The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-08-10
Of cement, and all stalls Arc connected

Of cement, and all stalls are connected
with w~aterworks. The door is Inclined
SO the hose can be turned on and wash
it 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 q COW can be fastened and
that triple pulley up there tied to the
hind legs of a COW will pull it up, its
throat can be cut and the blood runs
down to the hogs; it car be skinned as
it is elevated, the intestines taken out,
dropped down to the hogs, and there Is
a 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. l 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 we'll
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 the
manure that could be wasted on this
farm. Mr.. Evans MANFRED 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 81, and it is ready
to cut the second time and promises to
cut one ton to the acre. Mr.. Evans be-
lieves in thorough preparation in all
his undertakings. He now has thirty
acres of mellilotus own in March that
will cut a 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 1 expect some reader is saying
to himself: This farmer makes no net
profit; he is fixed up too fine; his in.
vestment is o large to earn a profit
and not many could do what he is
doing; and besides he must have a 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
not exceed $4,000, and he has been five
years in doing it. He milks twenty
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 $1,000 worth within
the past eight months. His aim is to
have an income for every month in the
year. He said to us: Il will send to
your town in the morning $500 worth of
hay and ten pounds of butter, $3.50,
which is already engaged. I have all
home and foreign telephone me
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.
"'Well, Mr.. Evans, what about Jour
help; how do you manage to do all OF
this? Il have one regular wage hand,
a negro, and three mixers and helpers
who make a crop on my place and 1 pay
them 81 per month, but he said, I
never give a cropper but II or Is acres
of land to work, and 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 1 pay them for tod&y's work.
"Now, Mr.. Evans is not a large land
owner. His farm contains $50 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 o~ratorical
powers from our grand stands. The
wave of influence started by this man
will 60 on gathering strength long after
his last resting place is decked with
the flowers planted by the hand of ma
lures God, the one he loved so WE'LL"