Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1907-08-10

OF cement, and all stalls are connected
with waterworks. The floor il inclined
so the hose can be turned on and wash
1t clean. An alley runs north and south
and east and west through It,, into
which pens open where we can separate
the different kinds Of hogs. Six feet
from one end of one alley is a gate be-
hind which COW can be fastened and
that triple pulley up there tied to the
hind legs o. cow will pull it up, its
throat can be cut and the blood runs
down to the hogs; it can be skinned az
1t is elevated, the intcstines taken out,
dropped down to the hogs, and there is
clean loft where it can be left to cool
and cut up. Well, here is my dairy
barn, with cement floors with troughs
to catch all droppings and urine from
that shed, which is filed with rotten
limerick. take limerick and spread
over the floor every morning, and there
is not the least odor, for rotten lime.
stone is the greatest absorbent known
for the farm. That place between the
stanchions holds two hundred tons OF
loose hay, which can be pushed into
stanchion bends from bottom to top.
That manure shed just east of the
barn has $50 tons of the best manure
that can be made. All barns are well
bedded with damaged hay and rotten
limerick is scattered over the manure
as it is put under the she'd
Think about the possibility Of tho
manure that could be wasted on this
farm. Mr.. Evans manured sixty or
seventy acres this spring, and now has
on hand $50 tons Of manure, which he
will commence to spread with his ma.
nure spreader over his alfalfa after the
second cutting of alfalfa sown last Oc-
tober. This is June q, and it is ready
to cut the second time and promises to
cut one ton to the acre. Mr.. Evans be.
lieyes in thorough preparation in all
his undertakings. He now has thirty
acres of mellilotus sown in March that
will cut good ton to the acre, and he
will get another cutting just as good in
August, and then he will follow this
! field in alfalfa in October.
"Now | expect some reader is saying
to himself: This farmer makes no net
profit; he is fixed up too fine; his in
vestment is too large to earn profit
and not many could do what he is
doing; and besides he must have bank
behind him No, just anybody could
!! not do what he does, but any man with
any intelligence, energy and love for
the business, which is necessary to sue
cess in any department of life, can do
what he has done and is doing. His
outlay for conveniences and barns will
! hoJ cAbCCu Vp'OOu, hllu llc udS DtGu llNS
years in doing it. He milks twenty
five or thirty COWS and sells twenty-five
or thirty pounds Of butter per day for
twenty-five cents per pound, and feeds
the skinned milk to hogs, of which he
has sold more than 1920 worth Within
the past eight months. His aim is to
have an income for every month in the
year. He said to us: I will send to
your town in the morning s490 worth OF
hay and ten pounds Of butter, $3.50,
which is already engaged. l have all
home and foreign telephone connec-
tions and sell lots of stuff over the
phone Besides doing all this Mr..
Evans makes from $50 to 200 bales OF
cotton every year.
"'W Well, Mr. Evans, what about yonr
help; how do you manage to do all OF
thisY Il have one regular wage hand,
a negro, and three mixers anG helpers
who make a crop on my place and pay
them S4 per month, but he said, 4
never give a cropper but II or IS acres
of land to work, ard they make from
II to Is bales of cotton, corn enough to
do them, and of course they have time
to help me. The hands you see helping
me today all have crops on my place
and pay them for today's work
"Now, Mr.. Evans is not large land
owner. His farm contains 800 acres, a
part Of the old home place settled over
fifty years ago. But he is young,
active, intelligent, and above all, in
love with his work. If we had one
such farmer in every county of our
State their work would do more good
than all the politicians that parade our
highways and develop their oratorical
powers from our grand stands. The
wave of influence started by this man
will go on gathering strength long after
his last resting place is decked with
the flowers planted by the hand of ma.
ture's God, the one he loved so WE'LL"