The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-04-23

that is what | have been doing Tor
the last - wears. Mir. loung mas
hardly read the paper Well or ne
would know that we have been run
ming a cowpea campaign ever since
the paper started on its career. Ana
We are going 10 keep up advocating
peas and crimson clover till all grow
thu IN.
MIR. Randall found that disking !
pea StubbIe for wheat is better than
turning under at that late season.
This is inst what | have been trying
for wears to impress on the farmers
Let the soil remain settled from the
early blowing for the peas and sim
PLY disk the surface three or tour
inches and make it as fine as pos
sIile and YOU Will make more Wheat
than by loOsening up the Settieu
soil. for wheat likes a SOIL compact
from early piowing.
I would like to ask Mr.. w. 1.
Cutchin if the man who made three
bales Of cotton an acre with $40
pounds of fertilizer did not make a
profit if he only got eight cents q
pound OF course. as he says, the
average farmer cannot pull through
at eight cents a pound, and | know
men in various parts OF the SOuth,
good farmers. who keep strict &C
counts. and whose cotton does not
cost them over TOT cents a pound
to make it. And | know of men
everywhere in the South whose cotton
costs them 10 cents a pound to make
il. If MI. Cutchin cannot make cot
ton at q coS of four to five cents q
pound there is something wrong
abount his farming. and he should
get d few more diplomas.
The Cotton Belt is full of the
acreage hogs. and always will be SO
long as the effort is merely to re-
duce the cotton acreage without any
effort to introduce systematic farm
ing in place OF cotton planting. So
long as Il community depends solely
on cotton. Just 50 long will there be
no reduction in the acreage by any
agreement that can be made. The
greed OF human nature Will Away
prevent it. But when people get tC
farming and have two-thirds Of then
land in other crops than cotton there
Will be a reduction Of the cOttoT
acreage as Il matter Of course, ant
along With Il greater production O
corn and oats and hay there will bt
a "reater and cheaper production o
t'Atoti "kiN hioiS ~ oi !
the land than on all.
Don't Stay in the One Horse lass
| was much interested in what Mr.
Murphy and h editor said latel.
about the one-horse farmer. Now
nave never been a one-hOrSe farme"
but ! have been as Door as any one
horse farmer. At the close Of tn
wal ! had absolutely nothing but
faithful wife and a little househol,
furniture. Not d red cent Of cash
| rented a sandy farm and went i
deb for two horses. some farm i'm
plementS and went to work early an,
late. and at the end Of that year
!, paid for the horses and farm equip
} ment. such as it was, and paid on
; negro man to help me through tn
/ cropping season, and when my crop
!, were sold. ] owed no man a cen
| had not even d clock. and we &c
e up by the morning star, and on
\ morning | got rather fooled. We wer
s cleaning up IN old fence-row to 81
y some Of the humus accumulate
| there, and l started out and ha
i breakfast one wintry morning. an
+ We We're hard at work when a neigh
t Dor came by on horseback. You a,
out very early this morning." said h
| asked him what time it was. r
said it was a little after three. ar
he was going to catch a $3.50 trai
t We had then been over an hour
e work. and the darkey said he thougl
IS it had been "a short night. We worke
IS an hour longer and then went ba(
a ind ha-% another breakfast befo
n daylight came. Now I believe tn
any young nan with good charact
IL and reputation can do likewise. al
Ie that there IS no need for hin to
n a One-horse farmer. 1t is simply
> matter Of pluck and energy.
* Now, Mir. Murphy says that t
Of twO-horse pillow throws the furro
Of over fat. The pillow does no gu
es thing if the plowman knows o
s. pillow. Any p1ow will throw the fl
row over fiat if the ploWman tri
I'd to take more furrow than the plt
id is intended to turn. and it is the ia,
t. OF the plOWman n not Of the plt
IL the blowing by a twO-horSe
ge th~rep-hOrSp p(OU iS not done rig