St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-01-09

| it can be ascertained in time to en-.
able the grower to follow with the
ordinary field crops. They very often
make more than where cultivated
alone, due to the fact of early and
thorough preparation of the soil in
getting in the vegetable crops before.
Another profitable line of agricul-
ture, and one in which there is no
immediate danger of overriding is
dairying. A scientific application OF
this business has been the means OF
making certain sections of our coun-
try, once poverty stricken, the most
prosperous and progressive to be
found. They have built up their soils
to a richness almost as great as the
finest alluviaI lands. Success is doub.
ly sure in this business if all the
roughage and large part of the con-
centrated foods are grown on the farm
where consumed. With our long graz
ing season, and the numerous green
crops that can be grown during the
winter, there is no reason why we
have not got the ideal dairy country
of the world With milk at 40 cents
a gallon and good butter from rs to
So cents per pound all over our coun'
try, we see no reason why any one
with application and natural ten
dency in this direction could not fnd
it profitable.
Stock Raising.
Horse and mule farming is very
profitable to all who have given It q
trial. 1t is a useless, and a crying
shame to see the thousands and thou
sands of dollars going out of the cot,
ton states each year for horses and
mules, which we could grow more
cheaply, and of much more durable
quality than any we buy.
We know both horses and mules
raised in this community with the very
minimum amount of attention, are
more hardy, fully as large, and much
better adapted to our uses than stock
from other sections. When we can
raise colt that is worth, and can be
sold, for from SIS to $3.50 at three
years old at total cost not counting
pasturage Of SIS, 1t strikes us more
like money making proposition thar
a Is ~ month cotton crop.
We have found oat growing for feed
and seed very prof1table-always fol
lowing with lespedeza Or peas for hay
This gives two money crops on same
land each year with the least expen
diture of labor of anything we have
ever grown. 1t protects the land from
washing rains, furnishes it with plenty
of vegetable matter, and in every re
spect surpasses cotton farming botl
as to profit and pleasure. We &c,
| from SIS cents to 81 for oats, and $12.5(
to $18 per ton for hay and have never
been able to supply the local demand
for a good quality of either. Hogs IL
connection with the oat and hay bust
ness, are quite remunerative. We
have nearly 100 acres fenced hos
proof, and turn the hogs on the oaLi
from the time they are large enough
to Craze until the oats begin to head
They only Craze in spots and the porl
you make and the weeds you lost
make up for all loss in oats. Whel
the oats begin heading take the hog
off and turn on again after harvesting
and let them clean up the scattered
| grain and confinua fha weed eatins
until you sow peas; if in lespedeza. lie
them run all season. Hogs grown
this way and fattened with corn, peas
potatoes, ETC., and sold for IL cent
and 6 cents on foot, look good ant
feel better to one who has beer
bumped by the cotton proposition al
we.