The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-11-21
INTERESTING
TALKS MADE BY
FARM EXPERTS
EXPERIMENTAL STATION FORCE
YELL FARMERS OF MODERN
METHODS AND BEST MEANS
OF ATTAINING RESULTS.
Rx Jesse z. Rurtz.


On Board Farmers Institute Train,
Rissimmee, Nov. 19.-After rousing
welcome by the good people of Kissim-
mee and Oseeola county, several hum
Gred strong, Saturday afternoon, the
party is taking a much deserved and
much needed rest in this beautiful city
today. where they are receiving hos
pitab1e welcome.
Inasmuch as there will be no pro-
gram of exercises today, 1t might be
well to give a synopsis of a few OF
the interesting talks delivered by the
experts during the first four days of
the trip, as the suggestions will prove
valuable to the farmers in the sections
that the train has been unable to visit
and to others who did not attend the
meetings where the party stopped. All
these talks were based on SubStan-
tial and thoroughly competent knowl-
edge, being given by men who have
devoted years in studying the condf-
tions.
Professor McQuarrie, of the agricul-
turai department of the University. at
two or three places has delivered an
address on "Diversiication," the text
Of which is as follows:
Farming is a business, and should
be studied from business standpoint.
The diversification of crops is the key
note to success in all farming opera
tons. Farmers should have a fixed
program in their work, dividing it up
into cash crops, general farm crops,
forase crops, soil building crops and
winter cover crops. Every farmer
should have one OF more cash crops
available to run general expenses.
such as payment of help, fertilizers
and general running expenses. This
cash crop should be along the lines of
nearness to transportation point, the
kind of soil of the farm, and above
all, his own individual makeup. No
man should engage in trucking, for in
stance, in cash crops, whose makeup
will not allow him to go into small
details necessary to make raising truck
crops a success.
In the northern and western Sec
tions of the state, general farming has
been found to he most successful; in
the southern and central sections. some
men have made a success in trucking
and fruit growing, while others have
not. We always hear of the success
full trucker and fruit grower. but we,
seldom, If ever, hear of the other
kind.
LAS a general proposition, the gen.
eral farmer is bound to be the most
successful in the long run because,
owing to his diversified production he
is hound to be independent of price
fluctuations that occur where trucking
is his main stafby.
Among the general farming crops
that are grown successfully all over the
state are corn, sugar cane, sweet po-
tatoes. Irish potatoes sorghum and
number of other crops suitable to diff
ferent soils and ATTITUDES.
Among the forage crops are mil
let, velvet beans, soy beans, cow peas,
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numbers of others. In hays, crab
grass, Mexican clover. beggar weed.
Soudan grass, Para grass, natal grass,
Rhodes grass and numerous others.
In the soil building class the farm
er should always aim to grow some Of
the legumes already mentioned for the
purpose of maintaining and increas-
ing the soil fertility. 1t should be
every farmers aim to, maintain and
build up the fertility of the soil under
all conditions. He should tstudy his
crop effects on the soil. When soil
depicting crop is grown, such as corn,
potatoes, sugar cane, etc, it should
rbe Immediately followed by a crop
which restores fertility, such as cow
peas velvet beans. etc.
THE winter crops so necessary on
southern farms are very much over
looked Among the best of these are
red rust proof oats, rape, Virginia
gary turf oats, Burt oats. rye and
barley.
This program, If followed out by
the general farmer, cannot fail but
make crop production a success; and
over and above all this, there should
be sufficient live stock kept on the
farm to consume the hays, forage and
other farm products. Convert it into
fertilizer which are the best means of
increasing soil fertility. No farmer
worth the name should be without
enough live stock for this purpose.
Every farmer should aim to have
own fertilizer factory, located in his
barn. For this purpose he should
have suitable barns built for housing
stock both summer and winter, and
provision made to take care of the
manure. both liquid and solid. In this
connection let me make a remark that
a live animal will return in manure
so per cent of the feed consumed
using only 80 per cent of the produc-
ton of beef, pork or milk as the case
may be. The live stock farmer is the
only man who gets the most from his
farm.
Live stock is the rock bottom foun-
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