The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-27

xrMW blowing fallow land for wheat,
and many fields were already
FHoFhssoh MASSEY prepared and left to SETTLE But
where the plows were running it to see
less than three horses to pillow. And l could
see that they were turning the soil deeply
the three could well pull the plows. These fall
low fields will be tramped and narrowed till fine
and well settled.
But many are abandoning the fallow system
too expensive and exhaustive, for the exposure to
the full all the hottest part of summer de-
stroys millions of the nitrifcaton bacteria, and
while much plant food is brought into use, the
practice is more costly than to hoed crop as
the preparation, and then the disk only in
the preparation of the land. In Lancaster Coun-
ty, Pennsylvania, the banner farm county Of the
country, they grow wheat after tobacco almost
tirely and grow fine crops, and in Maryland they
grow equally as good crops after corn.
In many of the fields where passed yesterday
the wheat had already been threshed and great
piles of straw could be just as the blower
of the thresher dumped it, for they take little
account of the straw except as an absorbent for
the manure in the barnyards and stables. In
other fields the shocks were still crowding
the whole. But l noticed that more than ever
they are stacking the grain near the barns. And
wish that our Southern farmers could the
stacks They are as symmetrical as the roof of
house and the upper part overhangs the up
right sides of the stack, making caves to every
stack Grain put up in that way can be kept in
fine order till the thresher comes. Most of the
Maryland farmers thresh directly from the
shocks in the field and avoid the danger of fire
from keeping the threshing engine away from
their buildings And noticed even from the car
windows OF a flying express that there were good
stands OF clover on the stubble fields. l noted
here and there fine fields of cowpeas that had
been put in with the wheat drill, and in some
places in rows for cultivation, evidently intended
to be saved for seed.
And saw, too, that these farmers believe in
the sio. and there were here and there herds of
black and white cows. and at the railroad stations
there were scores of milk cans, showing that they
shipping milk
| asked one Maryland dairyman who ships to
baltimore, how the milk business is doing He
told me that he is getting the same old price for
milk while feed and labor have both advanced in
COST and that there is not the profit as form
erly for shipping milk.
Those who making butter on the farm are
DONG better than the milk shippers Here have
10 pay 40 cents pound for good butter and the
creamery passed at Mddletown, Delaware gets
that at wholesale Others find that it is better to
turn thelr product into ice cream in summer and
even the creamery makes large amount of ice
cream.
Northerh Delaware, and, in fact, all of Della
ware is fruit growing State. The peach orchards
are not SO large nor numerous as formerly but
this year they are full. Long lines of Keifer pear
trees are planted by the railroads and the county
roads, and there are large orchards of the same
pear They are loaded with fruit and the pros-
pect is, that 1T will bring little though they claim
that these pears pay even at low prices Plant
ing by the roadside suits the Keier for no one is
gong TO take the fruit green, for green Keifer is
as bad as a green persimmon
Delaware like all the peninsula. is land of