The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-03-05

ing them. AT the same time MS Aanu
is being enriched through nitrogen ex-
tracted from the air. Some patience
and some intelligent effort, including
the incubation of the soil with proper
bacteria, is required at the start, but
few results reward trouble better. il
has already been demonstrated by en-
terprising farmers that alfalfa Will
flourish upon a considerable variety of
| soils in the piedmont and eastern Caro-
linas. The point that this extremely
remunerative crop is especially adapt
ed for well-drained bottom lands
should encourage the many drainage
projects now under way or contem-
plated and add to their number. The
suggestion regarding rice lands raises
the question whether those along thu
lower Cape Fear might not with ad-
vantage be devoted to this purpose.
Guineas Devour Many Bugs.
| Some people object to the noise
which guineas make and their wild ma
ture, but as summer egg-layers, guinea
hens are hard to beat.
We have three guinea hens and a
cock that have the range of the fields,
and they are the best insect destroyers
that we can have on the farm. They
have a better reputation with us as in
sect destroyers than the thieving crow
which some writers commend so
highly for the bugs and worms they
eat, and they also pay a handsome
profit in eggs for any grain they may
eat.
The guinea hens lay an egg each day
for several months at a time.
We have a brood of young guineas
= hot
cross between the pearl and the white
guinea, and are growing better than
we ever got either full blood to do
never liked the idea of crossing
breeds, but a cross seems to increase
the vitality of the guinea.
Some have trouble finding the guinea
nests, but our guineas have never gone
far from the house to make their nests
Some times they lay in the hen nests
in the poultry house
| They range long distances from the
house during the day in search of fool,
| but come near the house to Iay.-A. ].
Legg, quoted in the Barlow Record.
Florida Forage Crops.
Director Rolls of the experiment
/ station says that Florida can produce
more nutritious forage crops than any
other state in the Union. The plants
are for the most part of foreign origin.
1 This accounts largely for the tardy de-
Ivelopment of the state in cattle raising
and dairying. Until these plants were
discovered no adequate food for our
various cattle and work animals could
be obtained in the state. We can
also produce more pounds per acre
per year in Florida than is produced
'
] the Union. At first sight this would
/ seem to be impossible, but when we
remember that the growing season for
many of the forage crops is more than
| twice as long as it is in the northern
states, it can be readily seen that two
or three forage crops can be produced
annually on the same piece of land
AS matter of fact, by careful ar
rangement one can grow forage crops
in such manner as to have feed for
every day in the year without housing
a single pound.-Gainesville Sun.
Home Cured Meat.
/ To one familiar with the possibilities
of the south as a cattle and hog raising
section, it is a constant marvel that
our people persist in buying western
products in the shape of cured, or
canned meats.
There is scarcely a farmer who does
not practice this wasteful method, and
there is not one of those who do so
but could have his own bacon and beef
at much less cost than he now pays
for the western article.
And as to quality, there is no COM
parison between what comes from
ones own smokehouse or picking vat
and that which is sent out from the
packing houses. The home article is
so vastly superior that it commands
premium everywhere If a farmer has
any of it to dispose of.
A smokehouse costs very little. The
labor connected with curing meat and
with picking beef, pork and mutton
is nothing in comparison with the
saving effected. 1t will run to fifty per
cent, we are reliably informed. And
right now is the time to plan for rails
ing your own supply of all these things
I-or at least some of them-for the
coming fall season.
Winter and spring pigs can oe
drought up to 200 or 800 pounds by the
time the butchering season arrives,
two or three yearling cattle-or older
ones-ready for slaughter when winter
again rolls around.
AS to the methods of curing the
meat, expert advice is to be had for
the asking. Uncle Sam will tell you
the very latest and most economical
ways If you will drop a postal card
to the secretary of agriculture, Wash
I.gton, D. c., and tell him the sort of
literature you want. Do it now!
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