Oxford eagle., 1907-08-08

OF cement, and all stalls are conrrectsd
with watcrworks. The floor Is inclined
80 the hose can be turned on and wash
1t clean. An alley runs north and south
and east and west through IL, 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 o, COW will pull IL up. its
throat can be cut and tha blood runs
down to the hogs; it can b. skinned a.
1t is elevated, the intcstines taken out,
dropped down to she hogs, aud there is
q clean loft where il 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 frou
that she'd, which Is tilled 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
stanchious holds two hundred tons Of
loose hay, which can he pushed into
stanchion beSds from bottom TO top.
That manure shed Just east OF the
barn has l50 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 manured sixty or
seventy acres this spring. and now has
on hand 80 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 x and it is ready
to cut the second time and promises to
cut one ton To the acre. Mr.. Evans b.
lieves in thorough preparation in all
his undertakings. lie now has thirty
acres OF mellilotus sown in March tha,
will cut q good ton TO the acre, and he
will ge, another cutting jus; a. good in
%h1A 1-tf NhFu lt Will EOllON
field in alfalfa in October.
"Now | expect some reader Il saving
to himself: This farmer makes no net
profit; he is fixed up too fine; his in
vestment is too large to earn q profit
and not many could do what he Is
doing; and besides he must have a bank
behind him. No. just anybody could
. ns 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 couveniences aud barns will
not exceed 5000, and he has been five
years in doing il. He miIks 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 $500 worth wi,hin
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 s&90 worth Of
hay and ten pounds of butter. 81 So
which is already engaged. | have all
home and foreign telephone counec-
tions and sell lots of stuff over the
phone Besides doing all this Mr..
Evans makes from 1J0 to 200 bales Of
cotton every year.
well. Mr.. Evans, what about your
help; how do you manage to do all of
thisr L have one regular wage hand,
a negro, and three mixers ant helpers
who make a crop on my place and pay
them ~ per month, but,' he said, I
never give a cropper but IL or Is acres
OF land to work, and they make from
II TO 10 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 $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. II 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 50 well.-
Have you seriously considered the mat.
ter of keeping our young men in Missis.