The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1909-09-03
A talk With Farmers.
Wheat Can Be PTVfitably Grown in This
Section.

ms good year OIL our LORD, lSOS
will go on record as the bumper year
for crops. Almost every thing started
m the ground last spring has grown
and come to an abundant, magnifi-
cent harvest. In this section of the
country at least the crop is made
The early spring and summer pas
Il res f9ttened thousands of sheep
and cattle, and it will take only an
occasional good rain to keep The
grass green until late into winter
Early vegetables were never earlier
nor more abundant nor better. The
bright, red strawberry frightened
thousands of baskets. Later its JUL
cier follower. the luscious blackberry,
hung in millions from myriad thorny
thickets. Apples have grown so abun
ddnt in this fat year that growers
from this county have gone to Ohio
TO find purchasers for the golden
fruit Potatoes have yielded enor-
mously, and the nutritious, whole
some tuber is the finest seen in
years. As for corn, the staff of life
for so long that the memory of man
knows not the contrary, corn, We
declare, IS simply out of sight EY-
e"ybody has corn, not to burn" as
the slang of the day hath it. but corn
10 eat, to feed, to sell, to crib and
keep. Ard the feeling of snug con-
tentment of our farmer friend when
he looks upon his broad acres filled
with waving lows of corn, soon TO
be shocked" and la'er to be gar
lered into spacious cribs and barns,
is ruffled somewhat when he remem-
bers that the hogs which would eat
this useful cereal and fatten splen-
didly herewith, are not so numerous
as he would wish. Where are the
p2rkers which ought to be following
lis cattle, or consuming the rich
mast, or coming to his call and eat
ing the big ears grown in the creek
bottoms or on the sunny hillsides ?,
Gone! Was IT greed or was it need
which made you let the trader have
hem? No matter which, you will
buy some of them back this winter
or next spring in the form of bacon
and lard. Well, it's too bad, what
ever 1t was that induced you to sell
your hogs, and all We can say and
all you can do will not change the
condition of things. If corn is 10
be cheap this fall console yourself
with the comforting knowledge that
you have lots Of it, and, after all,
corn pone, sweet taters, Irish ditto,
apple butter, sorghum, eggs and
chicken is mighty satisfyin grub.
And then there's your wheat to be
made into excellent, high grade flour
at our big mill right here at home,
and goodness, how many desirable,
wholesome things can be made out
Of flour! Light bread, biscuit, grid
lie cakes, pie crust and all manner
If cake and pastry. But" you say,
bold on didn't raise any wheat. +"
You didn't? Why not? And then
the man who has no big, plumb, hard
Yellow grains of wheat awaiting the
thresher or the miller, or, changed
into flOur, is reposing in the pantry
awaiting the deft hand of the wife
or daughter, goes on to tell his
story.
Perhaps he did SOW some wheat
last fall, but somehow or other it
didn't turn out very well. 1t was
too wet, or too dry at seeding time,
and it came up sorter thin, like, and
later on freeze followed thaw, one
right after another, and what the
poor fellow had when reaping time
came would hardly pay for the cut
ting. And he winds up his sorrow
fLl story, perhaps, by declaring his
intention not to SOW any wheat this
fall. And then, If you don't already
know, You'll ask this man where he
lives. He will tell you, and you at
once remember that, coming from q
farm maybe not half mile from this
mans you saw some of as fine wheat
as ever grew to fill the graneries Of
Egypt of old.
You know that some of that grain
was taken from the casket of a
mummy 1000 years old, sown, reaped
and made into flour equal TO the
best grown on the broad fields of
Minnesota or the Dakotas. The Feed
which started this mummy" wheat
Mas sOwn along the Nile, in alluvial
or overflow soil. 1t was not a lime
stone country, either. We allude &c
this fact because there are many who
say that no good wheat can be
raised where there is no limestone
The seed sown was simply good seed