The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-03-21
PROF. MASSEY'S VIEWS

wheat will need generally nothing put
lacid phosphate to help the grain ano
the meas that should follow 1t. ano
then crimson clover on the pea Stuo-
BILE will enable you to make coeeo'
With a liberal application in the tur-
row-and too-of acid
| ph osphate and potash, and you Will Dc
enable to use these more lioeraily
| because you viii not buy the miro
gen that costs as much as the others
Then the cotton. the corn and the
small grain crops will continually be
increasing, and the cost OF growing
every one Of them will be decreasing
Which Will you do. continue to plant
dead land in cotton and gamble on
the chance with S-2--2 at rate or
200 pounds per acre, and get 2oo or
800 pounds of lint at the outside, or
make a rotation that will gradually
increase the product vepess OF your
land while using acid phosphate III
treble the amount and getting cotton
every year at a smaller cost? The
lSouthern soils will never improve so
long as the old planting idea prevails.
Let US go to farming.
How a One-HOrse Farmer Got Ont
of the RutS.
We are occasionally charged with
lack of sympathy for the One-horse
farmer, SO hat I hope l may be ex-
cused for printing the letter Of one
who has gotten we'll out of that class.
T have a great deal of sympathy for
h one-horse man, so much SO that
II am anxious that every one-horse
farmer should have two or more
morSes and become a better farmer.
for no one can farm properly with
one horse, since ne cannot break his
land in the best manner But here
out of the class, and n
Of them writes to me as follows:
PROF. w. F. Massey.
MY Dear Sri have been reading
after you for 8 or 10 years in the
farm papers, and I want to say to
you that you have been SO much help
$40 in place of 81 s:nce I have been
reading after you. Before / began to
read the farm papers l worked bus
one horse, and then did not make
enough to feed that horse end nv
family. But now I keep five good
horses and make plenty, and a rood
deal to spare. Last year I sold 500
worth Of hay. $500 worth Of corn. 5000
worth Of tobacco, $500 worth Of
chickens and butter, and paid but 500
for hired labor, my children and I
doing the rest Of the work with the
aid of good machinery. / am work
ing my and in three fields, corn and
49, oiiS S1"i Ny "IlCdt,
with oats and clover the third year.
which is turned the next spring for
corr and ObaccO again. / sow cow
peas in my corn. I hope his will
not be tiresome; | just wanted to
thank you for the help l have gotten
from YOU through the farm papers
| am simply trying to work and dc
the best I can.
Yours truly,
j. S. H."
1t is such letters as this that en-
courages one to p~ersevere in his eff
forts to help the small farmer. Here
IS a man who states that when he
was a one-horse farmer he could not
make a living for his horse and his
family. Now. if he git out, and
now uses five horses and make over
$4,000 a year, why cannot any young
man Of energy and perseverance do
likewise? This man got out because
he went to work farming in a good
rotation and studying his business. A
great many One-hctse farmers are
such simply because they do not try
to be anything else. l have an earn
est sympathy for the farmer
who is doing all that he can to get
sympathy for a man in good health
who is cOntent to scratch alOn -.
with one horse and make no effort to
get u of that class.
Don't be satisfied. Mr.. Small
Farmer, to do your work in such
an expensive way; get more stock
and make more money.
What Farmers Want to Know.
On a fertile new soil in cotton for
the second year, used 300 pounds Of
S-3-3 goods ar acre. Made IL bales
on 10 acres. but there were at least
2 to ) bales that failed to open.''
Wants TO know what fertilizer to use
that will not injure the soil but make
the cotton open. Having a fresh and
fertile soil. you should try to keep il
SO and not depend on fertilizer tC
give You cotton year after year tt
the land is run down Probably tn
late cotton failed to open because il
was too late a variety. Try the
SimpklnS cotton. as that seems 10 bt
a very early variety. Then start 6