The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-05-21

sSou,hern Farm 0axsxtsF
H~axrs Editors: Yoa are preach
lag some of the best sermons 70 the
Southern farmers that they can ever
hope to hear. II they would only
heed tie word. think all that IL
needed Is TO get more farmers In
close touch with The Southern Farm
Gax-tfe. a great many viii catch
good idea, try ~. then talk Ii TO
their neighbors. and 50 the paper
does great good. believe In every
word you say about how TO get along
| better In farming. and am hoping
that thousands of others are doing
likewise.
FTr~. Give Your Home Thrifty
Look.
| My argument is not 10 ride ABOUT
so much, trying TO control some mar
ket or other; but 10 go back nome
land go TO work first. TO make a re-
spectacle home that the stranger
passing viii look upon with pleasure
Build barns as you can. poultry
houses as you can. and cattle sheds
anyway. Raise chickens as SIDE
line Your wife or daughter VIII
help tend them. and you can with
the proceeds often pay little bills
with ease.
| Make corn, and a lot of 1t; and
don't be afraid TO feed II TO your
hogs / am straining every nerve
to make too much corn this season.
III think that by working this way !
can make enough. ! am trying to
make some peavine hay, too. this
season. There is no better feed Tor
horses in the spring, in plow time;
land milk COWS will yield abundant
lly after being fed on it, besides the
fine manure is ready for poor spots
in the field. We cannot make toe
much feed stuff. Even IL we should
there is a hundred men ready to buy
All Cotton Is an Exacting Task
Master.
Now, back to home again: Nc
home can be in thriving condition
; that has cotton growing in almost
every field. Cotton takes up toe
much time. With all cotton, there
| is no time for pruning the fru,'
trees, setting out new ones, etc.; nc
. time for hay making, no time FOL
ANYTHING except to eat and run. The
, Southern farmer is one of the hard
I est men to teach anything. He will
plant cotton year after year, anl
wonder why his land is going bach
and he using fertilizer all the time
He wonders why his horses won
, keep in good order, and why his ole
? scrubs are so poor every winter; ant
yet he will plod along in the same
!, old way. There is no chance for III
until we quit cotton planting and g
to farming.
l Let Us Learn Better Ways of Doing
> Things.
: Some of us are still dragging
= around trees and stumps, that WI
= hoed and plowed around when boys
t and yet Mr.. Stump stands. SOM
e of us are still blowing with pony
= and barely turning up enough loos
Y earth to plant the seed on. NJ
!, wonder the poor crop turns yellow
r and stops growing at the first drOuth
We are still, lot of US, planting
: corn the old, old way, the 3-mel
= way-one to open, one to drop, on
: to cover. Let us get planters, an
s go to planting corn. | am youn
: man, just married, and am tryin
cf0 rf irving
y make 220 barrels of corn on fiv
|. and one-half acres, and other patch
/, es in proportion. l believe in hay
e ing my smokehouse in my yard; m
r hay, corn, potatoes, ETC., in the barr
and living at home. At anothe
time I may come again and tell ho'
Ii prepared my corn land and melo
lpatch, and how they are looking.
G. G. LEWIS.