The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1908-05-07

duce a quick and tender pork one
should feed shorts, and
give green feed such as clover
and alfalfa. If a farmer has six
pigs in the spring that he wishes
to fatten he can make fine pro-
gress during the spring, sum-
mer and early fall by feeding at
the beginning one pound of shorts
twice a day and cut clover and
give them what they will COM
fortably consume.
If you have a clover lot, by di-
viding it up you can Craze them.
It is absolutely necessary to
have good water and shade for
hogs in south. The modern south
ern farmer has only to look back
fifty years to find that hogs were
successfully raised by our fathers
and there is no reason why we
Can not make as great or greater
success than they did. We have
10 study upon the present con-
ditions and adapt ourselves to
present environments.
LET COTTON BE THE SURPLUS.
Take the farmer who is run
ming a two-horse farm, He
should vary his farm products,
produce his own bread and meat
and let cotton be the surplus.
By producing his own meat he
can, at a small cost, improve his
land. IF the farmer will work
on the intensive plan, with the
manure from his stock, he can
gradually bring up his land to a
high state Of cultivation.
In order to make this plan, l
want to give my own experience
along this line. | had six acres
of red land which would not have
made over Is bushels corn per
acre. l had fed for beef a lot
of cattle feeding on crushed corn
and cotton seed meal, hay and
straw, and in the early spring
had about so tons of manure.
| broadcasted that on the land
after it was broken with a two
horse plow and with a disk har-
row, thoroughly pulverised and
mixed with the soil. l gathered
Is bushels of corn per acre in the
fall and by rotation, with red
clover, sown with wheat, kept
that land in a high state of cul-
tivation, making last year &c
bushels of wheat per acre. By
sowing at the time latter bring
ing our land to a good state of fer
tilit) grass and clover mixed we
can produce good past urage.
GOOD GRASS CROPS.
Orchard and red-top grass seed
sown with clover will make a
good combination, sowing 10
pounds of orchard grass, 5 pounds
red-top and 10 pounds of
clover. | would recommend this
in the Piedmont belt, in
the late fall, with oats. In the
section all grass should
be sown in the spring, and after
a stand is had there should be a
top dressing of 40 Ito SO pounds
OF nitrate of soda per acre, sown
in March or first of April.
If the soil has lime, Kentucky
blue grass can be substituted for
the red top. All farmers who
raise stock should SOW the Scow-
pea for winter feeding, moving
and curing it we'll, and storing it
in the barn. With the advantage
we have in the shortness of the
winter seasons, mild climate and
the adaptability of our soil to
grazing and the cotton seed meal
and corn at our doors to feed
our cattle9 the southern farmer
las a great advantage over
he northern section.
MUST DESTROY THE TICKS.
Before the cattle industry can
re made a success there is one
hing the southern farmer must
10; that is, destroy the cattle
icks.
Don't say that it cannot be
lone. It has been done, and this
) being clearly demonstrated by
he department of agriculture in
Iorth Carolina, in cooperation