The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-01-22
THE SUCCESSFUL FARMER AND
HIS METHODS.

The successful farmer must he
educated. the uneducated farmer |
will not succeed. A graduate of some !
college is not necessarily an educa- |
ted farmer. An educated farmer Is |
one who understands soil and soil |
ply ysics, moterology planetary indu |
ence over the rainfall, wind currents !
and their effect. In fact. the educat |
ed farmer Is one who gets close to, |
and understands best, natures laws
and ways of producing plant life;
again. he is one who applies the law
of self-preservation to all his un-
dertakings. We. mean by this that
he will first apply himself in that
way that will provide the home and
the barn with all things needful.
Diversification, If you please.
Unless the farmer of the south
learns that it is easier to raise all
corn, potatoes. peas, oats, hay, mo-
molasses, meat, ca b"gs, fruit, etc
needed for home than II is to try
10 raise cottol - buy these mi. gs
with, he cannot hope to make the
first start at success; and until he
learns that one-half the work need
Cd to produce given crop is done
before the planting begins, he will
DC among the unsuccessful. Three
.Ngg.
before planting adds fertilizer that
money can't buy. First, piowing
should be done from September to
March, IL to Ia inches deep, but
with small plow. The wise man
knows that land should never be
turned bottom side up. but always
set up on edge The life of all veg
citation is on the fist three inches
OF the top soils, and must be in
rn. qGt With light an. air the yea:
mas pia.N,. = wing liberates
nhnn rhe immigration socie, ~ ho.
low and it come ntry. This I'd
20 digested by light ana 80 .NIdy
for the plants. This IS true from the
mighty oak in the forest TO the
house plant in the cons .atory.
Nitrogen is about the only plant
food over which the wise mal has
almost complete control, all o.her
substances needful are mineral aud
ore in the soils and remains, but
nitrogen ccn be exhausted or replen.
ished at will, and unless there is
about 2IS per cent of this in the
top soils failure will attend your
efforts. Twelve inches of loosrped
earth will hold this amount of nj.
trogen and retain it Trough the
growing season, provided the sur
face cultivation is properly done.
The successful farmer will not
sell his cotton seed to the oil mills,
but instead he will SOW broadcast
about S bushels to the acre and
pow them under, thSs supplying the
nitrogen, phosphoric acid AM pot.
ash which is needed 10 restore his
land to its normal condition Some
says sell you seed t. the mil, ANA
buy the meal and use mat instead
OF the seed, but the wise man knows
that there is about 81 pounds of nj
trogen in ton OF seed, while In
the meal from t1n OF seed there
is only about 40 pounls, and that
on every ton of seed sJll and meal
bought, instead OF gaia 1t is a clear
loss OF s2.63 per toh as fertilizer,
as 1t takes about two and three
quarter tons OF seed to make ton
OF meal.
The successful farmer VIII inst
estimate the amount of corn necdlnl
for his own use aud this spring plant
accordingly. He wiz Plant in April;
he will plant 1910 stalks ON an acre.
he will plant on top o. the gtouad,
where nature would plant, not down
in ditch made Win laLd des
troyer and crop rliner called ''lis-
ter" by some. The wise man will
plant of molasses cane of some kind
plenty. of swat and Irish putd
toes three to ten acres, nc will have
a grape vine and fruit tree IN ev-
cry odd corner of the yard. If moth
ing more, and where everything