The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-08-15

Several frlendS WdHt W hIfoW
ubatber it is advisable to top cotton.
have never tried it. but from what I
nova seen, have not been favorably
;onrassed with tine practice. Would
im,a 70 have the Experience Of those
who nave tried 1t.
Tbare is certainly danger in feeding
orsnson clover hay if it is not cut very
,.onng or as soon as in bloom, II used
&c the sole roughaSe. But if there is
= scattpring of oats with the clover or
wheat. the hay is much safer feed. I
saw once eleven felted balls, as large
o. = baseball, taken from the ruptured
;ntpstines of a dead horse. With a
mixture of straw with the clover there
i, far less danger that the felt balls
will form. But there is little danger
in anv event if the clover is cut at the
right stage.
stopped over thirty years ago the
milling Of suckers from corn. / found
bv actual test that the pulling did
more harm than the suckers, and
even if the suckers make no ears, the
additional foliage will help the ears
that are formed. About h same time
I stopped ~replanting scattering hills.
Il does not pay for the labor, for these
hills come after the general scattering
of pollen and do not make cOrn to any
extent. The stand may be so a that
the whole had better be replanted, but
that is a different matter.
If every cotton grower practiced
good farming. the "a usually made
could be produced on one-third the
number OF acres now in cotton, and
untold millions Of bushels Of wheat,
oats, and corn, grown that are not now
produced, while hundreds Of hOu
sands of cattle would be found on the
Southern hills, n bacon would be
packed in hundreds of establishments
and millions of homes all over the
South. Then we would be in a posi-
ton to hold the cotton crop for a good
price, and would make a profit on it
even if the price were not high.
You say that Burmuda grass can
only be soWed in the spring with sue
cess. Does this mean that it can not
be done in southern Mississippi? We
Eave 100 acres of river bottom hat
want to pnt in pasture and thought to
sod it with Bermuda and SOW bur
clover OF it" Doubtless the stems or
sods will live over winter in your sec
tion, but will make nc growth till
spring, for the Bermuda is a hot
weather grass and always becomes
sods, of course, but will have only the
bur clover as winter growth.
A trucker in eastern North Carolina
some years g bought the n
made from cattle being fed at a cot
ton oil mill. He had a sample of it
analyzed at the State Experiment Sta
ton, and while ordinary n is
seldom worth more than $3.50 to 50 a
ton, this manure was valued at SO a
ton, though the purchaser did not pay
anywhere near that for it. 1t simply
shows that feed with a high protein
content makes n with a high
nitrogen content. Hence, if you want
10 iced cattle and get the best results
not only from the feeding, but in the
by-product of manure, J you mus
raise the high protein feeds like COW
peas, soy beans, clover, and then feed
the meal from your cotton seed in
stead of selling the seed.
l would like your advice as to the
flooring Of a large stock barn, whpeten'
ert to put in a tight floor or lay it loose
with cracks?" Neither. I would make
the floor Of concrete with cement gut.
ters behind the stalls, and thus be ir
position to save the urine. I have
made such a floor in the following
way: | placed a layer of ten inches o.
broken rock, and over this spread &
Iayer of dry cement and sand-two o.
saho to one Of cement. This was ther
washed to grout the roc completely
ana when it was settled, I covered i
with a coat Of cement in which fin
gravel was mixed SO as to prevent thu
surface being too smooth for cattle
uor have had them slip and fall on {
smooth cement floor. Cutters a foo
"lue We're made behind the stalls witt
d SNgaht fall to the manure shed in tn
rear.
vi course the rural route carrier:
gan maui a great deal more than they
uo' but 1T seems to me that the plan t.
Nihit the parcels post to the rura
routes will simply be making the rura