The Southern farm gazette., 1908-07-04

Sow Peas, Sow Peas!-This is the last call for
the cowpea crop. The man who allows the price
of pea seed to deter him from keeping up regu-
lar amount of land in peas for his rotation Is fll
ing at the spite and wasting from the bung-hole.
Especially should a large amount OF peas be
this season. for II Is probable that In almost
every neighborhood some one will get a pea
thresher and 60 around the whole section thresh-
ing peas next winter.
A little fve-horse power gasoline engine on one
wagon and the machine on another is all that are
needed. I saw the Roger thresher working with
just such an outfit. Any live man could get such
outfit and thresh peas all winter and then Till
another pea season could travel around and saw
up the seasons wood for all the people in the
neighborhood.
But SOW peas. SOW peas among your corn. un-
less you SOW crimson clover there. believe that
crimson clover is better TO SOW among corn but II
needs experiment TO determine whether in the
South It can be sown early the last working
Of the corn.
Take These Hints and Build . Silo.-what a
man can do by good farming and stock feeding
Is well shown by a letter just received from Mr.
Tufts at Pinehurst, ~ c. Every one knows what
the Moore County sand-hills are. and yet Mr..
Tufts say his corn Ia nine feet high and has no,
yet shown a tassel And that on Moore County
sand. purely through bringing back the humus
that would have been there II the forest hrcs In
the natural state OF that country had not burned
out the whole OF It. Corn on Moore County sand
that would make seventy bushels per acre IL
left to mature. but will 30 into tho silo for feed
ing,
Then. you folks. on land far better than tho
Moore County sand. should take the hint and
build slo. The time 10 nos as hand. has come
when 1, will pay we'll 10 feed cattle for beef In tho
East The Western pastures are getting smaller
and smaller IN the land In taken up In farms and
now the cry OF the packers is that there Ia a scar.
city OF beevca and IL In true tina, there im The
beat cuts OF beef selling In the cities for thirty
cents per pound and the prospcc, IN ;ha, they will
be higher this week and of the baltimore
papers said recently. II tho price OF beef continues
to advance. diamond back ;crrapin will hc an eco
nom!cai dish In comparison 10 steak The moral
OF all this In build a silo this summer and deter
mine 'ha, you will prom; By tho advance In beef
What Sort Of Cattle VIII You Fr~d This Win.
trr?-Bu; do not Imagine that you can mako M
much money feeding scrub cattle as you can from
good beef bred animals. They may increase In
actual weight m fas; the beef breeds bu, tho
chances are that they will put the increase into
parts ,ha; do not bring tho money l.kc tho ami
mails tina; lay tho fat on tho loins
There is no better beef breed. for tho South
especially. than the Polcd Angus. In fact. II has
always seemed strange. but true that n black AMI.
mai In better suited 10 the South than a white one
The black hogs are always tho survival OF tho nj
Test In the South. and you never and white pinoy
woods rootcr.
This doca not mean that you should buy a n,ock
OF full blood animals. but that you can breed good
beef stock through the use OF n full blood Angus
bull. for no matter what sort OF n dam you have
that bull will get you black calves nearly every
time. and calves that wilt fatten better than any
pure scrub.
But use the silo for corn. I have tried clover
and peas etc. in the siio but have always found
that the peas are better made into hay and have
pure corn In the ssio to balance the pea hay
Save Good. Clean Grain for Rccd.=If Won onta