St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-01-12
UTILIZATION We. CIVILIZATIONS.
Southern Farmers Have Important
Questions Pressing For Solution.

Our southern farmers have several
important questions pressing for solu-
ton, but hardly any Of them exceed In
Importance this one of utilizing our
ton says the Southern Cultiyator, there
cultivating every acre. The only reason
we attempt to cultivate SO much area,
is the idea that we will make more
money by so doing. But with higa
labor and poor yields the profits IN
such cultivation are naught. AS our
country and cities increase in Hopula-
ton, says the Southern Cultlvator there
is not only q greater demand eos 1000
crops, but also a wider range OF
articles included in this demand.
Everything that can be produced upon
the farm-wood, grass, hay, cattle,
hogs, chickens, fruit, and dairy pro-
ducts, all command as good prices as
corn and cotton. 1t now behooyes every
intelligent farmer to look over his land
take carefully into consideration tho
lay Of his farm as to woodland and
cleared fields, upland and bottom
rough land and smooth, then his Local
ton as to market and his taste as to
lines of industry he would like best to
develop and then plan, not SO much to
cultivate all his place, but how best TO
develop its resources SO as to give the
greatest net return for the energy ex-
pended If grass viii give as much mes
return from given field as cultivat-
ing It In cotton, why bother with 50
much work as the cultivation in cotton
would require? If cattle can gather Us
much net return from ten-acre field
as can @ negro working 1t In cotton
and corn, why not let the cows work
little? II timber grown upon hill
side will bring IN the same net revenue
as the cultivation it is receiving, why
not allow the timber to grow? To our
minds it is clearly time to change our
viewpoint. Think more about util1Za-
ton and not SO much OF cultivation.
Cultivation Is well, but Only when it
can be we'll done. When you begin
seriously to consider this uttliSing
plan and begin to put it into execution,
many will be surprised at the results.
Some instances.
We have neighbor, Col. Reuben
Arnold, who has 300 acres near
Atlanta, and is allowing about 400
acres to grow up I'm trees. He calls 1T
BLACK Forest" and fine lot of trees
he has. He says he figures 1t this
way: Zach tree is worth at least 50
cents. and my old negro says have
10000, 900 trees; this will make me
5000, 600. This beats raising cotton,
don't it?" and the colonel gives good
laugh. Now, truly these trees are
valuable and some day will bring in
snug sum; and we have NO doubt viii
yield greater net return than IL the
land was cultivated according to the
average method we now have in use.
Up at Rockmart, Georgia, Mr.. z. j.
Jenkin went out and bought noun
tain, one of thoe pur common n north
Georgia. His friends thought he would
perish, but Mr. Jenkins set this moun-
north Georgia. His friends thought ne
would perish, but Mr.. jenkins set this
mountain out in fruit trees and last
year he sold the peaches from four
acres for s2,226.6O, which gave him
clear profit of $4,000 for his time and
! labor. In tn meantime Mr.. Jenkins has
been making a good living from the
sales of vegetables and strawberries
grown between these peach tresa
These trees were only three years old
Mr.. l. A. Christian down in Clayton
county, Georgia, sold S32 worth OF pea
vine hay per acre, from his land,
after cutting good crop Of wheat from
the place
Over at Pendleton, 8. c., we saw
Bermuda that was furnishing all the
hgrass on an acre that two cows and Q
horse could eat. In fact there was
more grass on the acre that they could
not eat than the average pasturage
produces.
/ We heard Of man who had 120
acres of land and three acres was In
a swamp which he considered useless
He cleared it up, ditched it out and put
in ceelry and cleared $500 on the first
year, which was more than he had
! ever made clear on the III. Look
around you and see If you haven'i
some rnutilized opportunities that viii
bring in money besides cultiVatins
more cotton.
Heavy Wheat Yield.
NT n Miller Vv41<1 lives meas