The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-14
SMALL THINes oN THE FARM.

0MAEE F1iNGO' 'CiN fNhhs
 The small things on the farms are The ones that decide profits and losses. We are too apt to underestimate the value of the things that are often re- garded as small matters that may be put of Or entirely neglected until larger matters are attended to. The surplus that should come from .the farm, garden, orchard, vineyard. COW. poultry and oth- or small sources-these should defray all the running expenses of the farm and leave sum in the bank besides. The farm garden should be made to pay for all the groceries needed. There is no other small enterprise on a farm that should give such profitable returns as the we'll titled fapm garden. Besides profits and pleasure. there is health and comfort fin a well cultivated garden. A good farm garden properly managed will furnish more than half the living for the family while enoug1h plants and vegetables can be sold to furnish the other half
 Right here a few lines may be given as to how a garden may be made profit able. In the first place, we must re- member that vegetable crops consume great amount of plant foods and these musf be amply provided for in advance. Every particle of waste vegetable matter on the farm should be turned into compost to be fed to the garden crops. The gar den will take it all up. It is a place where bank deposits may be made that give the highest rate of interest on de- poslts In the second place, well de- fined rotation of vegetable crops must DC kept up the entire year. To do this, It is necessary to keep the soil well cul- tivated until each crop is matured ana harvested and as soon as one crop is harvested the soil must be prepared at once for the next crop.
 good supply. of well rotted compost should be kept alt hand to be used. for if one expects to succeed he must restore 10 the soil more plant food than was taken out by the former crops. The later summer crops will need more moisture so the soil must be worked deep and made very fine for them. Seeds, too, must be planted deeper and the soil must be more often cultivated. Some system of water ing may also be necessary. By close observation of these details, one can succeed in having fine vegetables all the year. I have before me an address de- lvered by Prof. ]. s. Newman of Clem- son college, South Carolina, on Small Farm Indalstries,' which is so appropriate. 80 timely and so completely concurs with m,, views and experience that I think l could serve our readers in no better way than to give this address in full:
 Life is made up of small things, if these things are given proper attention, the large matters will adjust themselves.
 The farmer who is too much engaged with his leading lines of work in the fields to care for the small auxiliary industries-the small industries-must spend large part of the proceeds of his field crops for supplies which the small industries properly cared for would have furnished.
 What are the so-ealled small indus tries? By this we mean the garden, orchard, vineyard, dairy, piggery, poultry apiary and I may be permitted to add, the flower yard. These may be made to supply the family table with everything