The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-05-24
PROF. MASSEY'S VIEWS

+ chean. for the darkeys kno" lheS Va Va
get their pay Saturday nigh. g. 80
when nav cotton IS mace II -
long to me, for | do not owe allss -
at the store. me SeolF and eggs
owing me. and the chickens anu So
nv wife raises buy all n ciothes oho
and the children wear. +t1
."rhen directly my winter oats VII,
he coming in, and / snail nave a soou
crop to sell. In fact, JIM sihGt .
went I'D the country and Sd" :"
nose farmers there do, | have gone 70
farmine too. and we can beat those
Deople u~p-country. for we can Hlah0
ae much corn and oats and Wheat a.
they can. and ~ the cotton LOT q
surplus crop
We'll, John, We had all aboos -
e,uded YOU were gitttin' 80 eNtraVa-
eo,t that Won were on the road TO
The n0or-house. and the fact IS, YOU are
eitTin' the start on Us feio"S' ~
affer the crap is laid by. them hiaie
of yours are going 60 nave coIcS' anu
next thing, you'll be a fouf-horse ldi-
mer."
mower | need. and hope to have some
to sell. and my heiler calves VIII
make better COWS than the old ones,
and / shall sell my bull and &c.
another one not akin to them, ana
shall. before long. have COWS nearly
full-blooded. In the same way | snail
breed I'D my hogs. and as soon as |
get the land to make more grass, l
shall have some sheep
Il was as poor as you. JIM, ana K
only takes a little use or brains 70
get out of the one~mule class ana 60
to farming. Cotton is a Wonderluii9
profitable crop where n farms 10Y
actually ! expect TO get oVer q paIe
an acre this year, and ! will nave
made a good living out Of the other
things / raise, and my cotton l can
put under lover and sell When the
price is best. while you have got to
sell in the fall at any old price ecaus
the store-keeper Will be on you.
Well. John, / am goin' to tell these
things to the fellows out at the store,
and rather think We'll wake up.
Nine years & / came from Raj
eigh to Salisbury. Maryland to speak
at a farmers institute. | told the
farmers that had ridden that day
all the way up from Cape Charles.
nearly 100 miles, and my eye had
been panied by the sight Of the bare
lane in winter where the corn and
truck crops had been grown the pre-
vious summer, and l told them Of
what we were doing ia North Carolina
with crimson clover, and what could
be done with it here on their sandy
soil. Now, l look out the window
as I write and see broad fields Of
this clover. And what is more sur
prising, right across the road from
where I am writing the land rises
into a sandy ridge. It Is deep sand,
probably six or eight feet to the
hard clay. And yet, on that sand ridge
today, is a sod of bluegrass that Ken
lucky can not beat What has done
it? Some little manure and fertilizer,
~ clover and q 15ffja lima and
now, where the grass was left uncut
last summer among some OLD apple
trees. the grass Will tangIe ones feet
IN walking through it, This sod has
been unhroken for years and will not
be broken.
All over the upper South such a sod
could be had if the farmers will but
take the trouble to get it. This is we'll
shown by the sod that covers the
campus at the A. & NJ. College at
Raleigh, where one crop OF peas turn
ed under over wenty years ago
enabled US to get d sod. With such a
sod as that | see from my windows,
one coud have a permanent pasture
that would last a lifetime and inn
prove if given q little bone meal an
nuaIly aud a little lime once in six or
seven years.
And the way to get grass is to use
peas and crimson clover to Improve
the soil. With a good ermanen
pasture, well kept, one would never
have to Craze his cultivated fields,
and would only have TO fence the pas
ture. OF course, in most parts Of
the South, Bermuda will be the sum
mer pasture. and mixed with Texas
bluegrass, there would be a winter
pasture, too.
With the legumes for forage and
a permanent pasture. the live stock
Industry would be easy. and this is
the greatest need Of the South to-
day.