St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-01-29

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: lustration he repeated a conversation
j with 4 an; iGterate, but, good farmer
!, who hkened the value of good seed, IA
. compared with unsolicited seed,t Ito til
butter value Of q, Jersey COW as, com
: pared with common stock st;;,;
He said that people who raise TWEEN
!, ty bushels of corn to the acre shouk
be willing 70 adopt the methods o.
those ,who, raise sixty tq; eighty bush
els. 5Rhats the way to getsmore corr
: was to Have 2 deeper Seed bed, eight
to eas.isc ter inches deep more Plant food
more humussr] That the most impor:
tant word n'the, English language tic
1.-THE farmer was that word 'hiimus. .
by hufnuus was meant half ,rotted o1
decayed vegetable or animal, matter.
It could be obtained by the use of
stable Manure and the turning under
of vegetable matter, preferably le-
gumes like the cow pea. Supply the
ground with hunnus, furnish good,
| deep seed bed, well 9fertiliized and
planted with selected seed, give proper
cultural care, and a good crop was an
assured thing. with the precipitatio on
Of moisture in this section, #a:. ~
He, advised using on corn land 900
pounds Of cotton seed mealwith per
cent Of nitrogen, and $50 pounds iof
Is per cent, acid phosphate. He did
not advise the boys Of the Corn Club
to .uset much commercial fertilizers.
but rather to depend upon stable nj a.
nure.!" '"*: " go : S@i|
Lands in the Yazoot Valley that had
produced but. fourteen bushels to the
acre, after. being deepened to ten
inches, in three years yielded eighty
bushels. vs. ., nav = III
The effect of adopting scientific
methods could be noted in Wisconsin,,
withits large and high-lofted barns
for The sterihg of feed and the hous-
ing of stock Every farmer had one
Ror more Of these large barns las large
ordinarily as this church building and,
many larger. And then there was the,
silo. Every farmer had his .silo, in
which was stored green, succulent,
food for the stock in winter. A food
much used for silage is the green corn
stalk; cut idewnaas itastands in the.
field; and chopped up and blown into
the, silo by machinery thropgh q fe ed-
ing pipe, and then well tramped and
packed.in.the silo.a The :silo and barn.
yard manure are what have made Wis
:. He said.that inthe course Of: few
years this would become as great q
trucking district as Tangipahoa para
ishs IL the. merchants would pitch in
and interest the farraer4in in; this .busiL:
ness. s,e"!arsoi3 r, sf=~4sca ~ zI
Supt. J. H. Davidson, of Claiborne
parish, raised $105 fer premiums. r,
An easy way to calculate the acre
yield was to multiply the product of
the thirty feet So by 4s.4..5 p,
The way to average the yield Of an
acre Of corn, he. said, was to measure
off thirty feet square in an acre, shell
= and wgee||g4 the Hss''F'n. A'ad then avef.ke
which was won by the Avoylles par
ish in the last contest. averaged 57i
bushels, to-, The acre,s.G A.. Candy
had raised; 132 1-2 bushels to the acre,
and years ago.. Mr. aHarmel had
raised 154 bu. shells to the, acre in Lou:
isiana. He said that seed brought
from abroad must not be expected to
withstand tine attacks of the weeyil
the first year, for it would not do SO.
This. state ment: was made ia response
to remark $ by someone in the audi
ence:! H e stated an instance where
corn raised by boys had brought $3.50
per bus ael for seed, where that raised
by thei rtfather was not worth so cents
q bush 81 for the same purpose. E ss'''
In Claiborne parish 74.22 and 4.S
bushs lis per acre had been raised, and
an a 7erage yield of So bushels had
been, made. " = rs ~ ,A'4+.s#
p e said that his heart was in the
farm, That some preferred to strug-
gl z along with an incompetency in
tile city rather than to take up the
! ahor Of, the farm. He wanted the
youth Of. the land to.recognize the dig:
nifty of labor and to develop an incli-
I nation IeSworA il preference to idle
ness!J That the honor of labor well
performed carried with it distinc-
ton well worth striving for.
The next contest of the corn club,
he said, would be the first ten days
in November. About 1904 would be
distributed among the boys in prizes
at this fair. He had not been able
to secure free seed. but he wanted to
announce that Mr.. e. J. Domergue,
Jr., as a representative of the Gov.
ington Grocery and Grain Co., had
volunteered to pay for the seed used
by the corn clubs organized at this
meeting.
He said the corn should be sent to
the parish contest, with the name,