business is too expensive. and must be done away with. Many good farmers are doing without it, and we must all learn to do so.
 This is the way We would begin. and as We made some money. we would add to our machinery and use more fer tilizer until We reached the yield of two bales per acre of cotton. 50 bush els of corn, 90 bushels of wheat and 60 bushels of oats Every foot of our land would be broken with a two-horse blow or by going twice in a furrow as deep as could be gone We would use this sub-soiling method at least once In every four years over all our farm Nothing you can do would pay better
 Of course We would expect to have five acres extra set apart for potatoes. small fruits and vegetables This