The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-02-08

hand work. When 1t is got to the stack or barn.
1t will be hoisted without any hand work and
carried over the stack or the NOW to about where
It 10 to lie. At that time he will a broad
smile and say that hay-makng 10 gainful Mean
while the very roots Of the hay plants will be
filling his land with vegetable matter to make
the soil more productive.
He will have simple devices on wheels or sleds
for harvesting cowpcas beans so that he can
thresh out the seed when he gets ready: and
these crops will be storing atmospheric nitrogen
in the soil while he IL making easy money from
he seed.
His corn will be harvested by machinery: and
the stalks. which have much feed value ~ the
grain. will be used IN they ought to. be- II he
has q large acreage Of corn. he will use some
OF the expensive machinery: but II his acreage Is
small. he may make at home a simple sled cutter
TO facilitate his work.
The Compelling Power Of Compctition.-Ths
objection may be raised. that Southern farms are
no, suited TO this kind Of farming. But they
viii b just ~ sure ~ tho South stays In the
farming business. Competition will compel II.
The small. irregular patches OF cotton and corn
will be thing OF the past: and many turns and
stops viii not have TO be made by tho man who
culuvntcs the crop. Trees will not DO lying
down across eixh, or ten rows. Cuiiics will b
allied up NC, places win BE- drained barren places
vii, be fcr,lnxcd. and In due time siumps will b.
aud thu ncid work viii bc done rapidly and we'll
In a pront-msking way. The competition OF
those who do these things viii force the less pro-
gr~ssiss to do likewise or to hun. some other
calling.
Utilities ~ Home asd Card~a.-Pna. piows or
wheel hoes will b used In the garden to enable
a man TO do AZ least three times much work
10 DO could With an ordinary hoe and do Il more
thoroughly. Garden drills for distributing seed
aud fertilizers viii be- used. and there will b
luxurious gardens whore now there arc none.
Home raised food In greater abundance and
greater variety win give the aborcrx more energy
and result In better work from him. The houss-
wife viii more generally have sewing machines.
washing machines. and clothes wrinxcrs. She
will have reels or some other simple device for
stretching or housing her cioshcsitne. She will
have strawberry hulcss. cherry sccdcrs. and apple
and peach pascrs: and In that day there win b.
strawberries to hull. cherries TO seed and apples
and peaches 10 pase-and. best Of all. they viii
DO raised NJ home.
There viii b windmiils for storing water In
tanks. Tor use about the house. tho stables. or
Tho pastures. Some Of the windmilis may bs
made at home. not things OF beauty. but OF ser
vicc. while other militia viii b factory made.
Hydraulic rams viii 30 used for raising water
where there arc suitable sprngs Maybe there
~iii DO springs or lowing wells. from which water
can Be p'rcd 20 Il will now downhii by Its own
weight TO whore II viii DO used.
Spraying apparatus win be used TO destroy
insect enemies and many dicascs OF vegetables
bushes. vincs. and trees: and similar apparatus
~ili bs employed for withdrawing poultry houses.
dairies. etc.
roalt- :. Dairy. and Stock to be Haunted BETTER
~~lnca bators aud breeders viii be used II enough
Matching n done TO justify It. Possibly milking
machines viii bo In evidence. Certainly. II many
cows are MIXED. thcrs viii 30 cream separators
aud power ehurns and mechanical butter work
era No one farm may have all these things but
the progressive farmer vii, have such of them