The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-09-22
OWN BISCUIT AND BACON
Terrell Farmers Who Have Solved
Secret of Living at Home.
RAISE WHEAT FOR FAMILY USE

And Have Hams and Bacon to Sell
After Enough to Supply Their
Own Farms. Have to Send Their
Wheat to Fit. Valley, a Distance
of Eighty Miles. to BE Ground.
There is a community of farmers
in the Eleventh district of Terrell
county who have solved the problem
of living at home.
Not only do they raise every grain
of corn and kill every pound of meat
that is used on their own tables and
in supplying their farms, but their
biscuit are the good old homemade
kind, too
Last Thursday a two-horse wagon
loaded with flour left the Central
depot for the homes of several of
these farmers, but it was -four that
had been ground from their own
grain, which they had shipped to a
mill in Ft. Valley-the nearest flour
mill to this section.
There was about 70 bushels of
the wheat, and the -four into which
it had been converted belonged to
Messrs. J. H. and s. j. Sem, l. w.
Mask j. O. Cannon and j. G. Steph-
ems of the Eleventh district and Mr.
j. E. McRee of near Dawson, who,
The News has been told have made
enough wheat to supply them until
the next crop comes in. The bread
made from this flour, they say, is as
white and light as that from the best
patent -four, and is superior in many
respects.
Their wheat crops the past year
were very good, all getting satisfac-
tory yields Mr. S. J. Sem gathered
122 bushels from 8 acres of land
But, as stated above, wheat is not
all that these gentlemen raise They
have home-raised hams and bacon to
go with their home-raised biscuit,
and besides enough Of the former for
their own use they sell large quanti-
ties every year Mr. Mask informed
The News that from a one-horse
farm he has sold the past year $500
worth of meat and for several years
the Messrs. Sem have been noted for
the fine quality of the home-raised
hams and bacon and lard they have
marketed in large quantities every
spring.
The lack of mills to convert the
grain into -four is one of the most
serious drawbacks to wheat growing
in this section, but with an increased
acreage and the good yields which
can be secured by the application of
intelligent and modern methods the
milling facilities will develop until
each good wheat growing section will
have it's mill.
With good, up-to-date flour mills
there is no doubt but that wheat can
easily be made very profitable crop
for the farmer to grow But we
must raise wheat in sufficient quanti-
ties before we get Touring mills
Produce the wheat and the mills will
surely come.
In an article on wheat growing in
the cotton belt the Cotton Journal
says wheat fits we'll into three-year
rotation with cotton and corn. This
rotation can be so planted as to inn
prove the soil rapidly. The first year
SOW wheat in the fall and follow the
wheat with cowpeas The second
year plant the land to cotton. The
third year plant the land to corn and
sow cowpeas in the corn. This plan
gives the land two cowpea crops in
three years, one crop of wheat, one
OF cotton and one of corn, which
makes an ideal rotation for clay or
other small grain soils.
In regard to the kind of land on
which to plant wheat with the strong
est chance of success, and also when
and how to plant, we quote Profess
sor Lloyd of Mississippi as follows:
Wheat will grow we'll on practi-
Cally any rich. we'll drained soil, but
makes its best growth on rich clay or
heavy loan soils. The sandy loan
soils with good clay sub-soil will