The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1909-01-09
A, the Cross Roads: Another Massey
Story.

.tsnr Of whiting goods boxes.
md ve ever see sich season IN all your born
sws-~ said Jim Mulekin. Rain. rain all the
- an rny cotton Geld looks like pasture. ar.
40 the mischief I'll ever get II clean oant
:. Seems as IL everything il aein us farmers
as sprsng I put 900 pounds 70 the acre a.
So fertilizer under nv cotton. ar I've got 10
,.r for out'n that cotton. an halls II got 40
ssrs that reckon III have 20 turn ny mule out
= grass tlll he rain stops Ter aIut got corn
,4r- an CORE IL a dollar bushel here AZ The store
wnss the thunder cosfoa farmers er Eotn' TO
anets bard 20 SAL
~aut e IL wonderful whai luck some men do
HIVE said Tom Sinrieswe~p. '"Thav's my nabur
EerT Thinkit una laeky enough 20 Eit bis cotton
csar before the rains come. and bis corn aais
ssc arc he way hts oats is rrowta' IN perfectly
vunee~tnl."
Vel IL TAlnkit wants 20 waste his time w-uw-
IN tos Ev oats an corn whv tet him 10 &C.
var. sozetAla thatTi hrtnx some money IN The
fail an thar ANT any money in anthin' bat cot
Ton In thta country" said Tim TnAekin-
Test then loaded warua covered ~lth tar
panlsr drove ID ~Thar's Henrv Thiukit nnw.
said ssnESrs~~~p. ~wut ca erth Re hare Ia
thai biz load
Good morning. trsenas" raia Taiaklt. he
slapped his pair az biz horses. Coed raia sc are
kar.nw for oats are grass"
TIE store-ke~p~r rasn~ cat and greeted he new-
rurer What have ron there. NJ Thszkits"
Fifty bushels OF corn wDsnw 20 haul 10
so~1 uniesn rou wanf II here caa wes 81 ~
azaAei in t0wn ha; bad rather seIl IL here II yoS
wazt IL At that price.
That's a pretty sta- price said the merchant
-anf "a bare carry n tos nf fh@~n fe3loms that
are ont of cora guess I'll take g.
~C~w AGlskwnx~ nasa ssnEseH~~~p "~has Tho
-ussrhsns ~4gf ws hsvr pay for that curr- hoynT
srassa got a crap rsorEsEr GO Eas. an III have
10 have 80 cora l~t rny rsate ssarvs It's 3~as
astnrssAsn' th~ lzrk monas rwa bare Here's
Thg-ktf r4fs1 efFy dollars cash rite ~ thr s~Esn-
ain us tAe eustnn season No ~onder he kia keep
hanta. s~r he's rut the -nrneT. ar ao1f hare TO
make arr crap mortgage
Wen. togkn. aow'a tse crops" aak~a ThiHkii
caee-giy
We wus sess tarksa' aboa; tsaf whra ruu truv
u said Tlrn wnirktn- - -~Tw- s~~S S"ch
fsr~ The wvaas las 60 =r cntf0n bad ho1
your~.~
.-oh ralas L. AT r4EAt. aaa eieaa IA coais
v4sA 81 the reply
Hoe earth 6td yug 81 T. c~@n II al thta
vet weather."
why planted rny oosfna rather deep and IS
soon ~ aaw acme little werds atars.aw. and s"'
sore TIE cotton cane np. w~rf over II aHieAG
With = smoothing harrow. and th~ rosinn can" az
without any crust aruand II. Thea ! watched Eaf
chance heswcrn nhowera and seat over 3nfA
ware uGfh wc~aer Yoa 60 this VERY rapid
~ and . saves nnnan ehopptax. too. Then haT"
a rs6lnw ruigwAtor for twn hoTnrn and ~anaa&
found another chance between showers 10 ~ over
IL again. and now Aave my cotioa chopped tn q
stand. and as clean an ever bad H.
Bat be continued. "you mast remember thaf
arr planting only ore-thtra the land in cotton
hat un~d 70 DO. before I studied the b@h"ht o.
crop rotation An9 have a0~ Just an mach lana
IL and oats have II cotton. expect 20
set big crop % cowpra hay after the o@s'' a]'
then have crimson clover after that 10 taFa 1"'e'
for cotton ths next spring / raised manure
enough 10 cover over the crimson clover last ~ln-
trr that sown IN my cotton. To tHFn Tor corn
and I have not bought anything In the way OF
fertilizer except acid phosphate and potash t"f
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