The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-04-18
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(PrOgreSsiVe t>armer.)

Progressive Farmer.)
Why not build a silo this year"
understood the value Of ensilage u
would not be long before every farmer
would have a silo. There is NJ NOR
profitable way to use the corn crop
thar by making it into silage M Ieeu"
ing It to dairy coWs and peer rdtlie.
There is no mere theory about TINS, Iof
l have made and fed thousands OF Tons
Of silage. at one time storing 500 IONS
annually. putting into the sllo COTE
that would have made from % 70 70
usheIs Of grain if left to mature. bu>
1t paid better as Stlo than as sr".u. LA
fact any corn tina We can carry Iur-
Their, and put into a more taluaoie
shape Is more profitable than Seliius
the raw product. OF course the Sootfl-
ern farmer has to sell his Cotton IlHt
as raw product, but he can more prof.
itabIy feed the seed in connection
xlth corn silage than by selling tho
seed and depicting his soil OF nitrogen.
Cotton seed meal in moderation with
Ieavine hay and corn silaSe Will eHa-
Bile the farmer to feed stock proi1faDly
and get the manure for his !
had as soon try to farm Without a
Darn az without a SilO.
Whipped Into It.-A cotton grower
in South Carolina once said to me that
the cotton farmers will never go 20
farming systematically till they are
whipped inc it. Years g uhe very
low price OF cotton did some whip
ping and for u time made some I'M
provement in farm practice. Then the
advancing price OF the staple caused
many to revert to the old practice OK
Affection. Then the boil weevil came
and never was there anything that Is
whipping the cotton farmers into pct
ter farming tina these little insects.
XX|h{fo fhu far1nATc have become accuS-
toned to expect the ayage OF the
weevil they nave learned how to farm
and grow cotton In spite OF him, ana
they are growing more OF other crops.
The South is going to continue 60
make cotton. weevil or no weev1, and
sha Ia going to make more of other
crops, and going to farm better, SO
that the weevil is not an unmixed evil.
A Hoggfsh Paper.-What a hoggish
issue is that OF April ! Of the Progress
sive Farmer: and the Southern farmer
needs to get hoggish- / mad a le4er
yesterday from a clergyman IN New
Jersey who has bought a large farm In
Virginia and wants to p his son
for Its management. n especially
wants him trained for hoggishness. as
lie proposes to make the nog a special
by on that farm. And there Is, no
doubt. that with the many crops that
can be grown in the South for hogs to
gather for themselves, we can raise
hogs more cheaply than they can in
the West. Selling the live hogs Will be
more profitable than selling the crops
that make them. and selling the cured
meat will make the profit still larger.
Curc Meat at Home have recent
~ seen the statement that every farm
Ell in Kansas buys an annual average
Of s55 Of packing house products. while
selling his hogs on foot. This reminds
me Of a conversation I a with a
German arner in Nebraska I was
studying the beet sugar industry there,
and I asked the farmer il the growing
of beets for the factory seriously IN
terfered with his general cropping.
Pointing to his %cornfield. then natured
he said: You can see no sunfloWer in
that" That meant that the corn had
worked clean. for the sunflower is q
great pest the I asked him what
corr was worth. 'sThe elevator pays
IS cents q bushel, but I sell no corn to
the elevator. I feed 1t to hogs and
they walk off at SO cents a bushe Ell" I
sold him that I noticed in the town
near him that ai the hams and bacon
came from the Chicago packing-hous-
es, and / thought that it would pay the
farmers to cure some Of the meat, and
get the same, or better price, than the
packers meat was retailing ah II
think that a good idea, too, he said;
II hin I can cure some meat and
make the corn bring rs cents a bush
ell Doubtless he could. but what I want
especially to note is, that the Western
farmers seem to depend on corn en-
tireiy, and it IS said that the lack of
prolificacy of the Poland China breed
of hogs has been brought about by too
much corn feeding We need the ba-
con hog in the South and plenty Of
crops for him to gather for himself
-up sQ1 usug o. uIoo eIllu e HIuo u1.M
imal for the knife. The SInithfield
hams of Virginia bring far better prices
than the packing-house meat, and Just
as good car be made all over the
South with the right sort Of hogs and
the right feed. but cannot be made
with the Western lard hog.
Some Intensive Farming.
The notes Of a traveller in Denmark
show We'll how the Danes work their