The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-08-01


throat can be cut and the blood runs
down to the hogs; it can be skinned
as it is elevated, the intestines 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 lime rock, | take
limestone and spread over the floor
every morning, and there is not the
least odor, for rotten limestone is
the greatest absorbent known for the
farm. The space between the stanch-
ions 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 100 tons of the best ma
nure than 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 manure spreader over his al
falfa after the second cutting, of al
falfa shown last October. This is
July 27, and it is ready to cut the
second time and promises to cut one
ton to the acre. Mr.. Evans believes
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 Oc-
tober.
Now I expect some reader is say
ing to himself: this farmer makes no
net profit, he is fixed up too fine, his
investment 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 any
body could do what he does, but any
man with any intelligence, energy
and love for the business, which is
necessary to success in any depart
ment of life, can do what he has done
and is doing. His outlay for con-
veniences and barns will not exceed
$4,000 and he has been five 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 $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: I will send to your town in
the morning, $3.50 worth Of hay and
ten pounds Of butter, $3.50 which is
already engaged. 1 have all home
and foreign telephone connections
and sell lots Of stuff over the phone.
Besides doing all Of this, Mr.. Evans
makes from 80 to 200 bales of cot
ton every year.
Well, Mr.. Evans, what about your
help, how do you manage to do all
OF this? l have one regular wage
hand, negro, and three mixers and
helpers who make a crop ON my
place and I pay them $4,000 per
month, but, he said, I never give a
cropper but IL or 18 acres of land
to work and they make from twelve
to fifteen 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, part Of the old home place
settled over fifty years ago. But he
is yourg, active, intelligent, and
above all, in love with his work. If
we mad Gle such farmer In every
county of chr State their work would
do more good than all the politicians
that parade our highways and devs-
top their oratorical powers from our
grand stands. The wave of influence
started by this man viii go on gather
ing strength long after his last resting
place is decked with the flowers
planted by the hand of natures God,
the one he loved so we'll"
Seoul, -Discussing the American