The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-10-05
PROFESSORMASSEYS
VEWS

tain ountry of the South, n we
can produce egg plant, tomato n a
few other garden seeds of fine quailty.
Down in Georgia, Mr.. A. w. smith,
of Americas, a banker has a small
place where he grows flower seed Tor
the Northern seedsmen, Of such things
as mature too late in the season Tor
the North. He has made a reputation
for his moonfloWer seed, and many
other things in that line, and on MS
ten acre place he probably gets more
money than many cotton farmers on
large farms.
Some day the South Atlantic coast
section -vill grow the lily and narcissus
bulbs that are now~imported. In fact,
his is being done to some extent, just
as eastern North Carolina supplies all
the tuberose bulbs for h North and
England.
There are seed specialties that are
suited to every neighborhood if the
right man can be found with the
needed intelligence and industry to
grow them.
Why Good Farms and Poor Are Found
Side by Side.
I went lately to inspect a farm four
miles from the city of Camden, N. j.,
and I saw a farm carried on by two
maiden sisters as a dairy farm. The
farm is less than 200 acres, but they
have a herd of $50 COWS. The farm I
inspected is right alongside Of this one,
and belongs to a professional man in
the city. 1t is worked in a sort of
haphazard way with few stock and not
with any systematic rotation; and
right there was an object lesson for
the farm Of the sisters, managed by
these m showed what cattle and
manure could do. The cattle were
sleek, the grass was fine, and the grain
likewise, while on the other hand the
corn was but a few inches tall, the
oats were not worth cutting, and the
small field Of wheat was so-called
Alaska wheat that the owner had been
victimized into buying, and which no
miller in the country will buy, and will
all have to be sold for chicken feed.
The lane on both sideS was more or
less sandy, and naturally thin, but by
reason Of its location is worth several
hundred dollars per AGREE. One farm
is being made a source Of profit while
the other has been a load for the own
er to carry. The sisters a v
lated humus in their soils, while it is
badly lacking in the other.
The LAND naturally was just what
would be good cotton soil in the South,
Just like thousands of acres that are
being scratched in cotton every year
and worth only a few dollars per acre,
while the owners work a and get
little better off annually, and right
there were two women making money
on similar land that was worth $500
an acre.
And I thought then that if these two
women were where they could grow
cotton, they would grow big crops
and make money out of cotton, for
they fully understand the Importance
of keeping cattle. Making money on
land worth hundreds Of dollars an
acre, hat would similar work do on
land in the South worth but a
dollars per acre?
Second Crop Potatoes for Seed
Last spring, instead of planting sec
potatoes for seed, all the
growers Of early potatoes on the
eastern shore of Virginia bought seed
from Maine, n they rotted in the
ground, some growers losing their en-
planting, and others fully half.
The potatoes seem to "a brought a
disease with them from Maine, Tor
New York seed potatoes handled and
kept in the same cellar did not rot.
This summer there is a general eff
fort to grow second-crOp seed, and the
man who plants Maine seed next
Will be considered to have lost his
head. The loss was emendo for
here are plenty of these growers who
1000 barrels, and there were
men near Norfolk whose combin-
"a crops took $500 barrels of seed.
The second-crop seed are the best
or the South, and good seed can also
BE grown by keeping over the second
3rop potatoes in cold storage and
growing a second crop from these, as
S done around Louisville, Ky.-Pro-
Farmer.
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