The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-08-30
PROFESSOR MASSEY'S VIEWS
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Progressive Farmer.)
Yesterday from Salisbury,
I'[0 Philadelphia and back, and,
Ne, o,rse. looked at the farming.
ID :-had that every Southern farmer
va have been with me as L rode
,,trnugh the beautiful farms IN upper
ware, No better farming IS done
lF'"bnre in the United States, and
a"F ',road. clean fields were very at
the o The corr everywhere had
,| cultivated and laid-by perfectly
",. for these farmers ride over the
It''I, md cultivate both sides Of "a
Wv. At one passing.
yasrerday they were still ploWlng
T[[. land for wheat, n many fields
we're already prepared ana iele 10 sci
a.. Ru+ where the ploWs were run
l1r,a if vas rare to see less thar three
i""Ta- IN A pillow. And | could see
' " they were turning the soil as
5la as the three could well pull the
oT'P. These falIow fields will be
ir,r7npd and narrowed till fine n
We'll settled.
But many are abandoning n TAI
W. evstem as too expensive and ex-
~. ,.rTra for the exposure to the full
l,n all the hottest part of summer
5s+roye millions of the ni~trification
Tantaria. and while much plant food IS
br,1oht into use, the practise is more
oastI,, than TO use a hoed crop as the
nrenaratiOn. and then use the disk
I6nrr in the preparation Of the land.
~ lancaster county, Pennsylvania,
+ha banner farm county Of the country,
,hrr crow wheat after tobacco almost
an+ireIv and grow fine crops, and in
,sorvIand they grow equally as good
cr0ns after corn.
In many of the fields where I passed.
Yesterday The wheat had already been
;nra-hed and great piles Of straw
could be seen just as the blower OF
1he thresher dumped it, for they take
rftie account of the straw except as
an absorbent for the manur in the
1aruyards and stables. In other fields
he shocks were still croWding over
the whole But noticed that more
than ever they are stacking the grain
near the barns. And / wish that our
Southern farmers could see the stacks.
They are as symmetrical as the roof
Of q house and the upper part over
hangs the upright sides Of the stack,
making caves to every stack. Grain
uat ZIP in that way can be kept in
fine order till the thresher zones Most
or the Maryland farmers now thresh
directly from the shocks in the field,
and avoid the danger of fire from
I.,n.s2 the threshing engine away
finn heir buildings. And I noticed
,.,u from the car windows Of q fly
ing zrre5s that there were good
s..ud- Of clover on the stubble fields.
7 noted here and there fine fields Of
coWpaae that had been put in with
the wheat drill, and in soma 0laccs
in rows for cultivation. evidently m
tend 4 to be saved for seed
And saw. too. hat these farmers
believe in the silo. and there we're
hove and there herds of black ard
white COWS, and at the railroad sta
Uaus there were ore or milk cans,
showing that they are shipping mink.
Z asked one Maryland daIrymnn,
v@A ships To Baltimore, how the milk
business is doing. He told me that
ha is getting the same old price for
milk. while feed and labor have Doth
advanced IN cost, and that there is not
IT," Stme profit as formerly for ship
ping milk,
Those who are making butter On the
farm are doing better than the milh
shippers. Here I. have to pay 40 cents
q pound for good butter. and the
creamery | passed at MiddletoWn
Delaware. gets that at wholesale
others find hat it is better TO turH
Their product into ice cream in sum
NOR. and even the creamery makes
large amount Of ice cream.
Northern Delaware, and. in fact. al
Of Delaware is a fruit growing State
me peach orchards are not so larSt
nor numerous as formerly, but thi&
year they are full. Long lines o.
Keller pear trees are planted by tht
LdlIroads and the county roads, anc
uhere arr large orchards Of the same
pear. They are loaded with fruit. anG
'Ae prospect is, hat it will bring lit
ue though they claim that these pears
pay even at low prices. Planting b.
Wr roadside suits the keifer, for NJ
"T IS going to take the fruit green
wi a green Keller is as bad as {
green persimmOn.
DeI1"are. like all the peninsula !
a ANA Of fine farms and fine farm
o1Idlhgs. broad, clean fields and -ree
C"N.tftS, Just such a land as all tn
"'1lh could and should be.